Four trends that changed AI in 2023

Here's what 2023 taught me: The year started with Big Tech going all in on generative AI. The runaway success of OpenAI's ChatGPT prompted every major tech company to release its own version. This year might go down in history as the year we saw the most AI launches: Meta's LLaMA 2, Google's Bard chatbot and Gemini, Baidu's Ernie Bot, OpenAI's GPT-4, and a handful of other models, including one from a French open-source challenger, Mistral. But despite the initial hype, we haven't seen any AI applications become an overnight success. Microsoft and Google pitched powerful AI-powered search, but it turned out to be more of a dud than a killer app.