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Big Tech's secret race for AI data
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
As the AI arms race heats up, tech giants are scrambling to secure the most valuable resource of all: high-quality training data.
But as the data gold rush grows, so do the murky deals and blurred lines surrounding the content being fed to hungry AI models. Let’s investigate…
In today’s AI rundown:
AI training data gold rush surges
U.S. strikes CHIPS deal with TSMC
New Gemini feature lets you fine-tune answers
Jamie Dimon on AI’s transformational impact
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
BIG TECH
💰 AI training data gold rush surges
Image source: Getty Images
The Rundown: A new report from Reuters revealed new details on how tech giants like Google, Meta, OpenAI, and Apple are racing to secure vast quantities of online data to feed their AI models.
The details:
Reuters reports that Meta, Google, Amazon, and Apple all reached a deal with Shutterstock in 2022 following ChatGPT’s debut.
The agreement included hundreds of millions of images, videos, and music files for AI training, with deals ranging between $25-50M.
Prices for training data range from cents per image to hundreds of dollars per hour of video.
Companies are also paying for access to private content archives, including Photobucket's 13B photos and videos and other old internet platforms.
Why it matters: While initially scraping the web, a flurry of lawsuits and the wave of AI-generated content flooding the internet now have tech giants paying big bucks for high-quality content for AI models. The gold rush is a boon for data-heavy platforms eager to cash out — but also treads into murky waters regarding privacy and consent.
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TSMC
🤝 U.S. strikes CHIPS deal with TSMC
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The Rundown: President Joe Biden just announced that the U.S. and Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC have reached a deal for the company to build three advanced semiconductor factories in Arizona in exchange for $11B in grants and loans.
The details:
TSMC will invest a total of $65B and create over 25,000 jobs in the agreement.
$50M of funding will be dedicated to developing and training the local workforce.
The US aims to produce 20% of the world's leading-edge semiconductors domestically by 2030.
The government has now struck five CHIPS Act deals, including $8.5B to Intel and $1.5B to GlobalFoundries.
Why it matters: Amidst growing concerns for both Taiwan’s political (China) and natural (earthquake) vulnerabilities, the U.S. moving to secure its place toward the front of the supply chain is sharp — particularly given the AI chip shortages predicted as demand continues to soar.
AI TRAINING
✍️ New Gemini feature lets you fine-tune answers
The Rundown: In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Gemini's latest update, which lets you fine-tune generated answers and get the output you need without rewriting your entire prompt.
Step-by-step:
Visit Google Gemini. You will need to sign up or log in with your Gmail account.
Enter your prompt and let Gemini generate an initial answer.
Highlight the specific part of its output that you want to change and click the “Pencil with a star” button. Choose to either modify it with additional instructions, regenerate it, make it shorter/longer, or remove it entirely.
Repeat the fine-tuning process as needed until you have the ideal result.
JPMORGAN CHASE
💡 Dimon details AI’s transformational impact
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The Rundown: JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon just published his annual letter to shareholders, focusing on artificial intelligence — predicting the tech will have sweeping changes to both business and society as a whole.
The details:
Dimon compared the “extraordinary consequences” of AI to historic innovations like the printing press, electricity, steam engines, and computers.
The CEO said the use of AI has the potential to “augment virtually every job” at the company.
Dimon said the firm has already grown its AI talent to over 2,000 experts and data scientists, with over 400 AI/ML use cases in production.
Why it matters: As the CEO of America's largest bank, Dimon's endorsement of AI's transformative potential carries significant weight. The letter is also yet another look at how an industry leader is thinking about AI’s broad implications — and planning internally for a future completely reshaped by the tech.
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QUICK HITS
Elon Musk said that Grok V2 is currently being trained and expected to be completed in May, also revealing the model “should be better” than GPT-4.
Microsoft announced the opening of a new AI hub in London to advance language models, develop foundation model tooling, and collaborate with AI teams across the company and partners like OpenAI.
Spotify introduced AI playlists in beta, allowing users to generate personalized playlists based on written prompts.
A New York Times report revealed that OpenAI transcribed over 1M hours of YouTube videos for GPT-4 training data, raising legal concerns.
Oracle unveiled a new AI-powered cloud service called Compliance Agent to help banks mitigate anti-money laundering risks.
NTT and Yomiuri Shimbun, two of Japan's most influential companies, released an AI manifesto warning that democracy and social order could collapse if AI is left unchecked.
Poe introduced a new ‘price per message’ monetization model, allowing bot creators to generate revenue each time a user interacts with their creation.
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Sam Altmans' new $1B AI device
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
Sam Altman and Jony Ive are no strangers to revolutionizing industries — and now they're setting their sights on the world of AI-powered devices.
With a potential $1B in funding, could the secretive startup from the powerful duo be a new dark horse in the race for AI hardware dominance? Let’s explore…
In today’s AI rundown:
Altman and Ive’s AI device startup
Tesla Robotaxi coming in August
Craft a stylish new signature with AI
Cornell: More Agents, smarter AI systems
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
SAM ALTMAN
💰 Altman and Ive’s AI device startup
Image source: Bloomberg
The Rundown: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former Apple designer Jony Ive are reportedly in talks to raise up to $1B from high-profile investors for their secretive AI-powered personal device company.
The details:
The proposed device will not look like a phone, but will likely integrate with OpenAI’s conversational AI tech.
Emerson Collective and Thrive Capital are among the potential investors, both with close ties to Altman and Ive.
Altman was previously in discussions with Japanese investment giant SoftBank on funding, with news of the hardware ambitions leaking in late 2023.
Altman is also an investor in Humane AI, which will ship the first batch of its personal ‘AI Pin’ devices this month.
Why it matters: The Altman-Ive collab is a perfect combo of design and AI power — and could be a dark horse to compete with hardware giants as the on-device AI era grows. However, the venture also raises even more questions about the blurring lines between OpenAI and Altman’s growing web of companies/interests.
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TESLA
🚖 Tesla Robotaxi reveal coming in August
Image source: Tesla
The Rundown: Elon Musk just announced that Tesla will reveal its long-awaited fully autonomous Robotaxi at an event on Aug. 8th, which comes as rumors swirl that the company is abandoning plans for an affordable line of EVs.
The details:
On Friday, Reuters reported that Tesla's entry-level EV will no longer be built.
Musk quickly called the Reuters report ‘a lie’, later posting that the Robotaxi will be unveiled on Aug. 8.
Musk previously said the company’s Robotaxis would be operational by 2020 and would feature no pedals or steering wheel.
Tesla just celebrated hitting the milestone of 1 billion miles driven by its fully self-driving (FSD) vehicles.
Why it matters: Tesla has a grand vision for the future of transportation — and AI advances coming from Musk’s companies suggest the tech could be closer than most believe. But given legal battles and inclination for bold timelines, we’ll see when the autonomous rubber actually meets the road.
AI TRAINING
✍️ Craft a stylish new signature with AI
The Rundown: With the prompt below, you can create a new signature or get inspiration using any AI image generator — perfect for the bottom of your emails!
The Prompt: "Highly minimalist, single-line drawing where the outline of a tiny [OBJECT] on the left smoothly and fluidly transitions continuing into a signature on the right. The signature, prominently spelling out '[NAME]', should be clear, legible, and stylish on a [white/black] canvas. This drawing should embody simplicity and elegance, capturing the essence of a sophisticated and personal brand with an artistic and graceful feel."
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PRESENTED BY HIGGSFIELD
🎥 Lifelike AI videos from just a selfie
The Rundown: Higgsfield’s brand new personalized video AI model enables creators and marketers to generate lifelike characters and scenes with control and personalization.
Key features:
Generate characters and humans with lifelike motion
Bring your ideas to life using text prompts, images, or videos
Create personalized characters that look just like you with a single selfie
Produce content anywhere, anytime with Higgsfield’s mobile-first platform
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AI RESEARCH
🧠 Cornell: More Agents, smarter AI systems
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The Rundown: A new study from Cornell researchers just found that increasing the number of AI agents collaborating on a problem can significantly improve performance.
The details:
The researchers created many agents of an AI model and had them each work on a problem independently.
The agents' answers were then combined using a voting system to determine the best overall solution.
Increasing the number of agents improved accuracy across tasks using various LLMs like Llama and GPT.
A smaller LLM could match or outperform a larger one by scaling up the number of agents, with a 13B parameter Llama model beating a 70B version on some tasks.
Why it matters: This study shows that there's a simple and effective way to make AI systems smarter: strength in numbers. As compute power and abilities continue to scale, automating unlimited amounts of agents to complete tasks could lead to mind-blowing increases in capabilities.
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QUICK HITS
Anthropic introduced ‘tool use’ to Claude, allowing the model to perform a wider variety of tasks and access external data sources and functions.
Canada PM Justin Trudeau revealed plans to allocate $2.4B in the budget to build up the country’s AI capabilities and boost technical infrastructure.
Huawei released a new iteration of its weather AI model called Zhiji, which can provide a five-day weather forecast with a precision of just 2 miles.
DataStax acquired Langflow, an open-source tool built on LangChain that enables developers to build AI applications faster and more easily.
Y Combinator showcased a wide range of startups at its Winter 2024 Demo Day, featuring companies across industries including healthcare, chip design, and AI.
Restaurants and grocery stores are using AI to analyze food waste by monitoring garbage and purchases, aiming to reduce the 30-40% of food that goes uneaten and trashed.
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AI talent wars: OpenAI vs Tesla
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
The gloves are off in the AI talent arena, with Elon Musk and OpenAI trading blows in a bitter rivalry that’s getting personal.
As the two giants clash, Tesla finds itself caught in the crossfire — and forced to take drastic measures to keep its AI engineers from jumping ship. Let’s get into it…
In today’s AI rundown:
Tesla and OpenAI talent war heats up
Google considers AI search paywall
Run open-source models locally for private AI
Octopus brings smarter AI agents to mobile
5 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
ELON MUSK
💰 Tesla and OpenAI talent war heats up
Image source: Getty Images / Reuters
The Rundown: Elon Musk said Tesla is boosting compensation for its AI engineers to combat aggressive recruiting and massive offers from OpenAI, calling it the “craziest talent war” he has ever seen.
The details:
Musk claimed OpenAI has successfully poached several Tesla engineers, with Tesla increasing AI engineer pay to attempt to fend off threats.
Several Tesla engineers have even been poached by Musk’s own xAI, including ML scientist Ethan Knight — who Musk said was originally set to join OpenAI.
Also making AI talent poaching headlines is Mark Zuckerberg, who reportedly recently emailed several Google DeepMind employees to recruit for Meta.
Musk and OpenAI continue to battle, with the billionaire filing a lawsuit last month.
Why it matters: The bitter rivalry between Elon Musk and OpenAI is spilling over into an all-out talent war — with Tesla seemingly caught in the crossfire. While the AI race has everyone angling for top researchers, Musk and Altman’s past history may point to a more personal angle behind the poaching.
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🔎 Google considers AI search paywall
Image source: Google
The Rundown: Google is reportedly considering charging for new ‘premium’ AI-powered search features, marking the first time the company would put any of its core search engine products behind a paywall.
The details:
Google is developing tech to deploy AI-enhanced search as part of its premium subscription services, which already includes Gemini access.
The traditional search engine would remain free, but certain AI-powered search enhancements would be limited to subscribers.
AI is costly to run compared to Google's current search model, potentially threatening the company's $175B search advertising cash cow.
Why it matters: Google's potential paywall highlights the tensions between its existing ad-supported business model and the disruptive forces of AI. While paywalling could help offset higher costs, it risks surrendering ground to competitors like Microsoft, which rapidly integrated AI into its search for free.
AI TRAINING
⚙️ Run open-source models locally for private AI
The Rundown: Mistral AI’s open-source LLM, Phi-2, can be run on your laptop offline — keeping data private and avoiding the censorship that comes with other models.
Step-by-step:
Download LM Studio - a free platform for local AI models
Inside LM Studio, search for "phi-2"
Select “TheBloke/phi-2-GGUF” and download the Q6_K or Q4_K_S version.
Open the Chat tab, ensure Phi-2 is selected, and then start prompting away!
THE RUNDOWN UNIVERSITY
🎓 The Rundown University hits 500 members
The Rundown: In case you missed it, we launched The Rundown AI University last week — the best place on the internet to learn how to actually apply AI in the quickest way possible.
What you’ll get by joining:
Instant access to over 100+ impactful AI workflows and use cases.
Daily tutorials to keep you up-to-date with the latest AI tools and techniques.
Weekly workshops on how the latest AI tools are shaping the future of work and how to implement them to stay ahead.
An exclusive community to network with and learn from the top 1% of early AI adopters.
We've already reached our first 500 members and are going to double the price on Saturday, but we want to make sure everyone has a chance to lock in at 50% off.
Join The Rundown University today, and you’ll be among the small percentage of professionals who actually take advantage.
AI RESEARCH
🐙 Octopus brings smarter AI agents to mobile
Image source: Stanford
The Rundown: Stanford researchers just introduced Octopus v2, a new framework for on-device AI agents that outperforms GPT-4 in accuracy by fine-tuning language models with special functional tokens.
The details:
Octopus v2 uses supported functions as special tokens and fine-tunes on a small dataset to learn when to use each function.
With just 100 training samples, the model achieved 98% accuracy in selecting the right function, surpassing GPT-4.
The optimized 2B parameter model runs on-device without needing an internet connection while maintaining speed and responsiveness.
Why it matters: The Octopus framework marks a leap forward towards making AI more practical and accessible for everyday use. In the near future, every smartphone will have a powerful, intuitive AI agent handling tasks seamlessly from simple user requests.
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QUICK HITS
Waymo is expanding its partnership with Uber, launching autonomous vehicle food delivery through Uber Eats in select areas of Phoenix, AZ.
Cohere released a new model called Command R+, which claims to perform competitively against rivals like OpenAI on certain business-critical tasks at a lower cost.
OpenAI introduced new fine-tuning API features and is expanding its Custom Models Program, giving developers more control and support for building AI systems for specific use cases.
Oracle and Palantir announced a partnership to deliver secure cloud and AI solutions, helping governments and businesses maximize data value and enhance decision-making.
Lumana unveiled a next-generation video surveillance platform that leverages AI to enhance security, improve operational efficiency, and streamline incident response for organizations.
Big tech including Google, Microsoft, Cisco, and Intel formed the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium, seeking to address concerns about AI’s impact on jobs.
Brave rolled out its Leo assistant on iOS, offering features like voice-to-text input, PDF and document summaries, and Google Docs integration.
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Earthquake rattles AI chip hub
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
Taiwan's chipmaking giants just narrowly escaped major damage after a powerful earthquake struck the country.
But with the world's tech giants heavily reliant on a few key players in the area, the tremors of concern are still being felt. Let’s investigate…
In today’s AI rundown:
Taiwan earthquake rattles AI chip hub
Stability launches Stable Audio 2.0
Try the fastest AI image generator
Apple explores home robots
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
TAIWAN
🚨 Taiwan earthquake rattles AI chip hub
Image source: Bloomberg
The Rundown: A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Taiwan, briefly disrupting production at the world's most important semiconductor manufacturing hub and threatening the global electronics supply chain.
The details:
Chipmakers TSMC and UMC halted some chipmaking machinery and evacuated staff at the facilities.
TSMC supplies chips to tech giants like Apple and Nvidia, representing over 60% of the semiconductor market share.
TSMC's main facilities near Taipei and southern Taiwan experienced lower shaking levels compared to the epicenter, minimizing damage.
The company expects to resume production overnight at affected facilities, with estimated production delays ranging from 6-10 hours.
Why it matters: As the leading producer of advanced chips, any disruption to Taiwan's chip manufacturing could have major repercussions for the global tech/AI industry. The quake reminds us of the massive vulnerability of a concentrated supply chain—an issue that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is looking to address with his global chip venture.
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🎥 Watch: Learn to Futureproof your GenAI Stack
The Rundown: In this discussion between Fortune 500 AI advisor Allie K Miller and OctoAI CEO Luis Ceze, you’ll learn how to build your stack to maximize new open-source models with your data in a controlled environment.
What they cover:
Strategies for evaluating and managing multiple models
Best practices for fine-tuning and model asset management
Tips for smarter hardware utilization and lowering
TCO Crucial insights on data privacy and security
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STABILITY AI
🎶 Stability launches Stable Audio 2.0
Image source: Stability AI
The Rundown: Stability AI just released Stable Audio 2.0, an updated AI audio generation model that can create high-quality songs up to three minutes long with a coherent structure from a single text prompt.
The details:
The new model introduces audio-to-audio generation, allowing users to upload and transform their own audio samples using prompts.
2.0 also offers expanded sound effect generation and style transfer capabilities, providing more creative control for artists and musicians.
The model was trained exclusively on a licensed dataset from AudioSparx, with opt-out requests honored to ensure fair creator compensation.
Why it matters: AI music generation continues to accelerate — and the increases we’ve seen in image quality are likely not far off in the audio realm. Check out Stability’s 24/7 ‘Stable Radio’ channel to listen to some of the AI-generated music as background music while you work.
AI TRAINING
⚡️ Try the fastest AI image generator
The Rundown: With the newest version of Freepik AI Image Generator, you can generate an infinite number of images at a near real-time speed.
Step-by-step:
Go to Freepik AI Image Generator page and log in. You’ll get 20 free credits to start.
Pick a prompt from the suggestions or type in your own prompt in the bar and hit “Create.”
Adjust the results by choosing specific styles, colors, framings, or lightning from the styling options.
That’s it! Scroll through the images and pick your favorite option or re-edit the image through the one-click adjustments on the left.
APPLE
🤖 Apple explores home robots
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The Rundown: Apple is reportedly exploring the development of personal home robots as a potential "next big thing" after the company's electric vehicle project fizzled out earlier this year.
The details:
Apple engineers are working on a mobile robot that can follow users around the home.
The tech giant scrapped its decade-long ‘Project Titan’ EV in February, with robotics work now shifting to home devices.
The company is currently advertising for robotics-related roles on its website, seeking ML researchers and engineers.
Why it matters: Apple’s home robot would tie together the company’s web of consumer products and entrench the company even deeper into users' daily lives. But the tech giant will face stiff competition from the wave of humanoid robotics startups and other rivals like Samsung and Amazon.
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QUICK HITS
Amazon is discontinuing it's ‘Just Walk Out’ technology, which was promoted as AI-powered and cashier-less but revealed to rely heavily on hundreds of workers in India manually reviewing sales transactions.
Microsoft’s 365 Copilot gained new access to OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo model for business subscribers, removing daily chat limits and improving image generation capabilities.
Billionaire investor Steve Cohen said the rise of AI will help bring about a four-day workweek, citing increased leisure time and decreased productivity on Fridays.
George Carlin’s estate reached a settlement over an AI-generated comedy special that allegedly infringed on the late comedian’s copyrights, with the podcasters agreeing to remove the content from all platforms.
Opera released a new browser feature allowing users to download and use over 150 LLMs locally on their computers.
Prenosis received FDA approval for its AI-driven diagnostic test that helps predict sepsis risk in hospital patients.
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Open-sourced AI coding agent
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
A new autonomous AI agent is going viral across the AI community today, and this time, it’s completely open-sourced.
If you’ve seen Devin but got access yet, you’ll like this one. Let’s get into it…
In today’s AI rundown:
Open-sourced AI software developer agent
Apple Vision Pro’s spatial Personas
Get text-to-speech audio trained on your voice
Anthropic uncovers 'many-shot jailbreaking'
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 3 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
AI AGENTS
🤖 Open-sourced AI software developer agent
Image source: SWE-agent
The Rundown: Researchers from Princeton NLP have developed SWE-agent, an open-source system that turns GPT-4 into an AI software engineering agent that can autonomously solve issues in GitHub repositories.
The details:
SWE-agent achieves accuracy similar to that of Devin (a recently viral AI agent) on the SWE-bench benchmark, resolving 12.29% of issues autonomously.
The agent has an average task completion time of 93 seconds.
The system interacts with a specialized terminal, allowing it to open and search files, edit specific lines, and write and execute tests.
Why it matters: Between Devin and now SWE-agent, autonomous coding agents are reaching disruptive levels. While still early, these AI workers can be spawned to build apps or work alongside developers — unlocking massive productivity gains and leaving those who don’t integrate the tech in the dust.
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💡 AI insights from 1,000 industry leaders
The Rundown: Nylas surveyed 1,000 developers, product and engineering leaders, and executives to better understand how they’re harnessing generative AI today.
The in-depth guide details:
The future of work and AI's pivotal role
The importance of education and training for effective AI use
Navigating security and privacy challenges
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APPLE VISION PRO
👻 Apple Vision Pro’s spatial Personas
Image source: Apple
The Rundown: Apple Vision Pro users can now enable spatial Personas in SharePlay-enabled apps, allowing for collaboration, gaming, and media consumption with other users in a virtual space.
The details:
Spatial Persona avatars are designed to replicate a user’s facial expressions and hand gestures.
Up to five people can watch movies and TV shows, play games, collaborate, and hang out together.
Users can control what they see and reposition objects without affecting other users' views.
The feature requires VisionOS 1.1 and is enabled through the FaceTime app.
Why it matters: Spatial Personas is Apple’s attempt to make virtual collaboration and social interaction feel more natural and immersive. If successful, it could revolutionize fields like education, remote work, and entertainment.
Watch the Spatial Personas demo here.
AI TRAINING
🎙️ Get text-to-speech audio trained on your voice
The Rundown: AudioBox is Meta's new foundation research model for audio generation. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to leverage it to generate AI audio that sounds like your own voice for free.
Step-by-step:
Head to the AudioBox demo and scroll down.
Click “Record your voice“ to use your audio sample, or use text descriptions or pre-loaded voices instead.
AudioBox will then prompt you to read a short sentence to upload your vocals to the model.
Type the text you'd like to generate after recording (or using a sample recording).
That’s it! AudioBox will then generate two recordings in your vocal style 🎉
AI RESEARCH
🦝 Anthropic uncovers 'many-shot jailbreaking'
Image source: Anthropic
The Rundown: Anthropic researchers have discovered a new "jailbreaking" technique called "many-shot jailbreaking" that can evade the safety guardrails of large language models (LLMs) by exploiting expanded context windows.
The details:
Many-shot jailbreaking involves inserting a series of simulated dialogues into the input to exploit LLMs' in-context learning abilities.
The likelihood of eliciting a harmful response increases with the number of dialogues (or "shots") included in the prompt.
The effectiveness of many-shot jailbreaking is related to the process of "in-context learning," where LLMs learn using the prompt context.
Anthropic has informed other AI researchers and companies about this vulnerability and is actively working on mitigation strategies.
Why it matters: The discovery of many-shot jailbreaking highlights the double-edged nature of the expanding context windows in LLMs. While longer inputs and in-context learning make models more useful, they also enable new classes of vulnerabilities.
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Replit launched Code Repair, a low-latency programming AI agent that can automatically fix your code in the background while developers work.
A group of 200 musicians, including Billie Eilish, Nicki Minaj, and Katy Perry, signed an open letter calling on tech companies to use AI music generation tools responsibly.
Microsoft is testing an AI-powered Xbox chatbot that can automate support tasks and process game refunds.
The UK and US governments announced a partnership to jointly safety test the most powerful AI models and develop a common approach.
Amazon Web Services expanded its free credits program for startups to cover the use of major AI models from Meta, Anthropic, and Cohere, in addition to its own Bedrock platform.
Researchers discovered that feeding AI image generators just 1,000 extra culturally diverse images can significantly reduce stereotypes and misrepresentations in outputs.
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Apple's new AI model outperforms GPT-4
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
Apple researchers just revealed a new AI model that can ‘see’ and understand screen context — and they say it can ‘substantially outperform‘ GPT-4 on benchmarks.
If research papers are any indications of future launches, we’re gearing up for a wild ride at Apple WWDC 2024. Let’s get into it.
In today’s AI rundown:
Apple’s ReALM ‘outperforms‘ GPT-4
OpenAI adds image editing to DALL-E 3
Generate green screen product mockups with AI
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 3 minutes
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🍎 Apple’s ReALM ‘outperforms‘ GPT-4
The Rundown: In a new research paper, Apple researchers introduced ReALM, a new AI system that can understand on-screen tasks, conversational context, and background processes.
The details:
ReALM uses a new approach of converting screen info to text — allowing it to bypass bulky image recognition parameters for more efficient on-device AI.
The model takes into account both what's on the user's screen and what tasks are active.
According to the paper, Apple's larger ReALM models substantially outperformed GPT-4, despite having fewer parameters.
Example use case: If scrolling through a website and you want to call a business, a user could tell Siri to “call the business“, and Siri would be able to “see“ the phone number on the website and call it directly.
Why it matters: ReALM is a big step forward in making voice assistants more context-aware. By understanding on-screen info and additional context, the next Siri update could provide a more seamless and hands-free user experience.
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🌅 OpenAI adds image editing to DALL-E 3
The Rundown: OpenAI has introduced a new feature that allows users to edit images generated by DALL-E 3 directly within ChatGPT, providing a more streamlined way to customize AI-generated images.
The details:
The DALL-E editor enables users to select specific areas of an image and prompt changes.
Users can add, remove, or modify objects and characteristics within a selected region of an AI-generated image.
The editor is accessible via the web interface and the ChatGPT mobile app, with slight variations in the editing process between platforms.
Why it matters: Integrating image editing capabilities directly into DALL-E 3 is a big step forward in expanding the image-generation possibilities using ChatGPT. However, with Midjourney having similar features for a while, it looks like OpenAI is finally the one playing catch-up.
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✅ Generate green screen product mockups with AI
The Rundown: This Midjourney or DALL-E 3 prompt can create stunningly realistic computer, phone, or product mockups, complete with a green screen to customize for your business or product easily.
Step-by-step:
Open DALL-E 3 or Midjourney and type /imagine.
Prompt to generate an image of someone holding/using a device in front of a solid green background. For example: “Over the shoulder shot of a person in front of an entirely <color> computer screen”
Customize and tweak the prompt as necessary to get the image just right — then export and open in an editing app (Photoshop, Canva, etc.) to replace the colored screen background with your own imagery.
Note — be mindful of reflections, such as green screens bleeding into other aspects of the image.
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Google for Developers sent an email to all Gemini API Developers that they will update their terms of service to pay-as-you-go pricing for the Gemini API starting May 2nd.
Stanford Medicine researchers devise SyntheMol, a new AI model that develops potential new drugs for antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Samsung is redefining its voice assistant Bixby with generative AI to enable more natural conversation and support across its ecosystem of products.
Perplexity plans to start selling native ads in the form of brand-influenced related questions.
Google AI just introduced AutoBNN, an open-source machine learning framework that combines the interpretability of traditional Bayesian approaches with the scalability of neural networks.
MultiOn released its Agent API in public beta, allowing developers to embed AI agents in applications to automate tasks and workflows on the web.
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OpenAI unveils voice cloning tool
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
OpenAI just unveiled Voice Engine — an AI model that can clone a voice from just 15 seconds of audio.
With tech like this, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell what’s real or fake on the internet. Let’s dive in…
In today’s AI rundown:
OpenAI unveils AI voice cloning tool
Microsoft and OpenAI plan $100B supercomputer
Apply structure references to your images
Learn how to apply AI in your work
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
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🎙️ OpenAI unveils AI voice cloning tool
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The Rundown: OpenAI has unveiled a preview of Voice Engine, a model that can clone human voices from a 15-second audio sample and generate natural-sounding speech.
The details:
The model is able to preserve the accent and emotions of the original speaker in generated speech.
Voice Engine is currently being tested by a small group of trusted partners, including AI startup HeyGen.
OpenAI has implemented safety measures like watermarking and proactive monitoring to prevent misuse.
The company revealed it first developed the tech in late 2022 and has been using it to power voices in its text-to-speech API and ChatGPT.
Why it matters: OpenAI is clearly far ahead in the space, with Voice Engine being deployed internally since 2022. However, with no public release in sight, the company seems to understand the risks, such as deepfake scams during an election year.
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💫 Microsoft and OpenAI plan $100B supercomputer
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The Rundown: Microsoft and OpenAI are planning a $100 billion data center project, nicknamed "Stargate," to house a supercomputer with millions of AI chips to power OpenAI's next-gen models.
The details:
The Stargate project could cost over $100 billion, making it 100x more expensive than today's largest data centers.
Microsoft would likely finance the project, which executives aim to launch as soon as 2028.
Stargate is reportedly designed to support AI chips from various manufacturers, lessening the companies' reliance on Nvidia's GPUs.
Why it matters: Building a data center that’s 100x bigger than all current standards takes enormous amounts of money, power, and time. Project Stargate highlights that OpenAI and Microsoft are willing to stop at no expense on the quest to AGI.
AI TRAINING
🌄 Apply structure references to your images
The Rundown: In this tutorial, you will learn how to apply structure references to your images for free using Adobe Firefly’s new feature called “Structure Reference”.
Step-by-step:
Visit Adobe Firefly. To use it, you need to create a free account.
Add an image that will serve as a reference to match its outline and depth where it says “Structure” (located on the left-hand side).
Edit the prompt to closely match your desired picture and experiment with Firefly's different settings, such as aspect ratio, style, effects, or even angle.
Click “Generate,” and it will provide you with multiple images to choose from 🎉
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Elon Musk revealed in an X post that Grok 2 is in training and will “exceed current AI on all metrics“.
Andrew Ng, founder of DeepLearning AI, spoke at Sequoia Capital’s AI Ascent meetup, revealing that GPT 3.5 outperforms GPT-4 through an agentic workflow.
OpenAI has quietly updated an article showing a ‘DALL-E 3 editor interface’ — allowing users to edit images directly in the chat by selecting an area of the image and prompting changes.
The National WWII Museum is using AI and voice recognition to allow visitors to "converse" with World War II-era Americans through volumetric video interviews.
Japan and the US are reported to announce closer cooperation in AI and semiconductors in a joint statement when Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets with President Joe Biden next month.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has been awarded a knighthood in the UK for "services to artificial intelligence".
Indiana Pacers used Snapchat AI filters to make it look like Los Angeles Lakers fans were crying during a recent NBA game.
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