Elon Musk Launches xAI to Understand Reality

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Elon Musk has created a sensation with the launch of xAI Corp., which brings together top researchers from industry-leading companies like OpenAI, Microsoft and DeepMind who have led the largest breakthroughs in AI. Their mission? To “understand reality”. We can expect deeper insights and potentially new theories of the universe from this combination of AI and researchers.

On the other side, Google is making headlines for both good and bad reasons. While it has rolled out its new AI notebook NotebookLM, and released exciting features in Bard, it has also been hit with a lawsuit for scraping web data of millions of users without their permission to train its AI models. This follows the recent changes they made in their privacy policy, which basically gave Google free rein to scrape just about everything you post online to build its AI tools.

While we all anticipate the results of these lawsuits, let’s dive into today’s edition and uncover all the incredible news.

This issue covers:

• Latest Developments 🌍

• Tools of the Trade ⚒️

• Trending AI Jobs 💼

• Prompt of the Day 📜

• Hot Takes 🔥

• AI Meme of the Day 🤡

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Latest Developments 🌍

• More Features in Bard:

  • Availability expanded in more regions like Brazil and Europe

  • Listen to Bard's responses in over 40 languages

  • Adjust the tone and style of the response

  • Pin and rename conversations, export Python code to Replit, share Bard chat with others

  • Upload images in prompts for captions and analysis

• Musk’s Dream Team: Elon Musk has formed xAI Corp. to “understand the true nature of the universe” with researchers from the top companies in AI.

• Poe gets Upgraded: Quora’s Poe now has the new Claude 2 with a 100k context window, file uploading, URL retrieval, and continue chat.

• 1B Images from Firefly: Adobe Firefly is expanding globally and supporting prompts in over 100 languages, with the service being localized in 20 languages.

• Policy Changes didn’t go well: Google faces class-action suit for stealing data of millions of users without consent, violating copyright laws to train AI models.

• Google’s AI Notebook: NotebookLM is an AI-first notebook that helps users gain insights faster by summarizing, answering questions, and generating ideas.

• AI-designed Proteins: AI tools like RFdiffusion are churning out custom protein designs by using neural networks trained on real protein structures, with potential applications for vaccines, therapeutics, and biomaterials.

• South Korea’s Midjourney: Kakao Brain has released a new text-to-image AI model Karlo 2.0, trained on approximately 300 million text-image samples.

• Google’s Musical AI Bird: Voila the Bird generates real-time sounds based on user’s mouse movements, using a neural network trained on cello and violin compositions.

• 90% Jobs Replaced by AI: Indian startup Dukaan laid off 90% of its customer support staff, implementing AI chatbot to improve response time and reduce cost.

• Investment in Drug Discovery: Nvidia will invest $50M in Recursion to speed up AI training for drug discovery, and license the trained models to biotech firms.

• No Courtroom drama: Shutterstock expands its partnership with OpenAI, granting OpenAI access to Shutterstock's data while gaining priority access to OpenAI's latest technology.

• 6x Revenue from AI Investment: KPMG plans to invest $2B in AI and cloud services through an expanded partnership with Microsoft, and generate over $12B revenue in the next five years.

Tools of the Trade ⚒️

• Prompt Perfect: Develop, debug and deploy optimized prompts for AI models.

• Charisma: Create conversational characters for immersive worlds and dynamic storytelling.

• dotBrand: A survey genie for designers that identifies ideal clients, provides design suggestions, and raises brand value.

• Monitor AI: Keep daily track of OpenAI API cost with comprehensive details and intuitive graphs.

• Astria: Create customized AI assistants with different appearances, demeanor, communication style, and distinct personality traits.

• GPT Web App Generator: Generate full-stack web app codebase by simply describing the web app you would like to create.

• Fliki: Creates stunning videos from text with perfect visuals and human-like voiceovers.

Trending AI Jobs 💼

• Runway: AI Research Team Lead | Remote (Apply Now)

• BrainPOP: Prompt Engineer | New York, US (Apply Now)

• Uber: Senior Applied Scientist | New York, US (Apply Now)

Prompt of the Day 📜

AI as Communication Coach

Hot Takes 🔥

• A.I. is kind of a fancy thing. First of all, it's two letters. It means 'Artificial Intelligence. ~Kamla Harris

• Having a relationship with an AI always turns cold. It isn’t human. Eventually you figure out it isn’t nearly as fun as being in love with another human. ~Robert Scoble

Meme of the Day 🤡

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