TheCUBE Research 2026 Pedictions: The year of enterprise ROI
siliconANGLE, Monday, February 16th, 2026
Observers commonly say that artificial intelligence is still in the 'early innings.' The reality is AI is much further along than many acknowledge.
In 2012, AlexNet was a watershed deep learning moment when massive and freely available internet datasets met Nvidia Corp.'s graphics processing units. This is what truly kicked off the modern AI era, leading to further breakthroughs like generative adversarial networks.
In 2017, Google researchers introduced the transformer architecture to the world followed by key research on scaling laws. Then of course, mass adoption began with ChatGPT setting off the current AI arms race.