Who created AI in the Marvel Cinematic Universe? When it comes to J.A.R.V.I.S., Vision, and Ultron, the short answer is Tony Stark, with a little help from Bruce Banner. But in the new MCU TV series VisionQuest, the origin of various AI tech — or as it's called in this show, “Artificial General Intelligence” — now has a new wrinkle. In Episodes 3 and 4 of VisionQuest, we learn a lot more about the organization and the people behind the foundation of Stark’s AI, and within this retcon, there’s an interesting Easter egg that spans two other sci-fi franchises.
Here’s the meaning of the AI canon change in VisionQuest and how it connects to the universe of both Star Trek: Picard and 12 Monkeys.