AI tool launches, product updates and industry moves.
In February 2025, Google unveiled the Gemini 2.0-based AI Co-Scientist, using multi-agent collaboration to help scientists generate and iterate new hypotheses.
In February 2025, at the France-India summit, the U.S. and U.K. declined to sign the inclusive-AI declaration, with Vance blasting Europe's 'excessive regulation.'
From Gemini (Dec 2024) to OpenAI (Feb 2025) to the whole industry, autonomous research agents went from novelty to table stakes within a year.
DeepSeek open-sourced its R1 reasoning model on January 20, 2025; a week later it triggered an AI stock rout, with Nvidia plunging 17% in a day.
In January-February 2025, OpenAI launched Operator, a browser-driving agent, and Deep Research, an autonomous research agent — agents became products.
On January 21, 2025, OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle announced Stargate at the White House — up to $500 billion over four years for U.S. AI infrastructure.
DeepSeek released V3 on December 26, 2024: 671B total / 37B active parameters, trained for a fraction of closed-model budgets, open and commercial-ready.
Google released Gemini 2.0 on December 11, 2024 — built for agents — and demoed Project Mariner, an agent that drives your browser.
Stability AI released the SD 3.5 family in October 2024, but with FLUX rising fast, its dominance in open image generation is under challenge.
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics went to AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, and Chemistry to AlphaFold's Hassabis and Jumper — AI swept two of science's top honors in one year.
On September 29, 2024, Governor Newsom vetoed SB 1047 — America's most aggressive frontier AI safety bill — pausing a fight that had torn Silicon Valley apart.
On September 20, 2024, Microsoft signed a 20-year PPA with Constellation to restart Three Mile Island Unit 1 — AI demand pulling retired nuclear back onto the grid.
On September 12, 2024, OpenAI released o1 (codenamed Strawberry), the first model trained via RL to think at length before answering — redefining reasoning.
In May 2024, DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs published AlphaFold 3 in Nature — the first to predict protein complexes with DNA, RNA and ligands.
Adobe unveiled Firefly Image 3 at MAX London on April 23, 2024, with big gains in photorealism, integrated into Photoshop on day one.