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🛣 OpenAI’s Plans

🛣 OpenAI’s Plans

PLUS: Microsoft Teams adds Designer to its ranks

Haroon Choudery
June 02, 2023

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🛣 OpenAI’s plans
⚔️ Alibaba launches ChatGPT rival
🤖 NVIDIA's Neuralangelo AI model
🤑 AI Fundraising News

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🛣 OpenAI’s plans

OpenAI has been leading the AI charge for the world these past couple of months, and while we knew their vision, we were not fully aware of what the company had planned for the future.

For the first time, Altman provided details on OpenAI’s future while highlighting the limitations AI currently faces.

Here’s a summary:

The GPU shortage is hurting their short-term plans. This means that the roll-out of the 32K window, which allows you to have longer text conversations, is slowing down. It also means that you cannot “fine-tune” or customize your GPT4 models just yet.
The Plugins have not been a hit. People want ChatGPT within apps - not the other way around.
OpenAI’s main short-term goals are to speed up GPT-4 and lower costs. They also want Multimodality in GPT4. The issue? GPU shortages, which have pushed the possible release to 2024.
ChatGPT might be the last product to come out of OpenAI (for a while).
Regulation and Open-source are the dynamic duo that will keep AI in check.

In other OpenAI news: Altman and team are announcing a Cybersecurity Grant Program — a $1M initiative to encourage “defenders” (how Marvel of them) to create tools and projects that will help keep people safe.

Have something in mind? Submit your ideas here.

Read more: Humanloop | OpenAI

⚔️ Alibaba launches ChatGPT rival

Alibaba has emerged from the shadows to challenge OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

Their fighter? Tongyi Qianwen (TQ), which literally translates to “Truth from a Thousand Questions.”

Tongyi Qianwen is a large language model (LLM) that’s part of Alibaba’s digital assistant, Tongyi Tingwu. The LLM is aimed at simplifying multimedia content for better comprehension and sharing.

TQ has been officially released for public testing and will eventually be integrated with DingTalk, Alibaba’s enterprise communication and collaboration platform.

Alibaba intends to continue finetuning the AI and has plans to include real-time multimedia content translation between Chinese and English later this year.

The multinational company hopes to increase its user base across several services and wants users to report their findings to improve the AI.

Read more: Coinspeaker

🤖 NVIDIA's Neuralangelo AI model

Nvidia is on an absolute tear.

Their research arm recently created an AI model, Neuralangelo, that can generate 3D objects from 2D videos taken by anything, from a phone to a drone (unintentional rhyme). Check out this cool video demo.

Neuralangelo can capture the object's depth, size, and shape by selecting different frames of the subject from various angles in the video.

The model can also capture details such as textures, patterns, and color variations, including surfaces like “the roughness of roof shingles and the smoothness of marble.”

Why’s this important: The technology has immense potential applications in virtual reality experiences, architecture, art, robotics, and video games, where it can be used to create detailed objects like small statues or massive buildings in virtual environments.

Read more: Engadget

🤑 AI Fundraising News

GetYourGuide Raises $194M at a $2B Valuation to invest in Artificial Intelligence and finance expansion into the US.

Conversational AI company Hyro raised $20 million in series B financing to develop the platform, hire new talent, and establish new healthcare partnerships.

🗞️ Byte size: AI article summaries

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Microsoft Teams on Windows 11 gets Discord-like communities and an AI art tool [The Verge] - Microsoft Teams is receiving an upgrade that includes Microsoft’s communities feature and AI art tool Designer. Communities inside Microsoft Teams help small community groups organize through calendars, chat, and meetings. Designer can be helpful for communities to create event invite imagery or community banners. (Read more)

Tempus launches an AI ‘assistant’ for thousands of oncologists [Stat News] - Tempus, a company that combines DNA sequencing with AI for cancer treatment, has launched an AI assistant called Tempus One. This voice-and-text assistant is designed to give oncologists easier access to patient data. The company plans to roll out the product to the 6,000 doctors who currently prescribe its diagnostic tests for cancer patients. (Read more)