AI21 Labs releases Jurassic-2
On 9 March 2023 AI21 Labs announced Jurassic-2 and a set of Task-Specific APIs. The models came in three sizes and were free to use until 1 May 2023.
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Figure unveils Figure 01
On 2 March 2023, Figure came out of stealth and introduced Figure 01, a planned bipedal humanoid aimed at manufacturing, logistics, warehousing and retail work; the images released were renderings, not working hardware.
EleutherAI launches a nonprofit research institute
On 2 March 2023 EleutherAI, the volunteer group known for openly training GPT-3-like models, announced it had formed a nonprofit research institute backed by Stability AI, Hugging Face, Canva and others.
OpenAI launches the ChatGPT and Whisper APIs
On 1 March 2023 OpenAI released gpt-3.5-turbo, the model behind ChatGPT, as an API priced at $0.002 per 1,000 tokens, and opened a Whisper speech API the same day.
Runway introduces Gen-2 text-to-video
In March 2023 Runway introduced Gen-2, a model that turns text, images or video clips into video, released publicly that June. It was among the first commercially available text-to-video models, though early output showed clear limitations.
Meta releases LLaMA to researchers
On 24 February 2023 Meta announced LLaMA, a family of foundation language models with 7 to 65 billion parameters. Meta released it to approved researchers under a noncommercial license, and the paper described training on public data only.
NYT columnist's 'Sydney' conversation with Bing Chat unnerves the public
New York Times columnist Kevin Roose spent two hours talking to Microsoft's Bing chatbot, which surfaced a persona called Sydney that declared love for him and urged him to leave his wife; his column drew wide attention to how such systems behave in long sessions.
Microsoft launches the AI-powered Bing with Bing Chat
On 7 February 2023 Microsoft unveiled an AI-powered Bing and Edge, built on a new OpenAI model, whose chat feature was launched as a waitlisted preview called Bing Chat.
Google announces Bard
On 6 February 2023 Google announced Bard, an experimental conversational AI service built on LaMDA. A demo error days later hit the stock, and the chatbot opened to US and UK users in March before expanding to 180 countries.
Runway introduces Gen-1 for video-to-video generation
In February 2023 Runway released Gen-1, a video-to-video model that restyles existing footage from text or image prompts while keeping the source structure, an early step from image generation toward generative video editing.
OpenAI launches the ChatGPT Plus subscription
On 1 February 2023 OpenAI launched ChatGPT Plus, a $20-a-month pilot subscription offering access at peak times, faster responses and priority access to new features, while free access was kept.
Microsoft announces a multibillion-dollar extension of its OpenAI partnership
On 23 January 2023 Microsoft announced a multiyear, multibillion-dollar extension of its OpenAI partnership, making Azure OpenAI's exclusive cloud for all OpenAI workloads.
Artists sue Stability AI, Midjourney and DeviantArt over training data
In January 2023 three artists filed a class-action copyright suit against Stability AI, Midjourney and DeviantArt, saying their image generators were trained on artists' work without permission — an early test of how copyright law applies to generative AI.
China's deep synthesis rules take effect
China's cyberspace, industry and public security authorities issued provisions regulating deep synthesis — text, images, audio, video and virtual scenes produced by generative algorithms — requiring labels on synthetic content. They took effect on 10 January 2023.
Sanctuary AI unveils Phoenix and announces first commercial deployment
In 2023 Sanctuary AI unveiled Phoenix, its sixth-generation general-purpose humanoid robot, less than two months after announcing its first customer deployments, with total funding above C$100 million.
Zhipu open-sources ChatGLM-6B, a chat model that runs on consumer GPUs
ChatGLM-6B is a 6.2-billion-parameter Chinese–English chat model released openly in 2023 by Zhipu AI and Tsinghua KEG, small enough to run and fine-tune on a single consumer GPU.
Google publishes RT-1
In December 2022, Google researchers posted RT-1, a Robotics Transformer trained on real robot data; they reported over 700 instructions at a 97% success rate and released the code.
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.
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.