2023 saw several updates to ChatGPT and the GPT models, major innovations from top companies, and integration of AI by nearly every tech company.
To say 2023 was a year taken up mostly by AI would be a massive understatement. Following the release of ChatGPT at the very end of 2022, generative AI blew up in 2023.
According to Reuters, ChatGPT had grown to 100 million active users by January 2023, which was just two months after it launched.
ChatGPT is a product of OpenAI, which is an AI company that also produces the GPT model that ChatGPT and many other AI technologies run on. OpenAI had quite the successful — and eventful — year.
In January, Microsoft announced a multi-year, multi-billion dollar investment in the company. Other announcements throughout the year included offering a paid version of ChatGPT, an API for ChatGPT, and the release of GPT-4.
OpenAI also teamed up with Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft to form the Frontier Model Forum in July. The organization is dedicated to safely and responsibly developing frontier AI models. The Forum defines these as “large-scale machine-learning models that exceed the capabilities currently present in the most advanced existing models, and can perform a wide variety of tasks,” Google explained in a blog post.
In early November, the company hosted the first OpenAI DevDay event, where it made several announcements, such as the ability for users to now create their own custom versions of ChatGPT for specific purposes, a preview of GPT-4 Turbo, an updated version of GPT-3.
