The AI release cycle used to be measured in years. Now it's measured in weeks.
๐ OpenAI: In 2017, OpenAI averaged one notable model a year. Over the past 12 months, it has averaged one every 20 days.
๐ Anthropic: In 2023, the year it released the first Claude, Anthropic averaged one notable model a year. Over the past 12 months, it has averaged one every 41 days.
The milestones follow the same pattern. GPT-2, GPT-3 and GPT-4 came out years apart. Since GPT-4 and the first Claude arrived in March 2023, major releases from the two labs have come months apart, and smaller releases weeks apart.
Faster release cycles mean more training, more inference and more demand for the compute behind it.