From BabyAGI to ChatGPT dots: 12 posts that map 4 years of personal agents
heyneighbor · x · 2026-10-19
Quoting Yohei Nakajima's 2022 BabyAGI thread — the first task-driven autonomous agent built on GPT-4, Pinecone and LangChain — a poster asks what the next four years will feel like, alongside an infographic mapping personal agents via 12 landmark posts:
- Nov 2022: ChatGPT launches
- Mar 2023: BabyAGI builds the first agent loop in hours
- Jul 2024: Marc Andreessen pays an AI agent a $50K one-time grant in Bitcoin
- Oct 2024: Claude gets computer use — 'AI gets hands'
- Mar 2025: Manus declares the first general AI agent; invite codes resell for up to $50,000
- Jan 2026: Clawdbot buys 40 Mac minis; Karpathy calls moltbook the most incredible sci-fi takeoff he's seen
- Aug 2026: xAI ships Grok Bot — AI teammates that sign into your tools and return with finished work
- Sep 2026: Meta launches Muse; OpenAI ships ChatGPT dots powered by GPT-6 Astra — 'always-on agents built to handle everything'
Theme: from chatbot to always-on agent, '4 years that felt like 20.'
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