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Insilico Medicine listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 30 December 2025 under code 3696.HK, raising HKD 2.277 billion in what it called the largest Hong Kong biotech IPO of 2025 by funds raised.
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.
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.
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.
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.
ICLR was founded in 2012 by Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio, and first met in Scottsdale, Arizona, in May 2013, with paper decisions posted publicly on OpenReview.
On 25 October 2012, Microsoft's Rick Rashid demonstrated a system in Tianjin that turned his spoken English into computer-generated Chinese speech, built on deep neural networks that sharply cut recognition errors.
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 3 November 2007, self-driving vehicles raced through a staged city course at the former George Air Force Base in California; Carnegie Mellon's Tartan Racing won with Boss, a modified Chevy Tahoe, and six teams finished the full course.
On 19 July 2007 the University of Alberta announced that its Chinook program had solved checkers: with perfect play by both sides the game is always a draw, and the program can be drawn but never beaten.
AI@50 was a 2006 conference at Dartmouth College marking fifty years since the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project, where the term "artificial intelligence" had been coined. Several of the original participants returned for three days of talks.
On 8 October 2005 Stanford's Stanley won the second DARPA Grand Challenge, completing a 212 km desert course in under seven hours and becoming the first autonomous vehicle to finish the event.
In June 2005 IBM and EPFL announced the Blue Brain Project, a two-year effort to model the neocortical column of a rodent on a Blue Gene supercomputer, launched by Henry Markram and backed by the Swiss Confederation.
The first DARPA Grand Challenge, held on 13 March 2004, offered USD 1 million for a driverless vehicle that could cross the desert course in under ten hours. Fifteen vehicles started; none finished, and the prize went unawarded.
In January 2004 NASA's Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars carrying autonomous navigation software. The mission was planned around about one kilometre of driving; the rovers went much farther, with a large share of their early driving decided on Mars rather than on Earth.
