The Generative A.I. Brief #17
Michael Spencer
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This post is a quick link tool to completely get up to date on what occured in A.I. during the last week to ten days. Week of October 2nd, 2023.
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This post is a review of links to some of the most important stories around A.I. in the last ten days.
??Introduction for Today??
More startups and more partner announcements. Nothing huge occurred although a steady stream of startups received funding yet again.
Anthropic is likely to get more funding from Google, which means it’s officially the most speculative AI startup in the world. Its valuation would put it at 200x forward revenue.
The way the “magnificent 7” (BigTech) are investing in A.I. startups, is likely causing a significant market bubble around A.I. The magnificent seven is a term used for how unbalanced the stock market has become around a few BigTech names. So how does Generative A.I. evolve at the peak of late-stage capitalism involving monopoly companies?
??Top News ??
AI Startup Anthropic in Early Talks With Investors to Raise $2 Billion (Bloomberg) Valuation: 30 Billion at 200 x forward revenue.
OpenAI’s GPT-4V Trends on X
Google Assistant upgraded with Bard: Assistant with Bard: A step toward a more personal assistant
OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 Launches on Bing
Rewind Pendant is a wearable AI microphone that records and transcribes your conversations (Official deal)
Stability AI: Introducing Stable LM 3B: Bringing Sustainable, High-Performance Language Models to Smart Devices?
Humane’s Fashion show form-factor Reveal: Humane reveals first AI device - the Ai Pin (Teaser, actual launch is November 9th, 2023)
Google Bard about to get more personalized: Google Bard readies ‘Memory’ to adapt to important details about you
Perplexity Introduces pplx-api: Perplexity Lab's fast and efficient API for open-source LLMs (Official
Amazon Bedrock is generally available now (AWS)
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??Partnership & Announcements??
Announcing Replit AI for All
Microsoft’s LinkedIn Adds new AI tools for learning, recruitment, marketing and sales, powered by OpenAI
Runway AI Partners with Canva (October 4th, Runway Official)
Lensa's AI selfie app is back with new "Magic Avatars 2.0" (The Decoder)
Stability AI: StableDiffusionXL is now on Quora’s Poe Chatbot Interface
Zapata AI and Mila Partner to Elevate Generative Modeling Research for Industrial Use Cases
??Noted Newsletters??
OpenAI's DALL-E 3 has an incredible attention to detail (The Decoder)
?? Papers ??
The Dawn of LMMs: Preliminary Explorations with GPT-4V(ision) (Sept 29th, read System Card, OpenAI)
Language Modeling Is Compression (Sept 19th)
GPT-4V(ision) System Card (OpenAI, Sept 25th - GPT-4V)
DreamGaussian: Generative Gaussian Splatting for Efficient 3D Content Creation (Sept 28th) - GitHub
Demystifying CLIP Data (September 28th)
LongLoRA: Efficient Fine-tuning of Long-Context Large Language Models( Sept 21st)
OpenBA: An Open-sourced 15B Bilingual Asymmetric seq2seq Model Pre-trained from Scratch (Sept 19th, Chinese) - Context
DualToken-ViT: Position-aware Efficient Vision Transformer with Dual Token Fusion (Sept 21st, Chinese)
??Semiconductor Notes??
LLM Startup Embraces AMD GPUs, Says ROCm Has ‘Parity’ With Nvidia’s CUDA Platform
US Commerce Secretary: Huawei's Chip Advancements are 'Incredibly Disturbing' (Tom’s Hardware)
TSMC Continues Working Through US Staff Culture Clash (between Taiwan and the U.S. construction projects)
The AI Boom Props Up Datacenter Infrastructure Spending
The race for semiconductor supremacy | FT Film
The US is bidding to regain a leading role in advanced chip manufacturing, to de-risk critical supply chains, and to combat China's rise as a technological superpower.
?? Startups ??
Unitary raises $15M in Series A funding round for AI-driven content moderation (Tech.eu)
Machina Labs raises $32M to bring flexibility to manufacturing
Sam Altman backs teens’ AI startup automating browser-native workflows
AI-powered parking platform Metropolis raises $1.7B to acquire SP Plus
Rabbit is building an AI model that understands how software works
Humata AI Raises $3.5 Million Led by Google’s Gradient Ventures
??Venture Capital??
Prosecutors don’t want Bankman-Fried’s lawyers mentioning his $500 million investment in AI startup Anthropic: ‘It is immaterial’
Greylock secures $1B for its 17th fund amid launch of early-stage founders program (TechCrunch)
New data shows that without intervention, generative AI jobs will continue to cluster in the same big tech hubs (Brookings)
?? Business to Business (B2B)??
Third-party AI tools pose increasing risks for organizations (MIT)
??Videos??
AMD’s Lisa Su at Code Conference: [link] [Browse Transcript]
??Novel Tools??
Bing Image Creator: Go to Bing’s website, set up a free Microsoft account, and start prompting. You can also use Bing Image Creator through Bing Chat.
Use GitHub Copilot locally with Localpilot
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Canva Magic Studio with a lot of new AI-powered upgrades
Here are the highlights of launched features under the new Magic Studio:
??Hacker News??
OpenAI’s upgrade: 7 Incredible Features of GPT-4V (AIM)
Does the First Amendment Confer a ‘Right to Compute’? The Future of AI May Depend on It (Scientific America)
AI-focused tech firms locked in ‘race to the bottom’, warns MIT professor (The Guardian)
Microsoft's Bing chat botches election information, endangers democracy, study finds (View Study)
Lessons: So We Shipped an AI Product. Did it Work? (honeycomb.io)
?? Robotics ??
Google Deepmind takes the next step toward general-purpose robots (The Decoder)
Context: Google DeepMind unites researchers in bid to create an ImageNet of robot actions - Read Official
Bonsai Robotics Raises $13.5M in Seed Funding
??Healthcare??
?? Science ??
New AI algorithm can detect signs of life with 90% accuracy. Scientists want to send it to Mars (Space.com)
?? Open-Source LLMs ??
How good is Open-Orca/Mistral-7B-OpenOrca?
Adept AI: Releasing Persimmon-8B (Official)
New Anyscale service enables fine-tuning of open source LLMs (it’s called Endpoints)
??Stock Market ??
AI is overhyped, Warren Buffett's right-hand man Charlie Munger says
??AGI and ASI ????
How Sam Altman Defines AGI [link] From the ?? horse’s mouth.
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Tech bros like OpenAI's Sam Altman keep obsessing about replacing the 'median human' with AI (Insider)
?? Education & Learning??
Optimizing your LLM in production (Hugging Face)
A Surprisingly Effective Way to Estimate Token Importance in LLM Prompts
?? Prompt Engineering ??
How technology is making it easier than ever for artists to become “solopreneurs”
The rise of the novice coder: Can AI turn every employee into a developer? (Semafor)
??Videos & Podcasts???
Lightspeed VP presents: A new podcast by Lightspeed VP with founders building exciting AI products and companies (Generative Now)
???National Defense & Military???
Defense startup Mach Industries closes $79M Series A at $335M valuation
??Space and Emerging Tech???
Amazon is launching its first internet satellites to rival Starlink (NewScientist)
??Future of Work & Automation??
AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen LLM Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation (paper) - Microsoft’s AutoGen framework allows multiple AI agents to talk to each other and complete your tasks
More than 40% of labor force to be affected by AI in 3 years, Morgan Stanley forecasts (Semi-Gated, CNBC)
?? China A.I.??
AI Doomer vs Techno-Optimist: Social Fabric, AI Girlfriends, Mass Media (In China, Semianalysis, partially gated)
China won't end up like Japan - but it's headed for a 'grinding deceleration' with a narrow path to avoid stagnation, research firm says (Insider)
Taiwanese Companies Deny Helping Huawei Produce Chips - Context
????♂?Dystopian ??
Impact of relationships with AI chatbot programmes ‘worrying’, psychologist says
??Governance and Regulation??
UK’s CMA publishes report on AI Regulation (Read the Report, UK)
??Opinion Editorial??
How authoritarian governments are using generative AI (Platformer, Paywalled)
??Entertainment & the Arts??
Warner Music CEO Robert Kyncl says AI to impact the music industry within the next year (TechCrunch)
??Manifestations of Utopia???
ChatGPT will ‘help us with extremely hard problems’ in the future, says OpenAI’s chief tech officer
??Quantum Computing??
??Public Relations??
Sam Altman-backed Slope raises $30M for AI-powered B2B payments platform
Asana adds new AI smarts to simplify project management
Yahoo spins out Vespa, its search tech, into an independent company
Qualcomm launches its next-gen chips for XR and AR platforms
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