AI Evolution Atlas
Not a list of what happened in AI but a reasoned map of what the present grew out of: every claim has a source, every date carries only the precision its source will bear, and whatever is not here yet is named as missing rather than invented.
The share each topic holds in a decade, 1936–2026. These are the proportions of what has been collected, not of what happened: foundations dominate the early decades, and from there the collection gradually opens out into five topics.
Open the timelineEach miniature is drawn from the same records as the axis and opens it on that period.
October 28, 2026Milestone · FoundationsLines: Compute · Money and markets
On 28 October 2026 SK hynix reported third-quarter revenue of 104.6155 trillion won, its first above 100 trillion, operating profit of 83.3338 trillion (a margin of 80 per cent) and net profit of 39.7756 trillion. The company says HBM4 shipments began in earnest in the quarter and expects HBM4 to pass HBM3E in volume and revenue in the fourth quarter.
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October 27, 2026Milestone · FoundationsLines: Science · Agents
On 27 October 2026 Anthropic published a report on drug-development work with six organizations (BigHat Biosciences, Bristol Myers Squibb, Divergence Labs, Enveda, Generate Biomedicines, The Column Group) and said it had acquired Mithril Medicine, a one-person company developing treatments for two rare forms of muscular dystrophy. The post gives partners' results from early, mostly preclinical work and mentions the rollout of Claude Science, credits for life scientists and a Life Sciences Verification Program.
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October 27, 2026Availability · FoundationsLines: Compute
On 27 October 2026 NVIDIA and Oracle announced that NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack systems and NVIDIA Vera CPUs are generally available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and that OCI plans to expand its Vera Rubin superclusters to multi-gigawatt scale and to add HGX Rubin NVL8 servers. The release says OpenAI has trained and served GPT-6 Astra on an OCI supercluster in Abilene with more than 100,000 Blackwell GPUs.
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October 26, 2026Milestone · FoundationsLines: Money and markets · Compute
On 26–27 October 2026 Meta Platforms priced two concurrent offerings: $25.0 billion of Class A common stock (40 million shares at $625, through forward sale agreements) and $12.5 billion of 6.50 per cent mandatory convertible preferred stock, $37.5 billion in all. NVIDIA announced that it will invest $3 billion in the offering and AMD $1 billion; Meta's prospectus says NVIDIA, AMD and Broadcom indicated interest in up to $5.0 billion. Both companies also announced expanded deployments at Meta.
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October 23, 2026Law and regulation · Robotics and autonomyLines: Autonomous driving · Law and policy
On 23 October 2026 the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced a proposed amendment to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 108 for vehicles with automated driving systems and no manual driving controls: it would stop requiring manual turn-signal, hazard-warning and beam-switching controls on them and would allow optional cyan marker lamps showing that the system is driving. The notice was published in the Federal Register on 26 October, with comments open until 25 November.
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October 22, 2026Availability · ImagesLines: Science · Data · Openness
On 22 October 2026 Google DeepMind and Google Research, with the World Resources Institute (WRI) and IIASA, released Forest Typology (ForTy) 2020, a global map that sorts every 10-by-10-metre patch of land into six forest and land-use types, and an early annual time series for 2017–2025. Both are free on Google Earth Engine under an open licence. The model takes AlphaEarth Foundations satellite embeddings as input.
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October 21, 2026Announcement · FoundationsLines: Compute · Money and markets
On 21 October 2026 NVIDIA announced plans with six suppliers to expand manufacturing capacity: a 2.5-fold increase in substrate capacity over three years (IBIDEN, Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Unimicron), more than a 300 per cent increase in Amkor's interposer capacity in South Korea by the end of 2028, a doubling of NVIDIA's own chip-testing capacity from 2026 to 2027, a $1.1 billion capacity reservation advance to King Yuan Electronics for U.S. testing, and a 15-fold increase in SPIL's optical-engine capacity by mid-2027.
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October 21, 2026Announcement · Robotics and autonomyLines: Embodiment · Tools
On 21 October 2026, at GTC Berlin, NVIDIA announced an expansion of its Isaac robotics platform: Agile ONE SN from Agile Robots, a reference humanoid built on the Isaac GR00T models and the Jetson Thor computer and scheduled for early 2027; Isaac Lab 3.0, an open-source robot-learning framework said to be generally available from that day; Isaac OS, an open-source real-time runtime; and two collections on Hugging Face, more than 2,000 simulation-ready assets and the Human 1M dataset of human activity.
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October 21, 2026Announcement · Robotics and autonomyLines: Autonomous driving · Safety
On 21 October 2026, at GTC Berlin, NVIDIA announced that Volvo Cars is adopting its Hyperion computing platform and Alpamayo software stack for automated driving, that Bolt has selected the Alpamayo Stack for a European robotaxi programme, and that Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles and Einride are showing use cases on Hyperion. NVIDIA also introduced Halos SAFE, a framework for generating traceable safety evidence, and a two-billion-parameter driving model, Alpamayo 2 Edge.
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October 21, 2026Availability · FoundationsLines: Science · Openness
Between 19 and 21 October 2026 NVIDIA and the Baker lab at the University of Washington's Institute for Protein Design released RFD4-Proteina, an open model (BSD-3-Clause licence) that designs protein sequences and all-atom structures together, with code on GitHub and weights on Hugging Face. NVIDIA announced it at GTC Berlin on 21 October as available through nine partners, among them Hugging Face, Google Cloud, Databricks, Claude Science and OpenAI.
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