Timeline of AI and language models

Time between releases of OpenAI’s GPT models

Model	Months since last release
GPT-4 Dec/2022?	11m?	11 months?
GPT-3 2022 text-davinci-002 Jan/2022	20m	20 months
GPT-3 May/2020	15m	15 months
GPT-2 Feb/2019	8m	8 months
GPT-1 Jun/2018	Baseline

Full AI timeline

Showing selected major milestones in AI development. Yes, the timeline is ordered by year descending, then month ascending, for my own amusement.

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TBA

GPT-4 (model)

OpenAI

TBA

TBA

Inflection (model)

Inflection AI

TBA

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2022

January

GPT-3 2022 – text-davinci-002 (model)

OpenAI

This is a new model with data ending Jun/2021, context window of 4,000 tokens
Read the OpenAI blog

February

GPT-NeoX-20B (model)

EleutherAI

Read the EleutherAI blog

March

Chinchilla 70B (model)

DeepMind

Read the paper

March

tr11-176B-ml (model)

BigScience

See the repo

April

PaLM 540B (model)

Google Inc

Read the Google blog

April

CodeGen 16B (model)

Salesforce

Read the paper

April

VLM-4 (model)

LightOn

Read the announcement

April

Luminous 200B (model)

Aleph Alpha

Read the announcement

April

mGPT 13B (model)

Sber

Read the paper

April

Noor 10B (model)

TII

Read the announcement

April

Flamingo (Chinchilla 70B + 10B image model)

DeepMind

Read the blog + paper

May

OPT-175B (model)

Meta AI

Read the paper

May

LaMDA 2 (model)

Google AI

Watch the launch video

May

Gato (Cat) 1.18B (model)

DeepMind

Read the paper

May

UL20B (model)

Google Research

Read the paper

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2021

January

The Pile v1 (dataset)

EleutherAI

Read the EleutherAI blog

March

Wudao 1.0 (model)

BAAI

Read the paper

June

GPT-J-6B (model)

EleutherAI

See the GitHub repo

June

LaMDA 137B (chatbot model)

Google

Read the Google blog

June

Wudao 2.0 (model)

BAAI

Read the paper

June

M6 1T – MultiModality-to-MultiModality Multitask Mega-transformer (model)

Alibaba Dharma Academy

Read the release (Chinese)

July

BlenderBot 2.0 9.4B (chatbot model)

Facebook

Read the paper

August

Jurassic-1 178B (model)

AI21

Read the paper

September

PLATO-XL 11B (chatbot model)

Baidu

Macaw 11B (Q&A model)

AI2 (Allen AI)

Read the paper

October

Megatron-Turing NLG 530B (model)

NVIDIA + Microsoft

Yuan 1.0 245B (model)

Inspur AI (China)

Read the paper

November

M6 10T – MultiModality-to-MultiModality Multitask Mega-transformer (model)

Alibaba Dharma Academy

Read the release (Chinese)

November

Cedille 6B (model, French, based on GPT-J 6B)

Coteries

Read the release

December

52B (model)

Anthropic

Read the paper

December

GLaM 1.1T (model)

Google inc

Read the Google blog

December

Gopher 280B (model)

Google AI

Read the paper

December

Fairseq-13B (model)

Meta AI

Read the paper

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2020

January

Meena (chatbot model)

Google

Read the Google blog

April

BlenderBot 1.0 (chatbot model)

Facebook

Read the Facebook blog

May

GPT-3 175B (model)

OpenAI

Read the paper

September

GPT-3 writes a newspaper column

The Guardian/OpenAI

Read the article

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2019

February

GPT-2 1.5B (model)

OpenAI

Read the paper

October

BERT used for search

Google

Read the Google blog

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2018

June

GPT-1 (model)

OpenAI

Read the paper

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2017

August

Transformer (architecture)

Google

Read the Google blog

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2011

February

Watson (system)

IBM

Appeared on Jeopardy! against champions Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings, winning the first place prize of $1m

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1966

ELIZA (chatbot)

MIT

Read the Wiki article

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1950

Turing test (paper)

Read the paper

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1947

Turing lecture

First public lecture (London, 1947) to mention computer intelligence. Turing said: ‘What we want is a machine that can learn from experience… the possibility of letting the machine alter its own instructions provides the mechanism for this.’ A few months later, he introduced many of the central concepts of AI in an unpublished paper: Intelligent Machinery. Britannica

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