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On 27 December 2023 The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft in Manhattan federal court, saying millions of its articles were used without permission to build AI products including ChatGPT — the first such suit by a major US media organisation.
On 21 December 2023 Midjourney released version 6 of its image model in alpha, trained from scratch over nine months and better at rendering text. V6.1 followed on 30 July 2024 with faster, more coherent output and became the default model.
Eleven US authors and a later class action sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies copied books without permission to train AI chatbots, part of a wider wave of copyright litigation.
A beta document published by OpenAI in December 2023 that sets out processes to track, evaluate, forecast and protect against catastrophic risks from powerful models, rating models low to critical and barring deployment above medium.
FunSearch, published in Nature in December 2023, used large language models for program search rather than direct solution search, and found results better than the previous best on the cap set problem and online bin packing.
On 12 December 2023 Tesla posted an unannounced video of Optimus Gen 2, a lighter, faster humanoid with Tesla-designed actuators and sensors, an 11-degree-of-freedom hand and tactile sensing.
On 12 December 2023 Microsoft Research announced Phi-2, a 2.7-billion-parameter model it pitched as a playground for researchers, released under the MIT licence.
On 11 December 2023 Mistral AI announced a €385 million Series A — its second round in seven months — the same day it released the Mixtral 8x7B model and opened its API platform.
On 11 December 2023 Mistral AI released Mixtral 8x7B, an open-weight mixture-of-experts model that activates only part of its parameters for each word. It aimed to pair a large total capacity with lower compute per token.
On 8 December 2023 negotiators for the Council and the European Parliament reached a provisional agreement on the AI Act, the file the Council described as the first rules for AI in the world; formal adoption followed in May 2024.
On 6 December 2023 Google announced Gemini 1.0, a model family built to learn text, images, audio and video together from the start. Google called its largest version its most capable model yet.
A December 2023 Stanford Internet Observatory report found links to illegal images in LAION-5B. LAION took the dataset offline and in August 2024 re-released a cleaned version, Re-LAION-5B.
On 29 November 2023 Google DeepMind announced GNoME, a deep-learning system that predicted 2.2 million new crystal structures, 380,000 of them among the most stable; hundreds of the predictions were independently made by outside researchers.
On 29 November 2023 DeepSeek released DeepSeek LLM in 7B and 67B sizes, each with base and chat versions, trained on 2 trillion tokens.
On 29 November 2023, during AWS re:Invent, Amazon made the Titan Text Express and Titan Text Lite models generally available in Amazon Bedrock and previewed Titan Image Generator, which adds an invisible watermark to every image.
On 28 November 2023, at re:Invent, AWS introduced Amazon Q, a generative AI assistant for work, in preview. Answers respect users' permissions and cite sources, and Amazon Q Business became generally available on 30 April 2024.
On 21 November 2023 Anthropic released Claude 2.1, doubling the context window to 200,000 tokens. It also added a beta tool use feature and system prompts for setting Claude's role and style.
On 21 November 2023 Stability AI released Stable Video Diffusion, its first generative video foundation model, as a research preview of two image-to-video models with 14 and 25 frames.
In November 2023 OpenAI's board removed CEO Sam Altman, citing a lack of candour; after an employee revolt and a Microsoft offer, he was reinstated within days under a new board.
On 15 November 2023 Microsoft renamed Bing Chat and Bing Chat Enterprise to Copilot, giving the assistant its own site and a commercial version with data protection.
On 14 November 2023, Google DeepMind announced GraphCast; its Science paper reported beating ECMWF HRES on most test variables, and a live version forecast Hurricane Lee's landfall earlier.
