GLOSSARY: 2023, the Year of AI; 2024?

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By Amit Naik

Thank you for being with us through 2023, a year filled with remarkable AI progress and stories. Your support and feedback have been crucial to our success. As we enter 2024, we are excited to bring you more engaging content. Wishing you all a joyful and successful New Year, we look forward to exploring new AI advancements and opportunities together.

Here’s a glimpse of some of the major developments that happened in the world of AI in 2023.

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January: A major highlight was Microsoft's announcement of its third phase of partnership with OpenAI, involving a multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment. This collaboration – following previous investments in 2019 and 2021 – focused on AI supercomputing and research, with both entities independently commercialising the resulting advanced AI technologies.

Microsoft also announced its partnership with ISRO to support space technology startups in India. This collaboration falls under the Microsoft for Startups initiative, emphasising the role of AI and cloud computing in burgeoning space tech.

Besides this, Google’s MusicLM also marked a significant advance in AI-driven music production. The computer vision community also welcomed the latest update with YOLOv8, enhancing object detection capabilities. For the first time, ChatGPT was credited as an author in a peer-reviewed paper, demonstrating AI's expanding role in scholarly research.

February: Google began testing Bard, its conversational AI chatbot based on the LaMDA model. However, Google faced a significant setback during its "Live in Paris" event, resulting in a considerable market value drop.

Meanwhile, OpenAI welcomed back Andrej Karpathy, a notable figure in AI, enhancing its research and development strength. Stability AI set up a separate entity called MedARC to enable medical AI research.

In the corporate realm, Tredence announced a major ESOP buyback program, underscoring the economic impact of AI. Neal Mohan's rise to YouTube's CEO hinted at potential shifts towards greater AI integration in digital content.

OpenAI released an AGI roadmap outlining its vision for future AI development, focusing on responsible and beneficial advancements. Meta introduced LLaMA language models. Spotify unveiled an AI DJ.

March: ChatGPT failing UPSC Prelims was the highlight of the month. Soon, OpenAI released a slew of updates in the same month, including the release of the most awaited GPT-4, alongside ChatGPT Plugins, ChatGPT and Whispher APIs among others.

Adobe introduced Firefly, a generative AI-based editing tool. GitHub unveiled Copilot X, an upgraded version of Coplit, its AI code assistant.

AIM, in collaboration with NVIDIA, launched AI Forum for India, a collaborative platform for AI developers and practitioners in the country.

April: Amazon arrived late to the generative AI party with the release of Bedrock. Databricks released Dolly 2.0 for commercial purposes, democratising access to powerful AI tools without the need for API access or data sharing.

Elon Musk’s Neuralink gets approved by the US FDA for its first-in-human clinical trial. Meta unveiled LIMA, a 65 billion parameter Llama language model that is on par with GPT-4. Google also introduced UniPi, a new model that is capable of performing diverse tasks in various environments.

DeepLearning.AI, in partnership with OpenAI, introduced a new course on 'ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers.'

OpenAI announced a new feature for ChatGPT to turn off chat history, highlighting a focus on user data privacy and control. Microsoft released Guidance, a tool to enhance the efficacy of language model control.

May: After Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft, Meta introduced its first in-house silicon chip designed for AI workloads, called MTIA (meta training and inference accelerator).

OpenAI unveiled Shap.E, a generative model for 3D assets. Zoho launched its privacy-focused Ulaa browser and the integration of AI engines with OpenAI's technology. Salesforce announced CodeT5+, expanding AI capabilities in business applications. Modular AI introduced Mojo, a new programming language blending Python's syntax with C's performance.

IIT Madras established a Centre for Responsible AI.

June: OpenAI Chief Sam Altman visited India emphasising ChatGPT's adoption and regulatory discussions. BYJU’S launched WIZ, a suite of AI models for personalised learning.

July: Microsoft announced its partnership with Meta to unveil Llama 2. Anthropic launched ChatGPT rival Claude-2.

Elon Musk announced the launch of xAI, a new entity aimed at fast-tracking AI innovation. Oracle integrated generative AI into its Human Capital Management platform, enhancing HR processes.

The Indian Union Cabinet approved the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022. Microchip Technology unveiled a $300 million investment in India to expand its operations in the country.

August: Elon Musk acquired the ai.com domain from OpenAI. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure was selected by India's Ministry of Education to revamp the DIKSHA platform.

IBM now hosts Meta’s Llama 2-chat model in the Watsonx.ai studio.

Tech Mahindra announced the launch of Project Indus, building its own advanced language model to enhance communication across various Indian languages, starting with Hindi.

September: AIM announced its expansion into the US market.

NVIDIA partnered with Indian conglomerates like Reliance Industries and TATA Group, alongside IT firms like Infosys, TCS and others, to advance AI research and development and upskilling.

AWS India partnered with ISRO and IN-SPACe to advance India's space capabilities with cloud technologies. Microsoft introduced the multimodal AI model Kosmos-2.5.

OpenAI introduced DALL.E 3.

October: AIM successfully organised one of the biggest AI conferences in India, Cypher 2023.

OpenAI announced a lucrative Residency program, aiming to attract top talent in AI research and engineering.

Microsoft completed its $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, on October 13, 2023, expanding its gaming portfolio and potential AI integrations. AMD acquired Nod.ai to bolster the AI software ecosystem.

November: Elon Musk’s xAI launched Grok, a ChatGPT alternative.

Intel collaborated with local Indian manufacturers to bolster laptop manufacturing in the country under the Make in India initiative.

Apple finally breaks the vow of generative AI silence, and its chief confirmed the company’s investment in confidential generative AI projects.

December: India witnessed a slew of announcements around the release of LLMs, including the likes of CoRover’s BharatGPT, Sarvam.ai’s OpenHathi, KissanAI’s Dhenu, and Ola’s Krutrim. Additionally, there has been a significant rise in the adoption of Llama 2 in India with the release of Tamil Llama, Odia Gen AI, Telugu Llama, and others, where users are building ‘Local Llamas’ to support low-resource regional languages in the country.

Reliance Jio announced that it is partnering with IIT-Bombay to work on a new AI project called ‘Bharat GPT.’

Microsoft's released Phi-2 model, with advanced reasoning abilities.

Google finally launched Gemini. It also introduced VideoPoet, a new LLM for video generation.

The future certainly looks bright and way more crazier than ever!

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