The Generative A.I. Brief Issue #17


The Generative A.I. Brief Issue #17

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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. Today's issue might be pretty long, since it's accounting for more days than usual of A.I. News.

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💬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 turn used for how unbalanced the stock market has become around a few BigTech names.

ChatGPT maker OpenAI is generating revenue at a pace of $1.3 billion a year (paywalled), CEO Sam Altman told staff this week, according to several people with knowledge of the matter.

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📢Top News 📺

OpenAI has quietly changed its ‘core values’ (Semafor)

Character.AI launches Group-chat - Context

AI Startup Anthropic in Early Talks With Investors to Raise $2 Billion (Bloomberg) Valuation: 30 Billion at 200 x forward revenue.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT’s mobile app is barely making any money with only $4.58M in revenue last month, and to make matters worse, growth is slowing

OpenAI’s GPT-4VTrends on X

Google Assistant upgraded with Bard: Assistant with Bard: A step toward a more personal assistant

OpenAI’s DALL-E 3Launches 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🏭

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Announcing Replit AI for All

Dropbox and Generative A.I. upgrades in design

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📬

The Advent of "HustleGPT"

AI-Responsive Education

The Mobile Revolution vs. The AI Revolution (Digital Native)

OpenAI's DALL-E 3 has an incredible attention to detail (The Decoder)

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📝 Papers 🗏

MiniGPT-5: Interleaved Vision-and-Language Generation via Generative Vokens

Improved Baselines with Visual Instruction Tuning

FireAct:Toward Language Agent Fine-tuning (October 9th)

The Dawn of LMMs: Preliminary Explorations with GPT-4V(ision) (Sept 29th, read System Card, OpenAI)

A Survey of LLMs in Healthcare (October 9th)

Efficient Streaming Language Models with Attention Sinks (Sept 29th - GitHub)

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

ToRA:A Tool-Integrated Reasoning Agent for Mathematical Problem Solving - see 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📝

Nvidia’s Plans To Crush Competition – B100, “X100”, H200, 224G SerDes, OCS, CPO, PCIe 7.0, HBM3E (Semianalysis)

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)

OpenAI examines producing AI chips in-house: Report

TSMC Continues Working Through US Staff Culture Clash (between Taiwan and the U.S. construction projects)

The AI Boom Props Up Datacenter Infrastructure Spending

Samsung expected to report 80% profit plunge as losses mount at chip business

Beijing-backed server chip startup formed by ex-Arm China execs

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

Observe raises $50M, adds generative AI to help enterprises visualize all their data

Sam Altman backs teens’ AI startup automating browser-native workflows

AI-powered parking platform Metropolisraises $1.7B to acquire SP Plus

Lemurian Labs is building a new compute paradigm to reduce cost of running AI models

Vera wants to use AI to cull generative models’ worst behaviors

Rabbit is building an AI model that understands how software works

Opsera, a DevOps platform geared toward enterprises, raises $12M

Humata AI Raises $3.5 Million Led by Google’s Gradient Ventures

Lakera launches to protect large language models from malicious prompts

Anysphere raises $8M from OpenAI to build an AI-powered IDE


💸Venture Capital🦄

Prosecutors don’t want Bankman-Fried’s lawyers mentioning his $500 million investment in AI startupAnthropic: ‘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)

Section 32closes on $525M fund, says there is ‘a zone of commoditization that you have to avoid while investing in AI’

💼 Business to Business (B2B)📈

The large language model operations (LLMOps) market map (CBInsights)

Third-party AI tools pose increasing risks for organizations (MIT)

Researchers Tested AI Watermarks—and Broke All of Them (Wired)

🎬Videos🎥

AMD’s Lisa Su at Code Conference: [link] [Browse Transcript]

⚒️Novel Tools🔥

Eleven Labs:Dubbing and Voice Translation

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

Intently - Turn LinkedIn actions into sales opportunities

Runway Academy: Everything you need to make anything you want

Canva Magic Studio with a lot of new AI-powered upgrades

Here are the highlights of launched features under the new Magic Studio:
Magic Design - Turn ideas into designs instantly with AI-generated templates.
Magic Switch - Transform content into different formats and languages with one click.
Magic Grab - Make images editable like Canva templates for easy editing.
Magic Expand - Use AI to expand images beyond the original frame.
Magic Morph - Transform text and shapes with creative effects and prompts.
Magic Edit - Make complex image edits using simple text prompts.
Magic Media - Generate professional photos, videos and artworks from text prompts.
Magic Animate - Add animated transitions and motion to designs instantly.
Magic Write - Generate draft text and summaries powered by AI.


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👾Hacker News📰

Report: Microsoft’s GitHub CopilotLoses an Average of $20 Per User Per Month

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 chatbotches election information, endangers democracy, study finds (View Study)

Lessons: So We Shipped an AI Product. Did it Work? (honeycomb.io)

🤖 Robotics 🦿

Google Deepmindtakes 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

Chipotle’s new robotcan make your burrito bowl or salad

Archax is a $2.7 million pilotable robot for the ultra-wealthy

Bonsai RoboticsRaises $13.5M in Seed Funding

🥼Healthcare🩺

A Survey of LLMs in Healthcare (Paper, October 9th)

AI Predicts SchizophreniaVia Hidden Linguistic Patterns

Googleannounces new generative AI search capabilities for doctors (Vertex AI Search, CNBC)

3 ways AI is revolutionizing how health organizations serve patients. Can LLMs like ChatGPT help?

Enlisting AI in Medicineand Longevity Research Will Be a ‘Net Positive’: Microsoft VP (Decrypt)

Podcast: Healthcare 2.0: AI and Super Doctors | Dev&Doc #04

🧪 Science 🔬

Polymathic AI: To usher in a new class of machine learning for scientific data

New AI algorithm can detect signs of life with 90% accuracy. Scientists want to send it to Mars (Space.com)

Tiny Language Models Come of Age

💬 Open-Source LLMs 👐

How good is Open-Orca/Mistral-7B-OpenOrca?

LongLLaMA:Focused Transformer Training for Context Scaling (Github)

Adept AI:Releasing Persimmon-8B (Official)

Stability AI: Stable LM 3B is a capable open-source LLM for mobile devices (see Official)

6 Best Open-Source LLMs to Watch Out For in 2024 (Techopedia)

New Anyscaleservice enables fine-tuning of open source LLMs (it’s called Endpoints)

💰Stock Market 🛒

Overhyped’ generative AI will get a ‘cold shower’ in 2024, analysts predict

AI is overhyped, Warren Buffett's right-hand man Charlie Munger says

AMD’s stock pops after Microsoft tech chief touts chipmaker’s AI products

💀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📚

Reinforcement Learning for Diffusion Models from Scratch

Optimizing your LLM in production (Hugging Face)

A Surprisingly Effective Way to Estimate Token Importance in LLM Prompts

Using a Knowledge Graph to implement a DevOps RAG application

➡️ 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 MachIndustries closes $79M Series A at $335M valuation

Saronic, a defense startup building autonomous ships, raises $55M

a16z-backed Castelion wants to mass produce defense hardware, starting with hypersonics

🪐Space and Emerging Tech🛰️

Amazonis launching its first internet satellites to rival Starlink (NewScientist)

AI is already helping astronomers make incredible discoveries. Here's how

🔮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)

Generative AI Is Coming for Sales Execs’ Jobs (Wired)

🐲 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)

Why AI is teetering on the edge of a disillusionment cliff | The AI Beat

💬Opinion Editorial🙄

Big Tech Struggles to Turn AI Hype Into Profits (WSJ)

AI threatens to dethrone the 4-year college degree (Axios)

How authoritarian governments are using generative AI (Platformer, Paywalled)

🎭Entertainment & the Arts🎨

A New Coca-Cola Flavor at the End of the World (Y3000)

Warner Music CEO Robert Kyncl says AI to impact the music industry within the next year (TechCrunch)

🌏Manifestations of Utopia🏙️

AI-driven earthquake forecasting shows promise in trials

ChatGPT will ‘help us with extremely hard problems’ in the future, says OpenAI’s chief tech officer

Could AI find alien life faster than humans, and would it tell us?

🌌Quantum Computing⚗️

Quantum algorithms: A survey of applications and end-to-end complexities (paper)

📣Public Relations💞

Dockerdives into AI to help developers build GenAI apps

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

🙉Last Memes🎭

Google DeepMind Gemini is almost here (Pictured: Enki and Enlil)

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