AI Innovation Report 2023

January 15:

ChatGPT becomes the fastest growing consumer app in history.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/6/23948386/chatgpt-active-user-count-openai-developer-conference

January 27:

Microsoft Invests $10 Billion in OpenAI.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/23/microsoft-invests-billions-more-dollars-in-openai-extends-partnership/

February 06:

Google announces Bard

https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-updates/

February: 09

Baidu Inc. Shares paper on ERNIE-Music Test-to-Waveform

https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04456

February 24:

Meta Introduces LLaMA

https://ai.meta.com/blog/large-language-model-llama-meta-ai/

February 28:

Snapchat launches their AI chatbot ‘My AI’.

https://newsroom.snap.com/say-hi-to-my-ai

March 1:

OpenAI launches ChatGPT and Whisper API’s.

https://openai.com/blog/introducing-chatgpt-and-whisper-apis

March 14:

Anthropic launches Cluade

https://www.anthropic.com/index/introducing-claude

March 17:

OpenAI launches GPT-4.

https://openai.com/research/gpt-4

March 22:

Google releases Bard.

https://blog.google/technology/ai/try-bard/

March 22:

Adobe launches AI image generator Adobe Firefly.

https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2023/Adobe-Unveils-Firefly-a-Family-of-new-Creative-Generative-AI/default.aspx

March 24:

OpenAI releases ChatGPT Plugins and hat tip to an AI App Store.

https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins

March 24:

Canva launches new AI tools

https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/supercharging-the-visual-suite/.

March 24:

Runway Gen-1 Release

https://research.runwayml.com/gen1

March 30:

AutoGPT and open-source Autonomous agents make waves across social media.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-GPT

March 15:

Midjourney v5 This version brought significant improvements in image quality, coherence, and accuracy in prompt following.

March 26:

BabyAGI was released. It is a pared-down version of the original Task-Driven Autonomous Agent, as shared on Twitter by Yohei Nakajima.

https://twitter.com/yoheinakajima/status/1640042616258707456

April 6:

Meta releases “Segment Anything Model” for AI to extract objects within images or videos.

https://ai.meta.com/blog/segment-anything-foundation-model-image-segmentation/

April 11:

Alibaba reveals their ChatGPT Rival “Tongyi Qianwen”.

https://www.alibabagroup.com/en-US/document-1582482069362049024

April 19:

ElevenLabs: Introducing Eleven Multilingual v1: Our New Speech Synthesis Model

https://elevenlabs.io/blog/eleven-multilingual-v1/

April 21:

Google Brain and Google DeepMind join forces.

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/announcing-google-deepmind/

April 12:

Databricks releases Dolly2

https://www.databricks.com/blog/2023/04/12/dolly-first-open-commercially-viable-instruction-tuned-llm

April 1:

LangChainAI v0.0.124 a MASSIVE update with many new features

https://twitter.com/LangChainAI/status/1640745193661165568

May 3:

Inflection AI releases Pi.

https://inflection.ai/press

May 6:

Midjourney Release v5.1 for enhanced text-to-image generation, allowing users to create images from text prompts with greater detail and precision

https://docs.midjourney.com/docs/model-versions

May 10:

Meta introduces ImageBing, a new AI research model. –

https://ai.meta.com/blog/imagebind-six-modalities-binding-ai/

May 12:

Anthropic extends Claude’s token window to 100,000.

https://www.anthropic.com/index/100k-context-windows

May 19:

OpenAI launches a free ChatGPT iOS app.

https://openai.com/blog/introducing-the-chatgpt-app-for-ios

May 24:

Microsoft unveils Windows 11 AI Copilot, Bing plugins, Bing Browsing, and Windows Terminal.

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2023/05/23/bringing-the-power-of-ai-to-windows-11-unlocking-a-new-era-of-productivity-for-customers-and-developers-with-windows-copilot-and-dev-home/

May 25:

UAE’s Technology Innovation Institute Launches Open-Source “Falcon 40B” Large Language Model for Research & Commercial Utilization

https://www.tii.ae/news/uaes-technology-innovation-institute-launches-open-source-falcon-40b-large-language-model

June 2:

NVIDIA Research develops Neuralangelo for 3D reconstruction from 2D video clips.-

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/neuralangelo-ai-research-3d-reconstruction/

June 19:

Meta releases new text-to-speech AI called Audiobox.

https://about.fb.com/news/2023/06/introducing-voicebox-ai-for-speech-generation/

June 28:

Baidu introduces ERNIE 3.5.

https://multiplatform.ai/baidu-unveils-ernie-3-5-a-game-changing-ai-language-generation-model/

June 1:

NVIDIA Neuralangelo: High-Fidelity Neural Surface Reconstruction

https://research.nvidia.com/publication/2023-06_neuralangelo-high-fidelity-neural-surface-reconstruction

July 4:

Midjourney launches new ‘Panning’ feature.

https://docs.midjourney.com/docs/pan

July 6:

Inflection AI develops a $880M AI supercomputer.

https://wccftech.com/inflection-ai-develops-supercomputer-equipped-with-22000-nvidia-h100-ai-gpus/

July 12:

Anthropic launches Claude 2.

https://www.anthropic.com/index/claude-2

July 19:

Meta and Microsoft release Llama 2.

https://about.fb.com/news/2023/07/llama-2/

July 20:

Apple enters the AI frenzy with ‘Apple GPT‘.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-19/apple-preps-ajax-generative-ai-apple-gpt-to-rival-openai-and-google

July 21:

ChatGPT update allows ‘custom instructions’.

https://openai.com/blog/custom-instructions-for-chatgpt

July 27:

Stability AI releases SDXL 1.0.

https://stability.ai/news/stable-diffusion-sdxl-1-announcement

July 11:

Pika Labs proudly announce our new feature: image-conditioned video generation.

https://twitter.com/pika_labs/status/1678892871670464513

August 11:

HeyGen Unveils Avatar Clones 2.0: A Big Leap Towards Hyper-Realistic AI-Generated Avatars.

https://sprinkleofai.com/heygen-unveils-avatar-clones-2-0/

August 23:

Meta open-sources an AI model called SeamlessM4T.

https://about.fb.com/news/2023/08/seamlessm4t-ai-translation-model/

August 20:

Midjourney Adds Image Inpainting

https://decrypt.co/153380/midjourney-inpainting-vary-region-tool-stable-diffusion-comparison

September 20:

Google announces Bard Extensions for Workspace.

https://blog.google/products/bard/google-bard-new-features-update-sept-2023/

September 21:

OpenAI announced DALL-E 3.

https://openai.com/dall-e-3

September 22:

Microsoft reveals Copilot, “Your everyday AI companion“.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/09/21/announcing-microsoft-copilot-your-everyday-ai-companion/

September 26:

ChatGPT goes multimodal with voice and images.

https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-can-now-see-hear-and-speak

September 27:

Bloomberg reports CIA Builds Its Own Artificial Intelligence Tool .

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-26/cia-builds-its-own-artificial-intelligence-tool-in-rivalry-with-china

September 29:

Mistral AI unveils open-sourced 7B language model.-

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/27/mistral-ai-makes-its-first-large-language-model-free-for-everyone/

October 4:

LinkedIn reveals new AI tools across products.

https://news.linkedin.com/2023/october/New_AI_Powered_Features_for_Businesses

October 23:

NVIDIA breakthrough enables robots to teach themselves.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/eureka-robotics-research/

October 20:

Canva AI innovation by introducing Magic Studio

https://www.canva.com/magic/

October 20:

Shutterstock Integrates Creative AI into Library of 700M Images to Offer First-Ever Marketplace of Fully Customizable Stock

https://www.shutterstock.com/press/Shutterstock-Integrates-Creative-AI-znhKX

November 6:

Elon Musk’s xAI launches Grok.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1721027243571380324

November 7:

OpenAI reveals GPT Builder, GPT-4 Turbo, Assistants API and more at DevDay.

https://openai.com/blog/new-models-and-developer-products-announced-at-devday

November 9:

Amazon invests in training a massive language model codenamed ‘Olympus’.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-sets-new-team-trains-ambitious-ai-model-codenamed-olympus-sources-2023-11-08/

November 14:

OpenAI confirms it’s working on GPT-5 and advanced AI agents.

https://sfstandard.com/2023/11/17/openai-sam-altman-fired-apec-talk/

November 17:

YouTube and Google DeepMind reveal a new AI model called ‘Lyria’ for music creation.

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/transforming-the-future-of-music-creation/

November 17:

Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI.

https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition

November 21:

Stability AI releases Stable Video Diffusion

https://twitter.com/StabilityAI/status/1727042312172179645

November 22:

Sam Altman rehired as CEO of OpenAI.

https://openai.com/blog/sam-altman-returns-as-ceo-openai-has-a-new-initial-board

November 23:

Inflection AI releases Inflection-2.

https://inflection.ai/inflection-2

November 29:

Pika launches Pike 1.0, a text-to-video generator.

https://twitter.com/pika_labs/status/1729510078959497562

December 6:

Google DeepMind reveals Gemini.

https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-ai/

December 12:

French startup Mistral AI releases Mixtral.

https://mistral.ai/news/la-plateforme/

December 13:

Microsoft Research releases Phi-2. The surprising power of small language models.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/phi-2-the-surprising-power-of-small-language-models/

December 19:

Suno.ai releases make your AI song today. The same team behind open source project.

https://twitter.com/suno_ai_/status/1737299056290910464

December 20:

Microsoft partners with Suno AI for AI song generation.

https://twitter.com/suno_ai_/status/1737299056290910464

December 21:

Midjouney v6 release

https://mid-journey.ai/midjourney-v6-release/

December 22:

Apple research demonstrates AI techniques for iPhones.

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/mobile-applications-accessible

December 28:

The New York Times sues Microsoft and OpenAI for copyright infringement.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/27/24016212/new-york-times-openai-microsoft-lawsuit-copyright-infringement