A sourced, interactive timeline of every major AI release, tracking the products people said AI would kill and what actually happened to them.https://gotreplaced.si/https://gotreplaced.si/events/stability-stable-diffusion/https://gotreplaced.si/events/stability-stable-diffusion/Stability AI announced the public release of Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image model with weights on Hugging Face under the Creative ML OpenRAIL-M licence, plus a hosted option, DreamStudio. It followed an earlier researcher release.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/openai-chatgpt/https://gotreplaced.si/events/openai-chatgpt/OpenAI released ChatGPT, a conversational model fine-tuned from the GPT-3.5 series, as a free research preview open to the public.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/anthropic-claude/https://gotreplaced.si/events/anthropic-claude/Anthropic opened Claude and the lighter Claude Instant more broadly after a closed alpha, via a chat interface and the API in its developer console. Organisations requested access.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/openai-gpt-4/https://gotreplaced.si/events/openai-gpt-4/OpenAI released GPT-4, a large multimodal model. Text input was made available in ChatGPT Plus and through the API via a waitlist; image input started with a single partner.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/google-bard/https://gotreplaced.si/events/google-bard/Google began opening Bard, its experimental chatbot, to users in the US and UK through a sign-up waitlist, expanding over time. It had been announced on 6 February 2023 for trusted testers.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/microsoft-bing-chat/https://gotreplaced.si/events/microsoft-bing-chat/Microsoft unveiled an AI-powered Bing and Edge combining search and chat on 7 February 2023, as a limited desktop preview with a waitlist. On 4 May 2023 it said the new Bing was in open preview with no waitlist.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/anthropic-claude-2/https://gotreplaced.si/events/anthropic-claude-2/Anthropic announced Claude 2, with better performance and longer responses, available through its API and a new public-facing beta website, claude.ai.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/meta-llama-2/https://gotreplaced.si/events/meta-llama-2/Meta released Llama 2, with weights for pretrained and chat fine-tuned models, free for research and commercial use. It was also offered through Azure, AWS, Hugging Face and others.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/openai-chatgpt-voice-vision/https://gotreplaced.si/events/openai-chatgpt-voice-vision/OpenAI began rolling out voice conversations and image input in ChatGPT on 25 September 2023, to Plus and Enterprise users over about two weeks. Voice was on iOS and Android; image input was on all platforms.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/openai-dall-e-3/https://gotreplaced.si/events/openai-dall-e-3/OpenAI integrated its DALL·E 3 image model into ChatGPT, rolling out in beta from 16 October 2023 so that ChatGPT replies to requests with images. OpenAI's page later says it reached all ChatGPT users and the API.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/microsoft-365-copilot/https://gotreplaced.si/events/microsoft-365-copilot/Microsoft 365 Copilot became generally available to enterprise customers worldwide, bringing AI drafting, summaries and data help into Microsoft 365 apps. It was announced on 16 March 2023 and tested with a small group first.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/openai-gpt-4-turbo/https://gotreplaced.si/events/openai-gpt-4-turbo/At its DevDay event OpenAI announced GPT-4 Turbo with a 128K context window and lower prices than GPT-4, available to all paying developers as a preview in the API, along with the Assistants API.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/google-gemini-1/https://gotreplaced.si/events/google-gemini-1/Google introduced Gemini 1.0. A tuned Gemini Pro began powering Bard in English in 170+ countries and Nano came to the Pixel 8 Pro; the Pro API followed on 13 December, and Ultra was held for early testing.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/google-notebooklm/https://gotreplaced.si/events/google-notebooklm/Google made NotebookLM, an experimental Labs product, available in the US to ages 18 and up with more than a dozen new features. It had started on 12 July 2023 as a waitlist preview for a small group of US users.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/mistral-mixtral/https://gotreplaced.si/events/mistral-mixtral/Mistral AI released Mixtral 8x7B, a sparse mixture-of-experts model with open weights under the Apache 2.0 licence, together with an instruction-tuned version, Mixtral 8x7B Instruct.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/google-bard-to-gemini/https://gotreplaced.si/events/google-bard-to-gemini/Google renamed Bard as Gemini and launched Gemini Advanced, a paid tier with Ultra 1.0 in English in 150+ countries. A Gemini app launched on Android, and Gemini came to the Google app on iOS, starting in the US.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/google-gemma/https://gotreplaced.si/events/google-gemma/Google released Gemma 2B and 7B, lightweight open models in pre-trained and instruction-tuned versions, with weights available and terms permitting commercial use, plus toolkits for JAX, PyTorch and TensorFlow.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/anthropic-claude-3/https://gotreplaced.si/events/anthropic-claude-3/Anthropic released Claude 3 Opus and Sonnet in the API and claude.ai (Opus for Pro subscribers, Sonnet in the free tier). Claude 3 Haiku was announced as coming soon.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/xai-grok-1/https://gotreplaced.si/events/xai-grok-1/xAI released the base model weights and architecture of Grok-1, a 314-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model, under the Apache 2.0 license. It is the raw pre-training checkpoint, not fine-tuned for dialogue.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/google-gemini-1-5/https://gotreplaced.si/events/google-gemini-1-5/Google made Gemini 1.5 Pro available in public preview through the Gemini API in 180+ countries. It had been announced on 15 February 2024 as an early-testing release for selected developers and enterprises.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/meta-llama-3/https://gotreplaced.si/events/meta-llama-3/Meta released Llama 3 in 8B and 70B parameter versions, pretrained and instruction-tuned, as downloadable weights and through cloud and hosting providers. Larger models were still training.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/google-alphafold-3/https://gotreplaced.si/events/google-alphafold-3/Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs announced AlphaFold 3, which predicts structures and interactions of proteins, DNA, RNA and small molecules. A free AlphaFold Server for non-commercial research launched alongside; code and weights for academic use followed in November 2024.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/openai-gpt-4o/https://gotreplaced.si/events/openai-gpt-4o/OpenAI announced GPT-4o, handling text, audio and images. Text and image features began rolling out in ChatGPT, including the free tier, and in the API; the new voice mode was to follow in alpha for Plus users.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/google-ai-overviews/https://gotreplaced.si/events/google-ai-overviews/At Google I/O, Google said AI Overviews in Search would begin rolling out that day to everyone in the US, with more countries to follow. The post expected over a billion people to use it by the end of 2024.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/microsoft-copilot-plus-pcs/https://gotreplaced.si/events/microsoft-copilot-plus-pcs/Microsoft introduced Copilot+ PCs on 20 May 2024, a new category of Windows PCs designed for AI, with a new neural processing unit, from Surface and partners, starting at $999. Pre-orders opened that day; Surface models were available from 18 June 2024.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/anthropic-claude-3-5-sonnet/https://gotreplaced.si/events/anthropic-claude-3-5-sonnet/Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Sonnet, free on Claude.ai and the iOS app with higher limits for Pro and Team, and via the API, Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud Vertex AI.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/anthropic-claude-projects/https://gotreplaced.si/events/anthropic-claude-projects/Anthropic released Projects for Claude.ai Pro and Team users, grouping chats with uploaded knowledge and custom instructions for each Project, with a 200K context window.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/runway-gen-3-alpha/https://gotreplaced.si/events/runway-gen-3-alpha/Runway introduced Gen-3 Alpha on 17 June 2024 as the first of a new generation of models. Runway's changelog lists text-to-video as available on paid plans on 1 July 2024; image-to-video followed on 29 July.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/meta-llama-3-1/https://gotreplaced.si/events/meta-llama-3-1/Meta released Llama 3.1 405B, which it described as the largest openly available foundation model, along with upgraded 8B and 70B models with 128K context. Weights are available to download from llama.meta.com and Hugging Face.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/google-gemini-live/https://gotreplaced.si/events/google-gemini-live/Google began rolling out Gemini Live in English to Gemini Advanced subscribers on Android phones, with iOS and more languages planned for the following weeks. Availability was limited to select devices, accounts and countries.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/xai-grok-2/https://gotreplaced.si/events/xai-grok-2/xAI released Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in beta to X Premium and Premium+ subscribers through the Grok tab in the X app. Enterprise API access was to follow later in August.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/openai-o1-preview/https://gotreplaced.si/events/openai-o1-preview/OpenAI released o1-preview, the first of a series of reasoning models that spend more time thinking before answering, in ChatGPT and the API, alongside o1-mini.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/alibaba-qwen-2-5/https://gotreplaced.si/events/alibaba-qwen-2-5/Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen2.5 language models from 0.5B to 72B in size as open weights, all but the 3B and 72B under Apache 2.0, plus Qwen2.5-Math; a coding model was listed as on the way. Larger Qwen-Plus and Qwen-Turbo models were offered by API.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/meta-llama-3-2/https://gotreplaced.si/events/meta-llama-3-2/Meta released Llama 3.2: 11B and 90B models that accept image and text, and lightweight 1B and 3B text models for edge and mobile devices. Weights are downloadable from llama.com and Hugging Face.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/anthropic-computer-use/https://gotreplaced.si/events/anthropic-computer-use/Anthropic introduced computer use in public beta on the API, letting developers direct Claude to use a computer as a person does. It was announced alongside an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Haiku.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/apple-intelligence/https://gotreplaced.si/events/apple-intelligence/Apple released the first Apple Intelligence features with iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1 and macOS Sequoia 15.1, free on iPhone 16 and 15 Pro models and on iPads and Macs with M1 or later. Mostly U.S. English at launch.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/openai-chatgpt-search/https://gotreplaced.si/events/openai-chatgpt-search/OpenAI launched search in ChatGPT on 31 October 2024, giving timely answers with links to web sources. Plus and Team users and SearchGPT waitlist users had access first; it reached all logged-in users on 16 December 2024.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/anthropic-mcp/https://gotreplaced.si/events/anthropic-mcp/Anthropic open-sourced the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data lives, such as content repositories, business tools and development environments.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/openai-o1/https://gotreplaced.si/events/openai-o1/OpenAI added ChatGPT Pro, a $200 monthly plan with unlimited access to OpenAI o1 and a more compute-intensive o1 pro mode. The same day it published the system card for the o1 model.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/meta-llama-3-3/https://gotreplaced.si/events/meta-llama-3-3/Meta released Llama 3.3 70B Instruct, a text model with downloadable weights, listed as released on 6 December 2024 on Meta's model card.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/openai-sora/https://gotreplaced.si/events/openai-sora/OpenAI released Sora Turbo as a standalone video product at sora.com for ChatGPT Plus and Pro users. The Sora model had been previewed on 15 February 2024 without general availability.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/google-gemini-2/https://gotreplaced.si/events/google-gemini-2/Google introduced Gemini 2.0 with an experimental Flash model for developers in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, and a chat version for all Gemini app users. Deep Research launched in Gemini Advanced; general availability was planned for January.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/google-veo-2/https://gotreplaced.si/events/google-veo-2/Google introduced Veo 2 for video and an updated Imagen 3 for images, available in the Labs tools VideoFX and ImageFX. Veo 2 access started via a waitlist and was rolled out gradually.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/deepseek-v3/https://gotreplaced.si/events/deepseek-v3/DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V3, a Mixture-of-Experts model with 671B total and 37B activated parameters trained on 14.8T tokens, described as fully open-source with a paper.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/deepseek-r1/https://gotreplaced.si/events/deepseek-r1/DeepSeek released the reasoning model DeepSeek-R1 with weights under the MIT licence, six distilled smaller models, and access on its chat website and API.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/openai-deep-research/https://gotreplaced.si/events/openai-deep-research/OpenAI launched deep research in ChatGPT, an agentic capability that does multi-step research on the internet and produces a report. It was powered by a version of the then-upcoming o3 model.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/google-gemini-2-0-flash-ga/https://gotreplaced.si/events/google-gemini-2-0-flash-ga/Google made Gemini 2.0 Flash generally available through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI. The same post covered 2.0 Flash-Lite and an experimental 2.0 Pro, and a wider rollout across Google AI products.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/xai-grok-3/https://gotreplaced.si/events/xai-grok-3/xAI unveiled an early preview of Grok 3, its most advanced model yet, combining stronger reasoning with extensive pretraining knowledge. The page says it was available to X Premium and Premium+ users that day.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/anthropic-claude-3-7-sonnet/https://gotreplaced.si/events/anthropic-claude-3-7-sonnet/Anthropic released Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a hybrid reasoning model, on all Claude plans and through its API, Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud. Claude Code, a command-line coding tool, launched as a limited research preview.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gotreplaced.si/events/openai-gpt-4-5/https://gotreplaced.si/events/openai-gpt-4-5/OpenAI released GPT-4.5 as a research preview, which it described as its largest and best model for chat. It was offered to Pro users and developers worldwide.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT