Exploring modern LLMs
After the explosive take-off of ChatGPT in late 2022, with 1 million active users in 5 days and 100 million active users in January 2023 (about 2 months), 2023 was a pretty hot year for LLMs, AI research, and the use of AI in general.
Most tech companies have worked on their own LLMs or transformer models to use and make publicly available. Many companies, organizations, and individuals (students included) have used LLMs for a multitude of tasks. OpenAI keeps updating its GPT family and Google keeps updating its Bard version. Bard became Gemini in February 2024, so all references to Bard have changed to Gemini. Many companies use ChatGPT or GPT-4 as the core of their offering, just creating a wrapper and selling it.
This might change as OpenAI keeps adding modalities (speech, image, etc.) to the GPTs and even a new marketplace platform where users can create and sell their own GPT agents right on OpenAI servers. This was launched in early January 2024 to...
