Subspacelabs

Nov 2022

ChatGPT first released

OpenAI launches ChatGPT as a research preview. The moment LLMs crossed from research demo to mainstream utility, becoming the fastest-adopted consumer product in history.

Feb 2025

Claude Code released

Anthropic previews Claude Code for agentic coding workflows. First credible move from "AI that suggests code" to "AI that does the work end-to-end."

Nov 2025

OpenClaw released

OpenClaw first appears publicly as an open-source local agent project. Showed the value at the intersection of self-improvement, broad permissions, and easy access in a single agent.

Feb 2026

Opus 4.6

Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.6. Introduced "agent teams" and a 1M-token context, pushing coding agents from single runs to sustained, multi-agent work.

Feb 2026

GPT-5.3-Codex

OpenAI introduces GPT-5.3-Codex. Set a new SWE-Bench Pro high and was the first OpenAI release flagged as "High" capability in cybersecurity.

Feb 2026

Qwen3.5

Alibaba officially releases Qwen3.5. Made frontier-tier intelligence something you can download, not just rent — reshaping the open-vs-closed balance.

Mar 2026

TurboQuant

Google Research introduces TurboQuant. Compressed KV caches 6× with near-zero accuracy loss and no retraining, easing the memory bottleneck behind long-context inference.

Apr 2026

Gemma 4

Google launches Gemma 4. A 31B open model that matches 400B-class rivals, with multimodal reasoning running fully offline on phones and Jetson-class hardware.