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The Whole Ai War Summurized! Nov 30, 2022: OpenAI launches ChatGPT (built on GPT-3.5). Dec 5, 2022: ChatGPT reaches 1 million users within five days, setting a world record. 2023; Jan 2023: ChatGPT achieves 100 million users within two months of launch. 23 Jan 2023: Microsoft announces plans to increase its investment in OpenAI. While exact numbers are not available, it's rumored to be $10 billion over the next few years. Feb 2023: Google announces an AI model called Bard in competition with ChatGPT. Feb 7, 2023: Microsoft launches Bing Chat. Mar 14, 2023: GPT-4 is launched. Mar 2023: Anthropic launches Claude. Apr 28, 2023: Mistral AI launches as an open-source AI model in France. May 16, 2023: Anthropic raises $450 million at a $4.1 billion valuation from Microsoft, Google, Zoom, and others. Jun 23, 2023: OpenAI raises $300 million at a $27–29 billion valuation. Jul 18, 2023: Meta launches Llama 2, a model competing with GPT-4. Sep 21, 2023: Microsoft announces Copilot as a replacement for the Cortana virtual assistant and Bing Chat. Sep 25, 2023: Anthropic secures a Series D funding of $1.25 billion from Amazon. Nov 2023: xAI, founded by Elon Musk, launches Grok 1, a chatbot with humor. Dec 6, 2023: Google launches Gemini (formerly Bard). 2023: Cursor, an AI-powered coder, is launched. 2024; Feb 15, 2024: OpenAI announces Sora, a text-to-video app, which is later released on Dec 9, 2024. Mar 27, 2024: Anthropic completes a Series E funding round, securing $2.75 billion from Amazon. May 10, 2024: xAI raises $6 billion from Sequoia, a16z, and others. May 13, 2024: OpenAI launches GPT-4o, an improved model with the ability to understand images and communicate in voice. Jun 20, 2024: Anthropic launches Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which becomes the top choice for coders. Sep 12, 2024: ChatGPT announces o1, a model that thinks before answering. Oct 2, 2024: OpenAI raises $6.6 billion at a $157 billion valuation from Microsoft, Nvidia, SoftBank, and others. Oct 25, 2024: Aravind Srinivas claims that Perplexity is handling over 100 million queries a week. Nov 20, 2024: xAI raises another $6 billion. Nov 22, 2024: Anthropic completes a Series F funding round, securing $4 billion from Amazon. Dec 7, 2024: OpenAI runs the '12 Days of OpenAI' series, where they release new features, both small and big, daily. This includes the launch of o1 and Sora, the announcement of o3, and some minor feature updates. Dec 18, 2024: Perplexity raises $500 million from SoftBank, Nvidia, and Jeff Bezos. Dec 2024: Google announces Veo 2, a text-to-video tool claimed to be much better than Sora. 2025; Jan 10, 2025: DeepSeek releases its DeepSeek-R1 reasoning model for mobile platforms. By Jan 27, 2025: DeepSeek-R1 surpasses ChatGPT as the most downloaded free app on the U.S. iOS App Store. Jan 21, 2025: Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI announce Stargate, a $500 billion AI factory project. Jan 22, 2025: Anthropic completes a Series F funding round, securing $1 billion from Google. Feb 5, 2025: Cursor becomes the fastest SaaS to hit $100 million ARR.