The AI news, replayed exactly 365 days behind. Every item really happened — one year before you read it.https://oneyearago.ai/enhttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-07-03-ilya-ssi-ceo/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-07-03-ilya-ssi-ceo/After co-founder Daniel Gross departs for Meta, Sutskever steps up to run SSI directly — and confirms Meta tried to buy the whole company.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-07-02-perplexity-max/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-07-02-perplexity-max/The AI search company introduces Perplexity Max at $200 a month, following OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google into ultra-premium subscription territory.Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-07-01-cloudflare-blocks-ai-crawlers/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-07-01-cloudflare-blocks-ai-crawlers/The company that fronts roughly a fifth of the web will block AI training bots by default, and pilots 'Pay Per Crawl' — asking whether the age of free scraping is ending.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-06-30-meta-superintelligence-labs/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-06-30-meta-superintelligence-labs/An internal memo confirms the reorganization: Alexandr Wang arrives as chief AI officer, Nat Friedman co-leads, and Meta says it intends to build 'personal superintelligence for everyone.'Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-06-25-gemini-cli/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-06-25-gemini-cli/Google ships a free, open-source command-line AI agent with a massive free tier, aiming to lure developers away from Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex CLI.Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-06-24-anthropic-fair-use-ruling/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-06-24-anthropic-fair-use-ruling/In a landmark decision, a federal judge issues the first substantive fair-use ruling for LLM training, finding Anthropic's use 'exceedingly transformative' while sending claims over millions of pirated books to trial.Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-06-12-meta-scale-ai/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-06-12-meta-scale-ai/The social media giant gains a leading data-labeling partner and a new superintelligence chief as competition with Google and OpenAI intensifies.Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-06-10-o3-pro-price-cut/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-06-10-o3-pro-price-cut/The company's most capable model arrives for top-tier subscribers and developers, while a massive price cut on the base o3 model signals a sudden commoditization of frontier reasoning.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-05-28-deepseek-r1-0528/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-05-28-deepseek-r1-0528/The MIT-licensed update posts scores competitive with OpenAI o3 and Gemini 2.5 Pro on maths and coding benchmarks, while adding JSON output and function calling.Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-05-22-claude-4/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-05-22-claude-4/The new flagship model posts a state-of-the-art 72.5% on SWE-bench and is the first to trigger Anthropic's ASL-3 safety tier over bio-risk concerns, while Claude Code goes GA with IDE integrations.Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-05-21-openai-io-jony-ive/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-05-21-openai-io-jony-ive/The ChatGPT maker absorbs the secretive device startup co-founded by Apple's former design head, paying $5 billion for the remaining 77% stake it did not already own.Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-05-20-google-io-veo-3/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-05-20-google-io-veo-3/Google unveils Veo 3 with native audio generation, Imagen 4, a $249.99/month Gemini Ultra tier, and AI Mode in Search, in a keynote that cast the company as firing on every AI front.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-05-16-openai-codex/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-05-16-openai-codex/The research preview of Codex brings a cloud-based software engineering agent powered by a new model, codex-1, to ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, and Team subscribers.Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-04-29-qwen3/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-04-29-qwen3/The new model family, ranging from 0.6 billion to 235 billion parameters, introduces hybrid thinking modes and supports 119 languages, challenging closed-source rivals like OpenAI's o-series and DeepSeek's R1.Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-04-29-sycophancy-rollback/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-04-29-sycophancy-rollback/Users flooded social media with screenshots of ChatGPT praising terrible business ideas and validating delusions before CEO Sam Altman confirmed the company is reversing the update and working on fixes.Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-04-16-o3-and-o4-mini/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-04-16-o3-and-o4-mini/The new models can browse the web, run Python, and process images during chain-of-thought reasoning, marking a shift toward integrated tool use inside AI reasoning.Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-04-14-gpt-4-1/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-04-14-gpt-4-1/The new models feature a 1-million-token context window and are priced from $0.10 to $2 per million input tokens, while GPT-4.5 deprecation looms.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-04-05-llama-4/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-04-05-llama-4/Meta drops three new MoE models on a Saturday, including a 10M-token-context Scout that fits on a single H100, amid heightened pressure from DeepSeek's open-weight success.Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-03-31-openai-40b-round/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-03-31-openai-40b-round/SoftBank leads with $30B; $18B earmarked for Stargate; for-profit conversion deadline of Dec 31 could cut SoftBank's stake to $20B.Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-03-25-4o-image-generation/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-03-25-4o-image-generation/The new tool's ability to replicate distinctive animation styles drives viral demand, raises copyright questions, and forces temporary rate limits as CEO Sam Altman says 'our GPUs are melting.'Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-03-25-gemini-2-5-pro/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-03-25-gemini-2-5-pro/The first model in a new 2.5 line combines native reasoning with a 1 million token context window, putting Google back at the top of key benchmarks after two years of ceding the lead to OpenAI and Anthropic.Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-03-12-gemma-3/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-03-12-gemma-3/The Gemma 3 family, ranging from 1B to 27B parameters, supports 140+ languages, 128k token context, and multimodal input, positioning it as a direct competitor in the open-weights race.Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-03-11-openai-agents-sdk/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-03-11-openai-agents-sdk/New tools let developers create custom agents with web search, file search, and computer use capabilities, replacing the Assistants API.Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-03-06-manus/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-03-06-manus/The 'general AI agent' from startup Monica/Butterfly Effect sparks a frenzy as invite codes trade for thousands of yuan, drawing comparisons to DeepSeek's breakout moment — and prompt skepticism that it's just a wrapper around existing models.Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-02-27-gpt-4-5/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-02-27-gpt-4-5/The model shows diminishing returns from scaled pre-training, with CEO Sam Altman saying 'it won't crush benchmarks' and pricing at $75/M input tokens raising questions about the future of the scaling paradigm.Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-02-24-claude-3-7-sonnet-claude-code/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-02-24-claude-3-7-sonnet-claude-code/The first AI model that can toggle between instant answers and extended step-by-step thinking, with a visible scratch pad and user-controlled thinking budget, alongside an agentic coding tool in research preview.Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-02-17-grok-3/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-02-17-grok-3/Elon Musk’s xAI unveils its latest flagship model, trained on roughly 200,000 GPUs, with reasoning modes and a new DeepSearch feature.Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-02-10-musk-974b-bid/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-02-10-musk-974b-bid/The unsolicited offer threatens to derail OpenAI's restructuring into a for-profit company and intensify the legal feud between Musk and CEO Sam Altman.Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-02-02-deep-research/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-02-02-deep-research/The o3-powered agent spends 5 to 30 minutes compiling cited reports, aiming at intensive knowledge work in finance, science, policy, and engineering.Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-01-31-o3-mini/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-01-31-o3-mini/The model arrives days after DeepSeek’s R1 stunned the industry, positioning itself as a cheaper, faster alternative that also marks the first reasoning model available to free-tier ChatGPT users.Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-01-27-deepseek-panic-day/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-01-27-deepseek-panic-day/A single-day stock drop larger than any in U.S. history wipes out nearly $600 billion from the chipmaker as an open-source model built with cheaper hardware raises doubts about the spending assumptions driving the AI boom.Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-01-23-openai-operator/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-01-23-openai-operator/The first mainstream product that lets an AI take control of your browser to perform tasks autonomously, powered by a new Computer-Using Agent model.Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-01-21-stargate/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-01-21-stargate/President Trump unveils a joint venture backed by SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle and MGX to build AI data centers across the U.S., with an initial $100 billion commitment and potential to reach $500 billion over four years.Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-01-20-deepseek-r1/https://oneyearago.ai/news/2025-01-20-deepseek-r1/The Chinese AI lab's MIT-licensed model, trained for an estimated $5.6 million, uses pure reinforcement learning post-training and gives the open-source community a reasoning rival to proprietary leaders.Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT