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At Google I/O on 10 May 2023, Google introduced PaLM 2, a large language model in four sizes — Gecko, Otter, Bison and Unicorn — said to improve multilingual, reasoning and coding abilities and to power more than 25 products, including Bard.
On 6 May 2023 iFlytek unveiled SparkDesk, its answer to ChatGPT, aimed at education and enterprise uses. Chairman Liu Qingfeng claimed it already beat ChatGPT in several areas and promised parity in English by October 2023.
On 4 May 2023 the BigCode project, led by Hugging Face and ServiceNow, released StarCoder and StarCoderBase, two openly licensed code models of about 15.5 billion parameters trained on permissively licensed GitHub data.
On 2 May 2023 Inflection AI launched Pi, a chatbot it called personal intelligence and presented as a kind, supportive companion.
On 25 April 2023 Hugging Face released HuggingChat, a free chatbot it described as an open-source alternative to ChatGPT, running a LLaMA-based model built by the volunteer Open Assistant project.
On 20 April 2023 Google announced that its Brain team and DeepMind would merge into one unit, Google DeepMind, led by Demis Hassabis. Google said the goal was to speed up its AI progress and build capable systems safely and responsibly.
On 19 April 2023 Stability AI released Stable LM, open language models at 3B and 7B parameters, with base versions under a share-alike license and research-only instruction-tuned versions.
On 13 April 2023 AWS announced Amazon Bedrock, a service giving API access to foundation models from several providers, alongside its first Titan models. Bedrock became generally available on 28 September 2023.
On 10 April 2023 SenseTime unveiled its SenseNova foundation model set and the SenseChat chatbot, with a live demonstration by CEO Xu Li.
On 5 April 2023 Meta released the Segment Anything Model (SAM), a promptable image segmentation model, together with the SA-1B dataset of over 1.1 billion masks. Meta presented it as a step toward a foundation model for image segmentation.
On 3 April 2023 EleutherAI released Pythia, 16 models from 70M to 12B parameters trained on the same public data in the same order, with 154 public checkpoints each, built for studying how capabilities develop across training and scale.
In April 2023 Samsung found that engineers had uploaded sensitive semiconductor code and meeting notes to ChatGPT, then banned generative AI tools on company devices and began building its own.
In April 2023 Alibaba launched Tongyi Qianwen as a beta, and in September 2023 it opened the model to the public. The project later took the international name Qwen.
A Goldman Sachs research note published in March 2023 estimated that generative AI could expose the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs to automation and add 7% to global GDP over a decade.
On 23 March 2023 OpenAI announced ChatGPT plugins, which connected the chatbot to third-party services and the web, letting it fetch current information, run computations and use outside tools.
On 22 March 2023 the Future of Life Institute published an open letter asking all AI labs to pause for at least six months the training of systems more powerful than GPT-4, and proposing governance measures for advanced AI.
On 16 March 2023 Robin Li unveiled ERNIE Bot, Baidu's chatbot, to invited testers at a Beijing event. Baidu's Hong Kong shares fell as much as 10% that day, and closed down 6.4%.
On 16 March 2023 Microsoft introduced Microsoft 365 Copilot, pairing GPT-4 and other large language models with business data, and made it generally available in November.
Midjourney released version 5 of its text-to-image service in alpha on 15 March 2023, after founder David Holz said it would arrive that week. Test images showed a higher default resolution and a wider range of styles, and point releases followed through the summer.
On 14 March 2023 Anthropic made its AI assistant Claude available more widely, after a closed alpha, in two versions. The system was built on research into helpful, honest and harmless AI, and launch partners included Quora and Notion.
On 14 March 2023 OpenAI announced GPT-4, a multimodal model that accepts image and text input and produces text output. OpenAI reported human-level results on several professional and academic benchmarks but disclosed little about the model's design.
