The History of LLMs, 2023 to 2026

Somewhere around the ninth “OpenAI just announced” Slack message in a single week, I gave up trying to hold the timeline in my head. Model names stopped mapping to release dates, release dates stopped mapping to what actually changed, and “the new one” became ambiguous across at least four labs simultaneously. That’s not a personal failing so much as a description of the last two years: the…