JULY

 1. whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly, including ~130k annotated neurons and tens of millions of typed synapses

2. Magic123: One Image to High-Quality 3D Object Generation Using Both 2D and 3D Diffusion Priors

3. CSM AI releases Any Image to 3D

4. One-2-3-45: Any Single Image to 3D Mesh in 45 Seconds without Per-Shape Optimization

5. DreamDiffusion: Generating High-Quality Images from Brain EEG Signals

6. OpenFlamingo V2

7. Pi chatbot now available in over 70+ countries

8. MetaAI: I-JEPA: The first AI model based on Yann LeCun’s vision for more human-like AI

9. LongNet: Scaling Transformers to 1,000,000,000 Tokens

10. Segment Anything Meets Point Tracking

11. GPT-4 API general availability (with GPT-3.5 Turbo, Whisper and DALLE) and deprecation of older models in the Completions API

12. Google's CodeVQA is a system that helps computers understand images, using Python code and visual functions. It's like teaching a computer to "see" and process images in a more human-like way

13. OpenAI's Code Interpreter Beta (rolling out to ChatGPT Plus)

14. Focused Transformer: Contrastive Training for Context Scaling (256k context length)

15. Introducing AnthropicAI's Claude 2

16. AnimateDiff: Animate Your Personalized Text-to-Image Diffusion Models without Specific Tuning

17. Introducing Objaverse-XL, an open dataset of over 10 million 3D objects!

18. xAI by Elon Musk officially announces their formation

19. Google Bard's update: more countries and languages, Google Lens capabilities so you can use images in prompts, a new text-to-speech feature that lets you listen to responses, and much more

20. Stability AI proudly presents Stable Doodle (sketch to image)

21. Meta AI: Introducing CM3leon, a first-of-its-kind multimodal model that achieves state-of-the-art performance for text-to-image generation

22. HyperDreamBooth: HyperNetworks for Fast Personalization of Text-to-Image Models

23. Sketch-A-Shape: Zero-Shot Sketch-to-3D Shape Generation

24. Introducing Air - Air can perform full 5-40 minute long sales & customer service calls over the phone that sound like a human

25. Announcing FlashAttention-2

26. Meta AI: Introducing Llama 2 - The next generation of our open source large language model

27. Google releases: The PaLM language model API, Imagen generative image API, Codey coding APIs, and Chirp speech recognition APIs

28. Conformer-2 - a new AI model for automatic speech recognition

29. OpenAI: Introducing Custom instructions - This feature lets you give ChatGPT any custom requests or context which you’d like applied to every conversation

30. GitHub’s Copilot Chat AI feature is now available in public beta

31. In Race for AI Chips, Google DeepMind Uses AI to Design Specialized Semiconductors

32. Stability AI: Introducing FreeWilly1 and FreeWilly2 - The latest groundbreaking LLMs

33. TokenFlow: Consistent Diffusion Features for Consistent Video Editing

34. Research to merge human brain cells with AI secures national defence funding

35. Runway releases Gen-2 image to video update

36. The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor

37. 3D-LLM: Injecting the 3D World into Large Language Models

38. STEVE-1: A Generative Model for Text-to-Behavior in Minecraft

39. Stability AI Announces Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

40. 1X posts about their upcoming robot NEO. It's currently in development

41. Meet Med-PaLM Multimodal (Med-PaLM M), the first demonstration of "Generalist Biomedical AI"!

42. Meta AI releases Open Catalyst Demo to the public (~1000x faster than existing computational methods using AI)

43. DeepMind's 𝗥𝗧-𝟮: a first of its kind vision-language-action model to control robots