On this day: Aug 13
5 records from this date, 2024 to 2025, gathered year by year — the most recent year first.
2025
1 year ago · 2 recordsCo-founder Igor Babuschkin exits xAI, founds AI-safety fund Babuschkin VenturesxAI
The departure of a key figure who led early engineering
Hinton rejects control-centered approach at Ai4 conferenceGeoffrey Hinton
A move from 2023's risk warnings to a 2025 alignment prescription. Head-on skepticism toward alignment strategies built on control and obedience
People & DiscoursePress
2024
2 years ago · 3 recordsxAI releases Grok-2 / Grok-2 mini in betaxAI
Image generation started not with an in-house model but through integration with an external model (Black Forest Labs FLUX.1)
Sakana AI announces The AI Scientist, with Oxford and UBCSakana AI
Turned the research-automation discourse into a concrete figure: $15 per paper
OpenAI releases SWE-bench VerifiedOpenAI
The reference dataset for evaluating agentic coding. It revealed that a large share of the original benchmark was unfit
Evaluation & BenchmarksOfficial