The AI landscape has seen rapid and significant advancements since ChatGPT's launch on November 22 30, 2022.1
Within a week, I jumped on board and realized it would change everything for small and solo business owners.
Andy O’Bryan, a.k.a.
, and I partnered to offer a free webinar to introduce it to our respective audiences. The response was overwhelming, and in February 2023, we launched the AI Success Club.We, and most of the world, haven’t looked back.
Here are the key milestones in the AI revolution from 2022 to 2024:
1. November 2022: OpenAI releases ChatGPT, gaining over 1 million users within 5 days and sparking widespread interest in conversational AI.2
2. March 2023: OpenAI launches GPT-4, a more advanced multimodal AI model capable of processing both text and image inputs.
3. 2023: Major tech companies enter the AI race:
- Google releases Bard, its conversational AI service.
- Microsoft integrates ChatGPT into Bing search engine.
- Meta releases Llama 2, an open-source large language model.
4. July 2023: Anthropic introduces Claude, a sophisticated AI assistant.
5. December 2023: Google unveils Gemini, a multimodal AI model.
6. February 2024: OpenAI releases Sora, a text-to-video model capable of generating realistic videos from text prompts.
7. March 2024:
- Anthropic releases Claude 3, setting new benchmarks across cognitive tasks.
- Inflection AI launches Inflection-2.5, achieving 94% of GPT-4's performance with 40% of the training resources.
8. Throughout 2023-2024:
- Rapid adoption of AI across industries, including healthcare, finance, and creative fields.
- Increased focus on AI ethics, governance, and responsible development.
- Advancements in AI-powered image and video generation tools like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion.
These developments have significantly expanded AI capabilities, driving widespread adoption and transforming various sectors while also raising important questions about ethics and governance.
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OK, I got the date wrong and I’m a week early. I don’t know why I had the 22nd locked in my brain. We can celebrate early!
This list of milestones was created with Perplexity.ai. If you want to go deeper, here’s the page created from my prompts.
I was given a pre-launch copy of this product. I use it daily with ChatGPT and recommend it.
What a game-changer for me! ChatGPT has become an affordable staff member in my one-woman office, taking on the role of researcher, brainstorming partner, idea generator, and strategy planner.
I made a mistake. ChatGPT was released on November 30, 2024. Don't know why I thought it was the 22nd!
There was an update on November 20, so we can celebrate that, too!
Update to GPT-4o (November 20, 2024)
"We’ve updated GPT-4o for ChatGPT users on all paid tiers. This update to GPT-4o includes improved writing capabilities that are now more natural, audience-aware, and tailored to improve relevance and readability. This model is also better at working with uploaded files, providing deeper insights and more thorough responses."