New Amazon Alexa delayed. While the big tech companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and others are fighting the big battle for the best chatbot, Amazon is still lagging behind. This is irritating, since Amazon was actually one of the first to conquer the market with Alexa!
BIG TECH
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Vinod’s Skepticism of Open Source LLMs and China Concerns
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Vinod is a great guy, but he is (1) quite paranoid about China and (2) heavily invested in OpenAI. So, his skepticism of open source/open weight LLMs is understandable.
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Reaction to SearchGPT Release and Excitement
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Good question. I really like how excited he was yesterday when they released searchGPT. Yours?
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China Develops Military AI Using Meta’s Llama Model
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China develops AI for military use, violating Meta's policies „Chinese scientists announced the development of an AI model for military purposes, utilizing Meta's publicly available Llama model.“
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ChatGPT Growth Surge Demonstrates Strong Team Performance
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chatgpt growth is wild recently very proud of the team!
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Google’s Gemini Inference Systems Expert Emanuel Shares Production Knowledge
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Don't miss this! Emanuel is one of my treasured colleagues for many, many years (I think we've made 20,000 cappuccinos together). He's got awesome knowledge of nearly every aspect of Google's production systems (including Gemini inference systems).
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OpenAI’s Agents Improving Rapidly Despite Current Limitations
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You're right, but 1) I'm sure OpenAI has better agents and 2) they are getting much better very quickly.
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OpenAI Fine-tuning Model for Dynamic Layout Generation
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Is OpenAI building a fine-tuning model that generates dynamic layouts?
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Data legality fallacy: composition argument in IP law
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It's a basic Fallacy of Composition: this data is transferred as electricity therefore any use is legal; data is made up of numbers & stats therefore our activity is legal. It's why the P2P lawsuits favored the rightholders: you have to look at the uses and its implications!
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Microsoft Database IP Protection and Unprotected Facts Legal Implications
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Not only are protected words required to express facts, what they seem to forget is that collections of "unprotected" facts are covered by database laws. If Microsoft gets its way, then none of its own databases would be protected by IP laws?