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Editorial policy and corrections

Aphrodite is an independently maintained editorial project that documents AI development and evolves with the field. We distinguish verified events, editorial interpretation, developing stories, and forecasts. Dates, figures, and quotations are linked to their sources where possible. Because AI products and policies change rapidly, entries include a review date.

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Revision history

Corrected

  • Corrected the GLM record, which presented GLM-5.2 as the newest model in the family. Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on 18 August 2026 and GLM-5.3-Flash on 26 August. The record now gives the family’s release history rather than naming one current version, and it notes that openness is no longer uniform: GLM-5.2 publishes its weights under MIT, while GLM-5.3 ships under a custom licence of its own.

Updated

  • Model records now say when a family last changed rather than which version is current. The GLM entry pinned one release and expired three weeks later; the OLMo entry, which lists its releases in order, did not. A release history is the durable form.

Corrected

  • Corrected the Gelernter 1959 entry, which was wrong in almost every part. Its title named a syntactic projection problem, which is not a paper Gelernter wrote; the work is A Note on Syntactic Symmetry and the Manipulation of Formal Systems by Machine, in Information and Control 2(1): 80-89. Its link pointed at RAND paper P-1586, a 1959 Monte Carlo study of air base inventory control with nothing to do with artificial intelligence. Four languages named four different journals between them. The entry now carries the real title, a DOI checked against the registering agency, and one venue in all thirteen languages.
  • Corrected where McCarthy’s Programs with Common Sense was first published. Traditional Chinese and Japanese named MIT Press, which is the 1968 reprint in Semantic Information Processing rather than the first printing. McCarthy’s own page states that the paper was given at the Teddington Conference on the Mechanisation of Thought Processes and printed in those proceedings; all thirteen languages now say so.
  • Corrected how the MCP page described a Skill. It said a Skill extends Claude Code capabilities, which scopes a concept to a single product. The SKILL.md format is published, and Claude Code is one host that loads it among others. All thirteen languages now state the concept first and name the product as one implementation.

Updated

  • The catalogue now prefers a resolvable identifier where one exists. Gelernter 1959 moved from a hosted copy to a DOI, which means the title can be checked automatically against the registering agency — the check that would have caught this entry years ago.
  • Bibliographic detail no longer depends on which language you read. One language carried Nature 323(6088): 533-536 while another carried only Nature. All thirteen now carry the fullest form: volume, issue and pages for a journal article, and the arXiv identifier in parentheses where a preprint also exists. Sixty-four of the seventy-three works changed.
  • Added Reasoning and Agent to the subject filters. The ten existing topics predate the shift those works represent, so chain-of-thought prompting, the o1 system card, DeepSeek-R1 and s1 all sat under Algorithm. Six works are tagged by what they are about rather than what they mention. Added AlphaEvolve (2025), whose result the catalogue already cited through a later work without holding the publication itself.

Corrected

  • Corrected the source given for Scaling Monosemanticity. The Traditional Chinese entry cited arXiv:2403.07830, which is a paper on critical planar Brownian loop-soups, and the Japanese entry called the work an arXiv preprint. It is published on Transformer Circuits and has no arXiv identifier at all. All thirteen languages now name the same place. A sweep confirmed the rest of the catalogue is sound: forty other entries print an arXiv id beside a title, and every one belongs to the paper it sits on.

Updated

  • Five works were added, each checked against its primary source before being written: Co-Scientist in Nature, which this project’s timeline had cited since May while the catalogue did not hold it; the OLMo 2 and Olmo 3 reports; the GLM-5 technical report; and a note from this month that moves the matrix multiplication exponent using AlphaEvolve.
  • The OLMo record now runs to Olmo 3, released in November 2025. It had stopped at OLMo 2 in November 2024 — the one place in the technology graph that names a version history, and so the one that could fall behind.
  • A fifteenth technology concept covers reasoning and test-time compute. The catalogue already carried three papers and two timeline entries on it while the concept layer had nowhere to put it.

Corrected

  • Corrected what the first Unimate actually did. Seven of the thirteen languages said it welded parts into place; English and Spanish said it stacked them; Japanese and Korean said neither, carrying a single sentence where the others carried three. The Henry Ford holds the machine itself, and its record says it was installed at General Motors in Trenton, New Jersey in 1961 to unload a die-casting press. All thirteen now say that, and the entry cites the museum record for the machine rather than a collection record that did not show it.
  • Corrected the entry on OpenAI’s recapitalization. It described the company as moving out from under nonprofit control, when OpenAI’s own announcement says the OpenAI Foundation continues to control the for-profit business, and that it is the for-profit — OpenAI Group PBC — that is the public benefit corporation, not OpenAI as a whole. Rewritten in all thirteen languages.
  • Corrected the Thai text of the Microsoft Frontier Company entry, which stated $25 billion where the figure is $2.5 billion. The numeral was right and the magnitude word was one step too large.

Updated

  • Three sources now point at a primary or canonical artifact. The 1998 LeNet paper and the 1991 mixture-of-experts paper cite DOIs, whose registered titles can be checked automatically, and the Microsoft entry cites Microsoft’s own announcement rather than a wire copy hosted on a stock-news site.
  • Removed a retired link to archived Hugging Face documentation. That record keeps its current documentation link.
  • Ten entries carry a new review date because their sources were opened by hand. These hosts refuse automated clients, so a link audit can only record them as unseen rather than sound.

Corrected

  • Corrected a citation on the perceptron convergence entry that pointed at an unrelated paper on coding theory. It now cites Rosenblatt’s own Principles of Neurodynamics. The link had worked throughout, which is why the error went unnoticed for so long.
  • Repaired seven further sources whose pages had moved or been withdrawn — at MIT, AAAI, DARPA, CERN, Stanford and RAND — together with a DOI for Pearl 1986 whose final character was wrong.

Updated

  • Every replacement was verified against the registering agency before publication, and points at the primary artifact where one exists: CERN’s original project page rather than an article about it, and MIT’s own timeline rather than a summary of it.
  • Review dates moved only on the six entries that were genuinely re-checked. All 184 evidence links are now audited on a schedule instead of never.

Corrected

  • Replaced a timeline entry whose only source was published three months before the event it described, and re-grounded four 2026 entries on sources that carry their claims, including the European Commission’s own page for the EU AI Act date and the Nature paper for the AI Co-Scientist result.
  • Removed an outdated list on the MCP page that named six commands as built-in when only one of them is. It had already been superseded on the page itself and was no longer displayed, but it was still being sent with every request.
  • Corrected the Tools page, which described AI Agent and Skill as features of a single product and gave an installation step for a product that does not exist. Both entries now describe the concept and name several implementations across vendors.

Updated

  • Added three figures and two research works from 2025, and replaced rather than deleted a milestone so that existing links to later entries keep working.
  • Added OLMo as a ninth open-model case, the one that publishes training data, training code, intermediate checkpoints and logs alongside the weights, so the difference between open weights and open training can be compared rather than only asserted.
  • Recorded review dates per entry instead of one date for everything. A date now shows when that item was actually checked, and most entries kept their older date.

Localization

  • French prose now stores a non-breaking space before colons and semicolons throughout the site, so the mark cannot wrap to the start of the next line.

Corrected

  • Fixed the Papers page header, where quotation marks in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean were shaped by a Latin fallback at about half the width of an ideographic character.

Updated

  • Extended the shared spacing scale across every route, with a before-and-after layout comparison confirming no visual change.

Corrected

  • Removed the line-length caps that pushed short introductions, card descriptions, and summaries onto an extra line ending in a stray fragment.

Updated

  • Prose now flows to each page’s own content column. A reading measure is kept only for the sustained homepage introduction.

Corrected

  • Raised undersized mobile supporting text and constrained overly long desktop prose lines.

Updated

  • Unified semantic font sizes, leading, paragraph rhythm, and reading measures without changing the visual identity.

Localization

  • Separated CJK optical text sizing from spacing and layout geometry, with source and build checks across all 13 languages.

Corrected

  • Changed English prose to the project’s explicit ASCII double-quote style ("...") in source content, visible pages, metadata, and GEO exports.
  • Fixed exact-date timeline badges that could overlap the marker and spine on desktop.
  • Restored the hyphen in compact exact-date badges and removed nonstandard spaces inside Chinese and Japanese calendar expressions.

Updated

  • Normalized the multilingual source corpus and unified quote handling across Home, Era, Technology, About, MCP, Timeline, Papers, Tools, and shared metadata.
  • Standardized timeline dates as a year plus an honest precision label, with localized detail-page dates and valid machine-readable values.
  • Limited translating card and link hover motion to fine pointers; touch devices now use non-moving press feedback.

Localization

  • Added field-aware checks that distinguish natural-language prose from executable syntax and enforce each language’s canonical quote pair.
  • Normalized spacing between Chinese prose and Latin product names while preserving numbers, code, paths, and Japanese conventions.
  • Added source and rendered-output checks for compact CJK calendar spacing while preserving Korean, code, URLs, paths, and identifiers.

Corrected

  • Re-audited technology dates and descriptions against primary sources, separating original concepts, public releases, and later implementation milestones.

Updated

  • Curated eight open LLM families and sorted them by release period: Llama, Qwen, Mistral/Mixtral, DeepSeek, Gemma, gpt-oss, GLM-5/5.2, and Kimi K3.

Localization

  • Fixed narrow-screen primary navigation so all 13 languages remain single-line, reachable, and route-aware without crowding.

Corrected

  • Clarified that the MCP, Agent, Skill, and Harness grouping is an editorial model, and aligned MCP wording with the current protocol boundary.

Updated

  • Added a sourced technology graph with 14 foundational technologies and 5 open-model cases, connected to papers, eras, application concepts, and tools.

Localization

  • Published the overview, detail pages, terminology, evidence, and model-openness distinctions in all 13 supported languages.

Corrected

  • Fixed quotation pairing across formatted prose and completed locale-aware quotation marks in the full GEO export.

Updated

  • Improved timeline heading semantics and secondary-text contrast; added edge security headers and refreshed supported build tooling.

Localization

  • Added 13-language regression checks for quotations that span bold text or links.

Corrected

  • Corrected the reviewed Skills, Superpowers, Browser Use, OpenClaw, MCP, Meta-Manus, GPT-5.6, early-history, AI-winter, and CIFAR wording across all supported languages.

Updated

  • Added sources for all 89 events, a 1,300-URL sitemap, event-specific social metadata, and stronger CI checks.
  • Reframed Aphrodite as an editorial project that evolves with AI; removed the duplicate footer email, retained About as the correction channel, and added the original Chinese project epigraph to the homepage.

Localization

  • Completed a 13-language punctuation, terminology, tone, and continuity review; removed English fallback copy from Papers, MCP, Tools, and About; added an automated localization quality gate.

Corrected

  • Corrected ImageNet, LSTM, the EU AI Act, and the 1955/1956 Dartmouth distinction.

Updated

  • Updated MCP, Claude Skill, Codex CLI, and timeline evidence documentation.

Localization

  • Moved dates, status, organizations, and sources into a shared fact layer.