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JE Technology Desk: This year, the world witnessed several AI tools and platforms that have gained popularity due to their innovative approach to helping humans. Be writing poems from ChatGPT or generating real-looking images of famous personalities via Midjourney, AI platforms have evolved in 2023 to help humans in different ways. So, to give you a quick refresher on the major announcements this year that are changing the AI landscape in India, here is a listicle.

GPT-4

ChatGPT maker OpenAI unveiled GPT-4 in March 2023. It now powers the language model and Microsoft's Bing Chat. GPT-4 is a large multimodal model that can accept images to process textual output. The research company claims it can equate the performance of humans in diverse professional and academic fields.

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Microsoft Copilot

The Redmond-headquartered tech giant announced many AI products under one banner: 'copilots', at Microsoft Build. These generative AI features will help a user while using Office apps like Word, Excel, and Powerpoint by writing, editing, summarising texts and more. Plus AI capabilities will expand to Windows 11 and Azure to cut down on mundane tasks and assign them to AI.

Google AI Catalogue

The search giant joined the AI race with Bard. While it turned out to be a half-baked product at launch, with PaLM 2 (Google's large language model), the chatbot is now better placed to race with models like ChatGPT and AI-powered Bing. The company announced several other products at Google I/O 2023 in May. Among the top ones include Duet AI for Workspace, Immersive View in Maps and Med-PaLM 2, a chatbot for the healthcare industry.

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xAI

While Elon Musk was among the key advocates who criticised AI innovation, he finally joined the AI bandwagon with the announcement of xAI. The goal of the company is to "understand the true nature of the universe," reads the company's website.

Amid all this, concerns about their potential misuse were highlighted by experts from time to time. And the European Union was the first to introduce regulations in the AI space. Nations across the globe are regarding regulations and guardrails for the use of AI in the current situation.