Timeline - 2020-
2020
🏢 In May 2021, the IETF standardized QUIC in RFC 9000.
🌐 QUIC support in Firefox arrived in May 2021.
⚙️ On September 21, 2020, Homebrew version 2.5.2 was released with support for bottle taps (binary package repositories) via GitHub Releases.
🏢 In November 2020, Microsoft released .NET 5.0. The "Core" branding was removed and version 4.0 was skipped to avoid conflation with .NET Framework, which remains the Windows-specific product. It addresses the patent concerns related to the .NET Framework.
📜 Ruby 3.0.0 was released on Christmas Day in 2020.
📊 In December 2020, PrestoSQL was rebranded as Trino.
📜 The Rust for Linux project was announced in 2020 in the Linux kernel mailing list with goals of leveraging Rust's memory safety to reduce bugs when writing kernel drivers.
🧠 Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) is an autoregressive language model released in 2020 that uses deep learning to produce human-like text. Given an initial text as prompt, it will produce text that continues the prompt.
2021
🏢 On February 8, 2021, the formation of the Rust Foundation was announced by its five founding companies (AWS, Huawei, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla).
⚙️ Terraform 1.0 was released on June 08, 2021.
🧠 GitHub Copilot is a cloud-based artificial intelligence tool developed by GitHub and OpenAI to assist users of Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Neovim, and JetBrains integrated development environments (IDEs) by autocompleting code. On June 29, 2021, GitHub announced GitHub Copilot for technical preview in the Visual Studio Code development environment.
🧠 OpenAI Codex is an artificial intelligence model developed by OpenAI. It parses natural language and generates code in response. It is used to power GitHub Copilot, a programming autocompletion tool developed for Visual Studio Code. Codex is a descendant of OpenAI's GPT-3 model, fine-tuned for use in programming applications. Released: Aug 10, 2021
🔐 OpenSSL 3.0 release: 7 September 2021
🔐 Log4Shell was a zero-day vulnerability in Log4j, a popular Java logging framework, involving arbitrary code execution.The vulnerability had existed unnoticed since 2013 and was privately disclosed to the Apache Software Foundation, of which Log4j is a project, by Chen Zhaojun of Alibaba Cloud's security team on 24 November 2021.
🏢 Grafana acquired k6 in 2021.
🧠 LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) is a family of conversational large language models developed by Google. Originally developed and introduced as Meena in 2020, the first-generation LaMDA was announced during the 2021 Google I/O keynote, while the second generation was announced the following year.
2022
🧠 PaLM (Pathways Language Model) is a 540 billion parameter transformer-based large language model developed by Google AI. The model was first announced in April 2022 and remained private until March 2023, when Google launched an API for PaLM and several other technologies.
🧠 On May 11, 2022, Google unveiled LaMDA 2, the successor to LaMDA, during the 2022 Google I/O keynote.
⚙️ Chocolatey 1.0.0 was released on 18 Mar 2022.
⚙️ On September 21, 2022, Systemd support is now available in WSL.
📜 In October 2022, a pull request for accepting the implementation for Rust for Linux was approved by Torvalds.
🧠 ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is an artificial-intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched in November 2022. It is built on top of OpenAI's GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 families of large language models (LLMs) and has been fine-tuned (an approach to transfer learning) using both supervised and reinforcement learning techniques.
🌐 HTTP/3, the successor to HTTP/2, was published in 2022.
2023
🧠 On February 7, 2023, Microsoft announced a major overhaul to Bing including the addition of chatbot functionality marketed as "the new Bing".
🧠 Llama (acronym for Large Language Model Meta AI, and formerly stylized as LLaMA) is a family of autoregressive large language models (LLMs) released by Meta AI starting in February 2023.
🧠 Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 (GPT-4) is a multimodal large language model created by OpenAI, and the fourth in its series of GPT foundation models. It was launched on March 14, 2023, and made publicly available via the paid chatbot product ChatGPT Plus, via OpenAI's API, and via the free chatbot Microsoft Copilot.
🧠 Bard is a conversational artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Google, based on the LaMDA family of large language models. It was developed as a response to the rise of OpenAI's ChatGPT, and was released in a limited capacity in March 2023 to lukewarm responses.
🧠 Claude is a family of large language models developed by Anthropic. The first model was released in March 2023.
🧠 Google Gemini is a family of multimodal large language models developed by Google DeepMind, serving as the successor to LaMDA and PaLM 2. Comprising Gemini Ultra, Gemini Pro, Gemini Flash, and Gemini Nano, it was announced on December 6, 2023, positioned as a competitor to OpenAI's GPT-4.
📜 Mojo is a programming language in the Python family that is currently under development. It is available both in browsers via Jupyter notebooks, and locally on Linux and macOS. First appeared: 2023
🧠 LocalAI is the free, Open Source OpenAI alternative. LocalAI act as a drop-in replacement REST API that's compatible with OpenAI API specifications for local inferencing. First appeared: 2023
2024
🧠 In February, 2024, Google launched Gemini 1.5 in a limited capacity, positioned as a more powerful and capable model than 1.0 Ultra.
🧠 GPT-4o (GPT-4 Omni) is a multilingual, multimodal generative pre-trained transformer designed by OpenAI. It was announced by OpenAI's CTO Mira Murati during a live-streamed demonstration on 13 May 2024 and released the same day.
🌐 Deno 2 was announced on October 9, 2024.
🧠 The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard, open-source framework introduced by Anthropic in November 2024 to standardize the way artificial intelligence (AI) systems like large language models (LLMs) integrate and share data with external tools, systems, and data sources Introduced: November 25, 2024
🧠 OpenAI o3 is a reflective generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) model developed by OpenAI as a successor to OpenAI o1 for ChatGPT. It is designed to devote additional deliberation time when addressing questions that require step-by-step logical reasoning. The OpenAI o3 model was announced on December 20, 2024.
2025
🧠 On January 30, 2025, Google released Gemini 2.0 Flash as the new default model, with Gemini 1.5 Flash still available for usage. This was followed by the release of Gemini 2.0 Pro on February 5, 2025.
⚙️ On May 6, 2025, Grafana k6 v1.0.0 was released after 9 years of iteration and countless community contributions.
🧠 On June 17, 2025, Google announced general availability for 2.5 Pro and Flash. They also introduced Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite that same day, a model optimized for speed and cost-efficiency.
🧠 GPT-5 is a multimodal large language model developed by OpenAI and the fifth in its series of generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) foundation models. Preceded in the series by GPT-4, it was launched on August 7, 2025, combining reasoning capabilities and non-reasoning functionality under a common interface.