Welcome, humans.
A few new rules for our ChatGPT Plus giveaway:
- 1 referral = 1 entry, so the more people you refer, the greater your odds of winning!
- The winner will receive ChatGPT Plus for one year (worth $240, but way more in our eyes).
- We're extending the giveaway to next Friday (4/20)!
You can find your referral link at the bottom of this email. Good luck!
Here’s what’s going on in the world of AI today:
- Amazon releases competing AI service 🏷
- Stability Diffusion improves ⚡️
- CodeWhisperer becomes free 🤫
- An AI copilot for game studios 🎮
Amazon Announces Generative AI Services 🌈
After not a single word about AI this entire time, Amazon has finally entered the AI chat.
The everything store just announced its AI service 'Bedrock,' which makes foundational models available for AWS clients via an API.
- Clients can select from various cutting-edge models by AI21 Labs, Anthropic, and Stability AI.
- Amazon also announced its own models called Titan that summarize and translate text inputs. However, little is known about their size and training data.
For enterprises, the beauty lies in fine-tuning the models. In other words, starting with a model like Anthropic Claude and feeding it a tad more data to customize it to the business. Basically, it's like the foam topper on a mattress.
Amazon's AI strategy is focusing on businesses first. Bedrock is currently building a waitlist and faces competition from OpenAI, Microsoft, Scale AI and NVIDIA.
Why it matters: It's Amazon's biggest AI push yet, and a big bet that businesses want access to customizable models that don't cost billions to develop.
4/5 of FAAMG has entered AI in a big way. Hello, Apple? Can I speak to Tim Cook please?
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- The B2B SaaS startup scans millions of web pages, Reddit threads, and APIs to craft a content strategy that taps into consumer psychology.
- Their results are rad and the startup has landed clients like Accenture, Ro, MGM and Dignity Health.
- Featured on Benzinga, Tech Crunch, Entrepreneur and Vanity Fair
After growing 310% last year with a $2.2 million run rate, RAD is raising a community round with thousands of investors participating.
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Stable Diffusion Gets An Upgrade 🧲️
Inspired by the Super Mario movie, Stability AI just gave its generative art tool a mushroom power-up. New model 'SDXL' is out in beta today (click here to access).
According to Stability AI, the upgrade is a big one, with massive improvements in graphic design and architecture:
SDXL challenges Midjourney as the go-to for AI images. Its abilities include image-to-image prompting and reconstructing and extending images.
Most importantly, it can finally draw hands. If you've ever played with AI art, you'd think a hand has three fingers. The new model is mostly good at drawing all five.
SDXL follows the company's open-source approach. This means people will be able to build stuff on top of the model, unlike Midjourney, which does not have an API yet.
This might just be the spark Stability AI needs to meet its target $4 billion valuation.
Around the Horn 🦄
- Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced the initiation of a campaign to create regulations on artificial intelligence.
- Spain's data protection watchdog is investigating ChatGPT over suspected data breaches of GDPR.
- Microsoft is bringing Bing capabilities to its smartphone keyboard app Swiftkey.
- OpenAI is not currently training GPT-5 but working to do more with GPT-4, according to HubSpot founder.
- Google introduced Med-PaLM 2, an updated version of its medical LLM that achieves over 85% accuracy on medical exam questions.
Treats To Try 🍿
- Have you been wanting to play with AutoGPT? Try Godmode.space.
- Katch is an AI assistant that summarizes calls and finds the best times to schedule your calls.
- Amazon CodeWhisperer is an alternative to GitHub Copilot (free for solo devs).
- Lexica releases its next version of Aperture, another AI image model.
- Slang.ai is an AI-powered phone concierge for small businesses.
- Enhanced ChatGPT lets you search Google and ChatGPT at the same time.
- Unakin is an AI copilot that helps game studios ideate and build prototypes.
- Chunky lets you create AI chatbots built on your data.
- SnapGPT lets your scan an image or photo and ask questions about the text.
DM us links on Twitter: @nonmayorpete & @noahedelman02.
Friday Fun Fact 🔏
The first AI chatbot, ELIZA, was created by Joseph Weizenbaum in 1964 at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
It used a pattern recognition technique that created the illusion of understanding. Even so, the chatbot built emotional connections with some of its users.
Don't know what's more shocking: an AI or therapy happening in the '60s?!
A Cat's Commentary 😻
That's all we have for today!
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