The competition speeds up. #gemini is still in the pipelines, #apple will announce an ai soon and #meta will release Llama3 in a bit. So exciting!
BIG TECH
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Google’s Multi-Year AI Music Strategy Over Simple Automation
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I considered back in the day having a 1-800 number ring a Twilio app to tell someone “Yep, you called us. Why did you do that? Send an email.”, but some residual salaryman sense of appropriateness thought that uncouth, so now G is doing a multi-year Gaga and Beyoncé duet.
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Google’s 200+ Calls: Data Scraping and Business Privacy Concerns
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Google has now called me more than 200 times, having scraped my business number from public filings, asking to verify it so that they can expose it in search results / verify my Google Local listing. This is more than all other sources of calls. Combined.
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Claude 2 Chatbot Experiences Service Issues Wednesday
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That’s peculiar: “Anthropic’s Claude 2 chatbot, a ChatGPT competitor created by ex-OpenAI employees, also appeared to be experiencing issues Wednesday morning”
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Facebook’s Open Source DNA: From React to PyTorch Impact
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It was entirely expected.
Open source was in the DNA of Facebook from the start (e g. React, Open Compute…)
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Open LLMs Require Accessible Platforms Beyond Major Tech Giants
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I agree. But to empower those millions of developers, you need an open platform on which to build.
Right now, only a few entities can build high-performance open LLMs, because they are so expensive to train.
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Learning, Knowledge Sharing, and Career Growth in Tech
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• Those who enjoy learning and improving for long-term projects. • Individuals who derive satisfaction from sharing knowledge. • People who aspire to work in big companies that value formally recognised titles.
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Open Source AI Emerges as Counterweight to Proprietary Systems
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The counterweight to closed/proprietary AI is open/free AI.
All of Academia, many governments, almost all the startups, and a few larger companies are embracing the open source approach to AI, the biggest ones being Meta and IBM. -
OpenAI Releases Text-to-Speech API with Six Natural Voices
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We released the text-to-speech API yesterday at OpenAI DevDay! It offers six preset voices to generate incredibly natural-sounding audio: https://
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OpenAI’s Excavator: Beyond the Gold Rush Narrative
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People talk about businesses as selling shovels or digging for gold but it seems OpenAI have found themselves an excavator.