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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
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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
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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!
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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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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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What they cover:
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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
Image source: Midjourney
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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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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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
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
APPLE
🍎 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 DALL-E
🌅 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.
AI TRAINING
✅ 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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OpenAI is rolling out a new ChatGPT feature that allows new users to start using ChatGPT instantly without needing to sign up.
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
Read time: 3 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
OPENAI
🎙️ OpenAI unveils AI voice cloning tool
Image source: 9to5Google
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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QUICK HITS
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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Elon Musk's xAI reveals the newest chatbot
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI just revealed the latest version of its Grok chatbot, which will soon be rolling out to users on the X platform.
If benchmarks hold up and a potential partnership with Midjourney pans out — the chatbot could be the newest competitor to ChatGPT and GPT-4. Let’s dig in…
In today’s AI rundown:
xAI and Elon Musk unviel Grok 1.5
Microsoft Copilot to run locally on future PCs
Generate slides for your presentations using AI
AI21 Labs unveils open-sourced Jamba
7 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
XAI
🤖 xAI and Elon Musk unviel Grok 1.5
Image source: xAI
The Rundown: xAI just announced Grok-1.5, the latest iteration of its open-source large language model, boasting improved reasoning capabilities and a massive 128,000 token context length.
The details:
Grok-1.5 has notable improvements in coding and math, achieving high scores on benchmarks like MATH (50.6%), GSM8K (90%), and HumanEval (74.1%).
The model will soon be available to early testers and existing Grok users on the X (formerly Twitter).
Rumors suggest that Grok-1.5 may include an "Analysis" button, which can summarize entire threads and replies on X.
Why it matters: If benchmarks are any indication of LLM performance, Grok-1.5 should be nearly as capable as GPT-4. But Grok's true potential lies in its ability to leverage the real-time data on X, and if Grok’s recent talks with Midjourney pan out, Grok 1.5 could be a serious competitor in the AI chatbot frenzy.
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MICROSOFT COPILOT
🖥️ Microsoft Copilot to run locally on future PCs
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The Rundown: Intel has confirmed that Microsoft's Copilot AI will soon operate locally on PCs, reducing reliance on cloud processing and potentially boosting performance and privacy.
The details:
Future AI PCs will need NPUs (Neural Processing Units) with at least 40 TOPS (Tera Operations per Second) to handle more elements of Copilot locally.
Microsoft prioritizes running Copilot on the NPU instead of the GPU to minimize the impact on battery life.
The trend of local AI processing is also extending to smartphones, with Google's Pixel 8 also featuring the Tensor G3 chip for on-device AI.
Why it matters: The shift towards local AI processing could enhance performance, privacy, and cybersecurity, setting the stage for a potential "TOPS war" among chipmakers competing to meet the growing demand for powerful, efficient AI hardware.
AI TRAINING
🪄 Generate slides for your presentations using AI
The Rundown: In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Gemini in Google Slides so it generates slides, images, and text for you. The best part? It’s free.
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Visit Google Slides. You will need to sign up or log in with your Gmail account.
Select “Blank Presentation” to create one from scratch.
Click on the Gemini icon at the top right. Describe the slide, hit Enter, and your slide will come to life.
Click “Insert” if you are happy with it or regenerate it.
That’s it! To modify or add an image, click the Gemini icon again and ask for an image with a description.
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AI21LABS
🦓 AI21 Labs unveils open-sourced Jamba
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The Rundown: AI21 Labs just introduced Jamba, an open-source AI model that merges the Mamba Structured State Space (SSM) architecture with components of traditional transformer architecture, creating a powerful hybrid system.
The details:
Jamba boasts an impressive 256K context window, equivalent to around 105,000 words or 210 pages.
The model delivers 3x faster processing on long contexts compared to transformer-based models of similar size.
Jamba is highly efficient, requiring just a single GPU with 80GB of memory to run — despite its large context window.
Jamba’s weights are available on HuggingFace here.
Why it matters: Jamba's innovative approach makes it the only model of its size capable of handling 140K context on a single GPU, opening up new possibilities for businesses and researchers looking to leverage state-of-the-art LLMs without the need for extensive computing resources.
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QUICK HITS
Google.org (the nonprofit arm of Google) just launched a $20 million funding program for non-profit organizations developing generative AI technologies.
Amazon plans to spend almost $150 billion in the next 15 years on data centers to handle the expected explosion in demand for AI apps.
Researchers in London are developing an AI tool to sort dogs into 5 categories in a bid to match puppies with their perfect owners.
New York City will soon start testing technology that uses AI to detect firearms at subway turnstiles.
All US federal agencies are now required to have a Chief AI Officer and AI governance boards to oversee AI systems and ensure responsible use as part of the new Office of Management and Budget guidance.
Microsoft is building new safety features into Azure AI Studio to make it harder for people to trick AI chatbots, including "prompt shields" to detect and block deliberate attempts to make models behave in unintended ways.
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Claude 3 dethrones GPT-4
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
There's a new king of the AI chatbot castle — and it's not who you might expect.
For the first time ever, OpenAI's GPT-4 has been dethroned on the Chatbot Arena leaderboard by Anthropic’s Claude 3. Let’s get into it.
In today’s AI rundown:
Claude 3 dethrones GPT-4
Amazon doubles down on Anthropic with $2.75B
Generate and edit DALL-E 3 images in Copilot
New open-source LLM tops the leaderboard
5 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 3 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
ANTHROPIC CLAUDE
👑 Claude 3 dethrones GPT-4
Image source: Screenshot via LMSYS Chatbot Arena
The Rundown: Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus model has surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4 for the first time on the LMSYS Chatbot Arena leaderboard.
The details:
The LMSYS Chatbot Arena is a crowdsourced platform used by AI researchers to gauge the relative capabilities of AI language models.
GPT-4 models have consistently topped the Chatbot Arena charts since the leaderboard's launch in May 2023.
Claude 3's rise showcases growing competition in the LLM space, with many already replacing ChatGPT with Claude 3 in their daily workflows.
OpenAI is expected to release a major successor to GPT-4 Turbo (potentially GPT-4.5 or GPT-5) sometime this year.
Why it matters: Claude 3's ascent is a pretty significant milestone in the rapidly evolving LLM landscape. As competitors like Anthropic and Google continue to gain ground with increasingly capable models — the pressure is on for OpenAI to respond with the next groundbreaking release.
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AMAZON
💰 Amazon doubles down on Anthropic with $2.75B
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The Rundown: Amazon just announced an additional $2.75 billion investment in Anthropic, on top of its initial $1.25 billion, marking the tech giant's largest outside investment in its history.
The details:
Amazon will maintain a minority stake in Anthropic but won't hold a board seat.
Anthropic has now raised roughly $7.3 billion across five funding rounds in the past year alone, valuing the company at $18.4 billion.
As part of the deal, Anthropic will use AWS as its primary cloud provider and leverage Amazon's custom AI chips.
Why it matters: With cloud giants like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google all competing for an edge, the AI arms race is only heating up — and Anthropic is emerging as a top player to watch.
AI TRAINING
🌅 Generate and edit DALL-E 3 images in Copilot
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The Rundown: Microsoft Copilot’s new update now supports inline image editing — meaning you can now edit AI images directly within Copilot after generating them.
Step-by-step:
Head to Microsoft Copilot.
Enter a prompt to create your desired image.
Select your preferred image to change the style or elements using the menu of options.
Move your mouse over the image and select the main subject.
Edit the background of the image, such as adding “Blur“ or “Color pop“.
DATABRICKS
📈 New open-source LLM tops the leaderboard
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The Rundown: Databricks just announced DBRX, a new open-sourced large language model (LLM) with advanced capabilities in language and code understanding.
The details:
DBRX outperforms major open-source models including Mixtral MoE, Llama-2 70B, and Grok-1 on language understanding, Programming, and Math.
Its inference is up to 2x faster than LLaMA2-70B and is about 40% of the size of Grok-1 in both total and active parameter counts.
The model surpasses GPT-3.5 on long-context tasks and RAG benchmarks.
It reportedly took just $10M and two months to train DBRX from scratch.
Why it matters: Databricks's creation of a GPT 3.5 level model with just $10M and two months sets a new standard for the industry. But while topping the open-source leaderboard is impressive, Meta’s highly anticipated Llama 3 is coming soon, meaning the model likely won’t stay on top for long.
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QUICK HITS
OpenAI has begun rolling out the early program for GPT usage earnings to a select group of builders in the United States.
HeyGen teased its new AI avatar generator, which can track, translate, and lip-sync any motion, including hand movements, gestures, and voice tones.
Cohere is in late-stage discussions to raise new funds of at least $500 million at a whopping $5 billion valuation co-lead by the Canadian Pension Fund.
Hume AI revealed its Empathic Voice Interface (EVI) — touted as the first conversational AI with emotional intelligence.
New ChatGPT leaks suggest a new GPT 3.5 model called "text-davinci-002-render-paid" with vision capabilities may be coming to the chatbot soon.
Accenture has made a strategic investment in humanoid general-purpose robot company Sanctuary AI.
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