😺 Samsung vs Apple AI showdown

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Welcome, humans.

The startup “World Labs” of Fei-Fei Li, the godmother of AI, just reached a $1B valuation in under four months. That’s gotta be some kind of world record. And after Nvidia’s stock dropped 6.6% today, the “laggards of AI” (Intel, AMD, etc) are getting some love from Wall Street.

Are these signs of a bubble? Are we in the end times? Should we buy AI insurance? Is that even a thing?

Here’s what you need to know about AI today:

We break down the difference in Apple and Samsung’s AI phone plans.
LLMs can apparently be jailbroken if you phrase your request in past tense.
Anthropic launched $100M fund for AI startups.
Microsoft rolled out its Canva-style AI design tool.

Let’s compare and contrast Samsung and Apple’s on-device AI.

If you’re an iPhone user and AI hobbyist, you might be a little jealous that Samsung Galaxy owners get early access to AI features on their smartphones via Galaxy AI.

And it’s all cause Samsung and Apple are pursuing two different strategies when it comes to AI on our phones.

Samsung wants as many people to start using AI on their phones ASAP (~200M devices by end of 2024). To do so, it wants to put AI on every device that can handle it (S22, S23, S24 + the folds) and let developers build the AI apps for its app store.

Plus, it’s making these AI features free until 2025. It’s like buy now, pay later, but for AI!

Meanwhile, iPhone owners will have to upgrade to the latest model (15 Pro, max) to get Apple Intelligence. It’s like walled garden 2.0—you want AI? You gotta pay. No freeloaders here.

So what can Samsung’s AI actually do…today?

AI photo edits—move, resize, remove objects.
Circle to search—literally circle anything on your screen to Google it.
Chat assist—a step up from autocorrect w/ tone and style correction.

And it's got a new Sketch-to-Image tool that some beta testers are saying is scary good—sometimes.

Look how easy it is to make a bee deepfake; drawing on left, AI version on right (via Allison Johnson @ The Verge)

What about Apple? While its features aren’t out yet, here’s what they announced last month:

Writing tips—proof, rewrite, and generate text for you in text / email.
Contextual notifications—prioritization of important messages first.
Image gen + edits—remove objects from photos and generate new images.

…Plus AI updates to photo search, Siri, and the ability for Siri to take actions inyour apps.

What’s the verdict on Galaxy’s AI strategy? The internet is skeptical.

"They've massively overestimated how many people are interested in AI."
"Samsung's implementation is weak. Too many one-time gimmicks."
"Circle to search, summarize notes, removing reflections is awesome...but not paying for small features."

Ouch. Hope Apple has its new AI taking notes—its June announcement received mixed reviews, too.

Here’s our take: We're in the "eff around and find out" stage of AI on our devices. Apple's approach seems more holistic (changing the iOS around AI), while Samsung's is more iterative (features here, features there, features everywhere!).

We'll reserve final judgment until Apple's official AI launch in September.

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Around the Horn.

A new research paper found that you can jailbreak an LLM (get it to say things it’s not supposed to) by phrasing requests in the past tense.
Anthropic teamed up with Menlo Ventures to launch a $100M fund for AI startups. (pre-seed, Series A). Apply here—checks start at $100K w/ $25K in Claude credits.
Microsoft’s new research paper introduced a framework that lets LLMs analyze your spreadsheets.
Researchers found that AI hiring can be seen as fair by candidates as long as it’s blind to race or gender.

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