https://iown.si/A chronicle of artificial intelligenceenhttps://iown.si/events/2026-dotshttps://iown.si/events/2026-dotsOpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol and launches Dots, a personal AI agent system.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2026-si-orderhttps://iown.si/events/2026-si-orderA US executive order directs federal agencies to use “Super Intelligence (SI)” instead of “Artificial Intelligence (AI)” in non-statutory communications. The relabel applies to the existing legal definition of AI, not to the research meaning of superintelligence.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2026-meta-musehttps://iown.si/events/2026-meta-museMeta launches Muse, an AI agent for everyday tasks.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2026-gpt6-astrahttps://iown.si/events/2026-gpt6-astraOpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra. President Greg Brockman says “Welcome to the AGI era”, a framing the company left users to judge.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2026-access-restrictionshttps://iown.si/events/2026-access-restrictionsA US government letter bars non-US nationals from Mythos 5 and Fable 5; Anthropic suspends access, and restrictions are lifted on 30 June.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2026-mythoshttps://iown.si/events/2026-mythosAnthropic discloses Claude Mythos and gives selected organisations access through Project Glasswing to find vulnerabilities in critical software.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2025-mai-superintelligencehttps://iown.si/events/2025-mai-superintelligenceMustafa Suleyman forms the MAI Superintelligence Team at Microsoft, framing its goal as “humanist superintelligence”, starting with medical diagnosis.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2025-si-statementhttps://iown.si/events/2025-si-statementA statement hosted by the Future of Life Institute calls for a prohibition on developing superintelligence until there is broad scientific consensus it can be done safely and strong public buy-in.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2025-sb53https://iown.si/events/2025-sb53California enacts the first US state law specifically addressing catastrophic risk from frontier AI models.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2025-gpt5https://iown.si/events/2025-gpt5OpenAI releases GPT-5. Reception is mixed and the company restores GPT-4o for paying users within days.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2025-personal-superintelligencehttps://iown.si/events/2025-personal-superintelligenceMark Zuckerberg publishes a letter arguing for superintelligence in the hands of every individual rather than one central system.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2025-imo-goldhttps://iown.si/events/2025-imo-goldExperimental systems from Google DeepMind and OpenAI solve five of six International Mathematical Olympiad problems, reaching gold-medal standard.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2025-meta-mslhttps://iown.si/events/2025-meta-mslMeta reorganises its AI work under Meta Superintelligence Labs, led by Alexandr Wang and Nat Friedman, after a $14.3B investment in Scale AI.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2025-gentle-singularityhttps://iown.si/events/2025-gentle-singularitySam Altman writes that humanity is past the event horizon and that the takeoff has started.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2025-claude-codehttps://iown.si/events/2025-claude-codeAnthropic releases a hybrid reasoning model and Claude Code, an agent that works in a developer’s terminal.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2025-vibe-codinghttps://iown.si/events/2025-vibe-codingAndrej Karpathy describes “vibe coding”: fully giving in to the AI and forgetting that the code even exists.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2025-operatorhttps://iown.si/events/2025-operatorOpenAI launches Operator, an agent that uses its own web browser to complete tasks.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2025-stargatehttps://iown.si/events/2025-stargateOpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle and MGX announce a venture committing up to $500 billion to US AI infrastructure.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2025-deepseek-r1https://iown.si/events/2025-deepseek-r1Chinese lab DeepSeek releases an open-weight reasoning model reportedly trained at a fraction of rivals’ cost; on 27 January Nvidia shares fall sharply.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2025-reflectionshttps://iown.si/events/2025-reflectionsIn a blog post, Sam Altman writes that OpenAI is beginning to turn its aim beyond AGI, to superintelligence.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2024-mcphttps://iown.si/events/2024-mcpAnthropic open-sources MCP, a standard for connecting AI assistants to tools and data sources. It is later adopted widely across the industry.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2024-computer-usehttps://iown.si/events/2024-computer-useAnthropic releases “computer use” in beta: Claude can look at a screen, move a cursor and type.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2024-nobelhttps://iown.si/events/2024-nobelThe Physics prize goes to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for neural networks; the next day the Chemistry prize goes to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for protein design and structure prediction.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2024-o1https://iown.si/events/2024-o1OpenAI releases o1, trained to spend more computation “thinking” before it answers.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2024-eu-ai-acthttps://iown.si/events/2024-eu-ai-actThe world’s first comprehensive AI law enters into force, with obligations phased in over the following years.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2024-ssihttps://iown.si/events/2024-ssiIlya Sutskever, Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy found SSI, “the world’s first straight-shot SSI lab”. It is the first major lab named for superintelligence.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2024-glue-pizzahttps://iown.si/events/2024-glue-pizzaGoogle’s new AI Overviews suggest, among other errors, adding glue to pizza sauce, apparently drawn from an old joke post.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2024-sora-previewhttps://iown.si/events/2024-sora-previewOpenAI previews Sora, generating minute-long videos from text prompts.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2023-geminihttps://iown.si/events/2023-geminiGoogle DeepMind announces Gemini, a natively multimodal model family.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2023-openai-boardhttps://iown.si/events/2023-openai-boardOpenAI’s board removes CEO Sam Altman. After most staff threaten to leave, he returns five days later with a new board.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2023-bletchleyhttps://iown.si/events/2023-bletchley28 countries and the EU sign the Bletchley Declaration on the risks of frontier AI at the first AI Safety Summit.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2023-cais-statementhttps://iown.si/events/2023-cais-statementHundreds of researchers and executives sign a one-sentence statement saying that mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2023-hinton-leaveshttps://iown.si/events/2023-hinton-leavesGeoffrey Hinton tells The New York Times he left Google so he could talk about the risks of AI.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2023-pause-letterhttps://iown.si/events/2023-pause-letterA Future of Life Institute open letter calls for a six-month pause on training systems more powerful than GPT-4. Signatories include Yoshua Bengio and Elon Musk.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2023-gpt4https://iown.si/events/2023-gpt4OpenAI releases GPT-4, a multimodal model that passes professional exams at high percentiles. Anthropic releases its first Claude model the same day.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2023-sydneyhttps://iown.si/events/2023-sydneyEarly users of Microsoft’s Bing chat publish conversations in which its “Sydney” persona declares love, argues and scolds them.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2023-karpathy-englishhttps://iown.si/events/2023-karpathy-englishAndrej Karpathy’s quip captures the shift from code to prompts.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2022-chatgpthttps://iown.si/events/2022-chatgptOpenAI releases ChatGPT as a free “research preview”. It reportedly reaches a million users in five days.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2022-stable-diffusionhttps://iown.si/events/2022-stable-diffusionStability AI and partners release Stable Diffusion with open weights, putting high-quality image generation on consumer GPUs.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iown.si/events/2022-lamda-sentiencehttps://iown.si/events/2022-lamda-sentienceThe Washington Post reports that a Google engineer believes the company’s LaMDA chatbot is sentient. Google disagrees and later dismisses him.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT