Tag: #llm
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AI reaches gold at the International Mathematical Olympiad (2025)
In July 2025, language models from Google DeepMind and OpenAI solve five of six IMO problems for 35 of 42 points, writing proofs in natural language within the exam time limit.
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GPT-5 makes reasoning the default (2025)
On August 7, 2025, OpenAI releases GPT-5 as a unified system that decides when to answer quickly and when to think longer, and ships it to every ChatGPT user; a bumpy rollout shows how attached people have become to individual models.
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Gemini 2.0 and the start of the agentic era (2024)
Google's Gemini 2.0, launched in December 2024, was pitched as a model for the agentic era: systems that do not just answer, but take multi-step actions on your behalf.
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The Stargate Project: a $500 billion bet on AI infrastructure (2025)
In January 2025, OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle and MGX announced Stargate, a plan to invest up to $500 billion in US AI data centers, just as DeepSeek was questioning the cost of compute.
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Gemini 1.0: Google's multimodal answer (2023)
Google rebranded its AI efforts under Gemini, a natively multimodal family meant to rival GPT-4, and learned how closely launch demos would now be scrutinised.
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GPT-3: when scale became the strategy (2020)
OpenAI's 175-billion-parameter model showed that a big enough language model could learn new tasks from a few examples in the prompt, no retraining required.
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GPT-4: the flagship that raised the bar (2023)
OpenAI's GPT-4 could read images as well as text and scored well on exams built for humans, cementing a fierce commercial race, and a secrecy that unsettled researchers.
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Llama 2: open(ish) weights change the game (2023)
Meta released a capable language model whose weights anyone could download and build on, pushing the debate over 'open' AI to the center of the industry.
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OpenAI o1: models that think before they answer (2024)
OpenAI previewed a model line trained to reason through problems step by step before responding, trading speed for accuracy and reviving the idea that thinking longer can pay off.