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The RETURN of Sam Altman!

The RETURN of Sam Altman!

PLUS: Anthropic woke up and chose violence

Rowan Cheung
November 22, 2023

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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

After 5 dramatic days and 3 different CEOs in that same time frame, Sam Altman has officially returned as CEO of OpenAI.

However, one final unknown remains. Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

Sam Altman RETURNS as CEO of OpenAI
Claude gets big upgrades in 2.1 release
9 new AI tools to try
How to create a website in 30 seconds from a doodle
xAI’s Grok to be added directly into X (formerly Twitter)
Stability AI unveils generative video model
SDSU researchers tap AI to forecast stocks

Read time: 3 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

OPENAI

🚨 Sam Altman RETURNS as CEO of OpenAI

Image source: The Verge

The Rundown: The OpenAI saga has seemingly come to an end with a crazy timeline yesterday and the eventual return of Sam Altman as CEO late last night.

If you’re new, get a rundown from our brief on Monday & Tuesday.

Yesterday’s timeline:

First, Emmett Shear reportedly said he would quit if the board couldn’t communicate why Altman was fired.
Throughout the drama, the team at OpenAI still launched a new feature, enabling ChatGPT with voice to all free users.
However, after the announcement, a widespread ChatGPT outage occurred, with some users reporting a mysterious “ChatGPT Alpha.”
Another report surfaced that Helen Toner (one of six board members) might have been the reason for the firing.
Late last night, OpenAI announced the return of Sam Altman and a new initial board of directors that will eventually expand to 9 people.

The relevance: The events that transpired this week will be written in AI history forever (and probably aired on Netflix next year!). If there’s one takeaway, it’s that the OpenAI team is one helluva group, and we can expect them to come back stronger than ever (case in point).

However, one question remains: Will the initial decision of the firing ever be made public? What did Ilya see?

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ANTHROPIC

🤖 Claude gets big upgrades in 2.1 release

Image source: Claude

The Rundown: AI startup Anthropic just released Claude 2.1, featuring new upgrades, including a doubled context size, 2x fewer hallucinations, and new tool integrations.

The details:

The 200K token context window enables users to provide docs up to ~150K words for analysis.
New improvements reduced incorrect answers by 30%, with a 3-4x lower rate of mistakenly concluding a document supports a claim.
The new ‘tool use’ beta feature allows Claude to directly leverage developer APIs, knowledge bases, and datasets.

The relevance: Just a day after the OpenAI board reportedly contacted Anthropic for a merger, CEO Dario Amodei woke up and chose violence with new upgrades that continue to position Claude 2 as the most capable ChatGPT alternative.

QUESTION OF THE DAY

Has the OpenAI saga changed your opinion of ChatGPT, or led you to seek alternative AI options?

Vote below (click for live results)

TRENDING TOOLS

🎵 Musicfy- Sing and turn your voice into any instrument (link)

🤝 GPT4All- A free-to-use, locally running, privacy-aware chatbot (link)

🦄 UI Sketcher- Draw rough UIs and turn into code in VSCode (link)

🚀 ShipGPT AI- Create and implement AI swiftly (link)

💡 LLM Spark- A development platform for generating production-ready LLM applications (link)

🎯 KWHero- Develop SEO content with a scientific approach for maximum Google ranks (link)

🖋️ Easy Peasy AI- Create amazing blog posts 10X faster with AI tools (link)

🧠 AI-suggests- Generate tons of ready-to-use content and new ideas for your business instantly (link)

🎙Toasty AI- AI content creation for podcasts (link)

Browse the most popular tools ever featured with our tool database.

AI TRAINING

🎨 Create a website in 30 seconds from a doodle

Honestly, the kids growing up today with AI will probably be 10x more productive than we are now.

This new tool allows you to build a functional website from just a doodle in a matter of seconds. Here’s how to use it:

Go to tldraw here and start drawing what you want to turn into a website.
Add your OpenAI API Key by going here, clicking “Create a new secret key“ and copying and pasting it into tldraw at the bottom of the page.
Make your website come to life by simply clicking “Make Real“ on the top right.
That’s it! If you want the specific code so you can add it to an existing website, simply click the button on the top right.

QUICK HITS

🐦 xAI’s Grok to be added directly in X (formerly Twitter)

Users with early access to xAI’s new ChatGPT competitor, Grok, have reportedly discovered that X (formerly Twitter) will have a tab for users to access Grok directly in X. Elon Musk also confirmed that Grok will be available to all X Premium+ subscribers next week.

🎥 Stability AI unveils generative video model

Open-source AI leader Stability AI just released Stable Video Diffusion — the company’s first foundation model for AI video creation. SD also noted its two image-to-video models come in ahead of leading closed models from Runway and Pika Labs in user preference studies.

📊 SDSU researchers tap AI to forecast stocks

Researchers at SDSU just created an AI model called ALERTA-net, combining data from macroeconomics, social media, and search engine data to predict stock trends. Surpassing key benchmarks in accuracy, the tool shows AI's potential to decode complex relationships between datasets.