To say 2023 was a 12 months taken up principally by AI can be an enormous understatement. Following the discharge of ChatGPT on the very finish of 2022, generative AI blew up in 2023. 

Based on Reuters, ChatGPT had grown to 100 million energetic customers by January 2023, which was simply two months after it launched. 

ChatGPT is a product of OpenAI, which is an AI firm that additionally produces the GPT mannequin that ChatGPT and plenty of different AI applied sciences run on. OpenAI had fairly the profitable — and eventful — 12 months. 

In January, Microsoft introduced a multi-year, multi-billion greenback funding within the firm. Different bulletins all year long included providing a paid model of ChatGPT, an API for ChatGPT, and the launch of GPT-4. 

OpenAI additionally teamed up with Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft to kind the Frontier Mannequin Discussion board in July. The group is devoted to soundly and responsibly growing frontier AI fashions. The Discussion board defines these as “large-scale machine-learning fashions that exceed the capabilities at present current in probably the most superior present fashions, and might carry out all kinds of duties,” Google defined in a weblog submit. 

In early November, the corporate hosted the primary OpenAI DevDay occasion, the place it made a number of bulletins, equivalent to the flexibility for customers to now create their very own customized variations of ChatGPT for particular functions, a preview of GPT-4 Turbo, an up to date model of GPT-3.5 Turbo, the Assistants API, Whisper v3, and new multimodal capabilities throughout its AI fashions. 

Then, later that month, the corporate was on the forefront of everybody’s curiosity when the board immediately fired CEO Sam Altman, which led to a spiral of occasions that finally ended with Altman returning and the board being changed inside the week. 

Various different tech corporations additionally introduced a number of capabilities that incorporate AI. For example, Microsoft built-in ChatGPT into its Bing search engine and introduced Microsoft Copilot, which is an AI copilot that works throughout the whole Home windows platform. Google additionally introduced Bard, its response to the AI-enabled Bing, and in December it introduced a brand new multimodal mannequin known as Gemini. And Amazon introduced Amazon Bedrock, a platform for constructing generative AI purposes. 

This wasn’t restricted to simply the large gamers in tech. Practically each firm introduced they had been integrating AI into their merchandise ultimately, together with Atlassian, Boomi, Dell, JetBrains, MongoDB, Oracle, ServiceNow, Slack, Stack Overflow, Vercel, and Zenhub. 

The AI-assisted growth software GitHub Copilot (which existed earlier than ChatGPT) was additionally up to date to make the most of the GPT-4 mannequin. Copilot Chat was additionally introduced into beta, enabling builders to ask questions on their code and get explanations and code strategies. The corporate additionally introduced a preview of GitHub Copilot Enterprise, which is anticipated to be typically out there in February 2024. 

Ending out the 12 months, there have been a number of organizations and governments working to advance AI safely. The White Home issued an Govt Order on AI in October, which “establishes new requirements for AI security and safety, protects Individuals’ privateness, advances fairness and civil rights, stands up for shoppers and staff, promotes innovation and competitors, advances American management around the globe, and extra.” 

Firstly of December, Meta and IBM introduced that they had been forming the AI Alliance, a gaggle of over 50 organizations “throughout business, startup, academia, analysis and authorities coming collectively to help open innovation and open science in AI.”

Additionally in December, the European Union reached a provisional settlement for brand new AI regulation. 

“The draft regulation goals to make sure that AI programs positioned on the European market and used within the EU are secure and respect basic rights and EU values. This landmark proposal additionally goals to stimulate funding and innovation on AI in Europe,” the European Council wrote in a press launch.