David Laubner

This year, I watched AI change the world in real time. From what happened, I have no doubts that the coming years will be the most transformative period in the history of humankind. Here’s the full timeline of AI in 2023 (January-December): January 15: ChatGPT becomes the fastest growing consumer app in history. January 27: Microsoft Invests $10 Billion in OpenAI. February 10: Microsoft reveals ‘The New Bing’. February 17: Animated AI videos go mainstream with Linkin Park debuting an AI-generated music video. February 22: Spotify introduces their AI powered feature called “DJ”. February 24: AWS partners with Hugging Face. February 28: Snapchat launches their AI chatbot ‘My AI’. March 1: OpenAI launches ChatGPT and Whisper API’s. March 7: ChatGPT Makes it on to South Park. March 17: OpenAI launches GPT-4. March 21: AI creates cancer treatment in 30 days. March 22: Google unleashes Bard, and the stock tanks. March 22: Adobe launches AI image generator Adobe Firefly. March 24: OpenAI releases ChatGPT Plugins and everyone thinks it's the ‘App Store of AI’. March 24: Canva launches new AI tools at Canva Create. March 28: AI Pope Francis goes viral. March 28: Zoom released AI-powered assistant, Zoom IQ. March 30: Elon Musk and AI experts call for a 6 month pause developing AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. April 3: Italy bans ChatGPT. April 6: Meta releases "Segment Anything Model" for AI to extract objects within images or videos. April 11: Alibaba reveals their ChatGPT Rival “Tongyi Qianwen”. April 13: AutoGPT and open-source Autonomous agents make waves across social media. April 14: Amazon and AWS release Bedrock and CodeWhisperer. April 17: Elon Musk starts xAI. April 21: Google Brain and Google DeepMind join forces. April 25: Grimes approves creating AI-generated songs using her voice. April 25: AI discovers a new planet. May 2: Geoffrey Hinton quits Google to warn the world of the dangers of AI. May 3: Inflection AI releases Pi. May 10: Meta introduces ImageBing, a new AI research model. May 11: Google announces major AI advancements at I/O. May 12: Anthropic extends Claude’s token window to 100,000. May 19: OpenAI launches a free ChatGPT iOS app. May 19: Apple bans employees from using ChatGPT. May 24: Microsoft unveils Windows 11 AI Copilot, Bing plugins, Bing Browsing, and Windows Terminal. May 26: Swiss scientists rebuild spinal cord with AI. June 2: NVIDIA Research develops Neuralangelo for 3D reconstruction from 2D video clips. June 6: Apple reveals Apple Vision Pro at WWDC. June 13: German church holds 300+ person AI-powered service. June 19: Meta releases new text-to-speech AI called Audiobox. June 22: 100,000+ ChatGPT accounts breached. June 27: Breakthrough AI research can understand and decode whale language. June 28: Baidu introduces ERNIE 3.5. June 29: ChatGPT unleashes mobile search via Bing. July 3: Humane unveil the ‘AI Pin’ to replace smartphones. July 4: Midjourney launches new ‘Panning’ feature. July 6: Inflection AI develops a $880M AI supercomputer. July 6: OpenAI introduces Super alignment to address the superintelligence alignment problem. July 10: AI shows potential in treating brain cancer. July 12: Anthropic launches Claude 2. July 17: Hollywood goes on strike against AI. July 19: Meta and Microsoft release Llama 2. July 20: Apple enters the AI frenzy with ‘Apple GPT‘. July 21: ChatGPT update allows ‘custom instructions’. July 26: Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry plans to develop an AI supercomputer. July 27: Stability AI releases SDXL 1.0. August 7: Tim Cook says Apple is building AI into every product. August 11: HeyGen announced the 2.0 of their AI-generated avatar clones. August 23: Meta open-sources an AI model called SeamlessM4T. August 24: Brain implant lets paralyzed speak with AI. August 30: Tesla launches a powerful $300 million AI supercomputer. September 4: Researchers create an AI model that predicts how a chemical will smell. September 8: Microsoft and Paige team up on cancer detecting AI. September 13: Coke creates a new mystery flavor with AI. September 20: Google announces Bard Extensions for Workspace. September 21: OpenAI announced DALL-E 3. September 22: Microsoft reveals Copilot, “Your everyday AI companion“. September 26: ChatGPT goes multimodal with voice and images. September 27: CIA builds proprietary AI system for intel. September 28: OpenAI announces the return of ChatGPT browsing. September 29: Mistral AI unveils open-sourced 7B language model. October 3: Rewind introduces Rewind Pendant, a wearable device that captures real-world conversations. October 4: LinkedIn reveals new AI tools across products. October 13: Meta’s AI persona chatbots go live, and face backlash. October 16: Ukraine deploys the first-ever autonomous attack drones on the battlefield. October 16: AI deciphers the first ever words from a burned Herculaneum scroll. October 20: North Korea experiments with AI cyber attacks. October 23: NVIDIA breakthrough enables robots to teach themselves. October 26: Researchers in China develop a system called ‘Woodpecker’ for multimodal AI models. November 6: Elon Musk's xAI launches Grok. November 7: OpenAI reveals GPT Builder, GPT-4 Turbo, Assistants API and more at DevDay. November 9: Amazon invests in training a massive language model codenamed 'Olympus'. November 13: Hollywood actors strike ends with deal on AI use. November 14: OpenAI confirms it's working on GPT-5 and advanced AI agents. November 16: Forward Health launches AI-powered medical pods. November 17: YouTube and Google DeepMind reveal a new AI model called ‘Lyria’. November 17: Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI. November 22: Sam Altman rehired as CEO of OpenAI. November 23: Inflection AI releases Inflection-2. November 27: The Pentagon approves “Replicator,” a new initiative for autonomous drones and systems. November 29: Pika launches Pike 1.0, a text-to-video generator. November 30: Google DeepMind's ‘GNoME’ generates recipes for new inorganic compounds. December 1: Microsoft invests $3.2B in UK AI infrastructure. December 6: Google DeepMind reveals Gemini. December 12: French startup Mistral AI releases Mixtral. December 13: Microsoft Research releases Phi-2. December 20: Microsoft partners with Suno AI for AI song generation. December 22: Apple research demonstrates AI techniques for iPhones. December 27: OpenAI in talks to raise additional funding at a $100B+ valuation. December 28: The New York Times sues Microsoft and OpenAI for copyright infringement.