Kling AI passes US$100 million annualized revenue
Kling AI, launched in June 2024, reported a US$100 million annualized revenue run rate in March 2025 and monthly subscription bookings above RMB 100 million in April and May 2025.
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Aurora begins commercial driverless trucking in Texas
On 27 April 2025, trucks running on Aurora's self-driving system began regular driverless commercial hauls for Uber Freight and Hirschbach between Dallas and Houston, with no one in the cab and no police escort.
First humanoid half marathon held in Beijing
In April 2025 twenty humanoid robot teams raced a half marathon in Beijing on the same 21.0975 km course used by human runners. Tiangong Ultra won in 2 hours 40 minutes 42 seconds.
Baichuan restructures to focus on AI for healthcare
In March 2025 Baichuan disbanded its financial-industry enterprise team and restructured to focus on AI for healthcare, later releasing the open medical models Baichuan-M2-32B and Baichuan-M3.
First International AI Safety Report published
The first International AI Safety Report, published on 29 January 2025, was led by Yoshua Bengio and written by over 100 experts with backing from 30 countries; it sets out the science of general-purpose AI capabilities, risks and mitigations without making policy recommendations.
DeepSeek app tops the U.S. App Store
On 27 January 2025 DeepSeek's mobile app passed ChatGPT as the most downloaded free app on Apple's U.S. App Store. The same day Nvidia shares fell 17 percent, the biggest one-day loss in U.S. history for any company.
01.AI steps back from giant-model pre-training
In early 2025, 01.AI denied reports that it was selling its pre-training team to Alibaba; large-model training moved into a joint lab with Alibaba, while 01.AI focused on smaller, cheaper models and enterprise platforms built around DeepSeek.
Shun-ichi Amari receives the 2025 Kyoto Prize
Shun-ichi Amari, a mathematical engineer at Teikyo University and honorary science advisor at RIKEN, received the 2025 Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology, Information Science for laying theoretical foundations of artificial intelligence and establishing information geometry.
Meta announces its largest data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana (Hyperion)
In December 2024 Meta announced a 4-million-square-foot, $10 billion-plus data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana, its 23rd US data center, built to train future open-source large language models and later expanded substantially.
Horizon Robotics lists in Hong Kong in the year's largest tech IPO there
Horizon Robotics, a Chinese supplier of smart-driving solutions founded in 2015, began trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 24 October 2024, raising HK$5.407 billion in what was the city's largest technology IPO that year.
Hassabis and Jumper share the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to David Baker for computational protein design and, jointly, to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper of Google DeepMind for AI-based protein structure prediction. The Academy said their work solved a 50-year-old problem.
Hopfield and Hinton win the Nobel Prize in Physics for neural-network foundations
On 8 October 2024 the Nobel Prize in Physics went to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for foundational work on artificial neural networks, the systems behind much of modern machine learning.
Hugging Face Hub passes 1 million public models
In September 2024 the Hugging Face Hub passed 1 million downloadable public models for the first time; by October 2025 it held more than 2 million.
xAI brings its Colossus supercomputer online in Memphis
xAI's Colossus supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee, built with NVIDIA, went into operation in 2024 with about 100,000 H100 GPUs. It was the main training system behind Grok.
OpenAI releases SWE-bench Verified
On August 13, 2024, OpenAI released SWE-bench Verified, a 500-sample human-validated subset of SWE-bench built with the benchmark's original authors from Princeton, after filtering ambiguous tasks and unreliable tests.
Ilya Sutskever launches Safe Superintelligence Inc.
On 19 June 2024 Ilya Sutskever announced Safe Superintelligence Inc. on X, a company with one stated goal: building safe superintelligence. It raised $1 billion in September 2024.
Nvidia's market value breaks $3 trillion
On 5 June 2024 Nvidia's market value passed $3 trillion, making it the third company to reach that level after Microsoft and Apple; two weeks later it became the world's most valuable company, driven by demand for data-center AI chips.
Air Canada held liable for its chatbot's wrong bereavement-fare advice
In 2024 a Canadian tribunal held Air Canada responsible for wrong bereavement-fare advice given by the chatbot on its website, rejecting the airline's claim that the chatbot was a separate legal entity.
IMF analysis finds almost 40% of global employment exposed to AI
An IMF staff analysis published in January 2024 estimated that almost 40 percent of global employment is exposed to AI, with effects uneven across income levels and a risk of widening inequality.
Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton receive the 2024 ACM Turing Award
In 2024 the ACM gave its A.M. Turing Award to Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton for building the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning, work that runs from 1980s papers to a standard textbook and on to deep reinforcement learning.
UBTECH lists on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
UBTECH, a Chinese robot maker founded in 2012, listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange main board on 29 December 2023 at HK$90 per share; the company calls itself the first humanoid robot company on the exchange.