13th Edition: 11/10/23
OpenAI Dev Day puts 100s of startups at risk, Amazon invest in 2T-parameter model, and MSFT restricts employees' use of ChatGPT...
PNW AI News:
Amazon is reportedly investing >$300M on 'Olympus,' a massive 2 trillion parameter model (GPT-4 is only 800B param) aimed at rivaling OpenAI’s ChatGPT
Microsoft issues restriction on employees' use of ChatGPT, citing "Security and data concerns", and related to a LLM test being conducted internally
UW researchers have successfully leveraged edge AI models to help noise-cancelling headphones filter certain sounds contextually
Google's "Project Green Light" uses AI to improving traffic flow by optimizing the grid + signals to cut emissions, with the first urban rollout to be tested in Seattle
PNW AI Fundings:
Zuplo (Seattle, WA) raised $9M in Seed funding co-led by Trilogy Equity Partners and Boldstart Ventures, joined by Snyk CEO, Jon Gelsey, BoxGroup, and more
Helps companies accelerate the launch of their APIs, and offers ML-enabled tools to manage APIs for security and compliance - TFTD $9M
CEO: Josh Twist
Key AI Product Updates:
GitHub previews upcoming "copilot workspace", catering to AI-hungry software developers by using NLP to help developers plan/test project logic structure + implement boiler plate code
OpenAI Dev Day announces slew of new enhancements and price reductions across its platform, including:
GPTs offer a revolutionary customization of ChatGPT, allowing anyone to craft an AI for specific tasks—no coding needed
Multimodal Capabilities: Features such as vision, image creation with DALL·E 3, and text-to-speech (TTS) options in the same prompt window
GPT-4 Turbo with 128K context with expanded context window, user customization, and sound capabilities
Improved JSON mode for engineering use cases
Log seeding probability transparency
Elon's xAI unveil PromptIDE for AI development, an integrated dev environment + SDK for prompt engineering, following its Grok release
Tesla is integrating Grok AI (xAI's ChatGPT competitor) as their AI of choice, unsurprisingly
Samsung announced on-device LLM "Gauss", a generative model including NLP, coding, images and more. It will be implemented natively on the upcoming Galaxy S24 phone
NVIDIA's upgraded Eos supercomputer now trains a 175 billion parameter AI model in just under 4 minutes, breaking the company’s own speed record set six months ago by 3x
YouTube is testing two new AI tools — a chatbot that can summarize videos and answer questions and a AI-enabled filtering of comments' topics
Figma just integrated AI into its online whiteboard FigJam, helping users instantly visualize ideas and plans with customizable templates
Key AI Business/Investment Updates:
Meta is clamping down on AI-generated political content and advertising, requiring labelling for AI-altered content for transparency
IBM launches $500M Venture fund to invest in Enterprise AI platforms, stage agnostic
Google just expanded its AI-powered Search Generative Experience to 120+ new countries, expanding geographical-specific training capabilities
Aleph Alpha raises $500 Series B from Bosch Ventures and SAP to accelerate its training infrastructure for industrial automation applications