On this day: Apr 22

6 records from this date, 2024 to 2026, gathered year by year — the most recent year first.

2026

This year · 4 records
Google Cloud previews its 8th-generation TPUs at Cloud NextGoogle Cloud (Cloud Next)

Split training and inference silicon for the first time; a signal that the era of general-purpose accelerators is ending

Alibaba releases Qwen3.6-27B under Apache 2.0Alibaba

A dense 27B beat its 397B MoE predecessor, and the center of gravity of truly open models moved down to the 30B class

Hexagon and Schaeffler agree to deploy at least 1,000 AEON humanoids by 2032Hexagon, Schaeffler

A large-scale commitment from a components and bearings manufacturer (planned figure)

Google makes Gemini Embedding 2 generally available (GA)Google

The commercial embedding lineage officially moved past the text-only generation into a natively multimodal one

2025

1 year ago · 1 record
π0.5Physical Intelligence

The first convincing evidence of open-world generalization

2024

2 years ago · 1 record
Microsoft Research publishes Phi-3 technical reportMicrosoft Research

Justified the approach of small models deployable on phones through data curation