Stephen Wolfram Writings
Launching Version 15 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica: Built-in (Useful) AI & Lots of New Core Functionality
June 23, 1988 is when we launched Version 1.0 of Mathematica . Today—almost 38 years later—we’re launching Version 15 of what—in recognition of how far it’s expanded beyond “math”—we now call Wolfram Language . It’s an impressive release, with a lot of new core functionality. It might perhaps seem surprising that after 38 years there’d still be more to add. But it’s like the typical arc of intellectual history: the more one’s figured out, the further one can see, and the more one becomes able to do. And for all of us working on it, it’s been a very satisfying process: year after year building an ever taller tower of ideas and technology, with which we can reach ever further—today to all the functionality of Version 15.

