AI Frontiers: Decoding the Future, One Innovation at a Time

Tracing AI's Evolution: Major Breakthroughs Shaping Our Digital Landscape and Enhancing Human Experience
Written by
Satish Murthy
Published on
17 January 2023
Last Updated
6 March 2024

Introduction

Welcome to our evolving chronicle of AI innovation. This article unfolds the pivotal advancements in AI, spotlighting key developments from giants like OpenAI, Google, and more, as they redefine our digital era

April 12, 2024

xAI's Grok

WHAT was released:
Grok is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by xAI, based on a large language model (LLM). It was developed as an initiative by Elon Musk as a direct response to the rise of OpenAI's ChatGPT which Musk co-founded. Grok-1.5 Vision is the latest version to be released

HOW it is qualitatively better:
Enhances user interaction with AI

HOW does it help the customer:
Grok advertises it's AI as closer to 'truth'. with no censorship

4th March, 2024

Anthropic's Claude-3

WHAT was released:
Anthropic has released Claude-3, which is a proprietary model. It is multi-modal - meaning that it can understand text and images in the same context. Variants: Haiku, Sonnet, Opus
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HOW it is qualitatively better:
It is as good as Google Gemini and GPT-4

HOW does it help the you:
This is yet another option available to you on Fonor. Note that this is not available in the trial version.

4th February, 2024

Open Source 1.6

WHAT was released:
LLaVa 1.6 is a significatnt improvement over LLaVa 1.5, stands for "Large Language and Vision Assistant." It's a multimodal AI model trained to understand and respond to both text and images.It's trained on a mixture of text and image data, allowing it to understand the relationship between the two

HOW it is qualitatively better:
Processing images with 4x higher resolution, enabling it to capture finer details. Improving visual reasoning and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities.

HOW does it help the customer:
Generating captions that accurately describe an image. Information is not sent to a public API

February 2024 (Private Preview)

Google’s Gemini 1.5

WHAT was released:
Gemini 1.5 is a next-generation multimodal AI model developed by Google DeepMind. It is a MoE (Mixture of Experts) model

HOW it is qualitatively better:
It's the successor to the well-regarded Gemini 1.0 models, known for their strong performance in various NLP and computer vision tasks.
It is the first in the industry to support a million token context window.

HOW does it help the customer:
Qualitatively among the leading models in terms of metrics

11th December, 2023

Mistral's Mixtral 8x7B

WHAT was released:
Mistral released Mixtral 8x7B, so called Mixture of Experts (MoE). A smaller 7B model is also available

HOW it is better:
This model is open source - which means you can download and run it locally. This model is text-only - cannot understand images
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HOW does it help the customer:
If you do not want to send data to a publicly cloud service like OpenAPI, you can use this option.  

24th January, 2024

Groq (Not to be confused with Grok)

WHAT was released:
Groq is not a new model - it is a new hardware that makes GenAI work much faster

HOW it is qualitatively better:
This is a much faster system.

HOW does it help the customer:
Perfect for chatbots and voicebots

18th July, 2023

Facebook/Meta’s LLaMa-2

WHAT was released:
Meta announced LLaMA-2 in three model sizes: 7, 13, and 70 billion parameters

HOW it is qualitatively better:
This model is open source - which means you can download and run it locally. This model is text-only - cannot understand images

HOW does it help the customer:
If you do not want to send data to a publicly cloud service like OpenAPI, you can use this option.

March 14, 2023

OpenAI GPT-4

WHAT was released:
GPT-4 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4) is a large multimodal AI model developed by OpenAI.

HOW it is qualitatively better:
GPT-4 offers several improvements over GPT-3.5. More creative and collaborative, enhanced reasoning capabilities. GPT-4 still leads most benchmarks

HOW does it help you:
Much better content generation than ever before. Longer context windows means more business worthy content. Much better analytical capabilities

Mid March, 2023

Open Source LLaVa 1.5

WHAT was released:
LLaVa stands for "Large Language and Vision Assistant." It's a multimodal AI model trained to understand and respond to both text and images.It's trained on a mixture of text and image data, allowing it to understand the relationship between the two

HOW it is qualitatively better:
Supports smaller images around 350x pixels.
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HOW does it help you:
Generating captions that accurately describe an image. Information is not sent to a public API

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