🫡 Is Elon telling us the Truth(GPT)?

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🧵 In today's edition:

• 👑 Athena, Goddess of (AI) War, has entered the chat

• 🫡 Is Elon telling us the Truth(GPT)?

• 🖥 AI is having its Linux Moment

• 🤑 AI Fundraising News

🤖 Top AI News

👑 Athena, Goddess of (AI) War, has entered the chat

Microsoft becomes the latest tech giant to enter the Chips race after Amazon, Google, and Meta.

The Information reported that Satya Nadella and the team have been working on an AI Chip, codename Athena, since 2019 to train LLMs and slowly wean off their reliance on Nvidia.

While Microsoft is not looking to replace Nvidia, this seems like a step in the right direction:

• There is a high demand for Nvidia chips. OpenAI estimated they would need at least 30,000 A100 GPUs to commercialize ChatGPT, each selling for more than $40,000 a pop on eBay.

• Developing chips in-house would be a nice way to curb that growing cost as MS continues to roll out AI powerhouses in Bing, Github, and Office Apps.

Microsoft is taking a page straight out of Apple’s playbook and localizing chip production. This will either be a brilliant move, or an old-fashioned money suck.

Only time will tell.

Read more: The Verge

🫡 Is Elon telling us the Truth(GPT)?

Finance. Transportation. Space. Now AI (take 2). Elon Must really does it all.

Musk’s new AI platform, TruthGPT, will be ~curious about the universe~ but don’t fret - he believes that this AI is “unlikely to annihilate humans” since we are an “interesting part of the universe”. That’s got to be a compliment, right?

Elon didn’t share many details on how this AI would be built. He did, however, ask for government oversight over AI projects, taking a dig at OpenAI’s for-profit model and suggesting ethics could be compromised for money.

Overall, we are yet to see how much truth there really is in TruthGPT, and if Musk will abide by his own rules of making it (1) open-source and (2) not-for-profit.

All eyes on you, Elon.

Read more: Mashable | Full Interview: Youtube

🖥 AI is having its Linux Moment

RedPajama, a collaboration between Ontocord.ai, ETH DS3Lab, Stanford CRFM, Hazy Research, and MILA Québec AI Institute, is a fully-open language model created aiming to overcome the limitations imposed by closed commercial models or partially open models.

Today they launched the first of their three key components, the pre-training data:

1. This is an open-source reproduction of LLaMA.

2. It filters a data set of over 1.2 trillion tokens, all of which can be downloaded through Hugging Face.

3. Downside: they are hefty files. They come in a ~3T compressed and ~5T unzipped file version.

4. It has officially been released and is available for use.

Its other components include:

• Base models:

  • A trained suite of base models hould be available in the next couple of weeks and is being worked on as part of the INCITE program together with the US Dept. of Energy.

• Instruction tuning data and models:

  • This will allow improvements to be made to the base model, making it usable and safe.

We’re loving the developments in the open-source community and all the llama references. 🦙

Read more: Together

🤑 AI Fundraising News

Memora Health scores $30M - a complex care management platform

Clerkie Raises $33M - a San Francisco-based financial automation platform

🗞️ Byte size: AI article summaries

Disclaimer: AI is (partially) used to summarize these articles.

Adobe Lightroom’s latest AI-powered feature is chin-scratchingly specific - Adobe Lightroom implemented new AI masking categories, making photo editing more accessible for non-professionals. Additionally, they also introduced a DeNoise tool that removes "digital noise" created by low-light conditions and a new feature for attaching digital attribution data before sharing images online. (Read more)

Prize-winning AI creation spurs debate over the tech’s role in art - German photographer Boris Eldagsen won the creative, open category at the Sony World Photography Awards with an AI Image, stirring debates around the ethical and legal nature of ownership and copyright. (Read more)

🐦️ Tweet of the day

Ummm…was the US Constitution written by AI?

And that does it for today's issue.

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