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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
As the dust settles on one of the craziest weeks in tech, new details continue to emerge on OpenAI’s present and future.
But if Greg Brockman’s tweets are any indication, OpenAI is SO back. Let’s get into the nitty-gritty…
In today’s AI rundown:
OpenAI back as dust settles on dramatic power struggle
Inflection AI releases massive new LLM
10 new AI tools to try
How to talk to YouTube videos with Google Bard
Neuralink's PRIME could help cure quadriplegic patient
Study: Americans wary of AI's societal impact
Machine learning boosts brain tumor analysis
Read time: 3 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
OPENAI
Image source: Greg Brockman on X (Formerly Twitter)
The Rundown: After a late-night confirmation on Tuesday of the return of Sam Altman to OpenAI, new info is emerging about the future of the board, negotiation details, potential causes of the initial firing, and more.
If you’re new to the saga, get a rundown from our 3-minute brief on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday (we’ll compile the entire story together soon).
The details:
New board chair Bret Taylor and (now former) interim CEO Emmett Shear played pivotal roles in the negotiations.
Emmett Shear didn't want to stay CEO since the board didn't provide evidence, so instead negotiated with both sides to get Sam back.
One of the key concessions included Altman agreeing not to join the board initially — though he is expected to join in the future.
Both sides also agreed to an investigation around the firing.
A sale of employee OpenAI shares to investors at $86B valuation is now said to be back on track.
The relevance: While the company’s future looked murky for a stretch — the return of Altman, Brockman, and a re-energized staff shows OpenAI is BACK and ready to push forward towards their mission of achieving AGI.
Stay tuned as we learn more about the new board, the investigations, and the real reason why the OpenAI board fired Sam Altman in the first place…
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INFLECTION AI
Image source: Inflection
The Rundown: AI startup Inflection AI just announced Inflection-2, a HUGE new 175 billion parameter language model — and claims its capabilities exceed Google and Meta's top models and “is very close” to catching GPT-4.
The details:
Inflection-2 outscored LLaMA 2 and PaLM 2 on various NLP benchmarks and approached near GPT-4 levels on certain tasks.
The model was trained on 5,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs over a few weeks.
CEO Mustafa Suleyman stated the model will soon be integrated into their Pi chatbot, pending some final tweaks.
Suleyman also predicts the company’s next model will be 10x larger within six months, with another 10x six months after that.
Our thoughts: Despite OpenAI’s recent dominance, this Inflection release shows the quality battle still remains fierce. If Suleyman’s scaling projections come true, AI capabilities a year from now could be mind-blowing.
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AI TRAINING
Want to ask questions about a YouTube video you’re watching or analyze it deeper? Now you can, with a new feature from Google Bard. Here’s how:
Provide your link: Paste your YouTube video into a Google Bard, and prompt Bard. Eg, "Summarize the key points from this video."
Ask questions: Depending on the type of video, continue the conversation with any follow-up questions.
Example question: For a cooking tutorial video, we prompted: “Convert the video into a detailed recipe.”
Bonus for creators: If you’re a content creator, try having Bard analyze your own videos. Ask for suggestions to make a YouTube video more viral or a bulleted list of constructive criticism. AI can now be another expert set of eyes on your content, helping find ways to improve.
QUICK HITS
Neuralink is recruiting quadriplegic patients for its PRIME Study to test its brain-computer interface using the N1 implant and R1 surgical robot, aiming to enable control of devices like phones with thoughts.
A new study from Pew Research found that over half of Americans feel more concerned than excited about AI's growing role in life. Many still fear impacts on jobs, privacy, and relationships — and with regulations lagging, unease over government inaction on AI risk continues to grow.
University of Florida researchers just combined mass spectrometry scans with machine learning models to classify brain tumors with 87% accuracy, aiming to guide treatment decisions for complex malignancies and save time.
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THAT’S A WRAP
That’s it for today’s news in the world of AI!
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