2020 in artificial intelligence

The following is a list of events of the year 2020 in artificial intelligence.

Events

February

• February 13 – Microsoft introduces its Turing Natural Language Generation (T-NLG), which has 17 billion parameters. ^[1]

June

• June 11 – OpenAI introduces GPT-3. ^[2]

September

• September 22 – OpenAI licenses GPT-3 to Microsoft. ^[3]

November

• November 30 – DeepMind's artificial intelligence AlphaFold 2 reaches levels of accuracy much higher than any other entry in the 14th Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction (CASP). ^{[4] [5]}

See also

• Timeline of artificial intelligence

References

1. "Turing-NLG: A 17-billion-parameter language model by Microsoft". Microsoft. February 13, 2020. Retrieved February 11, 2026.
2. "OpenAI GPT-3, the most powerful language model: An Overview". www.einfochips.com. March 14, 2022. Retrieved February 11, 2026.
3. "OpenAI licenses GPT-3 technology to Microsoft". OpenAI. September 22, 2020. Retrieved February 11, 2026.
4. "DeepMind solves 50-year-old 'grand challenge' with protein folding A.I." CNBC. November 30, 2020. Retrieved February 11, 2026.
5. Heaven, Will Douglas (November 30, 2020). "DeepMind's protein-folding AI has solved a 50-year-old grand challenge of biology". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved February 11, 2026.