2022 witnessed groundbreaking leaps in AI capabilities, particularly in large language models, text-to-image generation, and multimodal AI. This year marked a significant shift in public perception and engagement with AI technologies, as tools like DALL-E 2 and ChatGPT captured the imagination of both the tech industry and the general public.
November
- OpenAI releases ChatGPT Plus
- Subscription plan for ChatGPT with additional features
- Offers priority access and improved performance
October
- Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion
- Open-source text-to-image model
- Allows for local installation and customization, democratizing access to AI image generation
May
- Google introduces PaLM (Pathways Language Model)
- 540-billion parameter language model
- Demonstrates impressive performance on language understanding and generation tasks
April
- OpenAI releases DALL-E 2
- Advanced version of the image generation AI
- Capable of generating and editing high-resolution images from text descriptions
- Demonstrates significant improvements in image quality and control
January
- Microsoft and NVIDIA announce Megatron-Turing NLG 530B
- 530 billion parameter language model
- At the time, the largest and most powerful monolithic transformer language model trained