How Open Source is eating AI
The GPT-3 cycle took 10 months: The Text-to-Image cycle took 2? years (Nov 2022 edit: a fuller 10 year history including GANs is here) : The timelines above are highly cherrypicked of course; the story is much longer if you take into account the longer development history starting from the academic papers for diffusion (2015) and transformer models (2017) and older work on GANs.
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