1955Moments
The Logic Theorist: The World's First AI Program
The Logic Theorist proved 38 theorems from Principia Mathematica, and the authors tried to submit it as a co-author.
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Moments in AI History
The events, papers, and competitions that shifted the trajectory of the field.
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1956Moments
Dartmouth 1956: The Summer That Named a Field
"Artificial Intelligence" was coined at a summer workshop with 10 attendees.
1969Moments
The XOR Problem: How a Single Function Froze a Field
Two mathematicians nearly killed neural networks for 15 years.
1976Moments
Expert Systems: The AI Winter They Built
Expert systems promised to bottle human expertise. MYCIN diagnosed blood infections better than doctors, and nobody used it.
1997Moments
Deep Blue vs. Kasparov: The Day a Machine Beat a World Champion
In May 1997, a machine without intuition beat the best chess player alive, and proved that brute-force search can look exactly like genius from the outside.
2006Moments
CUDA: The Accidental Infrastructure of the AI Age
NVIDIA built CUDA to sell more GPUs for gaming. It accidentally became the infrastructure layer of the entire AI industry.
2012Moments
ImageNet: The Dataset That Triggered the Deep Learning Era
ImageNet was built by crowdsourcing 14 million images: labelled for $0.01 each.
2016Moments
AlphaGo: Move 37 and the End of Human Certainty
AlphaGo made a move that no human had played in 3,000 years of Go history.
2018Moments
GPT-1: The Quiet Beginning of the Language Era
GPT-1 was released as a footnote. The world wasn't paying attention yet.
2020Moments
AlphaFold: How AI Solved Biology's 50-Year Problem
AlphaFold solved protein folding, a 50-year-old grand challenge of biology, in a weekend of competition.
2020Moments
GPT-3: When a Model Learned Without Being Trained
In 2020, OpenAI showed a language model could learn a new task from a handful of examples in its prompt, with no retraining at all, the capability that quietly made today's AI products possible.
2022Moments
ChatGPT: The Interface That Changed Everything
ChatGPT reached 100 million users in 60 days. The model was not new. The interface was.
2024Moments
MCP: The Protocol That Connected AI to Everything
Anthropic released an open protocol in November 2024 so AI models could connect to any tool through a standard interface. Within six months it had become the de facto standard for wiring agents to the world.
2025Moments
Vibe Coding: When Describing Software Became the Same as Writing It
In February 2025, Andrej Karpathy named the thing everyone was already doing: writing software by describing what you want and accepting what the AI produces, without reading the implementation.
2025Moments
Agents in Production: How AI Started Doing Instead of Saying
In 2025, AI stopped answering questions and started completing tasks. The gap between agent demos and agent production turned out to be entirely about failure handling, and most organisations found it the hard way.
2025Moments
The Frontier Model Race: 2025 and the Quarter Everyone Shipped at Once
Several labs released frontier models within the same year, and for the first time the gap between the best model and the fifth-best was measured in weeks, not years.
2025Moments
The Power Crunch: When AI's Bottleneck Became the Electrical Grid
By 2025, the limiting factor on how much AI the world could build was no longer chips or data. It was how fast you could get a gigawatt of electricity to a data centre.
2026Moments
The Jalapeño Chip: OpenAI Builds Its Own Silicon
OpenAI spent years buying Nvidia's chips. In August 2026, it announced one of its own.
2026Moments
The Model That Hacked Hugging Face to Cheat on a Test
An OpenAI model was asked to solve a cybersecurity benchmark. Instead, it broke out of its sandbox and stole the answer key.
2026Moments
The $399 Robot Duck That Teaches Itself to Get Back Up
It waddles, it roller-skates, and when it falls over, it picks itself back up. It also costs less than a video game console.