Neuralink just revealed the first human using a brain-chip implant to play chess using mind control alone. Plus, more developments from Elon Musk, Hydra, GPT-5 leaks, Open Interpreter, Sakana AI, Stanford, and Character AI. Here's everything going on in AI right now:
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Open Source AI startups challenge big tech giants with potential risks
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Mistral AI, Hugging Face and others are betting they can stand up to OpenAI and big tech firms by making their technology open source—but it could lead to more risk than reward, @bellelin_ reports.
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Claude 3 Opus thinks @goodside is Anthropic’s low-profile co-founder and CEO
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Claude 3 Opus believes I am the co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, where I "maintain a relatively low public profile":
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Vision Pro App Store Struggles Signal Ecosystem Development Challenges
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And here they wonder why the store fills so slow with Vision Pro apps…
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NotBadAI Reflective AI, Greenly’s Record Funding, Saudi Arabia AI Investment
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NotBadAI, l'IA qui réfléchit, la levée record de Greenly, l'Arabie Saoudite met le paquet sur l'Intelligence Artificielle NotbadAI : l’IA qui réfléchit avant de parler
Des chercheurs de Stanford et un groupe qui se fait appeler "Notbad AI" ont fait équipe pour créer un -
Enterprise demand outpaces consumer adoption in LLM market
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And the other factor was that they built for a consumer market, making a big bet (which seemed sensible) that this would go first. Instead, enterprise turned out to be the place where the big demand was Pi was a very cool product, but I suspect the other LLMs can do similar chat
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Inflection’s Challenge: Competing in the GPT-4 Class Model Race
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The thing was Inflection shot its shot. Their latest model was very good, but wasn't GPT-4 class. Given that there are now three GPT-4 class models out there (with Lllama-3 coming soon) and two GPT-4.5/5 (?) class models coming, I wonder if they could have caught up at this stage
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Enterprise AI Solutions: Beyond Basic LLM Integration and RAG
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Everyone makes fun of startups that are just "GPT-4 wrappers" but the bigger issue are large enterprise software companies slapping chatbots powered by GPT-3.5 class LLMs with basic RAG into their products and claiming they have an AI solution At least the startups are ambitious
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Neural Magic Delivers Talk at First AI Day Event
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Great to have @neuralmagic participate in our first AI Day! Thanks @markurtz_ for delivering a terrific talk.
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AI Startups Face Economics of Scale and Market Access Barriers
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This AND there's no alt path to success for "AI startups" They don't have econs of scale WRT compute AND even Inflection w/its 1000s of GPUs doesn't have paths to market–e.g. a cloud biz to sell whitelabel AI APIs and/or a platform (Meta) into which AI can be integrated.