April 7 Update: AI Unleashed - Cutting-Edge Innovations, Fearless Startup Aspirations, and Industry Shockwaves

Google Search to Include Chat AI

Google CEO Sundar Pichai talks plans to add conversational AI features to the search engine to enhance query responses and address competition from chatbots like ChatGPT. Pichai downplays chatbots' threat to Google's search business, a major revenue source for Alphabet.

Meta Introduces Segment Anything

The Segment Anything project introduces a new task, dataset, and model for image segmentation, making it more accessible. The project releases the largest-ever segmentation dataset, SA-1B, and the adaptable Segment Anything Model (SAM). SAM can generate masks for any object in images or videos, even those not encountered during training, enabling broad applicability and zero-shot transfer to new image domains.

Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI

AI startup Anthropic aims to raise $5 billion within two years to compete with OpenAI and enter various industries. Founded in 2020 by ex-OpenAI researchers, Anthropic plans to develop a "frontier model," named "Claude-Next," which would be 10 times more capable than current AI models, requiring a $1 billion spending over the next 18 months.

For B2B Generative AI Apps, Is Less More? (Andreessen Horowitz)

Generative AI Strategy

There are 4 questions a startup should ask themselves about building a startup that uses generative AI. by Tomasz Tunguz (Theory Ventures)

A boom in AI Accelerators

Stanford Published "The 2023 AI Index Report"

Funding Rounds

• Chroma raises $18M seed round: Chroma is an open-source, AI-native embeddings database designed to help developers incorporate state and memory into their AI-enabled applications. https://www.trychroma.com/blog/seed
• LangChain raises $10M seed round led by Benchmark: LangChain is a framework for developing applications powered by language models, offered as both a?Python?and a?TypeScript?package. https://blog.langchain.dev/announcing-our-10m-seed-round-led-by-benchmark/

Podcast Episode

If you have 30 dollars, a few hours, and one server, then you are ready to create a ChatGPT-like model that can do what’s known as instruction-following. Databricks’ latest launch, Dolly, foreshadows a potential move in the industry toward smaller and more accessible but extremely capable AIs. Plus, Dolly is open source, requires less computing power, and fewer data parameters than its counterparts.

Tutorial: Build Your Own ChatGPT AI Assistant on Telegram

Events

• LLMs in Production Conference - Online - April 13

https://home.mlops.community/public/events/llms-in-production-conference-2023-04-13

• Online?GPT-4 hackathon?- $10,000 cash prize? April 28-30