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JUST IN: Canva announces a suite of new AI tools.
This follows just after Adobe Firefly yesterday. What's with the timing!?
Here's what's new for Canva's 125 million users:
The Microsoft <> OpenAI news is much bigger than we first thought:
- $10 billion investment in the works, with Microsoft getting 75% of revenue until it recoups all $10b
- GPT in Office, not just Bing
JUST IN: NVIDIA dropped new text-to-video research.
While still far from Hollywood quality, it's pretty damn impressive how fast this is moving.
"a storm trooper vacuuming a beach"
Wow. ChatGPT just got even more interesting.
Plugins now available, including one that allows ChatGPT to browse the Internet!
It's not just about writing poems and blog posts anymore. It's about DOING stuff.
Some of my favorite examples:
Update on OpenAI/Microsoft deal terms:
Once $92 billion in profit plus $13 billion in initial investment are repaid [to Microsoft and once the other venture investors earn $150 billion, all of the equity reverts back to OpenAI
BREAKING: Microsoft is dropping a big set of updates to Bing Chat today.
- Bing Chat Plugins
- Multimodal answers
- Persistent chat + chat history
- No more waitlist to use
Let's take a closer look:
Westworld lured millions of us into a fantasy of human-like robots in a Wild West-themed world.
Could it be real one day?
Stanford/Google researchers just told us how they used AI to make "generative agents".
Here's what they did 👇
Every OpenAI launch is 30 minutes of raw excitement then 2 hours where I can't physically do any work because I'm overwhelmed by how much the world will change
A podcast where I interview the early hires that made a mark on successful startups
No lessons, just honest and crazy stories of creating out of nothing
Would you listen?
Every AI hobbyist needs to realize how soon your laptop and smartphone will have a ChatGPT on it.
It's happening soon and way faster than you think.
Here's what you need to know (the non-technical version):
You can earn up to $25-45/hour right now helping to train AI models.
You don't need a technical degree! You just need some relevant topic experience and an Internet connection.
Here's how:
We hosted
#emergencychatgpthackathon
this past Sunday for the new ChatGPT and Whisper APIs.
It all came together in just 4 days, but we had 250+ people and 70+ teams demo!
Here’s a recap of our winning demos:
Salesforce departures last few days:
- Bret Taylor (co-CEO)
- Mark Nelson (CEO, Tableau)
- Stewart Butterfield (CEO, Slack)
- Tamar Yehoshua (CPO, Slack)
- Jonathan Prince (SVP, Marketing/Comms)
Hey SF-based techies I wrote your resolutions for you:
- Delete ride-hailing and food-delivery apps
- Learn 3 bus lines
- Walk the Crosstown Trail
- Google who your Supervisor is
- Volunteer with your time, not your skills
- Pick a cause that is not effective altruism
Microsoft new Copilot+ PCs:
- Powered by new NPU (40+ trillion operations per second)
- Rearchitected Windows 11
- 58% faster than Macbook Air M3
- Copilot shipping with Windows
- Copilot built into Settings, files, notifications
- Powered by GPT-4o
Writing email in ChatGPT is THE most popular use case.
Most people are having trouble prompting the tone - something direct but professional but also friendly but also not too enthusiastic.
Here's the hack for you:
"tone: conversational, 50% spartan"
You don't need 1,000 AI tools. You need the ones that actually work.
We spent the last weeks trying every tool we can find to find the ones you should actually pay attention to.
Here are the first 20 tools we recommend and why:
Midjourney prompt:
indian man, black frame glasses, black shirt, professional headshot, forlorn, realization his company is falling behind, only announces waitlists, bard sucks, always gets frontrun by microsoft
Oh wait
5. Meta open sources "Animated Drawings"
- Project brings sketches to life
- This continues an effort from 2021, when they first released this project and started collecting data from the public
Access:
Soon, the AI tinkerers on Twitter will be building stuff that the average American finds outright terrifying.
That's going to be one hell of a public debate.
1. Bedrock via AWS
- Bedrock lets enterprises use and fine-tune base models with their own data.
- Base models from Anthropic, AI21 (European languages), Amazon Titan (new language models) and Stability AI (images).
It makes me so incredibly happy to see LinkedIn profiles that look like this:
X Company (5 years, 5 months)
- Product Manager (current)
- Associate PM
- Sr. Product Ops Specialist
- Product Ops Specialist
- Sr. Customer Support Rep
- Customer Support Rep
ChatGPT will soon be able to generate entire series of novels at a time.
New research that dropped Sunday shows it's possible.
Here's the non-technical explainer to make you smarter:
BREAKING: Google announces Bard will have access to tools!
For starters, this includes integrations with Docs and Gmail.
Bard will let you control Google Apps from the chatbox.
Governments are sprinting to figure out their approach to AI.
Look at the EU. They've been working on their big AI Act for nearly 2 years.
Then ChatGPT comes out and throws a big wrench in their framework. Kneejerk reaction from Italy to ban it.
In just 3 years, language models have gotten way more powerful.
This shows performance of language models across subjects like social sciences, humanities, etc.
2. Amazon releases CodeWhisperer
- This is Amazon's version of GitHub Copilot
- Free for individual developers
- Developers seem to like Copilot more
To access:
With great power comes great responsibility.
People are also using these more capable AI models to do questionable things, like deepfaking politicians.
If you're spending $20/month on ChatGPT-4 to code with AI...
Use
@Replit
instead. They just made their AI coding assistant FREE.
They're also releasing a state-of-the-art coding model, replit-code-v1.5-3b.
This joins other offerings from NVIDIA, Scale, OpenAI and Microsoft in enterprise land.
Everyone is recognizing that enterprises will fine-tune their own models and need to do it without leaking data.
Claude and Bard ARE IN TROUBLE.
OpenAI just released the iOS app for ChatGPT.
HERE’S WHY A MOBILE APP WILL WIPE ANTHROPIC AND GOOGLE OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH
$MSFT up 8-9% after earnings
Highlights from investor call:
- Over 2,500 Azure OpenAI Service customers (up 10x QoQ)
- Over 10,000 organizations signed up for GitHub Copilot for Business
- Teams "intelligent recaps" has "thousands of paid customers just two months in"
- Bing
This number is going to continue to skyrocket as the world figures out how to adjust to new AI capabilities.
Notable ones include the outstanding lawsuit against Stability AI for copyright concerns.