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Let’s get to the good stuff, then. Today we’ve got more updates from Google, including MedPaLM 2, AI in advertising and code generation in Google Colab. Add in Stability AI launching an open-source version of their commercial AI art platform.
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Hey, it’s getting a bit Google-heavy now, but not my fault: they’re gaining momentum right now! We had Google I/O’s onslaught of consumer releases last week, and there are some new updates from them.
Smashing state-of-the-arts in medical AI, MedPaLM-2 doesn’t only have a 19% performance improvement over MedPaLM, but physicians also preferred its responses to other physicians. (Maybe there’s just a bit of industry rivalry going on there…) More importantly, general public users also find it consistently more helpful. The trajectory of progress here is seriously impressive, and these guys might be radically changing the field of medical advice.
It’s also time for Google to get down and dirty with the real revenue generators, and it’s hardly a surprise they’re sneaking generative AI into it. They wanna use it to automate advertising and ad-supported consumer services on things like YouTube; allowing advertisers to generate their own media assets and suggest videos for YouTubers to show. Tune into their 23rd May Google Marketing Live to hear all their money-spinning updates.
Colab, their Jupyter notebook-style coding environment, will be getting some AI coding features. Things like code completions, prompt-based code generation, and an assistant chatbot. They have a model called Codey, specifically built for code generation, and it’s done perfectly to sit in Colab and smash out some Python for you.
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Stability AI seems to be taking heed to the chatter recently that open-source AI is going to provide a seriously legitimate challenge to Big Tech. So much so that they’ve created an open-source product to compete with… their own commercial product. StableStudio is an open-source version of DreamStudio, their commercial AI art platform. They’ll be able to reap the rewards of the open source community contributing to improve the platform, whilst also offering customisable services in DreamStudio. Despite the nice-sounding set up, it does beg the question of how it might impact one of their only cash generators.
Official release here.
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Hopshop - Search for clothes in images and find similar items. (link)
Dora AI - Generating powerful websites, one prompt at a time. (link)
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Auto-evaluation of Anthropic 100k context window. (link)
Numbers every LLM developer should know. (link)
Texas professor failed half of class after ChatGPT claimed it wrote their papers. (link)
Palm 2, Google's new LLM, is trained on 3.6T tokens. (link)
Harry Potter musical generated by AI. (link)
Pink slime from AI content farms is a poor substitute for real journalism. (link)
A Vice report says that Homeland Security uses AI tool to analyse social media of U.S. citizens and refugees. (link)
Snowflake in talks to buy search startup Neeva. (link)
Union AI raises $19.1M Series A to simplify AI and data workflows with Flyte. (link)
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