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An industry body formed on 26 July 2023 by Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI to work on the safe and responsible development of frontier AI models, defined as large-scale models that exceed the capabilities of the most advanced existing models.
On 26 July 2023 Stability AI announced SDXL 1.0, its new flagship open image model, after a limited research-only release of SDXL 0.9; a one-step SDXL Turbo followed in November.
On 21 July 2023 President Biden convened seven leading AI companies at the White House and secured voluntary commitments covering eight measures, from watermarking AI-generated audio and video to independent safety testing before public release.
On 18 July 2023 Meta released Llama 2, a family of 7B, 13B and 70B parameter models free for research and commercial use under a custom license. Microsoft Azure, AWS and Hugging Face were among the platforms offering it.
On 13 July 2023 China's Cyberspace Administration published the Interim Measures for the Management of Generative AI Services, which took effect on 15 August 2023. They apply to generative AI services offered to the public in mainland China.
On 12 July 2023 Elon Musk publicly announced xAI, a company he had incorporated in March 2023 with a founding team of eleven to build what he called a maximally truth-seeking AI.
On 11 July 2023 Anthropic released Claude 2 with better performance and longer responses, and opened the claude.ai beta to the public in the US and UK. Claude 2 accepted up to 100K tokens per prompt.
In July 2023 OpenAI created a team co-led by Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike to solve superintelligence alignment within four years, committing 20% of its compute and proposing AI systems to help supervise AI.
On 5 July 2023 Nature published Pangu-Weather, a deep-learning global weather model that reported better deterministic forecasts than ECMWF's operational system on every variable it tested, in the same issue as a deep-learning precipitation nowcasting paper.
In July 2023 Baichuan, a Chinese start-up founded by Sogou founder Wang Xiaochuan, released Baichuan-13B as open models. Commercial use was allowed after registration.
On 29 June 2023 Runway announced $141 million in new funding from Google, Nvidia and Salesforce, an extension of its Series C round that valued the company at about $1.5 billion.
On 29 June 2023, Cohere announced that its Command text-generation model was available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. The same month it partnered with Oracle to bring its models to Oracle's cloud, where Command was later retired in favour of Cohere's chat models.
In 2023 a New York law firm and two of its lawyers were fined US$5,000 after a brief cited judicial decisions that ChatGPT had invented, a case that made courts set rules on generative AI in filings.
In June 2023 the Allen Institute for AI named Ali Farhadi, a University of Washington professor who had been leading Apple's machine learning work, as its second CEO, succeeding Oren Etzioni.
On 20 June 2023 Microsoft Research posted the paper 'Textbooks Are All You Need' to arXiv, introducing phi-1, a 1.3-billion-parameter code model trained on textbook-quality data.
In June 2023 Mistral AI, founded two months earlier, raised €105 million in a seed round led by Lightspeed, reported as Europe's largest seed round, before it had released a product.
In late June 2023, Baidu announced ERNIE 3.5, an upgrade to ERNIE Bot that it said beat ChatGPT in overall ability and GPT-4 in some Chinese-language tasks, with higher throughput and a plugin architecture.
Baichuan, a Chinese AI startup, released Baichuan-7B as an open-source, bilingual Chinese-English language model about two months after its founding.
On 30 May 2023 Nvidia became the first chip company on the US stock market to pass a $1 trillion market value, as demand for the GPUs used to train large AI models surged after ChatGPT.
On 30 May 2023 the Center for AI Safety published a one-sentence statement arguing that mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority, and leading researchers and lab executives signed it.
On 16 May 2023 Sam Altman testified before a US Senate Judiciary subcommittee in his first appearance before Congress, asking lawmakers to regulate powerful AI models through licensing and testing.
