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On 22 October 2026 Anthropic handed the Agent Skills open standard — its name, logo, GitHub organisation and domain — to the Agentic AI Foundation, a Linux Foundation project, after more than 70 agent platforms had adopted it.
Momenta began trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange's main board on 8 July 2026, opening more than 6 percent above its issue price and passing a market value of 70 billion Hong Kong dollars on its first day.
The 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games opened at Beijing's Ice Ribbon on 14 August 2025, bringing hundreds of humanoid robots and teams from more than a dozen countries into competition across athletic, performance and workplace-style scenario events.
In July 2025 Unitree began IPO coaching with CITIC Securities and said it expected to file listing documents between October and December, against 2024 sales of 23,700 quadruped robots and 1,500 humanoid robots.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
On 2 March 2023 EleutherAI, the volunteer group known for openly training GPT-3-like models, announced it had formed a nonprofit research institute backed by Stability AI, Hugging Face, Canva and others.
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.
On 28 July 2022, DeepMind and EMBL-EBI expanded the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database from nearly 1 million to over 200 million predicted protein structures, covering nearly all catalogued proteins known to science.
Honda's humanoid robot ASIMO formally retired on 31 March 2022, after a final demonstration at Honda's Tokyo headquarters; Honda said it would focus on remotely controlled avatar robots instead.
In December 2016 Alphabet spun its self-driving car project out into a separate company, Waymo, turning a long-running research effort into a business that supplies self-driving technology rather than cars.
Toyota announced in November 2015 that it would create the Toyota Research Institute, a separately incorporated artificial intelligence research company, with $1 billion over five years and former DARPA programme manager Gill Pratt as chief executive.
In late 2013 Facebook launched Facebook AI Research (FAIR), with Yann LeCun as its first director. The lab's open research model shaped Meta's later AI work, including PyTorch and the Llama models.
NASA's Curiosity rover landed on the floor of Gale Crater on 6 August 2012 Universal Time, lowered on a tether by a rocket-powered descent stage that then cut the cords and flew off to a controlled crash.
On 7 May 2012 Nevada's DMV issued the first US licence for an autonomous vehicle, a Toyota Prius fitted with Google's self-driving technology, after tests on highways, Carson City streets and the Las Vegas Strip.
On 10 April 2012 DARPA announced a challenge to build ground robots that can carry out complex tasks in dangerous, degraded, human-built environments, backing it with a $2 million prize and a list of tasks from driving a vehicle to closing a valve.
In October 2010 Google said its self-driving cars had driven more than 140,000 miles on public roads, and reported that the only crash was a car rear-ended at a traffic light.
On 17 January 2009 Google began developing self-driving cars in its Google X lab; the project, revealed in October 2010 after 140,000 miles of testing, was later renamed Waymo.
