Models
Frontier and open models: what shipped, what it can do, and how the claims hold up.
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Mistral 7B ships under Apache 2.0
A European startup releases a small model beating far larger ones.
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Anthropic launches Claude
A second safety-focused lab ships a commercial frontier assistant.
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Llama 2 ships with commercial rights
Meta releases capable open weights businesses can legally deploy.
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Meta releases LLaMA to researchers
Weights are shared under a research licence and leak publicly within a week.
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OpenAI releases GPT-4
A multimodal model posts large gains on professional and academic exams.
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Google announces PaLM at 540 billion parameters
The largest dense model of its era demonstrates strong chain-of-thought reasoning.
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DALL-E 2 crosses into commercial quality
Image generation reaches a fidelity usable in real design work.
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Stable Diffusion is released openly
Stability AI publishes weights that run on consumer graphics cards.
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OpenAI releases Codex via API
A model specialised for programming is opened to developers.
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DALL-E generates images from text
OpenAI shows a model that draws novel scenes from written descriptions.
