Google isn't ready to give up

PLUS: remote work isn't for Sam Altman, Mosaic's new model for $200k

May 08, 2023

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Today we have Google plans for new search (and debunks of the no moat theory). Meanwhile, Sam Altman is making remote work a hot topic again, and Mosaic continues its series of model training showcase.

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🤌 Our Picks

Highlights if you've only got 2 minutes

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I’ve got absolutely no idea what “snackable” means, but that’s the word Sundar Pichai is using to describe the plans that Google has for shaping the idea of ‘search’. It seems like they want to shift the idea of search from a list of links to something more visual and interactive. Users might be prompted to ask follow-up questions, and even interact with things like TikTok videos in the search experience. It looks like there’s a concern here that young people are seeking information from alternative platforms, and Google is making an effort to capture that somewhat.

2/

Working from home is a big debate—some people love it, and others aren’t so keen. And when one of the biggest geezers in the AI space has a thing or two to say about it, we should probs all listen. OpenAI founder Sam Altman doesn’t seem to be a fan. He’s described the idea of permanently-hybrid working as one of the tech industry’s biggest mistakes, and thinks that it’s totally inappropriate if you want to drive a start-up forward with innovative approaches. Fair enough—but I do love a Monday and Friday at home…

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Mosaic is the latest team to make its mark on the open-sourced AI stage, and this one seems pretty exciting. They’ve just opened up the MosaicML Foundation Series, making transformer models trained on over 1 trillion words commercially available to whoever fancies it. Apparently, the quality of the models matches Meta’s Llama ones, and they’re being pretty open about the process: almost two weeks of training at ~$200k - sheesh!

🛠️ Cool Tools

Product launches, updates and demos

  • Photopea integration with Stable Diffusion and Automatic1111 in your browser. (link)

  • Pun Papa Biden - RedPajama models fine tuned on dad jokes in Joe Biden’s voice. (link)

  • Million Dollar AI homepage - Indie makers making money with their AI projects. (link)

  • Hugging Face Papers - A place to get daily AI, ML, and computer vision papers. (link)

  • A list of open LLMs available for commercial use. (link)

  • PromptFlow – Low-code GUI tool to chain LLM prompts with flowcharts. (link)

  • UnionX - Copilot for work with Jupyter style notebooks. (link)

  • MoodFood – AI chef assistant for personalised meals and mood dining. (link)

  • Easy Source - Simplify your search for top talent with our AI-based candidate sourcing tool. (link)

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🤓 Miscellaneous

News, podcasts, videos, blogs etc

  • RedPajama introduces two open source models, 3B and 7B, from the INCITE family. (link)

  • Amazon plans to rework Alexa in the age of ChatGPT. (link)

  • The importance of open source AI and the challenges of liberating data - from OSI, the open source initiative. (link)

  • OpenAI changed its plans and won’t train on customer data. (link)

  • Amazon plans to generate photos and videos for advertisers using AI. (link)

  • Open AI showcases shap-e to generate 3D objects from text. (link)

  • The case for Open AI. (link)

  • US sanctions drive Chinese AI companies to work without latest chips. (link)

  • Meta’s bizarre AI infrastructure choice costs them $100s of millions. (link)

  • America forgot about IBM Watson. Is ChatGPT Next? (link, without paywall here) pss: it’s more about Watson than ChatGPT.

  • AttentionViz - A global view of transformer attention. (link)

  • AI’s biggest risk is the corporations that control them. (link)

  • Is ChatGPT outperforming the top 10 most popular funds in the UK? (link)

  • AI tool designs mRNA vaccines that are more potent and stable. (link)

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🎓 Learn

How-to’s and resources

  • Hugging Face course for natural language processing. (link)

  • Diffusion Explainer - Visual explanation for text-to-image Stable Diffusion. (link)

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