Your TLDR of the AI World For The Week

It's been another big week in AI with tons of huge announcements and new releases. I had a great time on my trip to Colorado with the family, but I'm also happy to be back in my element, learning about the latest tech and creating videos and content around it.

The big news of the week was Meta and Microsoft joining forces on the open-source(ish) Llama 2 model. This puts Microsoft alongside Nvidia as one of the most dominant companies in AI right now. With this partnership, Microsoft has their hands in open source with Meta, closed source business with OpenAI, and they’re going to run all these models on Microsoft-owned Azure cloud systems. They don’t care if you use ChatGPT, Bing, or even Llama - as long as you use Azure for the compute. It’s a pretty brilliant move.

That's not the only news this week. We've got updates from OpenAI, Apple, and even a new image-generation model in the works from Meta. So let's dive into what's been happening in the AI world this week (and don't forget to check out today's AI news video for even more news you probably missed).

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1. Llama 2: Microsoft and Meta joined forces this week to release Llama 2 to the world as an open-source model (with some restrictions). It’s not quite as good as Claude or ChatGPT yet, but since it’s open-source, we’ll see a lot of developers build off of it and improve it. In my opinion, the future of large language models is open-source. It's the difference between thousands of individuals improving something versus a closed team working on it. You can try out Llama 2 for free right now on this Hugging Face Space.
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5. Stillgram: This is an interesting concept. You can take pictures in crowded places and this app will edit out the people for you. Imagine taking a photo in front of the Eiffel Tower with hundreds of tourists in the shot. Upload the image into this tool, select yourself as the subject to keep, and it will edit out the crowd, making it look like you had Paris all to yourself.
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🗞️ AI News & Articles

1.  Microsoft and Meta expand their AI partnership with Llama 2 on Azure and Windows - Microsoft and Meta announced a partnership to bring Meta's new Llama 2 large language models to Azure and Windows, providing developers choice in AI models. Llama 2 will be optimized for Azure and Windows, expanding Azure's model catalog and Microsoft's open AI ecosystem. This partnership shows me that Microsoft is truly playing a game of 3D chess in the AI world right now. They're capturing both the closed-source users and the open-source users and getting all to use their cloud computers. Don't count out Google yet but Microsoft seems to be making huge strides to win the LLM AI wars.

2. 85% of AI Startups Will Be Out of Business in 3 Years - A lot of the AI startups that are popping up right now are in big trouble. Many of them are simply user interfaces attached to a different company's API. Most tools that generate text copy for you are using OpenAI's tech underneath. Most tools that generate images are using Stable Diffusion tech underneath. These companies have no moat because anyone can come in, quickly build another tool on top of the same APIs, and compete, creating a race to the bottom when it comes to pricing the tools. In all likelihood, the big incumbents (Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, Apple, Amazon, Meta) are going to be able to build tools and get them in consumers' hands faster than any startups.

3. Introducing CM3leon, a more efficient, state-of-the-art generative model for text and images - Meta has introduced a new AI model called CM3leon that can generate images from text descriptions and captions. It is the first model that combines text generation skills with image generation. CM3leon was trained on only 3 billion words but performs as well as much bigger AI models. This shows Meta's training methods can make powerful image AI with less data. The authors think CM3leon is a step towards more useful and controllable AI systems that understand both text and images. They hope it leads to better creativity tools and apps.

Other News:

• Apple is testing a ChatGPT-like AI chatbot

• Custom instructions for ChatGPT

• Study claims ChatGPT is losing capability

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You rock! See ya next week. :)

Matt Wolfe (FutureTools.io)

P.S. This email was 95% written by a human. Claude checked my grammar for me.