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PLUS: Microsoft's Designer app is live, private AI networks and military usage.

April 28, 2023

Hey folks, today we have more money pouring into the AI ecosystem. This time it’s for the vector embeddings company Pinecone. Also, Microsoft’s trying to take over Adobe with its Designer tool and some new secure but questionable AI demos.

Let’s go.

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🤌 Our Picks

Highlights if you've only got 2 minutes

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Pinecone has landed a $100m Series B with a $750m valuation, led by a16z. Wow - this is a company most people hadn’t heard of before ChatGPT came onto the scene, and it’s slowly becoming a pivotal start-up with thousands of commercial users. For anyone who doesn’t know, language models use numeric sets of numbers (vectors) to represent sentences, and Pinecone essentially provides databases that store these vectors. The real value comes in enhanced oversight and management of the data that are used within LLMs, potentially helping with the ‘hallucination’ issues that chatbots have to contend with.

a16z has some words on this deal.

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Blimey - we haven’t mentioned Microsoft’s AI capabilities in these picks for a while - I was starting to forget about them! But they’re back, and this time they’re giving Adobe a run for their money with something called Microsoft Designer. It’s a canvas-style web app that lets users design stuff (kinda speaks for itself) using generative AI. This could be anything from posters and presentations through to social media posts - even offering the ability to resize design generations to specific platform styles, such as the famous Instagram square. PLUS: The Edge Browser (I bet you’re still not using it are you…) is getting a decent pump, with a sidebar that lets you use AI to guide what you’re doing on the web, such as posting on social media or writing an email. Keep going Microsoft!

Check out some demos here.

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OK, the tech is really cool and will no doubt be useful (more on this in a sec), but this might just be the weirdest, most unpalatable choice of demo ever. But hey - any publicity is good publicity, right? Palantir have just used an example of operating a military in a warzone to plan attacks and choose optimal weapons using generative AI - not exactly the best choice given the current climate of AI safety and alignment, but hey ho! Anyway, they’re naming it the Palantir AI Platform (AIP) and it will be super nifty - essentially allowing customers to run generative AI platforms on private networks in a safe and secure manner. With regulations around data protection being a hot topic these days, this is very timely and will no doubt garner warranted attention - for the right reasons this time!

🛠️ Cool Tools

Product launches, updates and demos

  • AIxBot - Your friendly Slack bot to help you adopt AI in your business. (link)

  • Docs AI - Create AI support agents with your documents. (link)

  • Chatscout - Shopping assistant powered by ChatGPT for e-commerce brands. (link)

  • AI Hits - AI music top charts. (link)

  • Permar - Generate an optimised landing page with a simple prompt. (link)

  • Build a ChatGPT app that lets you chat with any codebase. (link)

  • Super teacher - More effective than a private tutor. (link)

  • Flux copilot - ChatGPT for hardware design. (link)

  • Eleven Labs Multilingual v1 - Speech synthesis model with support in 7 languages. (link)

  • Notably - Research repository for product teams that gets smarter the more you use it. (link)

🤓 Miscellaneous

News, podcasts, videos, blogs etc

  • Intuit’s Shift - The growing pains and promise of embracing AI when you're a legacy financial software giant. (link)

  • Europe to ChatGPT - Disclose your sources. (link)

  • LLM+P - Empowering large language models with planning. (link)

  • Decoder-only transformer with 1.3B parameters pre-trained on the RedPajama dataset and fine-tuned on the Databricks Dolly. (link)

  • The UIs ChatGPT won't replace. (link)

  • Dawn of the agents. (link)

  • How organisational dysfunction and a lack of ambition bogged down Apple's AI and ML efforts. (link)

  • Language models aren’t modeling ambiguity. (link)

  • Training Stable Diffusion from scratch for <$50k with MosaicML. (link)

🎓 Learn

How-to’s and resources

  • Andrew Ng’s course on ChatGPT prompt engineering for Developers. (link)

  • Current architectural best practices for LLM applications. (link)

  • Running LLMs in the browser with Rust + WebGPU. (link)

  • Use AI assistant with Obsidian. (link)

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