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PLUS: Bedrock, more EU troubles, ChatGPT in AR, Stable Diffusion Update.

April 14, 2023

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AWS entering the generative AI game makes me feel like an evil villain swivelling on his chair stroking a cat: “Amazon, I’ve been expecting you…” 😈

They’ve just released Amazon Bedrock, which gives developers the ability to build on top of pre-trained models from a bunch of providers: Stability AI (think image generation), Anthropic (think Claude chatbot), and more. Not only this, but they’re also providing limited access to their in-house language model, Titan FM. Oh, and apparently they’ve always had a generative code model called CodeWhisperer, which didn’t quite take off like GitHub Copilot… anyway, now it’s free for AWS customers.

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Stability AI is going in large as they break away in the race for AI image generation. And when I say “large” it’s literal: their latest update is Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL), and it’s improving rapidly with human feedback from users. It’s built for enterprise and excels in photorealism, has more detailed imagery, can make do with shorter prompts, and produces more legible text in images. (But what about the hands? Can it do hands yet?!) The release also includes image-to-image, inpainting (filling in missing bits), and outpainting (extending images beyond the boundary). Big update from a fast-moving company!

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What is it with the Mediterraneans and beef (😏) with OpenAI? First Italy, now Spain, who say they’re watching the AI company closely over potential breaches of EU GDPR regulations. They’ve even gone as far as suggesting that solving these issues may require harmonised and coordinated action from EU members. Uh oh! Who’s next? Greece?

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I’m enjoying ‘picking’ awesome projects built by one or two people, so I’m gonna throw another in here today. This dude is in the know about memory and palaces and has put ChatGPT inside AR/VR so you can build your own mind map of old queries and chats. Interact with them, group them together, and have your very own palace of GPT memories. Very slick demo too!

🛠️ Cool Tools

Product launches, updates and demos

  • IronClad’s AI assist for contracts is now generally available with additional legal tools. (link)

  • Teenage AI - AI agent with storable memory with Pinecone. (link)

  • Effy - Ready-to-use templates, prepared reports, and AI-generated insights for performance review. (link)

  • Recreating Samantha from “her” in real-time. (link)

  • Mckay’s GPT-4 coding assistant learned how to build apps with authenticated users. (link)

  • Using GPT-4 + Replit to build a QR code generator in just a few minutes. (link)

  • Cognosys - It's a web-based version of AutoGPT. (link)

  • Lexica Aperture v3 - New architecture and trained from the ground up, making it better at following prompts and rendering fine details. (link)

  • Baby AGI GPT - Run autonomous agents directly within ChatGPT with a plugin. (link)

  • GPT4All-J: An Apache-2 Licensed GPT4All Model. (link)

  • Godmode - Autonomous AI agent in your browser. (link)

  • Amazon CodeWhisperer - Your AI coding companion, free for personal use. (link)

🤓 Miscellaneous

News, podcasts, videos, blogs etc

  • What’s up with open-source LLMs? (link)

  • This startup wants to train art-generating AI strictly on licensed images. (link)

  • The climate justice of AI safety. (link)

  • Introducing login, threads, focus search, improved formatting, and more in Perplexity AI. (link)

  • At least 50% of iOS/MacOS ChatGPT apps are leaking their private Open AI keys. (link)

  • Your AI friends have awoken with Noam Shazeer. (link)

  • Meta has open-sourced an AI project that turns your doodles into animations. (link, github repo here)

  • Segment everything everywhere all at once. (link)

  • Zip-NeRF - Anti-aliased grid-based neural radiance fields from Google. (link)

  • Expressive text-to-image generation with rich text. (link)

  • Lux Capital has raised a new fund to invest in founders turning sci-fi into sci-fact(link)

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