History of AIAI from 1936 to 2026

An open-source chronicle in the five-fold form of Records of the Grand Historian — eighty years of dreams, winters, and breakthroughs that taught machines to think.

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Annals

Ten chronicles — from a small office in Chicago in 1943 to a model in everyone's pocket in 2026, ten eras and ten turning points.

Houses

Thirty-one institutional histories — from the MIT AI Lab of the golden age, to OpenAI and Anthropic in the era of large models, to Zhipu and MiniMax sprinting toward Hong Kong listings, alongside infrastructure and consumer giants like NVIDIA, TSMC, Apple, and Amazon, spanning the United States, Canada, China, Japan, and Europe.

Biographies

Twenty-three lives — Turing, Shannon, Hinton, Altman... Behind every name, a difficult choice that bent the course of the field.

Treatises

Twenty-five thematic essays — neural networks, the Transformer, AGI, AI safety. Each traces the rise, fall, and reemergence of one technical lineage.

Timeline of Major Events

One hundred and thirty-four moments — from Turing's paper machine in 1936 to the open-source shock of DeepSeek in 2025. Divided into ten eras, milestones highlighted, every entry linking back to its chapter.

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