Elon Musk Launches xAI to Rival OpenAI
Plus: Google introduces NotebookLM & Bard updates, Objaverse-XL's 10M+ 3D data.
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In today’s edition:
🚀 Elon Musk launches xAI to rival OpenAI
🧠 Google introduces AI-powered NotebookLM & Bard updates
🌟 Objaverse-XL's 10M+ dataset set to revolutionize AI in 3D
📚 Knowledge Nugget: How to use AI to do practical stuff by
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Elon Musk launches xAI to rival OpenAI
Elon Musk has launched his long-teased artificial intelligence startup, xAI. Its team comprises experts from the same tech giants (Google, Microsoft) that he aims to challenge in a bid to build an alternative to ChatGPT.
Musk also said that rather than explicitly programming morality into its AI, xAI will seek to create a "maximally curious" AI. In April, he had said that he would launch TruthGPT, or a maximum truth-seeking AI to rival Google's Bard and Microsoft's Bing AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe.
Why does this matter?
The effects of this can be manifold. Now that Musk has put rate limits on Twitter to curb data scraping, his AI gets exclusive access to Twitter’s massive corpus of text, image, and video training data. So while others have a big headstart in the game, we still might see a better alternative. Moreover, if xAI is really anti-OpenAI, we may see a more open-source and less restrictive approach to building AI.
Google introduces AI-powered NotebookLM & Bard updates
Google has started rolling out NotebookLM, an AI-first notebook grounded designed to use the power and promise of language models paired with your existing content to gain critical insights faster. It can summarize facts, explain complex ideas, and brainstorm new connections — all based on the sources you select.
It will be immediately available to a small group of users in the U.S. as Google continues to refine it.
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Google has also finally launched Bard in the European Union (EU) and Brazil. It is now available in more than 40 languages. Moreover, Bard has new features enabling it to speak its answers, respond to prompts that include images, and more.
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Why does this matter?
Bard’s expansion in Europe is a notable milestone for Google after its planned launch got delayed due to data privacy concerns. The added support for more languages also makes Bard available to a wider audience. While Bard’s rushed release as an answer to ChatGPT didn’t impress users, it seems Google is committed to better meeting user’s demands with these AI advancements.
Objaverse-XL's 10M+ dataset set to revolutionize AI in 3D
New research from Stability AI (and others) has introduced Objaverse-XL, a large-scale web-crawled open dataset of over 10 million 3D objects. With it, researchers have trained Zero123-XL, a foundation model for 3D, observing incredible 3D generalization abilities (as shown below).
It shows significantly better zero-shot generalization to challenging and complex modalities, including photorealistic assets, cartoons, drawings, and sketches. Thus, the scale and diversity of assets in Objaverse-XL can significantly expand the performance of state-of-the-art 3D models.
Why does this matter?
This addresses the challenges of acquiring high-quality 3D data. And it shows promising trends and opportunities for generative AI in 3D tasks enabled with web-scale training data.
Knowledge Nugget: How to use AI to do practical stuff
One of the first things people try to do with AI like ChatGPT is ask a question like “Will AI take my job?”. Even if it is asked more interesting questions like “Write an article on why is Catcher in the Rye a good novel”, it may not be incredibly well-written.
To show the real power of AI, author
shares a guide exploring ways to get AI to do practical things. First, he introduces the six popular LLMs available today. And then, he dives into the details of getting AI to do stuff the right way.
Why does this matter?
LLMs like ChatGPT are extremely powerful but are built in a way that may encourage people to use them incorrectly. This article offers specific recommendations and useful guides for each use case while also highlighting the limitations and ethical considerations associated with AI usage.
What Else Is Happening
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🛍️Shopify to launch AI assistant called "Sidekick" for merchants (Link)
🇨🇳China’s search engine pioneer unveils Baichuan-13B to rival OpenAI (Link)
🤖Maersk deploys AI-enabled robotic solution in UK warehouse (Link)
🧪There’s an AI-powered algorithm that digitizes taste for food and beverage-makers (Link)
💰Prolific raises $32M to train and stress-test AI models using its network of 120K people (Link)
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