Plate VIII. The City of Errands, 2024–2025
The City of Errands
Models stop answering and start doing.
Reasoning models learned to think before answering. Agents operated desktops and browsers, a protocol let them plug into tools, and coding assistants began shipping software.
Capital followed: data-center projects measured in hundreds of billions, and a new word in company names: superintelligence.
Events
- Safe Superintelligence Inc. (19 Jun 2024)
- The EU AI Act enters into force (1 Aug 2024)
- OpenAI o1: models that reason (12 Sept 2024)
- Nobel prizes for AI (8 Oct 2024 – 9 Oct 2024)
- An AI uses a computer (22 Oct 2024)
- Model Context Protocol (25 Nov 2024)
- “Superintelligence in the true sense of the word” (5 Jan 2025)
- DeepSeek-R1 (20 Jan 2025)
- The Stargate Project (21 Jan 2025)
- Operator browses for you (23 Jan 2025)
- “Vibe coding” (2 Feb 2025)
- Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code (24 Feb 2025)
- “The Gentle Singularity” (10 Jun 2025)
- Meta Superintelligence Labs (30 Jun 2025)
- Gold-medal level at the IMO (19 Jul 2025 – 21 Jul 2025)
- “Personal Superintelligence” (30 Jul 2025)
- GPT-5 (7 Aug 2025)
- California SB 53 (29 Sept 2025)
- Statement on Superintelligence (Oct 2025)