AI Timeline — Complete History of 194+ Large Language Models (2017–2026)

Track every major LLM from 2017 to 2026. From Transformers → GPT → ChatGPT → Claude → Gemini → DeepSeek and beyond.

20171 model TransformerJun 12 'Attention Is All You Need' paper introduces the Transformer architecture — the foundation of all modern LLMs. MilestoneOpenGoogle 20183 models ELMoFeb 15 Embeddings from Language Models. Contextualized word representations using bidirectional LSTMs. OpenAllenAI0.094B GPT-1Jun 11 First GPT model. Decoder-only transformer demonstrating generative pre-training for language understanding. OpenOpenAI0.117B BERTOct 11 Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers. Revolutionized NLP benchmarks and became the foundation for search engines.…

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