No cloud access for China

Hello folks, here’s what we have today;

Our picks

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US looks to restrict China’s access to the cloud

The US gov has just figured out that Chinese companies with a chip import ban can just use cloud computing for AI development… Well now they’re looking to enforce restrictions on Chinese access to US cloud services. Could this mean a sizable hit to the likes of Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud offering for AI?

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Miner Pivots 38,000 GPUs From Crypto to AI

Are crypto miners about to suck up their losses and pivot their massive GPU farms into AI computing services? This Ethereum miner with 38,000 GPUs is now offering such services, including added flexibility and privacy options to pip the likes of OpenAI. A somewhat left-field competitor from an unsuspecting arena!

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LlamaIndex version 0.7.0 for better bottoms-up application development using LLMs.

The new version of Llamaindex has standalone LLM abstractions and responses synthesis as an independent module. Also more capabilities for metadata management to increase control over the context. This post from Jerry goes over the changes in detail and how to use these new features.

Cool Tools trending product launches from the last 24 hours

• Vlite - Simple vector database made in numpy.

• GPT prompt engineer - Generate, test, and rank multiple prompts to find the ones that perform the best.

• Fliki - AI video creation 10x simpler & faster.

• Ween – The AI platform that turns qualitative data into insights.

• GPT-author: Generate an original fantasy novel using GPT-4 and Stable Diffusion.

• Simplescraper AI – Pull insights by scraping any website using AI.

• WorkViz – Visualize time allocation & productivity for remote members.

• YC mentor - Your AI mentor with YCombinator knowledge.

• ValiAssistant - Let AI assist you in building world changing hardware.

• HeyHaddock - Make travel planning quick & easy with your AI travel guide.

Ben’s Bites News top posts from the last 24 hours

• Making a web app generator with open ML models.

• LEDITS - Pipeline for editing images.

• Improve ChatGPT with Knowledge Graphs.

• Technical report for Stability AI’s SDXL.

• How to build an ecom chatbot with Botpress and Flowise (No Code Langchain).

• 4 tips for programmers to stay ahead of generative AI.

• GPT-4 is great at infuriating telemarketing scammers.

• Softbank spent $140 Billion on AI with little to show, missing out on the most recent frenzy.

• Generative AI in games will create a copyright crisis.

• Where AI fits in engineering organizations.

• DisCo: Disentangled control for human dance generation.

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