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Jun 2017Sep 2025
September
20251 event
Sep 10
2025
researchModel Context Protocol (MCP) 1.0 spec finalised
Anthropic-led open standard for connecting LLMs to tools and data. Becomes the de-facto plug-in protocol across major labs and dev tooling.
June
20171 event
Jun 12
2017
research‘Attention Is All You Need’ — the Transformer paper
Google Brain publishes the architecture that becomes the foundation of every modern LLM. Sequence-to-sequence learning is no longer the same.