Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026)

Misses a few interesting early models: GPT-J (by Eleuther, using gpt2 arch) was the first-ish model runnable on consumer hardware. I actually had a thing running for a while in prod with real users on this. And GPT-NeoX was their attempt to scale to gpt3 levels. It was 20b and was maybe the first glimpse that local models might someday be usable (although local at the time was questionable, quantisation wasn't as widely used, etc).

This would be interesting if each of them had a high-level picture of the NN, "to scale", perhaps color coding the components somehow. OnMouseScroll it would scroll through the models, and you could see the networks become deeper, wider, colors change, almost animated. That'd be cool.

Why is it hard in the times where AI itself can do it to add a light mode to those blacks websites!? There are people that just can't read dark mode!

750+ here:

https://lifearchitect.ai/models-table/

Calling this "The complete history of AI" seems wrong. LLM's are not all AI there is, and it has existed for way longer than people realize.

Would be nice to see some charts and perhaps an average of the cycles with a prediction of the next one based on it

It misses almost every milestones, and lists Llama 3.1 as milestone. T5 was much bigger milestone than almost everything in the list.

The models used for apps like Codex, are they designed to mimic human behaviour - as in they deliberately create errors in code that then you have to spend time debugging and fixing or it is natural flaw and that humans also do it is a coincidence?

This keeps bothering me, why they need several iterations to arrive at correct solution instead of doing it first time. The prompts like "repeat solving it until it is correct" don't help.

Great site! I noticed a minor visual glitch where the tooltips seem to be rendering below their container on the z-axis, possibly getting clipped or hidden.