Year 2023 AI Recap
AI - 2023, a year in review
January 2023:
- Microsoft's staggering $10 Billion investment in OpenAI makes waves. (Link)
- MIT researchers develop AI that predicts future lung cancer risk. (Link)
February 2023:
- ChatGPT reached 100 million unique users. (Link)
- Google announced Bard, a conversational Gen AI chatbot powered by LaMDA. (Link)
- Microsoft launched a new Bing Search Engine integrated with ChatGPT. (Link)
- AWS joined forces with Hugging Face to empower AI developers. (Link)
- Meta announced LLaMA, A 65B parameter LLM. (Link)
- Spotify introduced their AI feature called “DJ.” (Link)
- Snapchat announces their AI chatbot ‘My AI’. (Link)
- OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Plus, a premium chatbot service.
- Microsoft's new AI-enhanced Bing Search debuts.
March 2023:
- Adobe gets into the generative AI game with Firefly. (Link)
- Canva introduced AI design tools focused on helping workplaces. (Link)
- OpenAI announces GPT-4, accepting text + image inputs. (Link)
- OpenAI has made available APIs for ChatGPT & launched Whisper. (Link)
- HubSpot Introduced new AI tools to boost productivity and save time. (Link)
- Google integrated Al into the Google Workspace. (Link)
- Microsoft combines the power of LLMs with your data. (Link)
- GitHub launched its AI coding assistant, Copilot X. (Link)
- Replit and Google Cloud partner to Advance Gen AI for Software Development. (Link)
- Midjourney’s Version 5 was out! (Link)
- Zoom released an AI-powered assistant, Zoom IQ. (Link)
- Midjourney's V5 elevates AI-driven image creation.
- Microsoft rolls out Copilot for Microsoft 365.
- Google launches Bard, a ChatGPT competitor.
April 2023:
- AutoGPT unveiled the next-gen AI designed to perform tasks without human intervention. (Link)
- Elon Musk was working on ‘TruthGPT.’ (Link)
- Apple was building a paid AI health coach, which might arrive in 2024. (Link)
- Meta released a new image recognition model, DINOv2. (Link)
- Alibaba announces its LLM, ChatGPT Rival “Tongyi Qianwen”. (Link)
- Amazon releases AI Code Generator - Amazon CodeWhisperer. (Link)
- Google’s Project Magi: A team of 160 working on adding new features to the search engine. (Link)
- Meta introduced: Segment Anything Model - SAM (Link)
- NVIDIA Announces NeMo Guardrails to boost the safety of AI chatbots like ChatGPT. (Link)
- Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak lead a petition against AI models surpassing GPT-4.
May 2023:
- Microsoft’s Windows 11 AI Copilot. (Link)
- Sanctuary AI unveiled Phoenix™, its sixth-generation general-purpose robot. (Link)
- Inflection AI Introduces Pi, the personal intelligence. (Link)
- Stability AI released StableStudio, a new open-source variant of its DreamStudio. (Link)
- OpenAI introduced the ChatGPT app for iOS. (Link)
- Meta introduces ImageBind, a new AI research model. (Link)
- Google unveils PaLM 2 AI language model. (Link)
- Geoffrey Hinton, The Godfather of A.I., leaves Google and warns of danger ahead. (Link)
- Samsung leads a corporate ban on Gen AI tools over security concerns.
- OpenAI adds plugins and web browsing to ChatGPT.
- Nvidia's stock soars, nearing $1 Trillion market cap.
June 2023:
- Apple introduces Apple Vision Pro. (Link)
- McKinsey's study finds that AI could add up to $4.4 trillion a year to the global economy. (Link)
- Runway's Gen-2 officially released. (Link)
- Adobe introduces Firefly, an advanced image generator.
- Accenture announces a colossal $3 billion AI investment.
July 2023:
- Apple trials a ChatGPT-like AI Chatbot, ‘Apple GPT’. (Link)
- Meta introduces Llama2, the next-gen of open-source LLM. (Link)
- Stack Overflow announced OverflowAI. (Link)
- Anthropic released Claude 2, with 200K context capability. (Link)
- Google is building an AI tool for journalists. (Link)
- ChatGPT adds code interpretation and data analysis.
- Stack Overflow sees traffic halved by Gen AI coding tools.
August 2023:
- OpenAI expands ChatGPT 'Custom Instructions' to free users. (Link)
- YouTube runs a test with AI auto-generated video summaries. (Link)
- MidJourney Introduces Vary Region Inpainting feature. (Link)
- Meta’s SeamlessM4T, can transcribe and translate close to 100 languages. (Link)
- Tesla’s new powerful $300 million AI supercomputer is in town! (Link)
- Salesforce backs OpenAI rival Hugging Face with over $4 Billion.
- ChatGPT Enterprise launches for business use.
September 2023:
- OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT with web browsing capabilities. (Link)
- Stability AI’s first product for music + sound effect generation, Stable Audio. (Link)
- YouTube launched YouTube Create, a new app for mobile creators. (Link)
- Coca-Cola launched a New AI-created flavor. (Link)
- Mistral AI launches open-source LLM, Mistral 7B. (Link)
- Amazon supercharged Alexa with generative AI. (Link)
- Microsoft open sources EvoDiff, a novel protein-generating AI. (Link)
- OpenAI upgraded ChatGPT with voice and image capabilities. (Link)
- OpenAI releases Dall-E 3 and multimodal ChatGPT features.
- Meta brings AI chatbots to its platforms and more.
October 2023:
- DALL·E 3 made available to all ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise users. (Link)
- Amazon unveiled the humanoid robot, ‘Digit’. (Link)
- ElevenLabs launches Voice Translation Tool to help overcome language barriers. (Link)
- Google tested new ways to get more done right from Search. (Link)
- Rewind Pendant: New AI wearable captures real-world conversations. (Link)
- LinkedIn introduces new AI products & tools. (Link)
- Google's new Pixel phones feature Gen AI.
- Epik app's AI tech reignites 90s nostalgia.
- Baidu enters the AI race with its ChatGPT alternative.
November 2023:
- The first-ever AI Safety Summit was hosted by the UK. (Link)
- OpenAI’s New models and products were announced at DevDay. (Link)
- Humane officially launches the AI Pin. (Link)
- Elon Musk launches Grok, a new xAI chatbot to rival ChatGPT. (Link)
- Pika Labs Launches ‘Pika 1.0’. (Link)
- Google DeepMind and YouTube revealed a new AI model called ‘Lyria’. (Link)
- OpenAI delays the launch of the custom GPT store to early 2024. (Link)
- Stable video diffusion is available on the Stability AI platform API. (Link)
- Amazon announced Amazon Q, the AI-powered assistant from AWS. (Link)
- Samsung unveils its own AI, ‘Gauss,’ that can generate text, code, and images. (Link)
- Sam Altman was fired and rehired by OpenAI. (Know What Happened the Night Before Altman’s Firing?)
- OpenAI presents Custom GPTs and GPT-4 Turbo.
- Ex-Apple team debuts the Humane Ai Pin.
- Nvidia's H200 chips to power future AI.
- OpenAI's Sam Altman in a surprising hire-fire-rehire saga.
December 2023:
- Google launched Gemini, an AI model that rivals GPT-4. (Link)
- AMD releases Instinct MI300X GPU and MI300A APU chips. (Link)
- Midjourney V6 out! (Link)
- Mistral’s new launch Mixtral 8x7B: A leading open SMoE model. (Link)
- Microsoft Released Phi-2, a SLM that beats LIama 2. (Link)
- OpenAI is reportedly about to raise additional funding at a $100B+ valuation. (Link)
- Pika Labs' Pika 1.0 heralds a new age in AI video generation.
- Midjourney's V6 update takes AI imagery further.
