// RELEASE TIMELINE

Models Released in 2023

Browse every generative AI model released in 2023 — large language models, image generators, code models and more — ordered by release date. Compare their specs and rankings on our benchmarks page, or put any two side by side with compare. See also models from 2022 and models from 2024.

524 models

Hyena-2 153M

🇺🇸 Stanford University

Feb 2023 153M
Language Open (Restricted)

Hyena-2 355M

🇺🇸 Stanford University

Feb 2023 355M
Language Proprietary

Hyena-3-slim

🇺🇸 Stanford University

Feb 2023 125M
Language Proprietary

Anthropic LM 175B

🇺🇸 Anthropic

Feb 2023 175B
Language Proprietary

BASIC-L + Lion

🇺🇸 Google

Feb 2023 3.1B
Vision Proprietary

ControlNet

🇺🇸 Stanford University

Feb 2023
Language Proprietary

ViT-22B

🇺🇸 Google

Feb 2023 21.7B
Vision Proprietary

ProteinDT

🇺🇸 University of California (UC) Berkeley

Feb 2023
Language Open (Restricted)

ToolFormer

🇺🇸 Meta AI

Feb 2023 6.7B
Language Proprietary

Gen-1

🇺🇸 Runway

Feb 2023
Video Proprietary

ProteinSGM

🇺🇸 University of Toronto

Feb 2023
Language Proprietary

CD-GraB (WT2)

🇺🇸 Cornell University

Feb 2023
Language Proprietary

Chemistry42

🇺🇸 Insilico Medicine AI

Feb 2023
Language Proprietary

UniPi

🇺🇸 Google DeepMind

Jan 2023
Video Open (Restricted)

BLIP-2 (Q-Former)

🇺🇸 Salesforce Research

Jan 2023 1.5B
Vision Open (Restricted)

Flan T5-XXL + BLIP-2

🇺🇸 Salesforce Research

Jan 2023 12.1B
Multimodal Open (Restricted)

KeAP

🇺🇸 The University of Hong Kong

Jan 2023
Language Proprietary

Genie-SCOPe (bio)

🇺🇸 Columbia University

Jan 2023 4.1M
Language Open (Restricted)

Protst

🇺🇸 Mila - Quebec AI (originally Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms)

Jan 2023
Language Proprietary

RESP AI

🇺🇸 University of California San Diego

Jan 2023
Language Open (Restricted)

DDPM-IP (CelebA)

🇩🇪 Utrecht University

Jan 2023 295M
Language Open (Restricted)

MusicLM

🇺🇸 Google

Jan 2023 860M
Audio Proprietary

MoLFormer-XL

🇺🇸 IBM

Jan 2023
Language Open (Restricted)

Moxiaoxian

Unknown

Jan 2023 3.5B
Proprietary

Pinshang

Unknown

Jan 2023
Proprietary

GPT-2+Active-SGD (WT2)

🇺🇸 University of Montreal / Université de Montréal

Jan 2023 124M
Language Proprietary

mini-GPT-2+Active-AdamW

🇨🇳 HEC Montreal

Jan 2023
Language Proprietary

Operator

🇺🇸 OpenAI

Jan 2023
Language Proprietary

Adaptive Agent

🇬🇧 DeepMind

Jan 2023 533M
Multimodal Proprietary

Ankh_base

🇺🇸 Technical University of Munich

Jan 2023 740M
Language Open Weights

Ankh_large

🇺🇸 Technical University of Munich

Jan 2023 1.9B
Language Open Weights

Eleven Monolingual v1

🇺🇸 ElevenLabs

Jan 2023
Speech Proprietary

Nucleotide Transformer

🇺🇸 NVIDIA

Jan 2023 2.5B
Language Open Weights

DreamerV3

🇬🇧 DeepMind

Jan 2023 200M
Multimodal Proprietary

SantaCoder

🇺🇸 Hugging Face

Jan 2023 1.1B
Language Open (Restricted)

VALL-E

🇺🇸 Microsoft

Jan 2023 353M
Audio Proprietary

DNA Fine-Tuned Language Model (DFLM)

🇨🇳 Tongji University

Jan 2023
Language Proprietary

SparseOPT-13B

🇺🇸 Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)

Jan 2023 13B
Language Proprietary

SparseOPT-175B

🇺🇸 Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)

Jan 2023 87.5B
Language Proprietary

SparseOPT-30B

🇺🇸 Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)

Jan 2023 30B
Language Proprietary

SparseOPT-66B

🇺🇸 Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)

Jan 2023 66B
Language Proprietary

AI Resume

Unknown

Jan 2023
Proprietary

BART-IT

🇮🇹 Politecnico di Torino

Jan 2023 140M
Language Open Weights

Nanbei Pavilion

Unknown

Jan 2023
Proprietary

2023 was another fast-moving year for generative AI. The models listed above span large language models (LLMs), image and video generators, code models and more, each with its own parameter count, context window, licensing and availability. To understand how the models of 2023 actually perform, compare their scores on our benchmarks page, and use compare to evaluate any two releases side by side.

Tracking AI by release year makes it easy to see how the frontier moves. Browse AI models from 2022 or AI models from 2024 to compare how capabilities, context windows and open-weights availability evolved year over year.