Unitree launches Go1
In June 2021 Unitree released the Go1, a consumer quadruped robot priced from 16,000 yuan, weighing 12 kg and running at up to 4.7 metres per second; it sold nearly 1,000 units in its first year.
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EleutherAI releases GPT-J-6B
GPT-J-6B is a six-billion-parameter language model released by EleutherAI in June 2021 with open weights under Apache 2.0, trained on The Pile and reported to be close to the 6.7B GPT-3 on zero-shot tasks.
Google unveils LaMDA at I/O
On 18 May 2021 Google announced LaMDA, a language model built for conversation, at its I/O keynote. It grew out of the Meena chatbot, was followed by LaMDA 2 and the AI Test Kitchen, and later powered Bard.
European Commission proposes the AI Act
In April 2021 the European Commission put forward its proposal for an Artificial Intelligence Act, submitted by Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton. It opened a negotiation in which the Council of the EU adopted its own position in December 2022.
Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch
On 29 March 2021 Boston Dynamics announced Stretch, a mobile robot aimed at warehouse work such as truck unloading, built on a small omni-directional base so warehouses can adopt it without costly fixed automation infrastructure.
EleutherAI releases GPT-Neo
On 21 March 2021 EleutherAI released GPT-Neo, a family of language models at 125M, 1.3B and 2.7B parameters whose weights anyone could download, in contrast to OpenAI's API-only GPT-3.
OpenAI introduces DALL·E
On 5 January 2021 OpenAI announced DALL·E, a neural network that creates images from text captions, and CLIP, which learns visual concepts from natural-language supervision.
Anthropic is founded
Anthropic, an AI company, was incorporated in January 2021 by former employees of OpenAI and set up as a public benefit corporation. Dario Amodei became its chief executive and Daniela Amodei its president.
EleutherAI releases The Pile training dataset
On 31 December 2020 EleutherAI released The Pile, an openly available 825 GiB English training corpus assembled from 22 smaller datasets, with a paper showing models trained on it beat both comparison corpora on every component.
Uber sells its self-driving unit ATG to Aurora
On 7 December 2020, Aurora announced it was acquiring Uber's self-driving unit, the Advanced Technologies Group, with Uber investing 400 million dollars in Aurora and its chief executive joining Aurora's board.
AlphaFold2 achieves near-experimental accuracy at CASP14
On 30 November 2020 DeepMind announced that the organisers of CASP14 had recognised its AlphaFold system as a solution to the 50-year-old protein-folding problem, with accuracy approaching that of experimental methods.
NVIDIA agrees to acquire Arm from SoftBank for $40 billion
On 13 September 2020, NVIDIA agreed to buy Arm Limited from SoftBank and the SoftBank Vision Fund for $40 billion in shares and cash, with Arm to keep its open-licensing model and Cambridge headquarters, subject to regulatory approval.
OpenAI launches its API for accessing its models
In June 2020 OpenAI announced an API that let outside developers access its AI models. By March 2021 more than 300 applications were using GPT-3 through it.
OpenAI publishes the GPT-3 paper
In May 2020 OpenAI published the GPT-3 paper, describing a 175-billion-parameter language model that performs new tasks from a few examples given in its text input, without additional training.
NVIDIA launches the A100 GPU
On 14 May 2020 NVIDIA announced the A100, its first GPU built on the Ampere architecture, claiming up to 20 times the AI performance of its predecessors. It shipped in full production alongside new systems, cloud partners and supercomputer customers.
The European Commission publishes its White Paper on Artificial Intelligence
The European Commission's February 2020 white paper set out a policy to promote the uptake of AI while limiting the risks of certain uses, built on a risk-based approach, an ecosystem of excellence and an ecosystem of trust.
Google describes the Meena chatbot
On 27 January 2020, Google researchers posted a paper describing Meena, a 2.6-billion-parameter open-domain chatbot that scored 79% on a new chat-quality metric called the Sensibleness and Specificity Average.
China grants its first class III certificate to an AI medical device
On 14 January 2020, Keya Medical's Shenmai FFR software became the first AI medical device to receive a class III certificate in China, opening a registration path for diagnostic software and later reaching billable clinical use.
DeepMind describes MuZero, which plans without knowing the rules
On 19 November 2019, DeepMind posted a MuZero preprint to arXiv: it plans with a learned model rather than rules, matched AlphaZero in Go, chess and shogi, and set a state of the art on 57 Atari games.
OpenAI releases the full 1.5-billion-parameter GPT-2
On 5 November 2019 OpenAI released the full 1.5-billion-parameter GPT-2, with code and model weights, ending its staged release. The model card warned that the model cannot tell fact from fiction.
AlphaStar reaches Grandmaster level in StarCraft II
On 30 October 2019, DeepMind announced that AlphaStar reached Grandmaster level in StarCraft II for all three races, ranking above 99.8% of active players and playing under human-like interface limits.