AI boom

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The AI boom is a period of rapid growth in the field of artificial intelligence beginning in the mid-2010s and accelerating in the 2020s. Generative AI technologies include large language models (LLM), which generate text and code, image models, and video models, and world models. This period is sometimes referred to as an AI spring, a term used to contrast it with previous AI winters. Key advances preceding the boom include the transformer (2017), generative pre-trained transformer (2018) and reinforcement learning from human feedback. During the boom, LLMs have evolved via the reasoning model, mixture of experts technique, and multimodal learning. As of 2026, leading proprietary LLMs have been released by Anthropic, OpenAI, and divisions of Google, Meta, and SpaceX in the United States. In China, companies favour open weights releases, led by Alibaba Cloud, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and Z.ai. Controversies of the AI boom include its environmental impact, dominance by US Big Tech companies...

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