Few companies can say they've had more of a rollercoaster year than OpenAI. At the beginning of 2023, the world's hottest AI startup was riding high on the success of its ChatGPT chatbot. Now, it's dusting itself off from an attempted coup which saw Sam Altman ousted and reinstated as the company's CEO within a few short days. Our AI experts have been following OpenAI's every move throughout the year, often with exclusive access to the people building the revolutionary products and systems. Check out just some of the highlights from the past year--and what we think is coming next.

Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. It was my first week at VentureBeat, in mid-April. OpenAI had just released the new iteration of its text-to-image generator, DALL-E 2; our lead AI writer, Kyle Wiggers, had moved to TechCrunch before I could pick his brain; and I was panicking. I scrolled frantically through Twitter images of avocado chairs and astronauts riding horses on the moon, wondering what all the fuss was about. I had written about AI trends for over a decade, but it was at a sky-high level -- think tips for the C-suite. Now, I belatedly realized how little I understood about the past decade of progress in AI, from machine learning (ML) and computer vision to natural language processing (NLP).

Now, I belatedly realized how little I understood about the past decade of progress in artificial intelligence, from machine learning and computer …