History of AIThe Past and Present of Artificial Intelligence

An open-source book chronicling 83 years of AI history — key events, figures, and institutions — structured in the style of China's Records of the Grand Historian

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Annals

Nine chronological chapters tracing AI's evolution across nine eras of breakthroughs and setbacks.

Houses

Fourteen institutional histories, from MIT AI Lab to OpenAI to Tsinghua University.

Biographies

Twenty-three biographical profiles, from Turing and Shannon to Hinton and Altman.

Treatises

Twenty-five thematic essays covering neural networks, LLMs, embodied AI, AI safety, and more.

By Country

Five national AI histories — USA, China, Europe, Canada, and Japan — comparing strategies and outcomes.

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