“Inside the A.I. Arms Race That Changed Silicon Valley Forever” is basically the NY Times flexing on how to do journalism right. The amount of insider stories packed into one article is mind-blowing. This reads like the next edition of Genius Makers by @CadeMetz (who was one of
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ChatGPT One Year Anniversary: AI Impact on Silicon Valley
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“One Year of ChatGPT: How A.I. Changed Silicon Valley Forever.” This article is packed with insider stories from Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI that I don’t think have ever been publicly told. Kudos to
@CadeMetz
and The NY Times team. https://
nytimes.com/2023/12/05/tec
hnology/ai-chatgpt-google-meta.html
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Google Previews Gemini AI After Canceling In-Person Launch Event
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“After Google quietly scrapped a set of in-person events to launch Gemini, its biggest AI initiative in a decade, the company has planned a virtual preview of the new AI as soon as this week.” Not sure a preview w/ a Q1 release will slow the criticism.
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Microsoft’s compliance advantage threatens OpenAI’s enterprise sales
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“Legal or financial executives may also be more willing to entrust Microsoft with their corporate data rather than a younger startup because it can store that information in compliance with different laws around the world” https://
theinformation.com/articles/opena
is-corporate-sales-come-under-pressure-as-ai-customers-eye-cheaper-options
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DeepMind Discovers 2.2 Million New Materials With GNoME
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“Today, in a paper published in Nature, we share the discovery of 2.2 million new crystals – equivalent to nearly 800 years’ worth of knowledge. We introduce Graph Networks for Materials Exploration (GNoME).”
@GoogleDeepMind
https://
deepmind.google/discover/blog/
millions-of-new-materials-discovered-with-deep-learning/
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Coatue Management Demands CEO Removal After $500M Valuation
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“Coatue Management called for Chief Executive Officer Emad Mostaque to step down in a letter to management last month, some of the people said. The demand came just a year after Coatue led a funding round that initially valued the startup at $500 million”
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AI Agents Will Soon Handle B2C Purchases Autonomously
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Strong possibility the AI agent also makes the purchase, at least in B2C. And the personal assistants will become agents. For example, Inflection Pi is a personal assistant for now, but will become an agent that can take actions in the coming year(s).
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Will AI Agents Replace Humans on Websites?
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But who’s going to the Bofu website? Humans, or their AI agents?
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AlphaGo Documentary Insights into LLM Advancements and Gemini
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If you find this stuff interesting, and haven't seen the @GoogleDeepMind AlphaGo documentary, put it on your priority list. It's amazing, and will help you understand some of the near-term advancements we can expect from LLMs (specifically Google's forthcoming Gemini model).
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What’s Next for Large Language Models in 2024
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What's next for Large Language Models (LLMs)? This is something every business leader should be considering as they plan for 2024. @karpathy a leading AI researcher at OpenAI, and former director of AI for Tesla, recently published a 1-hour Intro to LLMs YouTube video that