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Appendix D: Timeline of Key Developments

December 2024 – January 2026

December 2024

December 9: Google announces Willow quantum chip with below-threshold error correction.

December 17: Anthropic publishes alignment faking research (78% rate).

December 20: OpenAI announces o3 achieving 87.5% on ARC-AGI.

December 27: DeepSeek releases V3, matching GPT-4o at fraction of cost.

January 2025

January 2025: Sam Altman declares 'We are now confident we know how to build AGI.'

January 20: DeepSeek R1 released, becomes most-downloaded iOS app.

January 2025: Anthropic releases Constitutional Classifiers (86% → 4.4% jailbreak rate).

April 2024

April 19: Future of Humanity Institute closes after ~19 years.

April 2025

April 16: OpenAI publicly releases o3.

April 24: Anthropic launches Model Welfare Program.

April–June: COGITATE consciousness study results published in Nature.

May 2025

May 22: Claude 4 family released; Opus 4 first model at ASL-3.

August 2025

August 7: GPT-5 released.

August 2025: Sam Altman calls AGI 'not a super useful term.'

October 2025

October 22: Google publishes 'Quantum Echoes' paper in Nature.

November 2025

November 18: Gemini 3 Pro released, first model to cross 1500 Elo.

November 24: Claude Opus 4.5 released.

November 30: MIRI announces strategic pivot, calls approach 'extremely unlikely to succeed.'

December 2025

December 1–2: OpenAI declares 'Code Red' in response to Gemini 3.

December 4: Gemini 3 Deep Think released (45.1% on ARC-AGI-2).

December 16: GPT-5.2 released.

December 24: Sam Altman suggests AGI may have already arrived.

December 28: Geoffrey Hinton CNN interview (10–20% takeover probability).

January 2026

January 6: Infinite Architects published.

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