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Here’s what’s going on in AI today:
- Leaked Google memo argues open-source models are winning.
- The new chatbot Pi doesn’t seem like much, until you look closer.
- The White House introduced new measures for AI development.
- OpenAI lost $540 million last year (& might raise billions more).
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Google, OpenAI Have No Competitive Edge, Says Researcher 🙀
A Google researcher has leaked an internal document arguing that neither OpenAI nor Google will win the AI race. Instead, it’ll be open-source models.
If that doesn’t sound crazy, let us explain. Google and OpenAI develop language models like GPT-4. But the models are hush-hush - keep ‘em private, make lots of money.
Recently, open-source models have been closing the gap at an impressive pace. Since Meta’s open-source model LLaMA was leaked in March, ordinary devs have built:
- Models that run on your phone in seconds.
- A lightweight version of LLaMA that runs in an hour.
- A ChatGPT-quality model for just $100.
All in a mere two months.
The researcher behind the memo predicts a surge in faster, more customizable open-source models that will render OpenAI irrelevant, much like Stable Diffusion did with DALL-E.
Why it matters: Although the claim might be a stretch, its implications are difficult to ignore.
If accurate, this bodes well for consumers and the ecosystem. More choice, less strangehold by OpenAI.
But it’s bad news for Google, OpenAI, and other proprietary-preaching businesses keeping research to themselves. Sharing is caring and (maybe) profit-bearing!
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Pi, Your Everything Assistant For Life? 🥧
Men would literally rather build an AI therapist than go to therapy.
We’re talking about Pi, of course, Inflection’s new personal AI that “really gets you.”
The launch on Monday had most of us confused. LinkedIn and Google DeepMind co-founders raise $225 million, and the best they could do was another GPT spinoff that makes you feel good?
Upon second glance, there might be more to Pi than meets the eye. 🎶
After trawling through their blog posts and job descriptions alongside Allie Miller, it looks like Inflection is building AI that is custom to each and every person. Your Pi and my Pi may not be the same.
That seems like the type of swing this company should be taking. The infrastructure required to customize 7 billion different AI models would be insane.
Over time we’ll get a better sense of what Pi can do. For now, fringe developers will work their hardest to ‘jailbreak’ the chatbot.
As for us? We’re headed back to therapy.
Around the Horn 🦄
- The White House introduced new funding and policy measures for responsible AI development.
- Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research are co-releasing a free alternative to GitHub Copilot.
- Slack announced its intention to release an array of integrated AI features, including an Einstein GPT app for Slack.
- AMD’s stock jumped over 10% on news that it’s collaborating with Microsoft on a new AI processor.
- OpenAI lost $540 million last year and might try to raise up to $100 billion to develop AGI.
- Snoop Dog on AI: “AIs got their own minds, and these motherf*ckers gonna start doing their own sh*t.” Same Snoop, same.
Treats To Try 🍿
- Alphawatch is ChatGPT for financial research and the stock market.
- Columns’ new AI feature helps you discover public research data.
- Wale builds you better prompts from your custom datasets.
- AudioPen converts your voice notes into summarized text.
- Dream3D helps you render 3D scenes way faster than before.
DM us links on Twitter: @nonmayorpete & @noahedelman02.
Friday Find 🤯
Text-to-video is all the hype these days in the creative world. But what about brain-to-video?
Researchers just developed a new multimodal algorithm that can convert your brain signals into videos. It’s awesome!
Will this help us finally remember our dreams?
A Cat's Commentary 😻
That's all we have for today. Have a great weekend! See you cool cats on Twitter if you're there: @nonmayorpete & @noahedelman02.
