Jun 2017
The Transformer
“Attention Is All You Need” introduces the architecture behind modern language models.
Trends
AI Waves
The milestones that shaped today's AI, from the Transformer to agentic coding, each linked to its primary source.
May 2020
GPT-3
Few-shot learning at scale shows what very large models can do.
Nov 2022
ChatGPT
Conversational AI goes mainstream.
Mar 2023
Claude
Anthropic launches its assistant, widening the frontier field.
Jul 2023
Llama 2
Open weights licensed for commercial use push open models forward.
Nov 2024
Model Context Protocol
An open standard for connecting assistants to tools and data.
Jan 2025
DeepSeek-R1
An open reasoning model brings open-weight momentum to reasoning.
Feb 2025
Claude Code
Agentic coding from the terminal enters research preview.