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UNESCO adopted its Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, setting out principles for responsible development and use.

Microsoft and NVIDIA described Megatron-Turing NLG, highlighting the infrastructure behind very large language models.

Stanford's foundation-model research helped frame how general-purpose models could be adapted to many downstream tasks. The underlying report appeared in August.

OpenAI introduced Codex, a model capable of translating natural-language instructions into code.

DeepMind and EMBL-EBI launched the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database, widening access to predicted structures.

GitHub announced Copilot's technical preview, bringing AI suggestions into developers' everyday working environment.

Google introduced LaMDA as research into open-ended dialogue, adding momentum to conversational AI.

The European Commission proposed an AI regulatory framework organised around risk. A proposal was not an immediately applicable final law.