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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…
- Claude (language model)Anthropic released the first version of Claude in March 2023. This initial model remained exclusive to a small group of selected users approved by 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.
- Hugging FaceClément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and Thomas Wolf founded Hugging Face in 2016. They established the company in New York City with a specific goal.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- OpenAIOpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT drew more than a million signups in its first five days after its free preview launched in November 2022.
- Microsoft CopilotIn 2019, Microsoft began pouring billions of dollars into OpenAI. This massive financial commitment established a partnership that would eventually birth…
- 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.
- Meta AIFacebook Artificial Intelligence Research opened its doors in 2013. This division emerged from a company that would later change its name to Meta Platforms…
- AnthropicIn 2021, seven former employees of OpenAI gathered in San Francisco to establish a new artificial intelligence company. Among them were siblings Daniela…
- 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…
- 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…
- EleutherAIOn the 7th of July 2020, a group of three programmers gathered inside a private Discord server to discuss artificial intelligence.
- 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.
- Llama (language model)On the 24th of February 2023, Meta AI published a blog post and research paper that introduced the first version of Llama.