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On 4 April 2022, Google Research announced PaLM, a 540-billion-parameter language model trained on 6,144 TPU v4 chips with the Pathways system, and reported strong multi-step reasoning and above-average-human results on BIG-bench.
Honda's humanoid robot ASIMO formally retired on 31 March 2022, after a final demonstration at Honda's Tokyo headquarters; Honda said it would focus on remotely controlled avatar robots instead.
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.
China's rules on algorithm-generated recommendation, jointly issued by four departments, took effect on 1 March 2022. They impose registration, content review and data-protection duties on providers and ban models that induce addiction or manipulate rankings and search results.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
On 21 December 2021 Hugging Face acquired Gradio, a Python library for building web demos of machine-learning models that Abubakar Abid had started in 2019 and that had been used to build more than 300,000 demos.
On 8 December 2021, DeepMind published three language-model papers, including Gopher, a 280-billion-parameter Transformer, alongside a survey of 21 ethical and social risks and RETRO, a retrieval-based model.
On 11 October 2021 NVIDIA and Microsoft announced Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, a language model with 530 billion parameters that they called the largest and most powerful of its kind. The full technical report followed in January 2022.
On 19 August 2021 Tesla used its first AI Day to unveil a concept for a humanoid robot meant to do dangerous, repetitive or boring work, alongside its pure-vision driving software, the D1 training chip and the Dojo supercomputer.
On 10 August 2021 Xiaomi unveiled CyberDog, a 14 kg quadruped robot sold as a 9,999-yuan engineering exploration edition limited to 1,000 units, with a first beta round for 400 users.
On 10 August 2021 OpenAI released an improved Codex, a GPT model fine-tuned on public code, through its API in private beta. The model powered GitHub Copilot and came with the new HumanEval benchmark.
In August 2021 AI21 Labs launched AI21 Studio and its Jurassic-1 language models. The largest, Jumbo, had 178 billion parameters, and developers could use the models through an API or a web playground.
On 15 July 2021 the Institute for Protein Design released RoseTTAFold as code on GitHub and a public web server, with lead author Minkyung Baek describing structures computable in minutes on a gaming computer.
In July 2021 the journal Nature published the AlphaFold2 paper from DeepMind. The AI system predicts a protein's three-dimensional shape from its amino-acid sequence, and DeepMind then released its code and a free structure database.
On 5 July 2021 Baidu researchers posted the ERNIE 3.0 paper, describing a 10-billion-parameter model trained on plain text plus a knowledge graph that combines auto-encoding and auto-regressive networks, topping 54 Chinese tasks and SuperGLUE.
On 29 June 2021 GitHub announced GitHub Copilot as a technical preview, an AI pair programmer that suggests lines and whole functions as developers write code. It was powered by OpenAI Codex.
In June 2021 Hyundai Motor Group completed its purchase of a controlling 80 percent stake in Boston Dynamics from SoftBank, in a deal that valued the robot maker at US$1.1 billion.
