The Intelligence Age: A History of AI

From ancient automata to modern neural networks — the story of thinking machines

75 Milestones
700+ Years of history
∞ Growing daily
Sam Altman

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Sam Altman

CEO of OpenAI

  • Serves as the CEO of OpenAI, leading the organization in advancing AI technology and ethics.
  • Has overseen the successful growth of Y Combinator, a leading startup accelerator.

Sam Altman is an American entrepreneur and CEO of OpenAI, a leading research organization in artificial intelligence, dedicated to shaping the future of AI for the betterment of humanity.

Milestones

  • The 175 Billion Parameter Surprise
    The Age of Foundation Models Research
    The 175 Billion Parameter Surprise

    OpenAI's GPT-3 demonstrated that scaling up language models could produce emergent abilities no one explicitly programmed, igniting the foundation model era.

    2020
  • The Chatbot That Broke the Internet
    The Age of Foundation Models Commercial
    The Chatbot That Broke the Internet

    OpenAI released ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, and it reached 100 million users in just two months, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history.

    2022
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