AlexNet, created by Alex Krizhevsky, Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton, used a deep convolutional neural network (CNN)—a powerful new type of computer program—to recognize images far more accurately than ever, kick-starting major progress in AI.

Democrats accused the OpenAI CEO and other Big Tech CEOs of an "effort to influence and sway the actions and policies" of the incoming administration.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he "stalked” Ilya Sutskever to convince him to join in his quest to build an artificial general intelligence, which many others were hesitant to do at the time. Sam Altman,