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Track major events, funding, model releases and breakthroughs across the AI Agent landscape
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Track major events, funding, model releases and breakthroughs across the AI Agent landscape
Key events timeline
OpenClaw erupts on GitHub
OpenClaw hits global GitHub Top 10 in 10 days, outpacing the Linux kernel star growth
Meta acquires Manus for $2B
Meta acquires Manus AI for $2B, locking in the general-purpose Agent race
DeepSeek-V3 open-sourced
The value king, at just 5% of GPT-4 cost
Manus goes viral overnight
The world's first general-purpose AI Agent draws unprecedented attention
OpenAI Deep Research
OpenAI ships a deep-research Agent that generates professional reports in one click
MCP Servers pass 500
The MCP ecosystem erupts — 500+ servers built in 3 months
DeepSeek-R1 stuns the world
Open-source reasoning model at just 3% of OpenAI cost, reshaping the global AI landscape
MCP protocol born
Anthropic releases the Model Context Protocol, the de facto standard for Agent interfaces
Claude Computer Use
Anthropic lets AI directly control the computer screen for the first time, opening a new paradigm
Replit Agent full-stack automation
Natural language to a shipped product, aimed at non-engineers
Cursor ARR passes $100M
The fastest-growing SaaS ever, the new king of AI coding tools
Claude 3.5 tops SWE-bench
The strongest coding AI, bug-fixing at a junior engineer level
Devin launches
The world's first autonomous AI software engineer, able to complete full coding tasks on its own
OpenAI o3-mini Brings Advanced Reasoning to Developers at Low Cost
OpenAI releases o3-mini, a compact reasoning model that delivers strong performance on math and coding tasks at significantly lower cost than o1, making advanced AI reasoning accessible to more developers.
LLMs Race to Longer Context: 10M Token Windows Now Available
Multiple AI providers now offer models with 10 million token context windows, enabling analysis of entire codebases, book-length documents, and months of customer interaction data in single prompts.
Google Gemini Ultra Sets New Records on Coding Benchmarks
Google's latest Gemini Ultra model achieves state-of-the-art results on HumanEval and SWE-bench, demonstrating advanced code generation and debugging capabilities.