The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI B...
A daily news analysis show on all things artificial intelligence. NLW looks at AI from multiple angles, from the explosion of creativity brought on by new tools like Midjourney and ChatGPT to the potential disruptions to work and industries as we know them to the great philosophical, ethical and practical questions of advanced general intelligence, alignment and x-risk.
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Inflection Raises Monster $1.3 Billion Round to...
Inflection has raised $1.3B for its "personal intelligence" and to build one of the world's largest GPU clusters. OpenAI sets up shop in London, updates their mobile iOS ChatGPT app with Browse with Bing, and gets sued for data scraping. Runway raises...
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The AI Arms Race Heats Up: US Considers Blockin...
The Commerce Department is considering blocking AI chip exports from companies like Nvidia to China. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis claims their next model will eclipse ChatGPT. Unity releases AI platform including Unity Muse. NOTE: While NLW is...
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AI M&A: Billion Dollar Acquisitions Reshape AI ...
Today on The AI Breakdown Brief: Databricks acquires Mosaic for $1.3B Ramp acquires Thompson Reuters acquires legal AI firm CaseText for $650M Verge surveys 2000 people on AI MerlynMind releases education focused large language models...
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DragGAN's Amazing Drag-to-Edit Photo AI Release...
Today on The AI Breakdown Brief: DragGAN the much hyped AI image editing tool that allows massive modifications just through dragging has released its source code Inflection releases a new LLM that competes with GPT3.5 MidJourney gets zoomed out with...
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Is AI "Alien Intelligence?" Emerson Spartz on M...
Emerson Spartz has been building internet and media companies since starting MuggleNet, the world's largest Harry Potter fan site, when he was just 12 years old. He founded digital media company Dose which created some of the world's largest viral...
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What the Head of the New UK AI Foundation Model...
Entrepreneur and investor Ian Hogarth was recently named Chair of the UK's AI Foundation Model Taskforce. In today's Long Reads Sunday, NLW reads excerpts from Ian's writing on AI going back to 2018 to help us understand the perspective he's bringing...
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"AI Will Modify Our Interface For Information" ...
For more than a decade, across numerous startups Gagan Biyani has helped lead the online education revolution. Now as the CEO of Maven, he's helping the world figure out how to reskill for the coming era of artificial intelligence. In this...
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Multi-On is What You Wanted AutoGPT to Be - Int...
Today NLW is joined by Div Garg, the founder of Multi-On which is an AI personal agent that uses the browser to execute complex tasks. Learn more: The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in...
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AI is the First UI Paradigm Shift in 60 Years
AI represents the third major UI paradigm shift in computing. From batch processing to command-based interaction to intent-based outcome specification. A reading of by Jakob Nielsen Before that on The Brief Marvel has kicked up significant...
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Biden Meets AI Safety Experts As White House Pr...
President Biden yesterday met with AI safety experts in San Francisco as the White House promises "decisive action" on AI in the weeks to come. CNN reports that senior advisors have been meeting on AI 2-3 times per week since April. On the Brief:...
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The Faux Outrage Around OpenAI's EU Lobbying
Today TIME published a "scoop" about OpenAI's lobbying efforts in 2022 around the EU AI Act. NLW argues that the story is not only not some smoking gun, but is the type of nothingburger that makes people drop out of otherwise important conversations...
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GPT Engineer Generates An Entire Codebase Based...
GPT-Engineer is the latest AI project to have Github developers going nuts. The project promises to create entire code bases with a single prompt, reigniting excitement around the potential for more powerful AI agents. The AI Breakdown helps you...
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The Most Interesting AI Research This Week
A Research Roundup including: -AssistGPT -LLaMA multimodal adapter -Meta Voicebox -Text-to-Video -LLM agent teaching weaker AIs -AI art QR code generator The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in...
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A Critique of Marc Andreessen's "Why AI Will Sa...
Last week's Long Reads was Marc Andreessen's This week we read Dwarkesh Patel's The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: Subscribe to The AI...
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How Worried About China AI Should We Be?
Senators Mark Warner and Ted Cruz discus China's AI advances while Bill Gates meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping and TikTok parent ByteDance buys $1B in GPUs from Nvidia. Before that on the Brief, 42% of CEOs worry AI could end humanity in the...
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EU Passes AI Act, But Generative AI Provisions ...
The EU has passed its AI Act. The risk-based approach has banned some things (like live facial recognition and biometric scraping), and made a whole slew of other things require registration. The biggest arguments remain around generative AI focused...
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Why OpenAI's API Updates Will Change How We Use...
OpenAI has announced a set of API updates including lower prices, a larger 16k context window, and something they're calling function calling. On today's episode, NLW explains why function calling in particular is such a big deal. Before that on the...
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AI at Work: Is Enterprise AI the Next Big Trend?
Enterprise AI is a major theme for investors and corporations alike. Salesforce just announced their AI Cloud as well as doubling their generative AI venture fund to $500m. Accenture also announced a $3B investment in their AI practice. The AI...
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New ChatGPT Features Leaked?
Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW looks at how the real estate industry is thinking about the impact of generative AI. Before that on the Brief, we cover a leak from potential new ChatGPT features, as well as updates from Microsoft Bing and Google Search...
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Will AI Save The World?
That's the claim in Marc Andreessen's massive new 7000 word missive On this week's Long Reads Sunday, NLW voice clones himself with to "read" the entire piece. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in...
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Creating Worlds From Words: The Most Essential ...
Today on the Weekly Recap, NLW looks at the most essential AI news stories across new tools, important research, big company announcements, open source updates and societal impact. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news...
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The 5 Most Exciting AI Tools Launched This Week
From text-to-3D avatar to text-to-video to music you create with gestures, these are the most interesting and exciting ai tools that launched or were announced this week. Before that on the Brief AI in Instagram. AI in WhatsApp. AI in Facebook....
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Are We In An AI Bubble?
Is AI in bubble territory yet? Ever since Nvidia's massive move up recently, people have been asking this question with renewed vigor. The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI...
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OpenAI's 6 Strategies For Better ChatGPT Prompting
OpenAI has published a new guide with 6 recommendations for better ChatGPT prompting. The recommendations come in response to numerous complaints on Twitter that ChatGPT has gotten worse over the last few weeks. The AI Breakdown helps you understand...
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Can SuperAGI Be What People Wanted from AutoGPT?
AutoGPT was all the AI hotness a few months ago, with its promise of autonomous AI agents. Now, a new tool called SuperAGI is catching developer's interest as an ai agent implementation tool that is more robust than what AutoGPT offered. The...
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