The 10 biggest AI events of 2023

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From advanced multimodal LLMs to world leaders attempting to pause AI and the rollercoaster of Sam Altman's firing and rehiring within a week, the events of 2023 in AI are sure to make their mark in the history books.

The top 10 biggest AI events of 2023:

1. March 17: OpenAI launches GPT-4
2. March 30: Elon Musk and AI experts call for a 6-month pause in developing AI systems more powerful than GPT-4
3. May 26: Swiss scientists rebuild spinal cord with AI
4. June 27: Breakthrough AI research can understand and decode whale language
5. September 26: ChatGPT goes multimodal with voice and images
6. September 29: Mistral AI unveils open-sourced 7B language model
7. November 6: Elon Musk's xAI launches Grok
8. November 7: OpenAI reveals GPT Builder, GPT-4 Turbo, Assistants API and more at DevDay
9. November 22: Sam Altman fired and rehired as CEO of OpenAI
10. December 6: Google DeepMind reveals Gemini

While we look back at the most significant year in the history of AI, it’s hard not to think that the developments this year were the start of the most transformative period in the history of humankind. With GPT-5, autonomous agents, and major medical breakthroughs on the horizon — we’re really just getting started. Happy New Year to a successful 2023 and here's to 2024 to show even further advancements!

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