February 13 – Microsoft introduces its Turing Natural Language Generation (T-NLG), which has 17 billion parameters.
April
April 29 – Facebook AI Research introduces Blender, an open-domain chatbot that Facebook claims outperforms Google's Meena in conversational ability.
May
May 28 – OpenAI publishes research paper introducing GPT-3, an autoregressive language model with 175 billion parameters.
June
June – OpenAI launches GPT-3 API in private beta.
July
July 30 – Facebook AI Research introduces BlenderBot 2, an open-domain chatbot with long-term memory and the ability to search the internet for information.
August
August 4 – DeepMind releases computational predictions of the structures of several SARS-CoV-2 proteins using its AlphaFold system.
December 23 – DeepMind introduces MuZero, a reinforcement learning system that masters Go, chess, shogi, and Atari games without being given their rules.