We couldn't be more excited to be diving in with @awscloud to unlock the value of data as your differentiator. @SwamiSivasubram congratulations on incredible announcements at this year’s Reinvent. Thank you for hosting @henryehrenberg
, @ajratner
, & the Snorkel team.
BIG TECH
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AWS and Snorkel Partner to Unlock Data Value
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Scientific breakthroughs and open-source leadership in AI history
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Right. And it's a history of scientific breakthroughs, technological innovations, product impact, open-source leadership, institutional stability, and little personal drama.
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Companies positioned to win in AI if execution succeeds
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Several companies will "win" if they don't screw up.
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Sundar Pichai Selected Over Demis Hassabis for Leadership Role
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Tech Giants’ No-Poaching Conspiracy: Antitrust Implications
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Only when they actively collide, which has happened. (The “no-poaching” conspiracy certainly counts.)
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Drama at OpenAI and Google versus FAIR’s smooth creation
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What this NYT article tells us about the genesis of the new AI industry is that there was a lot of drama at Google, DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic. Comparatively, the creation of FAIR was straightforward and drama free. https://
nytimes.com/2023/12/03/tec
hnology/ai-openai-musk-page-altman.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
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AI Leaders and the Battle for Control Over Technology
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I'm on the cover of the weekly Le Point, as some sort of tiny éminence grise pulling the strings behind @elonmusk
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Only Three Actual AI Researchers on This Influential List
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Remarkably, there are only 3 actual #AI researchers/inventors on this list. It's more like a list of rich people with an interest in #AI. The Who’s Who Behind the Modern Artificial Intelligence Movement
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Google Research and Meta GenAI Publishing Practices Differ
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Yes. For example, large swaths of "Google Research" never publish.
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Long-term Research Impact in Large Established Companies
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The point is that it is much easier to have a large impact with long-term basic research in a company that has a very large, profitable, and diverse business.
In practice, that means large companies that are sufficiently well established to not have to worry about short-term