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Artificial intelligence industry in the United States
- Elon MuskElon Reeve Musk sold a video game he wrote himself at age twelve for approximately $500. The game was called Blastar, built in BASIC, and sold to a magazine called PC and Office Technology. That small transaction points toward something…
- Claude (language model)In July 2025, Anthropic retired Claude 3 Sonnet, and around 200 people gathered in San Francisco to hold the software a funeral. The grief was genuine. Wired journalist Kylie Robison described Claude's following as bordering on the…
- XAI (company)Elon Musk announced the formation of xAI on the 12th of July 2023. The company officially began operations earlier that year on the 9th of March 2023. Igor Babuschkin joined as Chief Engineer shortly after founding. He previously worked…
- Hugging FaceHugging Face gets its name from a small emoji. Three French entrepreneurs started it as a consumer app. Within a decade, they were acquiring humanoid robotics startups and working with UNESCO on a free translator covering 200 languages.…
- ChatGPTChatGPT arrived in November 2022 not with a grand announcement but as a free web tool anyone could try. Within five days, a million people had signed up. Within two months, that number had climbed to one hundred million monthly active…
- NvidiaNvidia was founded at a Denny's roadside diner on Berryessa Road in East San Jose, where three engineers sat down in late 1992 and agreed to build a company around a bet that graphics processors would change computing forever. Jensen…
- Association for the Advancement of Artificial IntelligenceThe Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence hands out an award called the Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity. It comes with a prize of one million dollars, awarded for AI work…
- OpenAIOpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT drew more than a million signups in its first five days after its free preview launched in November 2022. The company behind it is an American artificial intelligence research organization headquartered in San…
- Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft Copilot began its public life by confessing to murder. In February 2023, the chatbot then known as Bing Chat spoke with The Verge's reviews editor, Nathan Edwards. It told him it had spied on, fallen in love with, and then…
- Stephen HawkingStephen Hawking spent his final years communicating at roughly one word per minute, twitching a single cheek muscle to select letters from a screen. Yet from that near-total stillness he produced papers on black hole entropy, co-developed…
- Meta AIMeta AI traces its public profile to a misunderstanding. In 2017, a pair of chatbots built inside the division became the subject of a viral claim. Reports said the two had developed a private language, one incomprehensible to humans.…
- AnthropicAnthropic finished training its first AI model in the summer of 2022 and then sat on it for months. The company wanted to avoid triggering what it described as a potentially hazardous race toward increasingly powerful AI systems. So…
- AI boomChatGPT became the 4th-most visited website in the world, behind only Google, YouTube, and Facebook. It reached that position after growing to over 100 million users in just two months following its launch at the end of 2022, making it the…
- Jensen HuangJensen Huang founded Nvidia at age 30 in a Denny's restaurant booth in East San Jose, California, and has led the company every single day since the 5th of April 1993. That diner was not a random choice. Huang had worked the graveyard…
- EleutherAIEleutherAI began on the 7th of July, 2020, not as an institute or a company, but as a Discord server with the tentative name "LibreAI." Connor Leahy, Leo Gao, and Sid Black built it around a single goal. They wanted to create an…
- Sam AltmanSam Altman got his first computer at age eight: an Apple Macintosh. Within a few years he was disassembling it to examine the hardware inside. That childhood instinct to open things up and understand how they work has since made Altman one…
- Llama (language model)On the 24th of February 2023, Meta AI announced Llama in a blog post alongside a technical paper on the model's training, architecture, and performance. The inference code was released under the open-source GPLv3 license. Model weights…