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Contributing

Ideas and issues welcome!

Suggesting New Milestones

Have a technology milestone that should be included? Open an issue with:

  • Year of launch/release
  • Event name and brief description
  • Category (Hardware, Software, AI/Agentic, etc.)
  • Metric (Training FLOPs or Days to 50M users)
  • Source for the data

Reporting Issues

Found an error in the data or visualization? Please open an issue describing:

  • Which plot (AI Compute or Adoption Timeline)
  • What's incorrect
  • Suggested correction with source

Future Plot Ideas

Interested in seeing additional visualizations? Some ideas under consideration:

  • Energy & Inference Costs in AI
  • Global AI Model Releases by Year
  • Hardware Price/Performance Over Time
  • AI Benchmark Progress (MMLU, etc.)

Feel free to suggest others via issues.

Technical Contributions

Pull requests welcome for:

  • Bug fixes in Python scripts
  • Improved label positioning
  • Additional data points with sources
  • Accessibility improvements

Setup

pip install matplotlib numpy plotly

Regenerating Plots

# AI Compute Timeline
cd ai-compute-timeline/src && python ai_compute_timeline.py && python ai_compute_timeline_plotly.py

# Adoption Timeline
cd adoption-timeline/src && python adoption_timeline.py && python adoption_timeline_plotly.py

License

By contributing, you agree that your contributions will be licensed under MIT.