AI is progressing rapidly:
- 2020 – GPT-3 announced
- 2023 – GPT-4 announced
- 2022 – Stable Diffusion announced
- 2022 – ChatGPT announced
- 2024 – Sora announced
- 2024 – OpenAI o1, the first “reasoning” model
- 2025 – Genie 3 announced by Google Deepmind (world simulator)
- 2025 – Opus 4.5, the model the changed everything for coding
- 2026 – OpenAI’s AI claims a proof on Navier–Stokes, a Millennium Prize Problem (under review)
- 2026 – Kimi K3, open model closing in on frontier models
- 2026 – Dessa, speach model
Science breakthroughs:
- 2022 – Fusion Ignition was achieved
- 2023 –
First superconductor at room temperature, LK-99– sadly turned out to be a hoax - 2020 – RNA vaccine approved for COVID19 after decades in the making
- 2021 – Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
- 2023 – Casgevy, the first approved CRISPR gene-editing therapy (for sickle cell disease)
Space:
- 2018 – SpaceX Falcon Heavy’s side boosters land simultaneously
- 2021 – James Webb Space Telescope launched
- 2021 – Ingenuity makes the first powered flight on another planet
- 2024 – First images from Euclid telescope
- 2024 – ~SpaceX successfully catching Starship’s returning booster rocket~ Youtube
- 2020 – Mars Perseverance Rover launches
- 2026 – Artemis II: NASA’s First Crewed Lunar Flyby in 50 Years
Self Driving Cars:
- 2020 – A beta version of FSD was released in the United States for EAP testers
- 2024 – Waymo One approved in LA
- 2026 – Tesla Roadster “flying car” demo
VR and AR progress:
- 2023 – Apple announces Apple Vision Pro, pushing VR to new limits
- 2024 – Meta announces breakthrough AR glasses technology with Orion.
Quantum Computing:
- 2024 – Willow quantum chip from Google
- 2025 – Majorana 1 chip from Microsoft
- 2026 – Majorana 2 announced