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ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)

ENIAC, announced on 14 February 1946, is described by the University of Pennsylvania as the first general-purpose electronic computer: a 30-ton machine with 18,000 vacuum tubes, built to produce military firing tables.

Logic Theorist

Logic Theorist, completed in 1956 by Allen Newell, Herbert A. Simon and Cliff Shaw, was the first program deliberately built to perform automated reasoning; it proved dozens of theorems from Principia Mathematica and introduced heuristics, list processing and reasoning as search.

Lisp

Lisp is a programming language invented by John McCarthy at MIT in 1958, whose programs are themselves lists. It became the favoured language of early artificial intelligence research and introduced automatic garbage collection.

Mark I Perceptron

The Mark I Perceptron was the first hardware implementation of the perceptron algorithm: a custom analog computer built at Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory for image recognition, with photocells as input and motor-driven potentiometers as learnable weights.

Unimate

Unimate was an industrial robotic arm designed by George C. Devol and Joseph F. Engelberger and built by Unimation; in 1961 it became the first robot installed on an assembly line, unloading a die-casting press at a General Motors plant.

DENDRAL

DENDRAL was a Stanford artificial intelligence project begun in 1964 that identified unknown organic molecules from mass spectra using chemical knowledge. It is widely described as the first expert system and the ancestor of later systems such as MYCIN and PROSPECTOR.

Sam Altman

Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. He ran the startup Loopt, was president of Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019, and was removed as OpenAI’s CEO in 2023 before returning days later.

Boston Dynamics

A robotics company spun out of MIT in 1992, known for legged and humanoid machines such as BigDog, Atlas, Spot and Handle, and now majority-owned by Hyundai Motor Group.

Honda P2

Honda's P2, announced in December 1996, was presented as the world's first bipedal humanoid walking robot: a 1,820 mm, 210 kg machine that walked, climbed stairs and pushed carts without cables, and led to ASIMO.

Deep Blue

IBM's chess computer that in May 1997 became the first computer system to defeat a reigning world chess champion in a match under standard tournament time controls.

AIBO ERS-110

Sony's ERS-110, announced in May 1999, was the first AIBO: a four-legged autonomous entertainment robot that learned from interaction with its owner and expressed emotions.

Honda ASIMO

ASIMO is a humanoid robot Honda announced in Tokyo on 20 November 2000, built to walk, climb stairs and work in human-sized spaces; successive versions ran faster and handled objects until its last regular demonstration in 2022.

Stanley

Stanley is the Stanford University robotic vehicle that won DARPA's 2005 Grand Challenge, completing a 132-mile desert course autonomously in 6 hours 53 minutes and claiming the $2 million prize.

Siri Inc.

Siri, Inc. was a startup spun out of SRI International in 2007 to turn decades of AI research — notably the CALO project — into a consumer virtual personal assistant; Apple acquired it in 2010.

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Stanford online course)

A free online version of Stanford's artificial intelligence course, taught by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig, which started on October 10, 2011 and drew 160,000 students from over 190 countries.

Amazon Echo

Amazon Echo is an always-on, nine-inch cylindrical speaker that answers to the name Alexa. Launched in November 2014 by invitation, it put a voice assistant into an ordinary room rather than a phone.

OpenAI

OpenAI is a San Francisco AI research and deployment company founded in 2015 as a nonprofit. It makes the GPT model family and ChatGPT and filed confidentially for an IPO in June 2026.

Boston Dynamics Spot

Spot is Boston Dynamics' four-legged commercial robot, sold since September 2019 for industrial use. It carries modular payloads such as cameras and LIDAR, walks over steps and slopes, and more than 1,500 units are in customers' hands.

Tesla Optimus (announced concept)

Tesla revealed a humanoid robot concept, later named Optimus, at its first AI Day on 19 August 2021, describing a person-sized machine meant to take on unwanted work, with a first physical version expected in 2022.

ChatGPT

ChatGPT is OpenAI's AI chatbot, released as a research preview on 30 November 2022. It grew to hundreds of millions of weekly users and added agents, voice, browsing and workplace tools.

Gemini app

Google's consumer AI assistant, announced as Bard in 2023 and renamed Gemini in 2024. It is where ordinary users meet Google's Gemini models, first as a chat box and later through voice, research agents and subscriptions.

Figure 01

Figure 01 is the bipedal humanoid robot that startup Figure unveiled in March 2023, with design targets of 5 ft 6 in, 60 kg and a 20 kg payload, followed by a coffee-making demo and a BMW manufacturing agreement.

Claude apps (claude.ai)

Claude apps (claude.ai) are Anthropic's chat assistant for consumers and businesses. The public beta opened with Claude 2 in 2023, and the apps have since added paid plans, Projects, web search and Research.

All-electric Atlas (2024)

Boston Dynamics unveiled a fully electric Atlas in April 2024, saying it would be stronger, more dexterous and quieter than earlier generations and calling it the start of the robot's commercial journey, with Hyundai as first partner.

Figure 02

Figure 02 is the humanoid robot Figure introduced in August 2024, with redesigned hardware, 16-degree-of-freedom hands and triple the onboard compute of Figure 01. It loaded sheet-metal parts at BMW's Spartanburg plant before being retired in favour of Figure 03.

Tesla, Inc.

Tesla is the American company behind Optimus, a humanoid robot first shown as a concept at its 2021 AI Day; later reports describe pilot production lines, plans for volume manufacturing and a target unit cost below US$20,000.

Manus

Manus is a general-purpose AI agent product, marketed as "Hands On AI", that runs research, slides, design, images, music and video, and shipped a new architecture, Manus 2.0, on 28 September 2026.

Google self-driving car prototype

Google's self-driving car prototype was a modified production car that used cameras, radar and a roof-mounted laser range finder to sense traffic, drove routes that had been mapped in advance by manually driven cars, and always carried a trained safety driver and a software operator.

Figure AI

Figure AI is a Sunnyvale, California company building general-purpose humanoid robots for industrial work, backed by a large investor group and partnered with BMW Manufacturing.

MYCIN

MYCIN was an early expert system built at Stanford in the 1970s to identify bacteria causing severe infections and recommend antibiotic treatment, notable for separating its rule base from its inference engine and for explaining its own reasoning.

Cursor

Cursor is an AI code editor made by Anysphere, Inc. that lets programmers work alongside AI agents; it grew from a small Series A to a product used across the Fortune 500 and was acquired by SpaceX in 2026.

IBM

IBM is an American technology company founded in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company and renamed International Business Machines in 1924. Its researchers built Deep Blue, which beat Garry Kasparov in 1997, and the Watson question-answering system.

General Problem Solver

GPS was a program built at RAND to act as a universal problem-solving machine, and is credited as the first computer program to separate problem knowledge from a general solving strategy.

Fortran

Fortran is a programming language for numerical and scientific computing, developed from 1954 and released by IBM in 1957. Its compiler showed that automatically translated code could run nearly as fast as hand-written machine code.

Arthur Samuel's checkers program

A checkers program built by Arthur Samuel at IBM, begun in 1949 and published in 1959, that learned by memorising positions, playing itself and scoring board positions, and played at a respectable amateur level.

Unimation

Unimation was the Connecticut company founded in 1961 by George C. Devol and Joseph F. Engelberger that built the first Unimate robot and later the PUMA series.

ELIZA

ELIZA is an early program for holding a natural-language conversation with a computer, built at MIT by Joseph Weizenbaum in the mid-1960s. Its DOCTOR script imitated a psychotherapist, and the readiness of users to treat it as understanding became known as the ELIZA effect.

Robin Li

Robin Li (李彦宏) is a Chinese technologist and businessman who co-founded Baidu in 2000 and has been its chief executive since 2004. He is best known for the company's search business and its ERNIE AI models.

SHRDLU

SHRDLU was an early natural-language program built by Terry Winograd at MIT in 1968–1970 that conversed in English about a small blocks world, executing commands, answering questions and learning names — a landmark demo whose success fed an optimism later systems could not sustain.

Sundar Pichai

Indian-born American executive who rose from leading Google Chrome and Android to become CEO of Google and then Alphabet, and who has overseen the company's push into AI, including Bard and Google DeepMind.

XCON (R1)

R1, known inside Digital Equipment Corporation as XCON, was a rule-based expert system written by John P. McDermott at Carnegie Mellon University in 1978 to configure VAX computer orders automatically.

Zhang Yiming

Chinese technology entrepreneur who co-founded ByteDance in 2012 and led it as CEO until November 2021, when he handed the role to co-founder Liang Rubo and remained founder and chairman.

Cyc

Cyc is a hand-built knowledge base and ontology of common-sense knowledge, begun by Douglas Lenat in 1984 to give software the basic concepts and rules about how the world works.

NETtalk

NETtalk is an artificial neural network built by Terrence Sejnowski and Charles Rosenberg that learns to convert written English into phonemes and audible speech, showing that a network trained on examples can generalize to unseen words.

Greg Brockman

Greg Brockman is a co-founder of OpenAI. He led early projects such as OpenAI Gym and OpenAI Five, later became president, and took over the product organisation in April 2026.

Mira Murati

Albanian-American engineer who served as OpenAI's chief technology officer, briefly as its interim CEO in November 2023, and later founded and leads Thinking Machines Lab.

Dragon Dictate

Dragon Dictate, released by Dragon Systems in 1990, was the first speech-recognition product sold to consumers; at $9,000 it was costly, but it started the line of products that led to continuous speech recognition.

PC Therapist

PC Therapist was Joseph Weintraub's conversational program; a modified version won the first annual Loebner Prize Competition in 1991, fooling five of 10 judges into thinking it was human.

C4.5

C4.5 is a machine learning system that builds decision trees or if-then rules from cases with known classes. J. Ross Quinlan's 1993 book documents its C/UNIX implementation, source code, and use.

Newton MessagePad

The Newton MessagePad was Apple's first handheld computer built on Newton technology, shipping on 2 August 1993 with a pen-based interface, handwriting recognition and a modular communications design.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking

Dragon NaturallySpeaking is speech recognition software from Dragon Systems, first released in 1997 as a continuous dictation product; it turns speech into text, runs spoken commands and reads documents aloud, and is still sold today under Microsoft.

Roomba

An autonomous vacuum cleaning robot released by iRobot in 2002, Roomba created the consumer robot vacuum category and made its maker the market leader for years.

Wolfram|Alpha

Wolfram|Alpha is a web service that answers questions by computing results rather than returning links. Built entirely in Mathematica, it went live in test mode on 15 May 2009 and was declared officially launched three days later.

Bing

Bing is Microsoft's consumer search brand, launched on 3 June 2009 and pitched as a "Decision Engine" meant to help people make faster, better-informed decisions in areas such as shopping, travel, health and local business.

Siri virtual personal assistant app

Siri was a mobile app, on sale in Apple's App Store from February 2010, that turned spoken requests into answers using speech recognition, GPS and partner services. Apple bought the company behind it that April.

Kinect for Windows SDK beta

A free beta software development kit released by Microsoft on 16 June 2011 that let developers use the Kinect sensor's depth sensing, motion tracking and voice recognition on Windows PCs, initially for non-commercial work.

Google Knowledge Graph

A Google search feature announced in 2012 that models real-world entities and their relationships, so that search can work with "things, not strings".

Google Now

Google Now is an Android feature, announced with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean in June 2012, that pushes weather, traffic, scores and other information to users as cards at the moment they need it, without a search query.

NVIDIA DGX-1

NVIDIA's DGX-1, unveiled in April 2016, packed eight Tesla P100 GPUs into a single chassis and was billed as the world's first deep learning supercomputer, turning accelerator count into one purchasable machine.

Waymo LLC

Waymo is Alphabet's self-driving technology company, spun out of Google's autonomous car project in December 2016. It builds the software and sensors that drive vehicles rather than the vehicles themselves.

Apple A11 Bionic

Apple's 2017 smartphone chip, announced with the iPhone X: a six-core CPU, an Apple-designed three-core GPU and a dual-core neural engine built for on-device machine learning such as Face ID.

Boston Dynamics Stretch

Stretch is Boston Dynamics' first commercial robot designed specifically for warehouses, unveiled in March 2021 to unload trucks and, in later plans, to build orders.

Unitree Go1

A four-legged consumer robot launched by Unitree in June 2021, the Go1 cost about 16,000 yuan and ran at up to 4.7 metres per second — an early attempt to sell a legged robot to ordinary buyers.

GPT-3.5 (text-davinci-002/003)

GPT-3.5 is the family of OpenAI language models between GPT-3 and GPT-4, released through API models such as text-davinci-002 and text-davinci-003 and underlying the first version of ChatGPT.

Midjourney

Midjourney is an AI image generation service from Midjourney, Inc. Its open beta began on 12 July 2022 through a Discord bot, and it later added a website, video generation and new model versions.

Perplexity AI

Perplexity AI is a San Francisco company founded on 22 August 2022 by Aravind Srinivas and others. It runs an AI answer engine that cites web sources and has since added models, a browser and agents.

Tesla Optimus prototype (2022 AI Day)

Optimus is Tesla's humanoid robot; its first prototype appeared at the company's second AI Day in September 2022, about 172 cm tall and 73 kg, with a 2.3 kWh battery pack and more than 200 degrees of freedom.

Perplexity (answer engine)

Perplexity is an AI answer engine launched on 7 December 2022. It answers questions in natural language and cites its web sources, and it later added Deep Research, finance and shopping features and agents.

OpenRouter

OpenRouter is a marketplace and gateway for large language models, started in early 2023, that lets developers reach hundreds of models from many providers through one interface. It reports more than 10 million users and a $113 million Series B.

Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft Copilot is the company's AI chatbot and assistant, which started in 2023 as Bing Chat and became a single consumer and business AI brand that now includes in-house models.

GPT-3.5 Turbo

GPT-3.5 Turbo was the chat-optimised GPT-3.5 model OpenAI released through its API on 1 March 2023, priced at a tenth of the cost of earlier models and later replaced in ChatGPT by GPT-4o mini.

Claude (March 2023)

Claude is the AI assistant Anthropic announced on 14 March 2023, its first publicly available assistant. It was built around training AI to be helpful, honest and harmless, and it started the Claude model line.

Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot is Microsoft's AI assistant for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams, which pairs large language models with a customer's business data.

ERNIE Bot (Wenxin Yiyan / Wenxiaoyan)

ERNIE Bot (文心一言) is Baidu's chatbot, first released to invited testers in March 2023 and opened to the public that August. It has been offered in free and paid tiers and renamed Wenxiaoyan in 2024.

Qwen app (Tongyi)

The Qwen app is Alibaba's consumer chatbot built on its Qwen models. It began as a beta of Tongyi Qianwen in April 2023 and has since added app integrations and reached 234 million users by May 2026.

Unitree Go2

Unitree Go2 is a quadruped robot released in July 2023 at a starting price of 9,997 yuan, which Unitree said brought pricing in this category below 10,000 yuan for the first time.

Claude 2

Claude 2 is the second major version of Anthropic's assistant model, released on 11 July 2023 with better performance and longer responses. It was the first Claude model open to the general public.

NotebookLM

A Google research and note-taking tool that answers only from the sources a user supplies and cites the passages it used. Launched in 2023 under the name Project Tailwind, it became widely known for turning documents into podcast-style Audio Overviews.

Doubao

Doubao is ByteDance's AI chatbot, opened for invitation testing in August 2023 and later offering text, image and voice generation, AI search and video generation.[^1][^2]

Unitree H1

Unitree H1 is a full-size humanoid robot released by Unitree Robotics in August 2023. It stands about 180 cm tall, weighs about 47 kg, runs at up to 3.3 m/s and comes with a quick-swap battery pack.

AgiBot Yuanzheng A1

AgiBot Yuanzheng A1 is a 175 cm, 55 kg humanoid robot unveiled by AgiBot on 18 August 2023, with 49 degrees of freedom, a 7 km/h walking speed, custom PowerFlow joint modules and the WorkGPT agent model as its software stack.

Meta AI (assistant)

Meta AI is Meta's conversational assistant, introduced in US beta in September 2023 on WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram. It was rebuilt on Llama 3 in 2024 and on Muse Spark in 2026.

Kimi

Kimi is an AI chatbot from Moonshot AI, released in October 2023 and opened to the public the following month. It is known for very long context windows and has since added search, agent and coding features.

Grok (chatbot)

Grok is the chatbot from xAI, first offered in November 2023 to a small waitlist of US users. It has grown into a family of apps and models covering search, images, video and coding agents.

Claude 2.1

Claude 2.1, released on 21 November 2023, doubled the context window to 200,000 tokens and cut false statements by half compared with Claude 2.0. It added tool use and system prompts.

Tesla Optimus Gen 2

Tesla's second-generation humanoid robot, shown in a December 2023 video walking, dancing and handling an egg, with 30% faster walking, 10 kg less weight and 11-DoF hands.[^1][^2]

AI Overviews and AI Mode in Google Search

AI Overviews are AI-written summaries placed at the top of Google Search results, launched across the US in May 2024 and later joined by AI Mode, a separate search experiment. They became one of the most widely used consumer applications of generative AI.

Tencent Yuanbao

Tencent Yuanbao is an AI assistant app from Tencent, launched on 30 May 2024, that runs on its Hunyuan models and later integrated DeepSeek-R1, HY 2.0 and Hy3.

Apple Intelligence

Apple Intelligence is Apple's personal-intelligence system, announced at WWDC on 10 June 2024 for iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and macOS Sequoia. It runs models on device and uses Private Cloud Compute for larger requests.

XPENG IRON

IRON is XPENG's humanoid robot, first shown in November 2024 and redesigned a year later. It borrows the chip, vision system and AI models XPENG developed for its cars, and was trialled on a car production line.

Windsurf Editor

An AI-native code editor released by Codeium on 13 November 2024, built around "AI flows" that combine copilot-style collaboration with agent-style independence, and featuring the Cascade assistant, the Riptide search tool and Supercomplete.

DeepSeek app

The DeepSeek app is the company's official free chatbot, offered on the web and as mobile apps since 15 January 2025. It topped the U.S. App Store in late January 2025.

Alexa+

Alexa+ is Amazon's next-generation Alexa assistant, rebuilt on generative AI and introduced in February 2025. It costs $19.99 a month, is free for Prime members and can book services, order groceries and control smart-home devices.

Tiangong Ultra

Tiangong Ultra is a 180 cm humanoid robot that won the 2025 Beijing Yizhuang humanoid half marathon, finishing 21.0975 km in 2 hours 40 minutes 42 seconds at an average of 7.88 km/h.

ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs is an AI voice and media platform whose business spans voice generation, voice agents for customer experience and creative tools; it ended 2025 with $350 million in annual recurring revenue.

Suno

Suno is an AI music generator that turns prompts into finished songs, and increasingly a browser-based production suite with a studio, voice recording and stem separation.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd. is the company that built ASIMO, the humanoid robot it announced in Tokyo on 20 November 2000, following humanoid robotics research that began in 1986 and ran through a series of experimental walking machines.

Fidji Simo

Fidji Simo is a technology executive who led Instacart and became OpenAI's chief executive of Applications in 2025; in July 2026 she stepped down for health reasons and moved into a part-time advisory role.

Chinook

Chinook is a checkers-playing computer program built by Jonathan Schaeffer and colleagues [^1]. It became the first computer program to win a human world championship in any game, and its completed form cannot be beaten [^1].

Notion AI

Notion AI is Notion's set of AI features — agents, enterprise search, meeting notes and admin controls — sold per seat, with a Notion Agent that completes multi-step tasks and Custom Agents that automate recurring team work.

Runway

Runway builds generative video, image and audio tools used by more than 60 million creative users, and researches general-purpose world models that simulate video, audio and interfaces in real time.

GitHub

GitHub is a code hosting and collaboration platform used by more than 225 million developers, acquired by Microsoft in 2018 and the birthplace of the GitHub Copilot coding assistant.

PackBot

PackBot is iRobot's tactical mobile robot, developed under a 1998 DARPA contract. It carried out search work at the World Trade Center site in 2001 and was first deployed by the US military in 2002.

IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine

IBM's first electronic computer, announced to shareholders in April 1952. Built as a general-purpose machine, it ran some 25 to 50 times faster than its predecessors and opened IBM's 700 series.

Dragon Systems

Dragon Systems was a speech recognition company in Newton, Massachusetts, founded in 1982 by James K. Baker and Janet M. Baker. It made DragonDictate and NaturallySpeaking; its product line later passed to Nuance.

Su Hua

Su Hua is a Chinese technology entrepreneur who co-founded Kuaishou in 2011 and later stepped down as CEO, remaining involved in board leadership during the transition.

iRobot

An American robotics company founded in 1990 by three MIT researchers, iRobot built space and military robots before its Roomba vacuum cleaner made it a consumer name; it listed on NASDAQ in 2005 and filed for bankruptcy protection in 2025.

Honda P1

Honda's P1 was the first humanoid in Honda's P series, built during 1993–1997 research. Standing 1,915 mm and weighing 175 kg, it combined bipedal legs with a torso and arms, running on external power and an external computer.

Honda P3

Honda's P3, completed in September 1997, is a completely independent bipedal humanoid walking robot, 1,600 mm tall and 130 kg; Honda later called ASIMO its further evolved version.

AIBO Performer Kit

The AIBO Performer Kit (model ERF-510) is a motion editor released by Sony alongside its ERS-110 robot, letting owners write original movements for the robot on a personal computer and load them with an included Memory Stick.

Apache Hadoop

Apache Hadoop is an open-source framework for distributed storage and processing of big data, with the Hadoop Distributed File System for storage and MapReduce for processing; it grew out of the Nutch web-search project and was first released in 2006.

Kaggle

Kaggle is a data science competition platform and online community founded by Anthony Goldbloom in April 2010, where most submissions are scored instantly on a live leaderboard. Google acquired it in March 2017.

Microsoft XiaoIce

XiaoIce was a Microsoft chatbot released in May 2014 that users added to WeChat group chats for reminders, lookups, weather and jokes. It drew large crowds, then was banned by WeChat three days later for breaking platform rules.

Skype Translator

Skype Translator is a Microsoft feature that automatically translates speech and instant-message conversations. A public preview opened on 15 December 2014 with Spanish and English speech translation and more than 40 messaging languages.[^1]

iFlytek XiaoYi / iFlytek Translator

A handheld machine translation device from iFlytek, first released as Xiaoyi Translator in 2016, which the company's brand history describes as creating the AI translator product category.

1X EVE

EVE is a wheeled humanoid robot released by Halodi Robotics, later 1X, in 2018 for logistics, security and medical work. It later became the company's testbed for learning autonomous manipulation from video and teleoperation.

NVIDIA DGX-2

NVIDIA's DGX-2, announced in March 2018, packed 16 Tesla V100 GPUs and a new NVSwitch interconnect into one server that NVIDIA described as the first to reach two petaflops for deep learning.

Xiaomi CyberDog

Xiaomi CyberDog is a bionic quadruped robot that Xiaomi announced in August 2021. It was sold as an engineering exploration edition priced at 9,999 yuan and limited to 1,000 units, and was aimed at developers who wanted to program and extend it.

Xiaomi CyberOne

CyberOne, nicknamed Tieda, is a full-size humanoid bionic robot that Xiaomi presented in August 2022. It showed the company assembling perception, control and actuation into one machine, but it had not entered mass production.

Fourier GR-1

The Fourier GR-1 is Fourier's first full-size humanoid robot, released in 2023 and mass-produced the same year. It is aimed at guided reception and consulting work and at academic research.

Claude Instant

A lighter, cheaper and faster version of Anthropic's Claude model, released in 2023 for business use through the API and retired in November 2024.

SenseChat

SenseChat is SenseTime's conversational AI product, launched on 10 April 2023 as part of the SenseNova model family with more than 100 billion parameters, first offered to government and corporate clients and later expanded through the V4 and SenseNova V6 releases.

HuggingChat

HuggingChat is a free chatbot launched by Hugging Face on 25 April 2023 as an open-source alternative to ChatGPT. It initially ran the volunteer Open Assistant model and let users switch among open models.

v0

v0 is Vercel's tool that turns a written description of an interface into frontend code built on React, Tailwind CSS and shadcn/ui. It drew 100,000 waitlist sign-ups and moved from Alpha to Beta in October 2023.

Fourier GR-2

Fourier's second-generation general-purpose humanoid robot, released and put into mass production in 2024. It follows the GR-1 and is used for guided reception, consulting and academic research.

1X NEO Beta

NEO Beta is a bipedal humanoid prototype that 1X unveiled on 30 August 2024 for home use. The company presented it as a step from concept development toward limited in-home testing and production planning.

Intel Falcon Shores

Falcon Shores is an Intel chip that the company said in January 2025 it would use only as an internal test chip, never bringing it to market, while pointing to Jaguar Shores as its route into rack-scale AI data-centre systems.

1X NEO Gamma

NEO Gamma is 1X's home humanoid robot, introduced in February 2025 with a learned whole-body controller that gives it a human-like gait; it was used for early household testing before the company's NEO robot succeeded it.

Comet (browser)

Comet is an AI web browser from Perplexity, launched on 9 July 2025 for Windows and macOS. Built on Chromium, it has an assistant that can carry out multistep browsing tasks.

ChatGPT Atlas

ChatGPT Atlas is a web browser built around ChatGPT, released by OpenAI for macOS on 21 October 2025. It offered an optional agent mode and browser memories, and was shut down on 9 August 2026.

Aravind Srinivas

AI researcher and entrepreneur who held research positions at OpenAI, Google and DeepMind before co-founding the AI search company Perplexity in 2022, where he serves as CEO.

NVIDIA Tesla T4

The NVIDIA Tesla T4 is a 70-watt, single-slot GPU built on the Turing architecture and aimed at AI inference, pairing Tensor Cores with dedicated video transcoding engines in a card that slots into ordinary servers.

Poe

Poe is a platform where creators build and share AI-powered applications — from simple prompt bots to server bots, script bots, canvas apps and API bots — reaching millions of users, with per-call creator payouts and platform-covered inference costs.

Brad Lightcap

Brad Lightcap is an OpenAI executive who served as chief financial officer and then chief operating officer, later overseeing business strategy, partnerships, infrastructure and global deployment before leaving the company in 2026.

Mike Krieger

Mike Krieger, co-founder and CTO of Instagram, joined Anthropic as Chief Product Officer on 15 May 2024, taking charge of product engineering, product management and product design.

Kevin Scott

Kevin Scott is Microsoft's chief technology officer, appointed on 24 January 2017 after engineering leadership roles at LinkedIn, Google and AdMob. In March 2024 Microsoft said he continued as CTO and EVP of AI, responsible for all-up AI strategy.

Uber

Uber's prototype self-driving Volvo XC90 struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, on 18 March 2018. The NTSB sharply criticised Uber and issued recommendations after finding that the vehicle's automatic braking was disabled.

Pika

Pika is a set of AI creative tools for video, image and audio, reached through a web app as well as an iOS app, a Model Context Protocol server and a ChatGPT app, and it lists its own models alongside third-party ones.

Cinematch

Cinematch was Netflix's own algorithm for predicting what rating a subscriber would give a film. Its accuracy became the baseline of the Netflix Prize, a $1 million contest to beat it by 10 percent.

Synthesia

Synthesia is an AI video platform for business: users type a script and an AI avatar presents it, with tools for generation, dubbing, translation, screen recording and motion graphics, plus a separate Sessions line for interactive roleplay and surveys.

HeyGen

HeyGen is an AI video platform that turns a short recording of a person into a speaking avatar for social content, courses and business videos. Its Avatar V model is pitched at consistency across long clips and many languages.

Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine 2

Cerebras's second-generation wafer-scale chip, presented as the largest AI processor ever made: 2.6 trillion transistors, 850,000 cores and 40 GB of on-wafer memory on a single wafer built on a 7-nanometer process.

NVIDIA Tesla P40

The NVIDIA Tesla P40 is a data-center GPU accelerator described in a September 2016 NVIDIA datasheet. Built on the Pascal architecture and aimed at deep learning inference, it pairs 24 GB of memory with 47 TOPS of INT8 throughput in a 250 W PCIe card.

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