The Generative A.I. Brief Issue #21

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I hope you appreciate links and reading about A.I. as much as I do! 🚀

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 November 6th, 2023.

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💬Introduction for Today🎯

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The week was dominated by OpenAI’s first DevDay with various announcements including a GPT store, OpenAI getting attacks and other news. AI startup funding was generally down and AI papers didn’t keep up its streak of having incredible consecutive weeks.

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​Read about GPTs​

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📢Top News 📺

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AGI Misinformation: Googleresearchers deal a major blow to the theory AI is about to outsmart humans re Paper - Read Paper ​

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OpenAI: New Developer Products announced at DevDay (Official) [Video w/ Sam Altman]

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OpenAI’s 1st DevDay: Various Announcements (Blog)

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Amazon dedicates team to train ambitious AI model codenamed 'Olympus' (Reuters)

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Nvidia: Their Eos supercomputer just broke its own AI training benchmark record​

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Samsung unveils AI ‘Gauss,’ a ChatGPT-like Tool ​

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Microsoft’sGitHub announces Copilot assistant that can learn about companies’ private code (CNBC)

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OpenAI Store: Are GPTs Agents or just Niche ChatGPTs? (Official)

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OpenAI: Whisper V3 Arrives (GitHub) (What is It)

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🔗Partnership & Announcements🏭

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Humane - AI Pin Launches: Former Apple designers launch $700 Humane AI Pin as smartphone replacement​

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Adept: Introducing Adept Experiments​

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Figma: Introducing AI to FigJam​

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Zapier: Introduces AI Actions ​

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Cohere: Introducing Embed v3​

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📰Noted Newsletters📬

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AI in Drug Design: Talking with Chemicals 🧪​

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📝 Papers 🗏

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CogVLM: Visual Expert for Pretrained Language Models​

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GLM-130B: An Open Bilingual Pre-trained Model​

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PhoGPT: Generative Pre-training for Vietnamese​

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PPTC Benchmark: Evaluating Large Language Models for PowerPoint Task Completion (Nov 3rd)

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Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems​

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​A Survey of Large Language Models for Autonomous Driving​

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DynamiCrafter:Animating Open-domain Images with Video Diffusion Priors​

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📱Semiconductor Notes📝

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Nvidiadevelops three new AI chips for China to comply with US export controls (The Decoder)

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How Arm is gaining chip dominance with its architecture in Apple, Nvidia, AMD, Amazon, Qualcomm and more​

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🚀 Startups 🧠

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Stability AI: Stability AI Gets IntelBacking in New Financing (Bloomberg, Paywalled)

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Scale AI: SEAL: Scale’s Safety, Evaluations and Analysis Lab​

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Tabnine: Code-generating AI platform Tabnine nabs $25M investment​

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💸Venture Capital🦄

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Exclusive: IBMdebuts $500 million enterprise AI venture fund (Axios)

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​The Subtle Strategic Moat-Widening of OpenAI's Dev Day (Newsletter)

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CBInsights: Generative AI Bible: The ultimate guide to genAI disruption​

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Macro Outlook: The great startup cash crunch is underway — and it's forcing late-stage companies to face their demise​

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💼 Business to Business (B2B)📈

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Microsoft:Universe 2023: Copilot transforms GitHub into the AI-powered developer platform​

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Meta taps Hugging Face for startup accelerator to spur adoption of open source AI models​

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Microsoft Azure: Come build with us: Microsoft and OpenAI partnership unveils new AI opportunities​

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🎬Videos🎥

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Alexandr Wang: 26-Year-Old Billionaire Powering the AI Industry [link]

“The most arrogant kid in tech.”

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⚒️Novel Tools🔥

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Are Small LMs coming?Microsoft pushes the boundaries of small AI models with big breakthrough (Semafor)

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👾Hacker News📰

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The Physical Process That Powers a New Type of Generative AI (Quanta)

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Google and Anthropic Are Gunning for AI Dominance with New Chips​

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🤖 Robotics 🦿

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Ghost, now OpenAI-backed, claims LLMs will overcome self-driving setbacks — but experts are skeptical​

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🥼Healthcare🩺

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Health AI startupCercle debuts with backing from Sheryl Sandberg​

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🧪 Science 🔬

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​How AI could lead to a better understanding of the brain​

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💬 Open-Source LLMs 👐

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Nous-Yarn-Mistral-7b-128k: an extension of Mistral-7B-v0.1 that supports a 128k token context window (see on GitHub)

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Microsoft: GitHub Blog: Octoverse: The state of open source and rise of AI in 2023​

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

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💰Stock Market 🛒

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Palantir Shares Surge After 3Q Results Beat Estimates, Driven by AI Demand​

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💀AGI and ASI 👽🌋

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OpenAI’s ChatGPTis an emerging AGI according to Google Deepmind​

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➡️ Prompt Engineering 🧠

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OpenAI's Altman says today's AI will be "quaint" by next year, talks GPT-5​

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🎥Videos & Podcasts🎙️

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Podcast: AGI is Being Achieved Incrementally (OpenAI DevDay w/ Simon Willison, Alex Volkov, Jim Fan, Raza Habib, Shreya Rajpal, Rahul Ligma, et al) - Latent Space

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🎖️National Defense & Military🕊️

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OpenAI says ChatGPT downtime caused by targeted attack​

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🐲 China A.I.🏯

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Nvidiawill reportedly sell new chips to China that still meet U.S. rules​

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🦹🏻‍♂️Dystopian 🗽

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Okay Grandmother: AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li: Give scientists more access to advanced AI models (Axios)

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🏛Governance and Regulation⚖️

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Rishi Sunak: Prime Minister's speech at the AI Safety Summit: 2 November 2023​

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🌏Manifestations of Utopia🏙️

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European Space Agency: AI maps icebergs 10,000 times faster than humans​

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🏋️‍♀️ Thanks for skimming, I hope you managed to find something of interest. 👀

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Favorite Sources & Credits:

To put together these links, I’m always reading online and in particular enjoy the following sources:

• TechCrunch
• Axios
• ​The Decoder​
• Ben’s Bites
• ​Substack ​
• Papers with Code
• The Verge
• ​Artifact News (app)
• YouTube
• X (Formerly Twitter)

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Bonus Article

There’s something going on with AI startups in France​