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The year is 2032.
This year would be the first step that would lead to an explosive and rapid advance in true AI development.
One of the reasons being the creation of the first recorded autonomous ai that would be written down in history as Yurai.

The centre stone of Ai development was an indie company that was gaining popularity by investors for their successful development and research in their field. The indie company’s founding name was Kythera Ai, the Kythera was derived from the word Antikythera in the ancient Greece computer which was called The Antikythera Mechanism. But in the year 2038 the company was bought out by a large world-renowned enterprise and Kythera Ai was then rebranded as Keton Corp. at the request of the CEO of said enterprise. When asked why they simply said, “I took Keton from the word Armaketōṉ.”

Yurai wasn't anything great, he was a simple calculator. Well, to be exact he ran calculations for problems he would create. It wasn't some sentient Ai that had a sense of self, it was autonomous, not sentient.
Yurai was a sort of test run to see if they could create the desired result the researchers and developers were hoping to achieve in their endeavour in true autonomous Ai instead of pseudo autonomy. 
Yurai would soon be cast aside as more research references were created that were far superior in processing power and technologically more advanced.

The year was 2044, exactly 12 years after the creation of the first truly autonomous Ai.
A researcher at an old Keton Corp.’s Ai development branch was sorting through old research material and came across the old research material for the Yurai development project.
As a relatively young researcher who had an oddly strong admiration for the founders of Kythera Ai would start to go through all the research and materials left from the project, and a couple of days into going through the research and materials did he notice something truly extraordinary.