AI in 2023: The Recap⏰
Let's explore the game-changing AI moments of 2023, a year that's been a rollercoaster ride in AI innovation.
Hello Engineering Leaders and AI Enthusiasts!
As we bid farewell to 2023, a year filled with incredible AI progress, Now get ready for an exciting recap!
We're thrilled to share the biggest breakthroughs and pivotal moments that have defined 2023 as a transformative year.
📰 In today’s edition:
There is an exhilarating AI journey through the months of January to December as we compile the most impactful moments and advancements throughout 2023.
We’ll highlight the key milestones that are defined each month.
Let’s go! 👇
January
Microsoft Invests $10B in ChatGPT maker OpenAI. (Link)
MIT researchers develop AI that predicts future lung cancer risk. (Link)
February
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)
March
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)
April
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)
May
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)
June
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)
July
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)
August
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)
September
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)
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October
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)
November
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?)
December
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)
That's all for now!
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