AI Research and Development
GIANNI PRIMIANI
1. Industry continues to dominate frontier AI research. In 2023, industry produced 51 notablemachine learning models, while academia contributed only 15. There were also 21 notable models resulting fromindustry-academia collaborations in 2023, a new high.2. More foundation models and more open foundation models. In 2023, a total of 149 foundationmodels were released, more than double the amount released in 2022. Of these newly released models, 65.7%were open-source, compared to only 44.4% in 2022 and 33.3% in 2021.3. Frontier models get way more expensive. According to AI Index estimates, the training costs ofstate-of-the-art AI models have reached unprecedented levels. For example, OpenAI’s GPT-4 used an estimated$78 million worth of compute to train, while Google’s Gemini Ultra cost $191 million for compute.4. The United States leads China, the EU, and the U.K. as the leading source of top AImodels. In 2023, 61 notable AI models originated from U.S.-based institutions, far outpacing the EuropeanUnion’s 21 and China’s 15.5. The number of AI patents skyrockets. From 2021 to 2022, AI patent grants worldwide increasedsharply by 62.7%. Since 2010, the number of granted AI patents has increased more than 31 times.