On this day: Apr 16
5 records from this date, 2017 to 2026, gathered year by year — the most recent year first.
2026
This year · 2 recordsClaude Opus 4.7Anthropic
Showed that reading dense screenshots and diagrams had been the bottleneck in computer use performance
MultimodalOfficial
π0.7Physical Intelligence
Succeeded at folding laundry on a bimanual robot with no training data at all — cross-embodiment transfer
2025
1 year ago · 1 recordOpenAI launches o3 and o4-mini, with thinking with imagesOpenAI
Reasoning models shifted from chains of thought to agents; the axis of competition moved from how long a model thinks to how long it can work autonomously
2021
5 years ago · 1 recordMicrosoft presents ZeRO-InfinitySamyam Rajbhandari et al. (Microsoft)
Got around the GPU memory wall by extending into the storage tier. Established the framing that the constraint is bandwidth, not memory
2017
9 years ago · 1 recordIn-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing UnitNorman P. Jouppi et al. (Google)
Disclosed the design and measured performance of the first-generation TPU, becoming the reference document for discussions of dedicated accelerators