Chronological inventory

Innovations

Technical milestones ordered by year, from mechanical to digital.

Filter All Mechanical Origins Electronic Era Personal Computing Birth of the Internet Web Era Web 2.0 & Social Media Mobile & Cloud Generative AI
TensorFlow Google — Public domain (logo, simple shapes/text), via Wikimedia Commons 2015

TensorFlow

Software / Machine learning library

Transformer Ravelinha — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 2017

Transformer

Neural architecture / Natural language processing

ChatGPT OpenAI — Public domain (logo, simple shapes/text), via Wikimedia Commons 2022

ChatGPT

AI / Conversational agent

GPT-4 OpenAI — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons 2023

GPT-4

AI / Large language model