The Generative A.I. Brief Issue #15

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Hey Everyone,

Let’s see what happend during the last week or two in A.I. I hoping you find something to read of interest here. You ready for A LOT of links?

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💬Introduction for Today🎯

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Stability AI: Create Music with AI: Stable Audio. - Try it out for Free.

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How Are Consumers Using Generative AI? (a16z)

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Instagram might be getting generative AI... panoramas? (The Verge)

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📢Top News 📺

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Metapreps new AI system: WSJ

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Stability AI, gunning for a hit, launches an AI-powered music generator (TechCrunch)

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Roblox’s new AI chatbot will help you build virtual worlds (The Verge)

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Databricks raises $500M more, boosting valuation to $43B despite late-stage gloom​

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OpenAI opens Dublin office to better understand the EU (The Decoder) ​

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Alibaba opens AI model Tongyi Qianwen to public in competition with Baidu, Tencent and other Chinese Big Tech firms (SCMP)

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Exclusive: Google pledges $20 million for responsible AI fund (Axios)

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EU to let ‘responsible’ AI startups train models on its supercomputers​

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Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon and others sueOpenAI

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​Time’s 100 in AI (re-read, click on the picture to get theor stories)

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OpenAI’s first developer conference on November 6 in San Francisco​

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🔗Partnership & Announcements🏭

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Salesforce introduces Einstein Copilot Studio to help customers customize their AI​

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Adobe’s Fireflygenerative AI models are now generally available, get pricing plans (TechCrunch)

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Personalized news app Artifact becomes a discovery engine for the web with new Links feature (TechCrunch)

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Amazon debuts generative AI tools that helps sellers write product descriptions​

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Slack’s AI tool that can recap channels and threads starts testing this winter​

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Adept AI Releasing Persimmon-8B​

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India’s Reliance partners with Nvidia to build large language model​

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📰Noted Newsletters📬

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​Falcon-180B Takes Open Source LLMs Closer to GPT-4 (The Sequence)

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​AI Eng Recap: August 2023 (Latent Space)

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​Simulating History with ChatGPT - The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines

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Pivot to AI: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain (Amy Castor)

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​Lessons from 139 YC AI startups (S23) (Artificial Ignorance)

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​Agents, Agents, Everywhere, All At Once (Future History)

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📝 Papers 🗏

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​Large Language Models as Optimizers (September 7th)

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PyGraft: Configurable Generation of Schemas and Knowledge Graphs at Your Fingertips​

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Refer back to last week for more.

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🚀 Startups 🧠

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Enfabrica, which builds networking hardware to drive AI workloads, raises $125M​

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Druid, a conversational AI platform for enterprises that integrates with ChatGPT, raises $30M (TechCrunch)

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Series AIraises $7.9M in funding for game-building tools​

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Pixis, an AI-powered full-stack marketing platform, raises $85M​

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Patronus AIconjures up an LLM evaluation tool for regulated industries​

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AI Grant: Second Batch: AI Grant — accelerator for AI startups​

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💸Venture Capital🦄

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Nvidia and Capital One back Databricksat $43 billion valuation in latest funding round​

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​How to run a competitive AI startup fundraise in 2023 (Context.AI)

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​Building Enduring Enterprise AI Products (General Catalyst)

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SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son says AI-fueled technology can surpass human intelligence ‘big time’​

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💼 Business to Business (B2B)📈

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Nvidia's new cloud business competes with AWS (The Decoder)

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TSMCwarns AI chip crunch will last another 18 months​

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​Where Should Your Company Start with GenAI?​

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Artificial Intelligence in Legal Practice: A Comprehensive Guide​

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Nvidia's dominance in AI chips deters funding for startups​

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🎬Videos🎥

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Bloomberg Originals | Open AI Founder on Artificial Intelligence's Future | Exponentially - Link​

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👾Hacker News📰

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Musk Warns Senators About AI Threat, While Gates Says the Technology Could Target World Hunger (WSJ)

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​Americans are over generative AI like ChatGPT, but their bosses are just getting started (Insider)

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MLPerf Results Highlight Growing Importance of Generative AI and Storage (Reuters insights)

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​Russian AI bot shows larger potential than ChatGPT (YandexGPT)

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🤖 Robotics 🦿

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Waterloo’s Clearpath Robotics sold to Rockwell Automation for US$600-million plus

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Robot car talk: Introducing Wayve's new AI model LINGO-1 (PR but interesting)

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🥼Healthcare🩺

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First U.S. Dual Degree in Medicine and AI Launched in Texas​

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​AI Adoption in U.S. Health Care Won’t Be Easy (HBR)

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🧪 Science 🔬

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Microsoftopen sources EvoDiff, a novel protein-generating AI​

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OpenAI confirms that AI writing detectors don’t work​

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💬 Open-Source LLMs 👐

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Metato release GPT-4 competition as open-source model next year (The Decoder)

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💀AGI and ASI 👽🌋

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When will singularity happen? 1700 expert opinions of AGI [2023]​

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​GPT-4's Sparking Intelligence​

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🎓 Education & Learning📚

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​Patterns for Building LLM-based Systems & Products (66 min read)

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​Validating Large Language Model Outputs (Cohere)

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​The Practical Guide to LLMs: Falcon​

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➡️ Prompt Engineering 🧠

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​An advanced guide to writing prompts for Midjourney ( text-to-image)

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🎥Videos & Podcasts🎙️

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🎖️National Defense & Military🕊️

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Move over AI, quantum computing will be the most powerful and worrying technology​

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🔮Future of Work & Automation🦾

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Ready or Not: AI Enters the Workforce​

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🐲 China A.I.🏯

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China's tanking economy will hurt the US more than some experts think, top economist David Rosenberg says (Insider)

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Ant (Group)Unveils AI Language Model for Wealth Management, Insurance​

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ChinaAI & Semiconductors Rise: US Sanctions Have Failed (Semianalysis)

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🦹🏻‍♂️Dystopian 🗽

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​Six examples of AI-assisted propaganda in politics (The Decoder)

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Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa — with a lot of water​

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🏛Governance and Regulation⚖️

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​Microsoft president and Nvidia chief scientist testify in Senate AI hearings​

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💬Opinion Editorial🙄

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Why Nvidia’sAI Supremacy is Only Temporary​

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Why Nvidiaand not OpenAI is Generative AI's Symbolic Company​

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🎭Entertainment & the Arts🎨

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​Character.ai Surpasses ChatGPT In Mobile App Usage In The US​

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🌏Manifestations of Utopia🏙️

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Cokeintroduces a new mystery flavor, made by AI (Fortune)

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🌌Quantum Computing⚗️

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NVIDIA, XanaduWork Together To Enable Perlmutter Supercomputer’s Quantum Explorations (Quantum Insider)

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📣Public Relations💞

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Microsoft backed Wayve, UK AI company launches self-drive tech that explains actions

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🙉Last Memes🎭

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“AI expert” is a hot new position in the freelance jobs market (CNBC)

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