Happy Wednesday!

While everyone’s been obsessing over LK-99, there’s been some big updates in the world of AI. Let’s get to it!

In today’s AI rundown:

• 💬 Meta prepping AI chatbots with various personas

• 🚖 Uber developing an AI chatbot

• 🤖 Watchdog says Meta’s Llama 2 is NOT open source

• 🛠️ 6 New AI tools and 3 quick hits

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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

META

💬 Meta is prepping AI chatbots with various personas

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The Rundown: Meta is working on the release of chatbots with different personas, which could come as early as next month, according to a report from the Financial Times.

Key points:

• The chatbots will take on various personalities, including a surfer and Abraham Lincoln.

• The launch is aimed to increase engagement on Meta's platforms, enabling search and recommendations.

• During Meta's recent earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg mentioned building new AI-powered products with roles as assistants, coaches, etc.

Why it matters: The way we interact with computers will look completely different in a few years.

With Character AI’s (talking chatbot platform) recent data indicating that they have around a whopping 30-minute avg. session duration, there’s no wonder Meta is making this move.

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UBER

🚖 Uber is developing an AI chatbot

Image source: The Guardian, Photograph: Fifg/Alamy

The Rundown: Uber Technologies Inc. is developing an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot to integrate into its app.

Details:

• The purpose of the chatbot is to enhance customer service and automate tasks in the app.

• Uber’s CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, confirmed the ongoing work on the chatbot without providing specific details on its capabilities.

• DoorDash and Instacart are also developing similar chatbot systems. DashAI speeds up orders, while "Ask Instacart" uses OpenAI's API to answer food prep questions.

Noteworthy: Uber has 118 million daily active users. That’s AI rolled out to ~1.6% of the entire world in one go.

Llama 2

🤖 Watchdog says Meta's LLaMa 2 is NOT open source

The Rundown: The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has accused Meta of misusing the term "open source" and argues that LLaMa models' license, like LLaMa 2, doesn't align with the open source definition (OSD).

Key Points:

• LLaMa 2's license “violates” open-source principles by restricting commercial use, certain applications, and denying developers full sovereignty.

• Open-source licenses would have to give developers full sovereignty over the technology used and its benefits.

Our take: If there’s one thing we’ve learned from the past, it’s don’t mess with the open-source community.

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QUICK HITS

🔖 Meta developing labels for AI-generated content

Meta is advancing its generative AI tools, including an unmatched AI image generator called CM3Leon. They're also developing some epic generative AI features for their apps, such as labels indicating images generated by Meta AI.

📲 Apple removes AI apps from App store

Apple has removed multiple generative AI apps from its China App Store ahead of new regulations taking effect on August 15. Chinese developers received notices citing "content that is illegal in China" as the reason for the app removal.

🎥 YouTube experiments AI video summaries

YouTube is testing AI-generated video summaries that appear on watch and search pages for some English-language videos. YouTube emphasizes that video summaries are helpful for a quick overview, but they don't replace video descriptions written by creators.

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