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ChatGPT grew to over 100 million users within two months of its launch at the end of 2022, making it the fastest-growing software application on record. As of 2025, it is the 4th-most visited website globally, behind only Google, YouTube, and Facebook.
John McCarthy coined the term "artificial intelligence" in 1956. That same year, McCarthy organized the Dartmouth conference with Nathaniel Rochester, Marvin Minsky, and Claude Shannon, which established AI as a formal academic field.
DeepMind's AlphaFold scored more than 90 on CASP's Global Distance Test in 2020, demonstrating an unprecedented ability to predict protein folding from amino acid sequences. Nobel Prize winner Venki Ramakrishnan called the result "a stunning advance on the protein folding problem."
Nvidia's market capitalization rose above US$3.3 trillion as of the 19th of June 2024, making it the world's largest company by that measure. It became the first company to reach US$4 trillion on the 9th of July 2025 and crossed US$5 trillion on the 29th of October 2025.
In September 2024, Microsoft signed a deal with Constellation Energy to purchase power from a reactor at Three Mile Island that had been shut down in 2019. The reactor is set to reopen in 2028 to supply Microsoft's AI data centers and is adjacent to the unit that caused the worst nuclear power accident in US history in 1979.
On the 19th of April 2024, Drake released a track featuring AI-generated vocals imitating Tupac Shakur, prompting Shakur's estate to threaten legal action over personality rights. On the 20th of May 2024, Scarlett Johansson accused OpenAI of creating a voice feature closely resembling hers despite her having refused the company's earlier offer to provide it.