Kunlunxin starts STAR Market IPO guidance
In May 2026 Baidu's chip unit Kunlunxin began IPO guidance for China's STAR Market while keeping its Hong Kong plan, as revenue grows and losses narrow toward break-even.
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Biren lists on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Biren Technology listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange's main board on 2 January 2026, drawing 23 cornerstone investors to its share offering, with its market value briefly passing HK$100 billion on the first trading day.
TSMC CoWoS packaging stays sold out as AI demand outruns capacity
TSMC's CoWoS advanced packaging places logic dies and HBM stacks on a silicon interposer; capacity remains sold out, and TSMC is expanding in Tainan and Chiayi while developing panel-level CoPoS.
Cambricon MLU 690 enters mass production
Cambricon's next flagship cloud training chip, the MLU 690, entered mass production in early 2026, pairing a dual-die package with more than 700 TFLOPS of FP16 compute and 196 GB of HBM3 memory.
Moore Threads and MetaX list on the STAR Market
In December 2025, Chinese GPU makers Moore Threads and MetaX listed on the STAR Market, with first-day gains that drew attention to domestic AI chip companies raising public capital.
Nvidia becomes the first company worth $5 trillion
On 29 October 2025 Nvidia became the first company in history to reach a $5 trillion market value, closing at $207.04 a share after a rally driven by large AI chip orders.
Mistral AI announces Mistral Compute with NVIDIA
On 11 June 2025 Mistral AI announced Mistral Compute, an AI infrastructure offering that sells GPUs, orchestration, APIs and services as bare metal or managed PaaS, built with NVIDIA hardware and reference architectures.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nvidia becomes the first chip company worth $1 trillion
On 30 May 2023 Nvidia became the first chip company on the US stock market to pass a $1 trillion market value, as demand for the GPUs used to train large AI models surged after ChatGPT.
Google Brain and DeepMind merge into Google DeepMind
On 20 April 2023 Google announced that its Brain team and DeepMind would merge into one unit, Google DeepMind, led by Demis Hassabis. Google said the goal was to speed up its AI progress and build capable systems safely and responsibly.
Mobileye returns to public markets on Nasdaq
Mobileye priced its Nasdaq initial public offering at 21 dollars a share and sold 41 million Class A shares, with a large part of the proceeds earmarked to repay a note owed to parent company Intel.
Meta moves PyTorch to the new PyTorch Foundation
On 12 September 2022 Meta announced that PyTorch would move to the Linux Foundation as the PyTorch Foundation, with a governing board that included AMD, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA. PyTorch stayed under the BSD-3-Clause licence.
Hinton, LeCun, Bengio and Hassabis win the 2022 Princess of Asturias Award
In June 2022, the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research was awarded jointly to Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio and Demis Hassabis for advancing artificial intelligence and deep learning.