Microsoft has a chip on their shoulder

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Hey folks, today, we have Microsoft making another big-dog move with a super fast chip for AI models.

Adding to that, slowly, we are seeing more big names in the daily roundup. Companies are waking up to AI, be it Reddit, who wants a paycheck for its data used in training LLMs, or Chegg, whose “do my homework” audience was captured by ChatGPT.

Let’s get to it.

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Highlights if you've only got 2 minutes

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Reddit wants payback for all its scraped data

We all know Reddit is an absolute treasure trove of some of the weirdest, funniest, most/least intellectual, and insightful sets of threads on the internet. And there’s something we’re all familiar with that’s been making abundant use of that… Companies like OpenAI and Google have been making the most of Reddit’s free APIs to gobble up all this human-realistic content to train their language models. You can’t blame them! But Reddit’s founders seem to have had enough of the big dogs benefitting whilst the community doesn’t, and they’re about to demand a bit of dosh for them to continue doing so. Seems fair to me!

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Microsoft has been secretly designing a computer chip to power AIs

If you’ve ever wondered what goes on in big tech companies’ secret lairs that they keep hidden from us, then look no further. Since 2019 Microsoft have been secretly working on building a computer chip specifically designed to super-power AI language models. One chip to rule them all… Named Athena, it’s available to a select number of Microsoft and OpenAI employees for testing, and is expected to be made available to the two firms next year. No one else though! Sorry!

ps: If you can’t access the paid link, there’s a nice little summary on Ben’s Bites news.

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The AI tool that can browse the web to complete a task is available as a ChatGPT plugin

I remember choosing MULTI·ON as a pick aaaages ago when language models were really starting to pick up the pace - before plugins, before agents, the lot. I thought it was so cool (and kinda creepy) how this AI-driven tool was just darting around the screen executing everything for them on the laptop. Well they’ve just announced the creation of a ChatGPT plugin, which could actually be insanely powerful. If OpenAI approves the app (think we can call them apps yet?!) then this could become a personal web browser/task executor with serious strength! Hooked up to some of the AI Agents going around now, and the possibilities are pretty cool. Check out some demos on the link.

🛠️ Cool Tools

Product launches, updates and demos

• Thatch - Virtual mailbox to scan through your all of your inbound mail quickly with a fast summary. (link)

• Chegg announces CheggMate, the new AI companion for students, built with GPT-4. (link)

• Aomni - Supercharge your research with AutoGPT. (link)

• Augmental MouthPad - Control your digital devices hands-free using mouth gestures. (link)

• Bloks - Put your notes, tasks, and meetings on autopilot. (link)

• Hexomatic - Web scraping and workflow automation made easy. (link)

• Chat with the Twitter algorithm. (link)

• Rerrom - Fresh ideas for interior design. (link)

• Takeoff AI - The next-gen AI code school. (link)

• Detail video editor - Record, edit and share better video faster. (link)

• ArxivGPT - A quick glance at all AI daily papers. (link)

• Dodon AI - Complete hours of legal work in seconds. (link)

• SaaS GPT template - Get your SaaS up and running with GPT, Stripe, Google auth, etc. in minutes. (link)

• Llama AGI allows note-taking and web searches with Google. (link)

• AI agent in AR glasses recognize friends and gives food order suggestions. (link)

• Health GPT - Query your Apple health data with natural language. (link)

• MULTI·ON browser gives ChatGPT superpowers to interact with anything on the internet on your behalf. (link)

• Baby AGI + Chatgpt plugin + Google search = insane demo for daily use research. (link)

• 5 everyday use cases of Bardeen’s magic box to create no-code automation easily. (link)

• AI playground from Vercel Labs - Compare and tune AI language models side-by-side. (link)

• Klu - Connect all your apps for seamless, unified searching. (link)

🤓 Miscellaneous

News, podcasts, videos, blogs etc

• Fair use and model training, Getty images vs. Stable Diffusion, Adobe’s regulatory capture bet. (link)

• New Adobe Lightroom AI innovations empower everyone to edit like a pro. (link)

• Baby AGI has new team members. (link)

• Introducing AI functions - Integrating large language models with Databricks SQL. (link)

• Align your latents with Nvidia - High-resolution video synthesis with latent diffusion models. (link)

• Solving math word problems by combining language models with symbolic solvers. (link)

• Generative disco: Text-to-video generation for music visualization. (link)

🎓 Learn

How-to’s and resources

• Superpower LLMs with conversational agents. (link)

• The complete beginner’s guide to autonomous agents. (link)

• How to transcribe audio to text with ChatGPT and Notion. (link)

• Pen and paper exercises in machine learning - Brush up on ML foundational theories. (link)

• Build an AI web app with Zapier. (link) ps: paid course $25

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