Today's issue is about what seems to be a grand tradition in AI announcements now. OpenAI, talking about a slew of product updates, said in a throwaway line it was cutting the price of its embedding model ada-002 by a whopping 75%.
BIG TECH
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Azure AI versions availability versus general cloud API access
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You can get versions that are on Azure but I don’t think the general cloud API is!
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Salesforce BLIP Used for AI Training Captioning
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During our training run, we were first using BLIP for captioning, ans I noticed that the company who made BLIP was…Salesforce. SALESFORCE!
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CEO Discusses AI Computing for Autonomous Vehicle Vision Systems
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Our CEO, Arun Iyengar, joins @BNNBloomberg to share more on our cutting-edge #AI #computing technology for autonomous vehicle vision systems and our partnership with @GM to help accelerate the development of self-driving cars. #AVs Watch now: https://
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AMD Stock Falls Post-AI Conference Despite Strong Fundamentals
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AMD stock falls despite a good AI talk (although they're bouncing back today) Expectations were very high. https://
thetechnologyletter.com/the-posts/amd-
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Google’s Corporate Development Strategy for Reddit Acquisition
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I think the crowd that is like "Google should buy Reddit because search results" is still underestimating how good Google's corp dev team is. This is the same group that got Google to be the default engine in iOS. They will get a preferred API in some form.
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Europe’s Potential Disconnection from Advanced AI
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Guess Europe will be promptly unplugged from advanced AI.
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Advertising and Antitrust: Big Tech Regulation Discussion
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Who wants to chat today about advertising & antitrust?
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EU Files Antitrust Case Against Google’s Ad Operations
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As expected, the @EU_Commission has officially filed its antitrust case against Google related to its massive online advertising operation, claiming "abusive" practices hurt both competitors and publishers while also raising ad costs. https://
ec.europa.eu/commission/pre
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Oracle Embeds Cohere’s Generative AI Into Products
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“Oracle will be embedding Cohere's generative AI technology into a bunch of its products and Cohere will be using Oracle's cloud to train, build, and deploy its generative AI models,”