Showing major highlights of language and multimodal models only (less focus on text-to-image generation models). Showing Western models mostly (less focus on China, South Korea). Showing selected major milestones in AI development. The timeline is now ordered chronologically.
See a more comprehensive view of all model highlights—including counts for parameters and tokens—in the Models Table.
Models Table
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Time between releases of OpenAI’s GPT models
| Model | Months since last release | |
|---|---|---|
| GPT-4 Mar/2023 |
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14 months |
| GPT-3 2022 text-davinci-002 Jan/2022 |
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20 months |
| GPT-3 May/2020 |
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15 months |
| GPT-2 Feb/2019 |
|
8 months |
| GPT-1 Jun/2018 |
Baseline | |
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