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Microsoft Bets on AI Copilots Through OpenAI Investment

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16 June 2023 22h10

Microsoft is now integrating generative AI—“copilots”—into many of its products. Its $10 billion-plus investment in OpenAI is looking like the bargain of the century. Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Is Betting Everything on AI https://
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Apple releases second major AI announcement in two weeks

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16 June 2023 22h03

so are we going to talk about how with byteformer that's two from apple in the past 2 ish weeks? https://t.co/4mrvkLFJSL
— Matthew Lynley (@mattlynley) 16 juin 2023

so are we going to talk about how with byteformer that's two from apple in the past 2 ish weeks?

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Meta restricts Voicebox generative speech model due to misuse risks

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16 June 2023 21h54

“There are many exciting use cases for generative speech models, but because of the potential risks of misuse, we are not making the Voicebox model or code publicly available at this time.”

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NVIDIA datacenter cards sold out amid AI hardware shortage

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16 June 2023 21h53

"Experts" trigger me. But I share this so you can see what those "experts" are thinking. Meanwhile NVIDIA's datacenter card that costs three times more than Apple's new headset, is sold out for 70 months, @jowyang told his AI event last night.

Major AI Stories: LeCun Interview, Nvidia Profile, Bard Safety, Section 230 Bill

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16 June 2023 20h43

Stories featured today from @radioproducer (Yann LeCun interview), @AustinCarr + @ianmking (profile of Nvidia), @JLDastin + @annatonger (Google warns against putting sensitive info in Bard), @ashleyrgold + @AndrewSolender (First look at bill denying section 230 for AI)

Falcon’s Rise Signals New LLM Competitors on Horizon

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16 June 2023 20h37

The challenges it faces go beyond just those that go into making a commercially permissive model. If Falcon came out of nowhere and was highly competitive on some benchmarks, what else is in the works that can do the same—or pass—LLaMA? Unclear! But surely they are in development

Meta dominates AI landscape with PyTorch and LLaMA models

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16 June 2023 20h36

Meta has consistently outmaneuvered Google (and OpenAI/Microsoft by extension) in AI, both open source and the sheer volume of research it releases on a regular basis. It's pretty much locked up the ML dev ecosystem with PyTorch, and is well on its way w/ LLaMA.