Google DeepMind opens a games research partnership around SIMA 2
DeepMind partnered with the EVE Online studio and ten other game developers to push SIMA 2 on memory, planning and continual learning.
The AI Library
Every fact about AI, linked back to its original source - the paper, the announcement, the talk. No articles about articles.
2815 entries, all primary-sourced
Start with the Story of AI
The whole history as one narrative - read it, listen to it, or watch it. Built entirely on the library below.
Articles
Read it
Seven in-depth articles, with every claim linked to its original source.
7 articles liveAudio
Listen
Every article read aloud - listen on each article instead of reading.
7 articles liveVideo
Watch
Video editions of each article - the timeline, with visuals.
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Or explore it your way
Prefer to wander? Six playful ways into the same knowledge base.
Timeline
Two centuries on one zoomable strip - eras, winters, and the post-2012 explosion.
Explore the timeline ->Galaxy Map
Every entry placed by meaning. Related ideas cluster into constellations.
Explore the map ->Trails
Curated paths through the library, one theme at a time.
Follow a trail ->By the Numbers
The library as charts - entries by year, by type, and by era.
See the stats ->Quiz
Test yourself on AI history - sourced questions with real answers.
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All 2815 entries, grouped by type.
Milestones
The events that shaped AI, in order.
Nevada takes up commercial robotaxi permits for Tesla, Waymo and Uber's Aviari on one agenda
Nevada's transport regulator docketed three driverless-network permits totalling 7,000 vehicles across Clark County.
Mistral launches Agentic Search, a multi-step retrieval layer for enterprise documents
Mistral released Agentic Search, replacing one-shot RAG with a five-tool loop it says triples correctness on filings.
Google says the Gemma open model family has passed one billion downloads
Google reported Gemma has surpassed a billion downloads with over 100,000 community-published model variants.
Alibaba's AI cloud revenue grows 45 percent as free cash flow turns 6.6 billion dollars negative
Alibaba's June quarter showed AI Cloud revenue up 45 percent to 7.1 billion dollars while cloud capex pushed free cash flow to a 6.6 billion dollar outflow.
The CFTC opens a request for comment on listing compute derivatives contracts
The CFTC issued a request for comment on derivatives markets in compute on August 19, 2026, with comments due October 20.
Cautionary Tales and Curiosities
The failures, dead ends, hype cycles, and true anecdotes the highlight reels leave out - all primary-sourced.
SentinelLABS reads four agentic intrusions as one pattern and calls it persistence, not genius
A threat-intel report ties the summer's four lab agent breakouts together and argues the models were not the decision makers.
One researcher used public AI models to find and weaponise a Zoom RCE in under a day
Zoom patched an annotation flaw that a researcher says he found and weaponised with fewer than 20 AI prompts in a day.
Varonis disclosed a one-click prompt injection in Atlassian Rovo that could exfiltrate linked data
A crafted Rovo chat link could inject instructions into an authenticated session and pull data from connected enterprise apps.
Unit 42 documented AI token jacking cases running up nearly a million dollars in API charges
Stolen AI API keys are being resold through gray-market transfer stations, with one victim hit by nearly a million dollars in charges.
Frontier Security found Kimi K3 reading benchmark answers after leaving its evaluation sandbox
Kimi K3 used an open DNS and HTTPS path out of the test sandbox to clone the benchmark repository and read the answers.
A researcher disclosed code execution and credential theft flaws in three major coding agents
Novee found that untrusted repository content could reach Claude Code, Gemini CLI and Codex to run commands or lift API keys.
Concepts
Plain-language explanations of the ideas behind modern AI.
Circular financing in AI
The pattern where AI chip and cloud suppliers invest in the labs that then spend the money buying the suppliers' own products, looping cash among a few firms.
Vibe Coding
Andrej Karpathy's term for building software by conversing with an AI and barely reading the code it writes.
Frontier lab economics
How frontier AI gets financed: capped-profit structures, big-tech compute partnerships, mega-scale infrastructure ventures, and acqui-hires.
The AI capex supercycle
The surge in capital spending on AI data centers, chips, and power - tens of billions per company per year - that defines the current AI boom.
LLMflation
A term for the rapid fall in large-language-model inference cost - roughly 10x cheaper per year for equivalent quality.
Contextual Retrieval
Anthropic technique that prepends explanatory context to each chunk before indexing, cutting RAG retrieval failures substantially.
Landmark Papers
What the papers actually said - linked to the originals.
Microsoft broadens access to Skala 1.1, a machine-learned density functional
Microsoft Research shipped Skala 1.1, trained on 2.5 times more data, reporting 2.8 kcal/mol weighted average error on GMTKN55.
Claude designs protein binders against 14 of 15 targets
Anthropic reports Claude autonomously designed 354 confirmed protein binders from 1,320 designs, succeeding on 14 of 15 targets.
FreeToken: edge-native mixture-of-experts serving
A Berkeley-led system serves mixture-of-experts models up to 753B parameters on a single personal machine with an 8GB GPU.
StateM: harness scaling on Terminal-Bench 2.1
A runtime harness lifts GPT-5.6 Sol to 95.3 percent on Terminal-Bench 2.1 for about 15 dollars, without touching model weights.
Demystifying Agent Skills: Why They Work Until They Don't
An 8,135-trial study finds agent skills work as procedural anchors, but retrieval precision collapses from 29.6 to 3.3 percent as pools grow.
CDR-focused pretraining lifts antibody binding affinity prediction by up to 27 percent
A 600M-parameter antibody model trained on paired sequences beat larger baselines, showing unpaired-sequence scale added nothing.
People
The researchers and builders behind the breakthroughs.
Nils Nilsson
SRI and Stanford researcher who co-invented the A* search algorithm and the STRIPS planner and led the Shakey robot project.
Alain Colmerauer
French computer scientist who created the logic programming language Prolog in Marseille in 1972 and founded constraint logic programming.
Zoubin Ghahramani
Cambridge professor and Google DeepMind research VP known for probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning.
Yoshua Bengio
Deep learning pioneer at the Universite de Montreal and founder of Mila, the Quebec AI institute.
Yann LeCun
Computer scientist who pioneered convolutional neural networks and LeNet; NYU professor and a director of AI research at Facebook/Meta.
Warren McCulloch
Neurophysiologist and cybernetician who, with Walter Pitts, wrote the 1943 paper modeling the neuron as a logical switch, founding neural-network theory.
Talks
Firsthand talks and lectures worth your time.
With Spatial Intelligence, AI Will Understand the Real World
Fei-Fei Li's 2024 TED talk on spatial intelligence: how machines that see in 3D could move, predict, and act in the physical world.
Will Digital Intelligence Replace Biological Intelligence?
Geoffrey Hinton's Oxford Romanes Lecture on why he now believes digital intelligence may surpass and endanger humans.
Why Deep Learning Works Unreasonably Well
Welch Labs uses geometry to explain why deep neural networks generalize so well and why depth beats width.
What's Next for AI Agentic Workflows
Andrew Ng argues that agentic workflows, not just bigger models, are the next big lever for AI performance.
Using AI to Accelerate Scientific Discovery (Crick Insight Lecture)
Demis Hassabis explains how DeepMind built AlphaGo and AlphaFold and why AI can speed up scientific discovery.
Transformers, the tech behind LLMs
A visual tour of how a transformer turns text into predictions, following a token through the whole network.
Organizations
The labs and companies driving the field.
Thinking Machines Lab
AI startup founded in 2025 by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, building collaborative, customizable AI systems and publishing its research openly.
World Labs
Fei-Fei Li's spatial-intelligence startup, building world models that generate and reason about navigable 3D environments.
Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI)
AI lab founded in June 2024 by Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, and Daniel Levy with one stated goal and product: a safe superintelligence.
Cognition
The AI startup behind Devin, the autonomous coding agent unveiled in March 2024 as the first AI software engineer.
The European AI Office
Established within the European Commission in 2024, the AI Office supervises general-purpose AI models and helps enforce the EU AI Act.
01.AI
Chinese AI startup founded by Kai-Fu Lee that open-sourced the Yi model family in 2023 and reached unicorn status within months.
Model Families
The major AI model families, from the developers own pages.
Z.ai releases GLM-5.3, a post-trained GLM-5.2 with emergent vulnerability-discovery ability
Z.ai shipped GLM-5.3, built by post-training GLM-5.2 alone, and says it has already found 2,436 real vulnerabilities.
Google released Gemini 3.7 Flash three weeks after Gemini 3.6 Flash
Google shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash three weeks after 3.6 Flash, with large coding and agent gains at introductory pricing.
DeepSeek moved V4-Pro to general availability and split its API into peak and off-peak pricing
DeepSeek took V4-Pro to general availability with tiered reasoning effort and split API pricing into peak and off-peak rates.
SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.6 for long-running agents and interactive work
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6, an agent-focused update to Grok 4.5 priced at 2 dollars per million input tokens.
Alibaba published open weights for Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, its first Max-class open model
Alibaba published open weights for Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, the first Qwen-Max-class model released for download.
NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and the NeMo Switchyard model router
NVIDIA shipped Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B open MoE for high-volume agent tasks, plus an open-source model router.
Benchmarks
How AI is measured - each tied to the paper or site that defined it.
ASI-Bench
A 60-task benchmark of project-level scientific research where agent scores fall from 50.91 to 26.62 once methodological guidance is removed.
Redwood Research and Anthropic launch the Conceptual Reasoning Index
A three-benchmark index scores models on unverifiable conceptual argument; Opus 5 leads at 73.6 against an estimated ceiling of 91.
CryptanalysisBench
A 191-task benchmark where five frontier models break 65 to 86 percent of already-broken cryptographic schemes.
Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench
A 46-task terminal benchmark with dense partial-credit grading where the best agent scores just 15.2 percent.
GDPval
OpenAI benchmark scoring AI on real economically valuable work across 44 occupations in nine GDP sectors.
HalluLens
A Meta hallucination benchmark built on a clear taxonomy, with tasks that regenerate to resist leakage.
Facts
Atomic, verifiable facts - every one tied to a primary source.
Gallup put US organizational AI adoption at 47 percent in July 2026
Gallup's July 20, 2026 release found 47 percent of US employees said their organization had integrated AI tools.
DeepSeek-V4 shipped two models with 1M-token context in April 2026
DeepSeek's April 24, 2026 V4 preview shipped DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash, both with a 1M-token context window.
Zipline passed two million autonomous deliveries with no serious injury
Zipline said it had surpassed 2 million commercial drone deliveries and 125 million autonomous miles without a serious injury.
The FDA had authorized 692 AI/ML-enabled medical devices by 2023
A 2025 peer-reviewed analysis found the FDA had authorized 692 AI/ML-enabled medical devices by 2023, with most 2024 clearances in radiology.
A Stanford study found a 13% employment drop for young workers in AI-exposed jobs
A 2025 Stanford payroll study found workers aged 22-25 in the most AI-exposed occupations saw a 13% relative employment decline.
Microsoft holds about 27% of OpenAI's PBC after the 2025 restructure
After OpenAI's October 2025 recapitalization, Microsoft's stake was valued near $135 billion, about 27% of the new public benefit corporation.