2007 — 2026
The AI race
Who shipped what, and when. Frontier labs and the infrastructure underneath them, from the founding of OpenAI to the current generation of models.
Every organisation is a row and time runs left to right, so a column is one quarter — read down it to see who was shipping at the same moment.Pick an organisation to read its history, newest first.
- Accent dot
- A moment that changed the field
- Hatched column
- Quiet years, folded up so you don't scroll through them
- Detail
- Key moments, or everything — the control on the right
- Move
- Drag or scroll across time · hold ctrl and scroll to zoom
45 events
Q2
···8y
Q4
2016
Q2
Q3
Q4
2017
Q2
···1y
Q2
Q3
Q4
2019
···1y
Q2
Q3
Q4
2021
···1y
2022
Q2
Q3
Q4
2023
Q2
Q3
Q4
2024
Q2
Q3
Q4
2025
Q2
Q3
Q4
2026
Q2
Q3
OpenAI
Anthropic
Google DeepMind
Meta AI
Mistral AI
xAI
Nvidia
Hugging Face