Elon Musks launches X AI to compete with OpenAI

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Hold onto your jetpacks, folks! This week was like stepping into a sci-fi adventure as Elon Musk unveiled X AI Corp, the hottest new artificial intelligence contender ready to go head-to-head with the big guns of the LLM world, like OpenAI and Anthropic with billions of dollars in funding. As if that wasn't enough to make your circuits buzz, Elon surprised everyone by taking over Twitter Inc and making it a part of X Corp. Talk about shaking things up!!

Just a week ago, our favorite Martian-minded entrepreneur signed a petition for a six-month pause on training large language models. And now, he's launching his very own AI company to tackle AGI! We can't wait to see how X AI Corp will navigate the AGI galaxy, as they boldly go where only OpenAI, Anthropic, Adept AI, and Cohere have gone before. Stay tuned for more electrifying updates!

This issue covers:

1. Latest Developments 🌍

2. News from the Industry 🧑‍🏫

3. Tools of the Trade ⚒️

4. Hot Takes 🔥

5. AI Meme of the Week 🤡

Latest Developments 🌍

Our Pick 👌

Deep RL at Scale: Combines deep RL from real-world data with training in simulation and inputs from computer vision, to enable a fleet of robots to sort recyclables and trash in office buildings.

• Auto-GPT: An open-source application powered by GPT-4 that can autonomously achieve user-set goals through chaining together LLM thoughts.Check out this compilation of everything incredible using AutoGPT.

• Dolly 2.0: The first open source, instruction-following LLM released by Databricks, fine-tuned on 15k human-generated prompt/response pairs.

• Grounded-Segment-Anything: Combines Segment Anything model and Grounding DINO zero-shot detector to enable the detection and segmentation of objects at any level with text inputs.

• HuggingGPT: Uses LLMs like ChatGPT to connect various AI models in Hugging Face to solve complicated AI tasks in different domains and modalities.

• Cerebras-GPT: Open language models with 111M to 13B parameters are trained on the Eleuther Pile dataset using efficient techniques and can be accessed here.

• LifeOS: AI technology delivered through AR glasses, recognizes friends' faces and brings up relevant details for conversations based on past texts.

• Vision Foundation Models from BAAI: SegGPT (performs various segmentation tasks in images and videos via in-context learning) and Painter.

• OpenAGI: When LLM Meets Domain Experts: An open-source AGI research platform that uses LLMs and Reinforcement Learning from Task Feedback (RLTF) for self-improving AI.

• ChatGPT Empowered Long-Step Robot Control in Various Environments: ChatGPT can convert natural language instructions into an executable robot action sequence using easy-to-customize input prompts.

• Teaching LLMs to Self-Debug: Self-debugging teaches LLMs to identify their mistakes in generated code via few-shot demonstrations.

• Toxicity in ChatGPT: Assigning a persona to ChatGPT significantly increases the toxicity of its generations and reflects discriminatory biases in the model.

• GPT detectors are biased: GPT detectors misclassify non-native English writing as AI-generated and should be used with caution.

• Instruction Tuning with GPT-4: GPT-4 is used to generate instruction-following data to fine-tune LMs with superior zero-shot performance on new tasks.

• Pythia: A suite of LLMs for studying their development during training with case studies on memorization, few-shot performance, and gender bias.

• InstantBooth: Enables instant and accurate text-guided image personalization without test-time finetuning.

• DreamPose: A diffusion-based method for generating fashion videos from still images and body poses.

News from the Industry 🧑‍🏫

Our Pick 👌

Meta AI's FAIR team released Animated Drawings, an open-source project that uses computer vision to bring animated character drawings to life.

• Amazon has launched Amazon Bedrock which enables the building of generative AI-powered apps via third-party models from AI21 Labs, Anthropic and Stability AI as well as AWS's Titan FM models.

• Amazon has released CodeWhisperer, an AI coding companion for faster and more secure application development, free for individual developers.

• Stability AI has released Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL), the latest image generation model with next-level photorealism capabilities, enhanced image composition, and face generation.

• OpenAI has releases Consistency Models, a new family of generative models that achieve high sample quality without adversarial training and support fast one-step generation.

• Microsoft brings Bing Chat AI to Android via SwiftKey and adds AI image generator to Edge browser (source).

• Following Italy, Spain's data protection authority is investigating OpenAI for possible GDPR violations by ChatGPT.

• Italy's data protection authority has issued a to-do list to OpenAI, which includes age gating and transparency measures, to lift the suspension order against ChatGPT.

• German data protection commissioner has warned that ChatGPT may face a potential block in Germany, similar to what happened in Italy, due to data security concerns.

• Biden Administration might establish rules on AI tools, seeking public comment on accountability measures for AI.

• With many Chinese tech companies rolling out their LLMs, China is proposing restrictive rules around AI models that prohibit any content that subverts state power, which may chill its nascent AI industry.

• Australian mayor Brian Hood may file the world’s first defamation lawsuit against ChatGPT for falsely identifying him as a guilty party in a foreign bribery scandal.

• Japan considers adopting OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot and other AI technologies if privacy and cybersecurity issues are addressed.

• OpenAI has launched a Bug Bounty Program with cash rewards for security researchers who find and report vulnerabilities.

• Meta plans to debut a generative AI ad-creating technology by the end of 2023, helping clients better reach audiences and reduce costs.

• Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced plans to incorporate conversational AI features into their search engine to improve efficiency and remain competitive.

• Elon Musk reportedly bought thousands of GPUs for Twitter's AI project, showing his commitment to the effort despite his feud with OpenAI.

• Kuwait News has introduced an AI news presenter named "Fedha" with plans to have it read online bulletins and potentially adopt a Kuwaiti accent.

• Poe’s new feature allows anyone to create a chatbot with simple text prompts and an existing LLM as a base, without the need for coding skills.

• Chroma has raised an $18M seed round to provide developers with pluggable knowledge about their data and prevent hallucinations using embeddings.

• Watch Andrew Ng and Yann LeCun discussing why the 6 months’ AI winter is a bad idea.

Tools of the Trade ⚒️

Our Pick 👌

Cohesive AI: Create engaging, optimized content at lightning speed with 100+ templates, ideation with AI, image editor and language translation.

• Imagica AI: Build fully functional AI apps in less than 5 mins using simple text prompts, supports text, image, audio, video and 3D data.

• Monica: Chrome extension that uses ChatGPT API to be your personal AI assistant for chatting, copywriting, and text processing on any webpage.

• Poised: AI-powered communication coach that provides real-time feedback, analyzes trends over time and offers personalized learning plans.

• Landing AI: Creates unique landing pages with generative AI and 29 themes to choose from.

• Invicta AI: Easy, powerful, and collaborative platform for creating and sharing AI models in English without coding.

• Deepswap: AI face swap app for generating faceswap videos, photos, and GIFs.

• Thatch: AI-powered virtual mailbox for efficient mail management, team collaboration, remote work, and privacy protection.

• Boltic: Centralized data platform for modern data operations with features like no-code transformation, automation, and business monitoring.

• Inkdrop: Facilitates meetings, turns conversations into actions, and reduces the need for additional meetings and Slack messages.

• Nando.ai: Creates high-converting copy for e-commerce, social media, and YouTube content creation.

• Draw3D: Transforms sketches into photorealistic images, animates sketches and transforms sculptures and photos into each other.

• Parentivise: AI-powered parenting assistant that guides parents in child behavior and growth.

• FolkTalk: AI-powered dubbing to help content creators reach regional video consumers in their preferred languages while maintaining authenticity.

• Plask: Generate studio-quality images from uploaded photos with web-based editing.

Hot Takes 🔥

AI Meme of the Week 🤡

That’s all for this week!

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