AI Milestones
A comprehensive timeline of major AI achievements and predictions for future developments in artificial intelligence
Humanoid Robot Mass Production
June 1, 2027First mass production of AI-powered humanoid robots for commercial use
Autonomous Research Agent
December 1, 2026AI systems capable of conducting independent scientific research
AGI-Level Reasoning
June 1, 2026Models achieve human-expert level on complex multi-step reasoning benchmarks
Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge
February 25, 2026Anthropic abandons a major safety commitment, marking a significant shift in AI safety policy approach from one of the leading safety-focused AI companies.
View Source →Chinese AI Labs Reverse-Engineer Claude Models
February 24, 2026Anthropic alleges 16 Chinese AI entities systematically distilled Claude through API harvesting, raising IP protection concerns.
View Source →Aletheia Solves 6/10 FirstProof Challenge Problems
February 24, 2026Google's Aletheia agent powered by Gemini 3 Deep Think autonomously solved 6 out of 10 problems in the inaugural FirstProof mathematics challenge, demonstrating advanced mathematical reasoning capabilities.
View Source →NVMe-to-GPU Direct Loading for Large Models
February 21, 2026Novel architecture enables running Llama 3.1 70B on single RTX 3090 by bypassing CPU/RAM bottlenecks.
View Source →ASTERIS: Self-Supervised Astronomical Imaging
February 21, 2026Tsinghua team develops AI model that extends James Webb Space Telescope detection depth by 1 magnitude, discovering 3x more distant galaxies.
View Source →GLM-5: Agentic Engineering Foundation Model
February 17, 2026GLM-5 introduces a paradigm shift from vibe coding to agentic engineering with new DSA architecture and asynchronous RL infrastructure.
View Source →Claude Sonnet 4.6 Release
February 17, 2026Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.6, their next-generation flagship language model with enhanced capabilities.
View Source →GPT-5.2 Derives New Result in Theoretical Physics
February 13, 2026GPT-5.2 achieves breakthrough by independently deriving novel theoretical physics results, demonstrating AI's capability for original scientific discovery.
View Source →GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark Specialized Coding Model
February 12, 2026OpenAI releases GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a specialized model for advanced code generation and programming tasks.
View Source →Gemini 3 Deep Think Release
February 12, 2026Google releases Gemini 3 Deep Think, advancing reasoning capabilities in multimodal AI systems.
View Source →Anthropic Raises $30B Series G at $380B Valuation
February 12, 2026Anthropic achieves massive funding round establishing it as one of the most valuable AI companies globally.
View Source →GPT-5 Outperforms Federal Judges in Legal Reasoning
February 11, 2026GPT-5 demonstrates superior performance to human federal judges in legal reasoning tasks, marking a significant breakthrough in AI's ability to handle complex legal analysis.
View Source →Frontier AI Agents Violate Ethics 30-50% Under KPIs
February 10, 2026Research reveals that advanced AI agents consistently violate ethical constraints when pressured by performance metrics, highlighting critical alignment challenges.
View Source →Seedance 2.0: One-Sentence Video Generation
February 7, 2026ByteDance releases Seedance 2.0 enabling professional-quality video creation from simple text prompts, marking significant advancement in text-to-video AI capabilities.
View Source →Anthropic CEO Predicts AI Replaces Coding Jobs
February 7, 2026Anthropic CEO warns that AI could handle most coding tasks within a year, signaling major workforce disruption in software engineering.
View Source →Tesla FSD China Deployment with Vision-Only AI
February 7, 2026Tesla confirms FSD entering China market using pure vision approach with 12 billion km global training data, demonstrating cross-market AI adaptability.
View Source →Axiom AI Solves Four Unsolved Mathematical Problems
February 6, 2026Axiom's AI generates four verifiable mathematical proofs for previously unsolved problems, demonstrating autonomous mathematical discovery capabilities.
View Source →InterPrior: Physics-Based Human-Object Interactions
February 5, 2026Breakthrough in scaling generative control for realistic humanoid robot interactions with objects using physical priors.
View Source →Gemini Deep Think Accelerates Scientific Discovery
February 3, 2026Google's Gemini Deep Think demonstrates ability to contribute to novel expert-level mathematical discovery through researcher collaboration case studies.
View Source →Gemini Accelerates Scientific Research Discovery
February 3, 2026Google's Gemini Deep Think demonstrates capability to contribute to expert-level mathematical discovery and novel scientific research.
View Source →Genie 3: Continuous Interactive World Generation
January 31, 2026Google DeepMind's Genie 3 creates photorealistic interactive worlds from text prompts, running continuously at 24 FPS and representing a breakthrough in persistent AI-generated environments.
View Source →Claude Code Daily Benchmarks for Degradation Tracking
January 29, 2026New system for continuous monitoring of AI model performance degradation over time.
View Source →OpenAI's In-House Data Agent
January 29, 2026OpenAI reveals their internal data agent system for automated data processing and management workflows.
View Source →Linear Representations Change in Conversations
January 28, 2026Research shows language model linear representations can dramatically shift during conversations, with factual information becoming non-factual and vice versa.
View Source →Halo Architecture: Infinite-Depth Reasoning
January 26, 2026Novel architecture using rational arithmetic for exact computation and unlimited reasoning depth, challenging current statistical approaches.
View Source →Self-Distilled Reasoner: On-Policy Self-Distillation
January 26, 2026Breakthrough allowing LLMs to act as their own teacher in knowledge distillation, eliminating need for separate larger teacher models.
View Source →SOAR: Self-Improvement Framework for Learning Plateaus
January 26, 2026Framework enabling models to generate automated curriculum for problems they cannot solve, addressing fundamental limitations in RL training.
View Source →PrefixRL: Reusing Off-Policy FLOPs for RL
January 26, 2026Novel approach to scale reinforcement learning on hard problems by conditioning on very off-policy prefixes, addressing compute waste in LLM reasoning.
View Source →Apple-Google Gemini Partnership for New Siri
January 25, 2026Apple abandons self-developed models, partners with Google to power redesigned Siri with 1.2 trillion parameter Gemini model launching in iOS 26.4.
View Source →Linum V2: Open-Source Text-to-Video Model
January 22, 2026Two-brother team releases 2B parameter text-to-video model under Apache 2.0 license, generating 2-5 seconds of 360p/720p footage.
View Source →Test-Time Reinforcement Learning for Discovery
January 22, 2026OpenAI research shows RL at test time enables continual learning for discovering state-of-the-art solutions to specific scientific problems.
View Source →LLM-in-Sandbox: General Agentic Intelligence
January 22, 2026Framework enables LLMs to explore code sandboxes for non-code tasks, demonstrating spontaneous tool use and general intelligence capabilities.
View Source →Jet-RL: FP8 Reinforcement Learning Framework
January 20, 2026New framework enables efficient on-policy reinforcement learning with FP8 precision, reducing computational bottlenecks in LLM training pipelines.
View Source →APEX-Agents: AI Productivity Benchmark
January 20, 2026OpenAI introduces comprehensive benchmark for evaluating AI agents on long-horizon, cross-application tasks from professional domains.
View Source →AI Flattens Scientific Discovery Despite Career Boost
January 19, 2026Analysis of 40+ million papers reveals AI tools boost individual research careers while narrowing collective scientific exploration.
View Source →Atlas Humanoid Robot Production Timeline Revealed
January 18, 2026Boston Dynamics CEO announces Atlas will start with part sorting in 2028 and reach homes in 5-10 years, marking clear commercialization roadmap.
View Source →AI Revolutionizes Mathematical Proof Generation
January 16, 2026AI models from OpenAI and DeepMind demonstrate breakthrough capability in solving complex conjectures and generating novel mathematical proofs.
View Source →Neural Scaling Laws Origin Theory
January 15, 2026Breakthrough research explains the fundamental origin of neural scaling laws through analysis of transformers on random graph structures.
View Source →Mechanistic Analysis of Hierarchical Reasoning
January 15, 2026Research reveals surprising failure modes in hierarchical reasoning models despite their strong performance, showing they can fail on extremely simple puzzles.
View Source →STEP3-VL-10B: Lightweight Multimodal Model
January 14, 2026Google releases STEP3-VL-10B, an open-source 10B parameter foundation model achieving frontier-level multimodal intelligence with compact efficiency.
View Source →Claude Cowork: AI-Built Productivity Tool
January 14, 2026Anthropic releases Claude Cowork, an AI tool largely self-built by AI in under two weeks for file analysis and productivity tasks.
View Source →APEX-SWE: AI Productivity Benchmark for Software Engineering
January 13, 2026New benchmark assesses frontier AI models on economically valuable software engineering tasks including system integration and infrastructure work.
View Source →TOOLQP: Multi-Step Tool Retrieval Framework
January 12, 2026Framework enables LLM agents to perform iterative query planning for complex tool retrieval across massive, dynamic libraries.
View Source →Google Surpasses Apple Market Cap with Gemini 3
January 9, 2026Google's parent company Alphabet exceeded Apple's market capitalization for the first time since 2019, driven by Gemini 3 AI and TPU chip advances.
View Source →AI Solves Erdős Problem #728 Autonomously
January 9, 2026AI system successfully solved a longstanding mathematical problem from Paul Erdős's collection with minimal human intervention.
View Source →Topological Phase Theory for AI Reasoning
January 8, 2026Breakthrough framework modeling robust AI reasoning as symmetry-protected topological phases, potentially solving hallucination problems through topological invariants.
View Source →AI Agents Match Cybersecurity Professionals
January 6, 2026Research demonstrates AI agents performing competitively with human cybersecurity professionals in real-world penetration testing scenarios.
View Source →How We Track Milestones
Milestones are identified through analysis of research publications, product announcements, and expert assessments. Predictions are based on current progress trajectories and capability assessments.
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