AlphaGo defeats Lee Sedol 4–1 in Seoul
In March 2016 DeepMind's AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol, an 18-time world champion Go player, 4–1 in a five-game match in Seoul, a result watched by more than 200 million people worldwide.
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AlphaGo paper in Nature reveals win over Fan Hui
On 27 January 2016 DeepMind announced AlphaGo alongside a paper in Nature reporting that the program had beaten European Go champion Fan Hui 5–0 in October 2015 — the first time a computer program had beaten a professional Go player.
The Partnership on AI is established
A multi-stakeholder organisation formally established in late 2016 by researchers from six of the world's largest technology companies to study and share best practices in AI, advance public understanding and provide an open platform for discussion of AI's effects on society.
ResNet wins ILSVRC 2015 with 3.57% error
The 2015 ImageNet classification contest was won by ResNet, a network up to 152 layers deep whose layers learn residual functions relative to their inputs; it reached 3.57% error on the test set and, by one account, exceeded human performance.
OpenAI is founded as a nonprofit AI research lab
In December 2015 a group of entrepreneurs and AI researchers founded OpenAI in San Francisco as a non-profit research company whose stated aim was to advance digital intelligence for humanity's benefit rather than financial return.
Google open-sources TensorFlow
On 9 November 2015 Google released TensorFlow, its second-generation machine learning system, as open source under the Apache 2.0 licence, letting people outside Google build and train models with the same system Google used in its own products.
Toyota announces the Toyota Research Institute
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.
Tesla enables Autopilot with Version 7.0
On 14 October 2015 Tesla announced Version 7.0 of its car software, which switched on Autopilot: lane steering, turn-signal lane changes and traffic-aware cruise control, running on sensor hardware the Model S had been carrying since the year before.
DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals
The DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, held on 5 and 6 June 2015 at the Fairplex in Pomona, California, put 23 teams and their robots through eight tasks; Team KAIST's DRC-Hubo took first place and the $2 million prize.
IBM publishes the TrueNorth neuromorphic chip in Science
On 8 August 2014 Science published the paper describing TrueNorth, an IBM chip holding 1 million spiking neurons and 256 million synapses on 5.4 billion transistors, showing a brain-inspired design running on milliwatts.
The original GAN paper is submitted
Goodfellow, Bengio, and co-authors proposed a generative-model framework with adversarially trained generator and discriminator.
Google unveils its own self-driving prototype without a steering wheel
On 27 May 2014, Google published a design for a self-driving prototype with no steering wheel or pedals and said it planned to build about a hundred vehicles and test them with safety drivers.
Andrew Ng joins Baidu as chief scientist
On 16 May 2014 US time, Baidu named Andrew Ng, a Stanford professor and co-founder of Coursera, as chief scientist in overall charge of Baidu Research, announced at the opening of its Sunnyvale office and new Silicon Valley AI Lab.
Microsoft unveils Cortana with Windows Phone 8.1
On 2 April 2014 at Build, Microsoft unveiled Windows Phone 8.1 and introduced Cortana, a Bing-powered personal assistant with a Halo-inspired persona, a developer API and a rollout starting with a U.S. beta.
Google acquires DeepMind
On 26 January 2014 Google confirmed its acquisition of DeepMind, the London AI company founded in 2010. The deal brought a small deep-learning research group known for Atari-playing systems into Google and set up a unit later merged with Google Brain.
IBM creates the Watson Group business unit
On 9 January 2014 IBM announced the Watson Group, a business unit for cloud-delivered cognitive services, backed by more than $1 billion and about 2,000 professionals — an attempt to turn Watson into a commercial platform rather than a research project.
GoogLeNet and VGG dominate ILSVRC 2014
At ILSVRC 2014, GoogLeNet won the classification track with 6.67% top-5 error, while VGG's network won localisation and took second in classification; more than 50 institutions took part.
DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials
A two-day DARPA competition in December 2013 in which 16 teams put prototype disaster-response robots through eight simulated tasks; SCHAFT of Tokyo scored highest with 27 points out of a possible 32.
DeepMind posts its deep Q-network Atari paper
On 19 December 2013, DeepMind researchers posted a paper showing that one convolutional network, trained with a variant of Q-learning, could learn Atari 2600 control policies directly from raw pixels and outperform prior methods on six of seven games.
Facebook founds FAIR with Yann LeCun as director
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.
Amazon unveils Prime Air drone delivery plan
On 1 December 2013 Jeff Bezos announced Prime Air on CBS's 60 Minutes: drones to deliver packages within 30 minutes, carrying up to 2.3 kg within about 16 km of a warehouse, pending FAA rules and years of testing.