Foundation and Generative Models

Chronicles the emergence of the transformer architecture, large language models, and foundation and generative models, the shift of research and industry toward them, and their move into general use. Excludes their explanation as a technical phenomenon, which belongs to 5.1, generation as a paradigm, which belongs to 3.5, and tracking of successive releases, which belongs to 16.1.

• 3.5 Generative AI as a Paradigm
• 5.1 Foundation Models and General-Purpose AI
• 16.1 Model, System and Hardware Releases

• 1.1 Intellectual Roots and the Pre-Computer Era
• 1.2 Turing, Dartmouth and the Beginnings
• 1.3 Cybernetics and Symbolic AI
• 1.4 Expert Systems
• 1.5 AI Winters
• 1.6 The Statistical Turn
• 1.7 Deep Learning
• 1.9 Agentic AI and World Models
• 1.10 Regional Histories and Competing Narratives