The post was originally published in Polish on Artur’s LinkedIn profile. Artur kindly agreed that we repost what we think is of great value to our readers.
Top developments in the AI space during the last 15 months:
January 2023
- ChatGPT became the fastest-growing product, having reached 100 million active users (in 2 months)
- Microsoft invests USD 10B in OpenAI
February 2023
- Google announces Bard, a competitor to OpenAI
- AWS partners with Hugging Face
March 2023
- OpenAI releases GPT-4, an API for ChatGPT, and text-to-speech model Whisper
- Google releases Bard
- Adobe launches Adobe Firefly image generator
April 2023
- Google announces Google DeepMind
- AutoGPT and open-source agents go viral on social media
- Elon Musk launches xAI
May 2023
- OpenAI launches free ChatGPT app for iOS
- Microsoft unveils Windows 11 AI Copilot
- Swiss scientists rebuild spinal cord with AI
June 2023
July 2023
- Humane unveils an ‘AI Pin’ to replace smartphones
- Meta and Microsoft release the Llama model
- Apple announces ‘Apple GPT’
- OpenAI adds ‘custom instructions’ to ChatGPT
August 2023
September 2023
- Amazon invests USD 4B in OpenAI competitor Anthropic
- Scientists create a model that predicts the smell of a chemical
- OpenAI announces DALL-E 3
- Microsoft unveils Copilot, the ‘everyday AI assistant’
- ChatGPT becomes multimodal with voice and images
- Mistral AI unveils the 7B open language model
October 2023
- Elon Musk announces AI chatbot Grok
- Sam Altman is fired (and subsequently reinstated) as CEO at OpenAI
November 2023
- Elon Musk’s xAI launches Grok
- OpenAI unveils GPT Builder, GPT-4 Turbo, and API assistants
- Amazon invests in training the ‘Olympus’ language model
- Pika launches Pika 1.0, a text-to-video generator
December 2023
- Google announces Gemini, a multimodal AI model
- Google DeepMind reveals Gemini
- Midjourney releases version 6.0
January 2024
- Google unveils Lumiere, a video generation tool
- Meta announced the launch of Code Llama 70B, an AI code generator
- ElevenLabs raises USD 80B
February 2024
- Google announces that the Bard chatbot is now powered by the Gemini Pro model globally
- Midjourney launches a browser version
- NVidia surpasses Amazon and Google in terms of market capitalization
- OpenAI unveils Sora, an AI for video generation
- Google shows the Gemini 1.5 model
March 2024
- Google unveils AI ‘Genie’ that can create video games
- Microsoft partners with French AI startup Mistral
- Figure shows a demo of a robot that talks and performs complex manual tasks in real-time
- AI Act adopted by the European Union
Creator, entrepreneur and investor – I write about my experiences with startups, technology and business.
