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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.
On 30 June 2025 Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), combining several AI teams under Alexandr Wang. Its first model, Muse Spark, was released on 8 April 2026.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Anthropic, an AI company, was incorporated in January 2021 by former employees of OpenAI and set up as a public benefit corporation. Dario Amodei became its chief executive and Daniela Amodei its president.
On 14 January 2020, Keya Medical's Shenmai FFR software became the first AI medical device to receive a class III certificate in China, opening a registration path for diagnostic software and later reaching billable clinical use.
The 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award honored Bengio, Hinton and LeCun for foundational and engineering work in deep learning; they formally received the prize on 15 June 2019 in San Francisco.
On 13 April 2019, OpenAI Five — a team of reinforcement-learning bots — beat OG, the reigning Dota 2 world champions, in a best-of-three in San Francisco, and days later won 99.4% of games in a public online arena.
In March 2019 ACM named Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun the recipients of the 2018 A.M. Turing Award, citing breakthroughs that made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.
In 2018 the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems changed its long-standing abbreviation from NIPS to NeurIPS, after critics argued the old acronym encouraged sexism and read as a slur against Japanese.
The first World Artificial Intelligence Conference opened in Shanghai on September 17, 2018, bringing together experts, entrepreneurs and more than 200 leading AI companies from nearly 40 countries and regions, and it has been held in the city every year since.
In January 2018, Microsoft Research Asia's R-NET and then an Alibaba model scored above the human baseline on SQuAD, a machine reading comprehension benchmark — the first time a system had exceeded human exact-match performance there.
In May 2017 AlphaGo beat Ke Jie, then the world's top-ranked Go player, in all three games of a match at the Future of Go Summit in Wuzhen, China. DeepMind retired the program from competition afterwards.
