Mollick Notes Quick Progress in AI Models

Ethan Mollick posted on X about the swift pace of recent artificial intelligence advances. The associate professor at Wharton who studies AI innovation and startups wrote that less than a decade has passed since the transformer was developed. He stated that GPT-3.5, the model behind ChatGPT, arrived less than four years ago. Mollick further noted that o1-preview, which he called the first reasoner, is less than two years old. The author of the NYT bestseller Co-Intelligence shared these points from his account focused on the field. The post records his direct observations on the compressed timeline of these milestones.