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Imagen was announced in May and remained a significant research topic in June. This recap examines the continuing text-to-image trend.

Gato explored a single model handling different tasks and data types, without proving general intelligence.

DALL-E 2 demonstrated advances in text-to-image generation and image editing.

Chinchilla research examined how model size and training data should be balanced for a given compute budget.

DeepMind introduced AlphaCode, investigating code generation in competitive programming tasks.

OpenAI described InstructGPT, emphasising human feedback and instruction following rather than scale alone.

DeepMind published research on Gopher and retrieval-enhanced language modelling, examining scale, capabilities and access to external information.

The year’s selected AI milestones, technology changes and practical marketing lessons.