Initial Big Tech hype about Large Language Models (LLMs)

Last update: Wednesday 6/21/23

This page contains links to significant announcements by Big Tech corporations during their initial razzle dazzle efforts to persuade everyone to subscribe/purchase upgrades to their products and services that were based on LLM technology ... October 2022 to June 2023

A. OpenAI | B. OtherLLMs | C. Policy | D. OtherNews | E. OpEds | F. Uses | G. EdUses | H. Hacks | I. Basics

A. OpenAI -- ChatGPT
     ... GPT-4 System Card = OpenAI's own assessment of GPT-4

• "GPT-4 has arrived. It will blow ChatGPT out of the water.", Drew Harwell and Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post, 3/14/23
  -- This story also covered by NY Times, The Atlantic, MIT Tech Review, TechCrunch, The Verge, Forbes, Nature  ... and OpenAI
  
  
• Who is Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI? 
  -- "The ChatGPT King Isn’t Worried, but He Knows You Might Be", Cade Metz, NY Times, 3/31/23  
  -- "The Contradictions of Sam Altman, AI Crusader",  Berber Jin and Keach Hagey, Wall Street Journal, 3/31/23 
  -- "The man who unleashed AI on an unsuspecting Silicon Valley", Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 4/8/23 
  
  
• "Watch an A.I. Learn to Write by Reading Nothing but Shakespeare or Harry Potter or Jane Austen or Star Trek or Moby Dick", Aatish Bhatia, NY Times, 4/27/23 ... Note: This instructive article provides non-AI experts with a look inside the deep learning process that underlies large learning models (LLMs), so it goes way beyond the usual "chatbot as sentence completion" metaphor
  
  
• "OpenAI peeks into the “black box” of neural networks with new research", Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 5/11/23 
  
• "ChatGPT App Fights Through a Crowd of Copycats on Apple’s Store", Austin Carr and Diana Li, Bloomberg, 5/22/23 
• "Bing is now the default search for ChatGPT", Tom Warren, The Verge, 5/23/23 
• "Supercharge Your ChatGPT Prompts With Auto-GPT", David Neilo, Wired, 5/21/23

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B. Other major producers of Large Language Models (LLMs)

Microsoft -- Bing ... based on OpenAI's GPT

• "Microsoft Bets Big on the Creator of ChatGPT in Race to Dominate A.I.", Cade Metz and Karen Weise, NY Times, 1/22/23
• "Microsoft doubles down on AI with new Bing features", Kyle Wiggers, TechCrunch, 5/4/23 
  -- This story also covered by Mashable, Gizmodo, The Verge, VentureBeat, Ars Technica
   
• "Microsoft 365’s AI-powered Copilot is getting more features and paid access", Chance Townsend , Mashable, 5/13/23 
• Microsoft Build 2023 conference 5/24/34  
  -- Keynote address = Engadget, The Verge, 
  -- Fabric, a new data and analytics platform = TechCrunch, 
  -- Plugins for AI apps = TechCrunch
  -- Copilot for Windows 11 = Ars Technica, The Verge, 
  

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Google -- Bard

• Initial impressiona ...
  -- "Google Releases Bard, Its Competitor in the Race to Create A.I. Chatbots",  Nico Grant and Cade Metz, NY Times, 3/21/23
  -- "What Google Bard Can Do (and What It Can’t)", Cade Metz, NY Times, 3/21/23 
  -- "Google just launched Bard, its answer to ChatGPT—and it wants you to make it better", Will Douglas Heavenarchive page, MIT Tech Review, 3/21/23
  
  
• Google I/O 2023 conference on 5/10/23 
  -- Overviews of all announcements provided by Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Wired, 
  -- AI announcements were covered by Mashable, Gizmodo
  -- "Google launches PaLM 2, its next-gen large language model", Frederic Lardinois,  TechCrunch, 5/10/23
  -- "Google jumps into the AI coding assistant fray with Codey and Studio Bot", Sanuel Axon, Ars Technica, 5/10/23
  

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Baidu -- Ernie

• Initial impressions ...
  -- "China’s Answer to ChatGPT Gets an Artificial Debut and Disappoints", Chang Che and John Liu, NY Times, 3/16/23
  -- "Chinese tech giant Baidu just released its answer to ChatGPT",Zeyi Yang, MIT Tech Review, 3/16/23
  
• Second looks ...
  -- "The bearable mediocrity of Baidu’s ChatGPT competitor", Zeyi Yang, MIT Tech Review, 3/22/23 
  -- "China's Baidu reveals more capabilities of AI-powered chatbot Ernie", Eduardo Baptista, Reuters, 3/27/23  

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Amazon -- Bedrock

• "With Bedrock, Amazon enters the generative AI race", Kyle Wiggers, TechCrunch. 4/12/23 
  -- This story also covered by Ars Technica, Wired

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