AI Update - Monday, March 18, 2024
Seth Waters
Chief Growth Officer at Fortuna (3x Inc. 5000, 2x Vet100) | VP of Comms at Space Force Association NorCal | ?? Most Impactful CMO's 2024 | Editor-in-Chief at AI Insights Newsletter
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The job of so-called “solutions professionals” — people like sales engineers, solutions architects and consultants — revolves around pitching complex enterprise tech to potential customers. It’s important work. However, despite this being the case, solutions teams are rarely adequately staffed and resourced, according to entrepreneur Dan Chen.
Apple is looking to team up with Google for a mega-deal to leverage the Gemini AI model for features on iPhone,?Bloomberg?reported. This will put Google in a commanding position as the company already has a deal with Apple as the preferred search engine provider on iPhones for the Safari browser.
Elon Musk’s xAI has open sourced the base code of Grok AI model, but without any training code. The company?described?it as the 314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Expert model?on GitHub.
In a blog post, xAI said that the model wasn’t tuned for any particular application such as using it for conversations. The company noted that Grok-1 was trained on a “custom” stack without specifying details. The model is licensed under?Apache License 2.0, which permits commercial use cases.
? VC Arjun Sethi talks a big game about selling his company-picking strategies to other investors; he says they’re buying it
Arjun Sethi speaks with the confidence of someone who knows more than other people, or at least knows that sounding highly confident can shape perception. Either way, when he tells me over Zoom that “in five years, I’ll have 50% of the world’s private data” at his fingertips, and that it will be “impossible to compete against me,” he says it with all the authority of Warren Buffett dropping stock market truths.
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as?AI?is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own.
India is walking back on a?recent AI advisory?after receiving criticism from many local and global entrepreneurs and investors.
The Ministry of Electronics and IT shared an updated AI advisory with industry stakeholders on Friday that no longer asked them to take the government approval before launching or deploying an AI model to users in the South Asian market.
It’s extremely heartening to see our little list effectively double since the last time we did one of these. While it’s true that layoffs continue to plague the tech industry at large, there are few better fields to be expert in at the moment than Robotics and AI.