Let AI Explain AI

This interactive AI timeline offers the most comprehensive chronological overview of artificial intelligence from 1943 to 2026, encompassing over 383 milestones, 50 organizations, and 100 key figures. It traces the evolution from early theoretical foundations—such as McCulloch and Pitts' neuron model (1943), Shannon's communication theory (1948), Hebb's synaptic learning rule (1949), and Turing's imitation game (1950)—through historical turning points like the Dartmouth Conference (1956), the Lighthill Report-induced funding collapse (1973), the rise of expert systems (1980s), and the popularization of backpropagation (1986). The timeline also details modern developments: DeepMind's transition framework from AGI to ASI, Cornell's demonstration of AI search manipulation via 13-word Reddit comments, the first vision-language model operating autonomously on a satellite, and US government actions suspending Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models citing national security. It is filtered by company (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft) and year, updated weekly, and integrates biological inspirations (e.g., nematode chemotaxis, honeybee learning, triune brain theory) alongside computational advances.