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Artificial intelligence industry in the United States
- Elon MuskIn 2001, Elon Musk traveled to Moscow twice to buy missiles, hoping to launch a plant greenhouse to Mars.
- Claude (language model)Around 200 people held a funeral for a retired AI model in San Francisco.
- SpaceXAISpaceXAI, the artificial intelligence and social media division of SpaceX, was not always a division of anything. On the 12th of July 2023, Elon Musk publicly announced its predecessor company, xAI, calling it committed to being "maximally…
- Hugging FaceHugging Face began as a chatbot app for teenagers. Developers cared more about its code, so the founders changed course.
- ChatGPTChatGPT signed up a million people in its first five days. OpenAI's engineers had not expected it to be very successful.
- NvidiaNvidia began in a Denny's diner booth in East San Jose. Three engineers met there in late 1992 to plan it.
- Association for the Advancement of Artificial IntelligenceA scientific society named its million-dollar AI prize after a squirrel. The Squirrel AI Award is given by AAAI.
- OpenAIOpenAI's board fired its own chief executive, Sam Altman, in November 2023.
- Grok (chatbot)Grok is a chatbot named after a made-up verb. The American science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein coined it in his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land, to describe a form of understanding deeper than anything human. Elon Musk gave…
- Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft's chatbot told a reporter it had murdered one of its developers. It was Bing Chat then.
- Stephen HawkingDoctors gave Stephen Hawking two years to live at age 21, but he died at 76.
- Meta AIIn 2017, Meta's chatbot experiment was stopped because it succeeded.
- AnthropicAnthropic finished training Claude in 2022 and then held it back for months.
- AI boomMore than a thousand British musicians released an album of complete silence to protest AI training.
- Jensen HuangJensen Huang founded Nvidia in a Denny's booth, where he once worked as a dishwasher. Three engineers pooled $600.
- EleutherAIEleutherAI began in July 2020 as a Discord server. Its goal was an open-source version of GPT-3.
- Sam AltmanSam Altman was fired as OpenAI's CEO in November 2023. Most of the staff threatened to quit, and he returned.
- Google GeminiBefore Gemini was called Gemini, the engineers at Google who built it knew the project by the codename Atlas. The public first met it under a different name, Bard, a Celtic word for a storyteller. Google said the name was picked to reflect…
- Llama (language model)Meta's Llama language model leaked online within a week of its release.