A living chronicle of artificial intelligence.https://annalist.pages.dev/enhttps://annalist.pages.dev/en/events/2017-06-12-transformer/https://annalist.pages.dev/en/events/2017-06-12-transformer/In June 2017, eight researchers, mostly from Google, proposed a new way to build neural networks: the Transformer. At the time it looked like a paper about machine translation. Today nearly every chatbot, ChatGPT included, is built on the idea.Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://annalist.pages.dev/en/events/2022-11-30-chatgpt/https://annalist.pages.dev/en/events/2022-11-30-chatgpt/On 30 November 2022, OpenAI opened its free ChatGPT chatbot to everyone. You could type a question in plain words and get an answer, as if from a person. Within two months, around 100 million people were using it.Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://annalist.pages.dev/en/events/2023-03-14-gpt-4/https://annalist.pages.dev/en/events/2023-03-14-gpt-4/Just three and a half months after ChatGPT, OpenAI unveiled GPT-4. The new model understands images as well as text, and on a practice US bar exam it scored around the top 10% of test takers.Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://annalist.pages.dev/en/events/2025-01-20-deepseek-r1/https://annalist.pages.dev/en/events/2025-01-20-deepseek-r1/In January 2025, Chinese company DeepSeek released R1, an open model it said reasons as well as OpenAI's best. A week later Nvidia shares fell about 17%, a record one-day loss of value in US market history.Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://annalist.pages.dev/en/events/2026-05-19-openai-synthid/https://annalist.pages.dev/en/events/2026-05-19-openai-synthid/In May 2026, OpenAI began embedding SynthID, invisible marks invented at Google, in images made with AI. Kakao and ElevenLabs are adopting them too, and you can now check whether an image is AI-generated right in Google Search.Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT