Google and the Computer History Museum release AlexNet’s original 2012 source code on GitHub, offering a rare look at a pivotal moment in AI history.

There are many stories of how artificial intelligence came to take over the world, but one of the most important developments is the emergence in 2012 of AlexNet, a neural network that ...

AlexNet revolutionized the use of neural networks for computer vision, creating one of the underpinnings of generative AI.

On Thursday, Google and the Computer History Museum (CHM) jointly released the source code for AlexNet, the convolutional neural network (CNN) that many credit with transforming the AI field in 2012 ...

But have you ever wondered how we got here? The credit largely goes to a groundbreaking neural network from 2012 called AlexNet. While it didn't cause an immediate sensation, it ultimately became ...

“Google is delighted to contribute the source code for the groundbreaking AlexNet work to the Computer History Museum,” said Jeff Dean, chief scientist, Google DeepMind and Google Research.

This article appears in the May 2025 print edition with the headline “The New King of Tech.” ...