Perplexity launches its AI answer engine
On 7 December 2022 Perplexity launched a search engine that answers questions with large language models and cites its sources, built by a company founded in August 2022 by four engineers.
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OpenAI introduces the ChatGPT research preview
On 30 November 2022 OpenAI introduced ChatGPT, a conversational model trained with human feedback, and made it free during a research preview. It later became one of the most widely used AI chat products.
OpenAI releases text-davinci-003 in the GPT-3.5 series
On 28 November 2022 OpenAI released text-davinci-003 in its GPT-3.5 series; two days later came ChatGPT, fine-tuned from a model in the same series and free during its research preview.
Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 2.0
On 24 November 2022 Stability AI released Stable Diffusion 2.0 as open source, with an OpenCLIP text encoder and a revised training-data filter; version 2.1 followed on 7 December.
Meta launches Galactica and pulls its demo three days later
On 15 November 2022 Meta AI and Papers with Code unveiled Galactica, a language model meant to help scientists, with a public demo. Meta took the demo offline about three days later after users showed it producing fabricated, confident answers.
Midjourney releases V4 in alpha
On 5 November 2022 Midjourney released the alpha version of V4, its fourth numbered image model, which was trained on Google TPUs and was described as a large jump in quality over V3.
Nvidia ships the A800 to China to stay inside export rules
In late 2022, after the United States restricted exports of its A100 and H100 data-center chips, Nvidia began selling the A800 in China — a part whose only change was slower links between GPUs, keeping it inside the rules.
OpenAI open-sources the Whisper speech-recognition model
On 21 September 2022 OpenAI released Whisper, an open-source speech-recognition system trained on 680,000 hours of audio that could also translate speech into English.
Stability AI publicly releases Stable Diffusion
On 22 August 2022 Stability AI publicly released Stable Diffusion, a latent text-to-image diffusion model whose weights, code and model card were published on Hugging Face.
Xiaomi unveils CyberOne
On 11 August 2022 Xiaomi unveiled CyberOne, a 1.77-metre humanoid robot with 21 degrees of freedom, at Lei Jun's annual speech. The news lifted Chinese smart-machine stocks, but the robot had not entered mass production.
BigScience releases BLOOM, a 176B-parameter open multilingual model
On 12 July 2022 the BigScience workshop, coordinated by Hugging Face, released BLOOM, a 176-billion-parameter language model covering 46 natural and 13 programming languages.
Midjourney opens its public beta
On 12 July 2022 Midjourney opened its text-to-image generator to the public as an open beta, run entirely through a bot on Discord, with subscriptions costing $10 or $30 a month.
GitHub Copilot becomes generally available to individual developers
On 21 June 2022 GitHub made Copilot generally available to individual developers at 10 US dollars a month, after a preview that drew more than 1.2 million developers. It marked the arrival of an AI coding assistant inside mainstream editors.
Meta releases OPT-175B to researchers
On 3 May 2022 Meta AI announced OPT-175B, a 175-billion-parameter language model, and released its pretrained weights and training code to researchers under a noncommercial licence. Meta said it was the first release of a model of that size with both weights and code.
OpenAI announces DALL·E 2
On 6 April 2022 OpenAI announced DALL·E 2, its second text-to-image system, which generated images from CLIP embeddings with a diffusion decoder and was opened to the public in stages that year.
NVIDIA announces the Hopper architecture and H100
At GTC on 22 March 2022, NVIDIA announced the Hopper architecture and its first Hopper GPU, the H100, headlined by a Transformer Engine and paired with new HBM3 memory and NVLink, with cloud instances planned from the third quarter of 2022.
EleutherAI releases GPT-NeoX-20B
EleutherAI announced GPT-NeoX-20B on 2 February 2022 and released its weights on 9 February. The 20-billion-parameter model was trained on CoreWeave GPUs and released under Apache 2.0, and the group called it a research artifact rather than a production system.
NVIDIA and SoftBank terminate the $40 billion Arm acquisition
On 7 February 2022, NVIDIA and SoftBank Group called off NVIDIA's planned acquisition of Arm Limited, citing regulatory obstacles. SoftBank kept a $1.25 billion prepayment and began preparing Arm for a public offering, while NVIDIA retained its 20-year Arm licence.
DeepMind introduces AlphaCode for competitive programming
On 2 February 2022, DeepMind introduced AlphaCode, a system that writes computer programs at a competitive level and, on average, ranked within the top 54% of participants across 10 Codeforces contests.
OpenAI introduces InstructGPT and makes it the default in its API
On 27 January 2022 OpenAI announced InstructGPT, a version of GPT-3 trained with human feedback to follow user instructions more closely. OpenAI then made these models the default in its API.
Baidu and Peng Cheng Lab describe the 260-billion-parameter ERNIE 3.0 Titan
On 23 December 2021, authors from Baidu and Peng Cheng Laboratory posted a paper on ERNIE 3.0 Titan, a 260-billion-parameter Chinese pre-trained model they called the largest of its kind, reporting gains on 68 NLP datasets.