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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 Sets Record on ARC-AGI Test: Industry Debates Whether AGI Has Arrived
OpenAI o3 achieved a score of 87.5% on the ARC Prize benchmark, surpassing the human average of 85%, which some researchers consider a milestone for AGI. However, ARC-AGI founder François Chollet pointed out that o3 used massive computation, costing $1,000 per problem, fundamentally differing from human efficient reasoning. The debate over the definition of AGI has reignited academic discussions.
Study: AI Deepfakes Impacting Elections, 40% of Voters Exposed to AI-Generated Fake Political Content
A tracking study by New York University researchers during elections in multiple countries found that about 40% of surveyed voters had encountered AI-generated fake political content, with 25% mistakenly believing it was real. The study calls for platforms to mandate labeling of AI-generated content and proposes a framework to prevent AI election interference. Several countries have initiated legislative processes for AI election security.