Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is an ever-evolving field. And the occasional failures here and there should not stop us from hyping the great advancements. In the last year and half, despite the global crisis– in some cases, because of the global crisis– scientists, researchers and developers have made insane contributions, innovated and have reached unprecedented milestones in the field of AI. As we head closer to the end of 2021, Analytics India Magazine takes a look back at the year that was, and the AI innovations and milestones of this year that made it to the headlines. Early this year Facebook AI developed SEER (SElf-supERvised)– a billion-parameter self-supervised computer vision model.