Google to Come Up with A Superior ChatGPT

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Generative AI startups are on an acquisition spree, we're barely past the 24-hour mark since the jaw-dropping billion-dollar acquisition of MosaicML, and already riding the waves of another massive deal - Thomson Reuters scooping up Casetext, a legal AI startup. This significant deal not only underscores the potential and versatility of AI applications, but also signals a growing acceptance in industries, like law, that were initially more skeptical.

Meanwhile, tech giants Google and Baidu are gearing up, ready to challenge OpenAI’s ChatGPT with their newest and arguably more advanced generative AI models. We've got a lot to cover today, so let's jump straight into into today’s newsletter!

This issue covers:

• Latest Developments 🌍

• Tools of the Trade ⚒️

• Trending AI Jobs 💼

• Prompt of the Day 📜

• Hot Takes 🔥

• AI Meme of the Week 🤡

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Latest Developments 🌍

• Visual Navigation Transformer: A foundation model for visual navigation that uses a Transformer-based architecture and general goal-reaching objective for efficient adaptation to various navigational tasks, suitable for mobile robotics.

• Reka has emerged from stealth, raising $58 million to build custom AI models for enterprises, starting with Yasa, a multimodal AI model which can understand and analyze text, images, videos, and tabular data.

• Google Deepmind’s Gemini, being built using techniques similar to their in-house AI program AlphaGo, will be more powerful than ChatGPT, claims the CEO.

• Baidu Dominance: Baidu claims that its latest Ernie 3.5 has surpassed "ChatGPT in comprehensive ability scores" and outperformed "GPT-4 in several Chinese capabilities".

• Thomson Reuters acquires Casetext, an AI legal tech startup which was one of the early ones to get access to GPT-4, for $650M in cash.

• Dynamic Conversartions with Multiple LLMs: ChatArena is a Python library for multi-agent language game environments that enables communication and collaboration between LLMs.

• Proprietary Data into AI Gold: Snowflake and NVIDIA are partnering to allow businesses to leverage their proprietary data within the Snowflake Data Cloud to create customized generative AI applications using NVIDIA NeMo.

• 24x Faster Than Hugging Face Transformers: vLLM is an open-source library for fast and affordable LLM serving, powered by PagedAttention, delivering up to 24x higher throughput than HF Transformers.

Tools of the Trade ⚒️

• LangTale Playground: First playground supporting OpenAI function callings, allowing to experiment with the latest OpenAI features without code.

• UserStudy: Conduct research with users to gain real insights, with 1:1 interviews, transcriptions and highlights, product testing, content testing and more!

• CommuniqAI: Scheduling and automating SMS text messages, calls, and emails, with reminders and intelligent features, stay connected effortlessly.

• Avian ChatGPT plugin: Access, analyze, and interact with your business data seamlessly through ChatGPT, combining multiple data sources.

• Godcast: Create lifelike conversations on any subject, using any voice by giving a simple description of what you want.

• ColorMagic: Creates unique color palettes based on a wide range of keywords.

• Body Scan by Zing: Scans your body and gives a body fat mass report with just a selfie, curates fitness plans along with progress tracking.

Trending AI Jobs 💼

• Microsoft: Technology Specialist - Machine Learning | Redmond, WA (Apply Now)

• JP Morgan: VP - ML Engineer | Plano, TX, United States (Apply Now)

• OpenAI: Solutions Engineer | San Francisco, California (Apply Now)

Prompt of the Day 📜

AI-Powered Business Decision-Making: A Triple Perspective Approach

Hot Takes 🔥

1. Trying to get ahead in AI these days feels like wrestling a rabid 5,000 lbs hippo covered in baby oil. ~Bojan Tunguz

2. 99% of the world still have no idea how crazy AI will get over the next 12 months! ~ Chris Lu

Meme of the Day 🤡

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