Meta joins the AI race!

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Welcome to yet another week full of mind-blowing AI research, jaw dropping AI tools and Anthropic’s multi-billion dollar plan to challenge OpenAI and take the lead in the AGI race. Meanwhile, OpenAI is firing back in style by swiftly shipping widely-adoptable AI, such as the ChatGPT plugin and GPT-4.

Who do you think will lead the AGI revolution? Only time will tell. For now, let’s dive into this week's newsletter to discover all the incredible things happening in the world of AI!

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 👌

Segment Anything Model by Meta AI: An AI model which can segment any object in an image with just one click, using input prompts, trained on over 11 million images with over 1 billion masks.

• BloombergGPT: A powerful financial language model by Bloomberg, outperforming other models on financial NLP tasks and general benchmarks.

• Koala by UC Berkeley: A chatbot trained on curated web dialogue data with competitive performance.

• Vicuna-13B: An open-source chatbot trained on user conversations achieving high quality at a low cost.

• GPTrillion by Banana: A superior multimodal language model with 1.5 trillion parameters.

• Baize by Microsoft: An open-source chat model that improves performance in multi-turn dialogues.

• SafeguardGPT by IBM: A psychotherapy framework that ensures ethical and safe AI systems.

• LLaMA-Adapter: A lightweight adaptation method to fine-tune LLaMA into an instruction-following model.

• SELF-REFINE: A self-feedback framework that improves language model outputs.

• ChatArena: A Python library for multi-agent language game environments with user-friendly interfaces.

• Build Web Apps using Voice Commands: Mckay Wrigley's voice command AI coding assistant that builds and deploys web apps.

• LVDM for Long Video Generation: Lightweight Latent Video Diffusion Models that generate high-fidelity long videos.

• Learning Personalized High Quality Volumetric Head Avatars from Monocular RGB Videos:A method to learn 3D head avatars with user-controlled expressions and poses.

• SuTI by Google: A text-to-image generator that instantly generates customized images of a new subject.

• Pose-Guided Text-to-Video Generation: A two-stage training scheme to generate pose-controllable character videos.

News from the Industry 🧑‍🏫

Our Pick 👌

Luma has introduced a plugin for Unreal Engine 5 on Windows, featuring fully volumetric NeRFs that allow for real-time creation of cinematic 3D scenes.

• Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI by building Claude Next, 10x more powerful models than current LLMs.

• Center for AI and Digital Policy files complaint with FTC against OpenAI's GPT-4 for potential harm, biased data, and privacy failures.

• President Biden has warned tech executives to ensure safety of AI products before release.

• OpenAI outlines commitment to building and using AI safely amid controversies.

• India has decided not to regulate the growth of AI, instead focus on cultivating a robust AI sector to spur entrepreneurship and business development.

• Replit and Chroma release Chroma template for easy creation of AI apps.

• Google denies ChatGPT data to train its AI chatbot Bard.

• Stanford releases AI Index Report 2023 with interesting findings on industry vs. academia, job trends, AI's environmental impact, and more.

• Twitter open-sources recommendation algorithm, including "For You" Heavy Ranker and TwHIN embeddings.

• LangChain raises $10 million  in seed funding to build intelligent apps and empower developers.

• Goldman Sachs predicts AI could cause job loss but increase global GDP by 7%. Read the full report here.

• Midjourney halts free trials amid concerns about spread of deepfake images.

Tools of the Trade ⚒️

Our Pick 👌

Spline AI: Effortlessly create and edit 3D objects, animations, and textures using text prompts.

• Imagica: A no-code AI app development tool for creating real-time multimodal apps with millions of functions and generating immediate revenue.

• June AI: Simplifies product analytics, allows users to ask complex questions in English, saving time, sharing insights, and connecting data sources for deeper analysis.

• xTuring: An open-source AI personalization software for fine-tuning LLMs to your data.

• Adcrafter.ai: Create captivating titles and texts for Google and Microsoft Ads campaigns, improving ad performance and saving time.

• Prompt Storm: Chrome extension that provides pre-engineered prompts for ChatGPT, boosting productivity and knowledge.

• Coachvox AI: Create a customizable AI version of yourself that can answer questions in your tone, provide support, and turn visitors into leads.

• 60sec.site: Create a landing page with AI-generated content, SEO optimization, basic analytics, and a call-to-action feature in just one minute.

• AgileGPT: Helps teams work smarter, faster, and better with agile methods, automation, and powerful tools for optimizing performance.

• Gamma: Generate engaging content with flexible templates, built-in analytics, and multimedia embedding.

• ReContent.AI: Streamlines the repurposing process for your content across platforms with AI-generated posts based on your content.

• Enhance AI: Add AI autocomplete to your website's text inputs in two lines of code and enhance user experience.

Hot Takes 🔥

AI Meme of the Week 🤡

That’s all for this week!

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