Microsoft unveils a new top-secret AI system designed for US intelligence agencies. This video explores the implications of a fully... more

Today on The AI Daily Brief, NLW looks at expanded restrictions the White House is considering to deny China access... more

Microsoft is training a 500B parameter model. It's caused huge speculation that the company is trying to move farther away... more

A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/29/ai-professional-class-low-skill-jobs/ ** ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and... more

Plus Nick Bostrom on what if AI fixes everything? ** ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most... more

Busy day in the world of leading LLM labs. Anthropic announced a much anticipated iOS app, as well as a... more

Six months after the Biden administration issued a historic executive order on artificial intelligence, this update explores the progress and... more

Explore the buzz surrounding a mysterious AI model dubbed "GPT-2 Chatbot" recently spotted on a benchmarking site. Speculation is rife... more

Explore the widespread backlash against the newly established Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board by the Department of Homeland Security... more

A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/19/artificial-intelligence-workers-regulation-musk/ ** Join NLW's May Cohort on Superintelligent. Use code nlwmay for 25% off your first... more

Explore the strategic reasoning behind X AI's massive $6 billion fundraising effort in this episode of AI Breakdown. As Elon... more

Moderna's integration of ChatGPT across its entire organization marks a significant shift in corporate AI utilization, aiming to enhance productivity... more

Explore the implications of Perplexity's recent valuation surge in today's episode of AI Breakdown. Delving into the $62.7 million funding... more

Explore the rapidly evolving world of AI agents in this episode of AI Breakdown. Discover how Microsoft is spearheading projects... more

Some dramatic discourse from the former Fox journalist, plus Drake uses AI Snoop and Tupac in a diss track, and... more

A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.ft.com/content/8af1f467-2953-4cbc-a336-4c92c92e6792 and https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-04-16/ai-is-a-humongous-electricity-hog-and-the-environment-can-benefit?sref=qUxVp6JU ** CHECK OUT THE JUST-LAUNCHED SUPERINTELLIGENT PLATFORM - 300+ AI video tutorials https://besuper.ai/ Consensus... more

Boston Dynamics has unveiled a new version of their Atlas robot, showcasing advanced mobility with unconventional joint movements, capturing widespread... more

Meta has released the first of its Llama 3 models, enhancing the landscape of open-source large language models. These models,... more

Today's episode explores the state of artificial intelligence through Stanford University's AI Index, which distills key insights into 13 charts.... more

Microsoft's $1.5 billion investment in UAE-based AI company G42 represents a strategic geopolitical move, enhancing its Azure cloud integration across... more

Critiques of Humane, a new launch from Limitless (i.e. Rewind), plus Meta is (supposedly) sharing two Llama 3 models this... more

A discussion inspired by https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-just-happened-what-is-happening ** CHECK OUT THE JUST-LAUNCHED SUPERINTELLIGENT PLATFORM - 300+ AI video tutorials https://besuper.ai/ ** ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI... more

Apple's unveiling of the M4 chip aims to rejuvenate its Mac lineup with enhanced AI capabilities, following a 27% sales... more

This week witnessed the introduction of five notable AI models, highlighting the field's swift advancements. Udio emerged as a standout... more

AI's impact on the workforce is substantial, with executives predicting that up to 60% of jobs could be affected, leading... more

Inspired by a recent essay by Niall Ferguson, NLW discusses 8 questions on the future of AI. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-04-07/deepfakes-energy-china-war-and-elections-ai-politics-is-here?srnd=undefined&sref=qUxVp6JU ** Be the first... more

The New York Times alleges AI companies, including OpenAI and Google, may bypass their own policies on data use, potentially... more

A reading and discussion inspired by: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2024/04/04/call-action-address-inequity-ai-access-opinion https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/business/ai-tech-economy.html ** Be the first to learn about our new AI education platform: https://besuper.ai/ ** ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The... more

A study by MIT and Cornell showed that debating with GPT-4 reduced believers' confidence in conspiracy theories by 20%. Participants... more

A new survey shows that genAI is being adopted in a work context faster than for entertainment or learning. Before... more

On today's episode, NLW catches up on the big stories over the last week, including Grok 1.5, OpenAI courting Hollywood,... more

A reading and discussion based on https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/reshaping-the-tree-rebuilding-organizations Be the first to learn about our new AI education platform: https://besuper.ai/ ** ABOUT THE AI... more

NLW is back with Part 2 of his conversation with the hosts of Latent Space. In this segment they hone... more

NLW is joined today by the hosts of the Latent Space podcast for part one of a wide-ranging conversation about... more

In this conversation, NLW talks with The Neuron co-founder Pete Huang. They discuss Pete's recent time at Nvidia's GTC event,... more

There is a huge amount of discussion about AI, but is it actually translating to new behaviors inside organizations? In... more

A wide-ranging conversation with host of The Cognitive Revolution and AI multi-threat Nathan Labenz. Find Nathan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/labenz ** Be the... more

NLW builds off an essay by Ethan Mollick https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/in-praise-of-boring-ai He argues that it is simple, specific, even boring AI applications that... more

Top 5 AI Stories This Week: Open Interpreter's new device, Reddit's AI-driven IPO, Apple's AI shifts with potential Google and... more

Intel secures a preliminary deal with the U.S. government for up to $8.5 billion in Chips Act funding, signaling a... more

Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Inflection AI, moves to Microsoft as the new CEO of Microsoft AI, leading consumer AI products... more

Nvidia's new Blackwell GPU announced at the GTC conference revolutionizes AI computing with unmatched power and innovation. As the AI... more

Apple is negotiating with Google to integrate Gemini AI into iPhone features, signaling a major strategy shift for the tech... more

A reading and discussion based on Per Bylund's "The Economics of the AI Revolution" https://mises.org/mises-wire/economics-ai-revolution ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown... more

According to new legislation from Bernie Sanders, the answer is yes. Also on this episode, Apple buys an AI startup... more

A wild demo has the world talking about AI and robotics. Plus, Google has a new AI agent called SIMA... more

NLW gives the update on the EU AI Act, and why multiple parties don't love where it landed. Also, does... more

US-funded report sparks media frenzy, advocating for drastic AI measures. Unpacking the actual content versus sensational media narratives on potential... more

Elon Musk's latest attempt to differentiate from OpenAI is that he's promised to open source Grok this week. Speaking of... more

A reading and discussion based off of this essay by Tim O'Reilly https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-has-an-uber-problem ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you... more

Plus President Joe Biden talks AI at the State of the Union. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you... more

A former Google engineer has been arrested for allegedly sharing AI secrets with Chinese companies. This episode delves into the... more

OpenAI has clapped back after Elon Musk sued them, publishing a set of emails that make it appear like Elon... more

Elon Musk has initiated legal action against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, alleging deviation from the company's original mission... more

Anthropic has just released Claude 3, and according to the benchmarks, it's GPT-4 level and then some. NLW covers 5... more

A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/opinion/ai-history-deepfake-watermark.html ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and... more

A reading and discussion of the changing nature of the relationship between humans and computers, inspired by https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-ai-will-change-our-relationship-with-computers?rc=jrwr4u ABOUT THE AI... more

From Sora to Nvidia's stock surge to Mistral and Microsoft to controversy around Gemini and beyond, NLW counts down the... more

The Information reports that Meta's most advanced model Llama 3 will be arriving in July, and will specifically have safety... more

Klarna's new AI chatbot, powered by OpenAI, has showcased impressive capabilities in its first month, effectively performing the tasks of... more

While everyone has been watching the Gemini controversy (which wiped about $70B off of Alphabet/Google's marketcap yesterday), Bing's Sydney has... more

The model is proprietary rather than the open source Mistral has become known for. Also, a monster fundraising round for... more

Dive into the recent controversy surrounding Google Gemini's image generation. This discussion unravels the complexities behind the backlash over perceived... more

NLW argues that another phase of expectation in genAI has begun thanks to Groq, Sora, and Gemini Pro 1.5 Featuring a... more

Discover how OpenAI's groundbreaking Sora video model impacted Hollywood, leading Tyler Perry to reconsider a massive studio expansion. A testament... more

After smashing earnings once again, Nvidia rocketed up 15% and now has a bigger market cap than Meta, Amazon, and... more

Elon says they're having discussions with the Midjourney team. Meanwhile, Google introduces its first open model Gemma, and ChatGPT is... more

Alongside Gemini 1.5's massive new context window, and Sora's mindblowing video generation, Groq has come along to redefine how fast... more

NLW discusses the rise in anti-AI sentiment that seems to have followed the public announcement of OpenAI's new video generation... more

On today's episode NLW digs into the recently published research on OpenAI's Sora. Read more: https://openai.com/research/video-generation-models-as-world-simulators ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI... more

A reading and discussion of https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/14/opinion/ai-economy-jobs-colleges.html ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions... more

Welp, they've done it again. On a day when it was supposed to be all about Google's million+ token lengths... more

Google surprises everyone with a massive context window on their new Gemini 1.5 model. Speaking of huge context windows, Magic.dev... more

OpenAI makes headlines with Andrej Karpathy's departure and the launch of a groundbreaking memory feature for ChatGPT. This video delves... more

OpenAI is growing even faster than we knew, according to new numbers shared with the Financial Times. Also on this... more

AI hype continues to drive results in the market. Also on this episode, Google is investing $25m into AI worker... more

Ukraine has become a testing lab for advanced AI integrations into combat operations. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps... more

A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/on-holding-back-the-strange-ai-tide ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and... more

WSJ writes about an incredibly ambitious plan to transform the landscape for compute. Additionally, the White House has started an... more

Bard is no more! Bard has become Gemini and Gemini now features Gemini Advanced, which uses Gemini Ultra 1.0 --... more

Microsoft has released a 60-second Super Bowl commercial focused on their AI Copilot. NLW explores how much it says about... more

The Vesuvius Challenge is a $1m prize to use AI to decipher text seemingly lost on ancient Greek papyri in... more

According to a changelog found by an Android developer, Google Ultra is coming out on Wednesday, and Bard will be... more

A reading and discussion of an essay by one of Biden's most senior economic advisors. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/op-ed-biden-admin-says-rules-must-ensure-ai-boom-does-right-by-workers-192912242.html ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The... more

Apple AI is coming this fall! At least according to a recent earnings call with CEO Tim Cook. Also, Bard... more

On this extended brief, NLW covers: the FCC's new push to make AI robocalls illegal; VW's new AI lab, Mastercard's... more

A new study has some surprising results for which AI applications are being the most used. Plus, is Wall Street... more

OpenAI has launched an education and safety initiative with Common Sense Media. Also, Biden's Executive Order on AI bears fruit.... more

NLW looks at recent comments from Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo about an LLM disclosure regime. Plus, Elon Musk's role... more

A discussion prompted by Esther Dyson's new essay "Don’t Fuss About Training AIs. Train Our Kids" https://www.theinformation.com/articles/dont-fuss-about-training-ais-train-our-kids?rc=jrwr4u LEARN AI THIS YEAR!... more

A new partnership between Google Cloud and the 'Github for AI/ML models' team up to make open source tools more... more

If anyone can make AI deepfakes a mainstream issue it's Taylor Swift. Plus geopolitical competition around compute access heats up.... more

Google Chrome announces 3 AI features for Chrome as well as an innovative new Video generation tool Lumiere. Also SAP... more

A recent MIT study explored how cost effective automation really was and found that only 23% of jobs that could... more

Bloomberg and FT report on Sam Altman's latest efforts to raise billions to build more AI chip manufacturing capacity. Plus... more

A reading and discussion based on "For all our fear of AI dystopia, it may help to level up society"... more

Other revelations from an Instagram reel include that Meta will have around $20B worth of compute by the end of... more

A massive improvement in how AI can reason around geometry plus Samsung releases the AI-est AI phone to AI yet.... more

Sam Altman is among the business and political leaders descending upon Davos for the World Economic Forum. Today NLW looks... more

That's according to new research from the IMF. NLW also covers Elon wanting more control before building advanced AI at... more

The wars include the Quality Data Wars, the War of the GPU Rich/Poor, the Multimodality War, the RAG/Ops War Inspired by... more

A reading and exploration of: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/signs-and-portents ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions... more

Note: This episode was produced on Wednesday January 10th, but due to an ice storm never came out! Apologies for... more

Plus a new Congressional working group focused on AI. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most... more

After a couple months of anticipation and more than 3 million user created GPTs, the GPT store has officially gone... more

Plus OpenAI claps back at the New York Times copyright lawsuit. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand... more

Is "Intelligence Amplification" a better term? Plus, Nvidia prepares to manufacture new chips for the China market. Today's Sponsors: Listen to... more

A reading of two essays that explore this question with very different answers. https://www.newsweek.com/why-nationalizing-ai-bad-idea-opinion-1857495 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/opinion/artificial-intelligence-truckers-writers.html Today's Sponsors: Listen to the chart-topping podcast 'web3... more

OpenAI announced the GPT Store is finally launching next week. NLW gives 5 predictions on how it will play out.... more

A new survey asked 2,700+ AI/ML researchers about their fears concerning AI. This is how they responded. Today's Sponsors: Listen to... more

After the peak of inflated expectations comes the trough of disillusionment. After a dismal outing on the first day of... more

NLW breaks down the industry as 2024 begins, from policy to AI safety to the state of the art in... more

NLW looks across a range of studies, surveys and predictions to try to parse out what the real impact of... more

The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft. While it's not the first copyright suit of its type, it's... more

NLW looks at the state of AI music generators and gives the new Suno.ai a test run for the holidays.... more

NLW reviews one set of predictions as a way of discussing what's coming next in AI. Built off of https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/19/8-predictions-for-ai-in-2024/ Interested... more

NLW builds off of this list of the 10 biggest events of AI of 2023 to do a yearly recap!... more

Anthropic is raising money again. Also on this episode, a new poll suggests Americans want more government involvement in AI.  Today's... more

Between GPT-Engineer App and v0 by Vercel, there are a growing number of text to code platforms that are expanding... more

A new study from CNBC shows that the American workers who use AI the most are the most scared of... more

Digi's new AI girlfriend announcement went viral over the weekend, supercharging a conversation about the impact of AI companions on... more

In today's episode, NLW explores how companies are increasingly combining natural language chat interfaces with other types of interfaces that... more

A reading and discussion of a new piece by Zvi Mowshowitz https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23998493/artificial-intelligence-president-joe-biden-executive-order-ai-safety-openai-google-accelerationists Interested in the January AI Education Beta program? Learn... more

OpenAI's Superalignment team, launched this summer, has just published their first paper about weak-to-strong generalizations, and how they can analogize... more

A pricing page for GPT-4.5 is flying around and everyone is trying to figure out if it's real. Also, Pope... more

Believe it or not, there is some fairly good evidence that ChatGPT is acting lazy (i.e. returning shorter results for... more

AI startups have run counter to the trend of decreased VC all year, but even they're now feeling the pinch... more

NLW looks at rumors from some sources that have previously had OpenAI insider leaks that GPT-4.5 could be coming as... more

When Taylor Swift was named TIME's Person of the Year, many in the AI space had questions. Apparently TIME had... more

A reading of https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/11/30/china-global-ai-plans-00129160 vs https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/opinion/ai-sam-altman-openai.html Today's Sponsors: Listen to the chart-topping podcast 'web3 with a16z crypto' wherever you get your podcasts... more

How does the new tool stand up to other image generators? And what else did Meta AI announce. The day... more

OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap recently got a big conversation going when he suggested that AI for business was overhyped. NLW... more

GPT-4 finally has a credible competitor as Google launches Gemini! NLW covers the three-size model, the emphasis on reasoning and... more

OpenAI is not open enough; at least not according to the new AI Alliance - a group led by Meta,... more

From Elon Musk's fallout with Larry Page to...well...Elon Musk's fallout with Sam Altman...to Sam Altman's fallout with Dario Amodei to...Sam... more

Thursday was the one-year anniversary of ChatGPT. NLW reads (with the help of ElevenLabs) a group of predictions around what... more

NLW reads excerpts from a set of pieces opining about AI after OpenAI's leadership battle and on the one year... more

Deepmind's GNoME AI has 10x'd the number of known stable materials, and more than 736 of them have already been... more

Happy Birthday ChatGPT! The incredibly influential software was launched on November 30, 2022. Five days later it had a million... more

We didn't get Amazon's rumored "Olympus" model, but we did get an enterprise focused chatbot called Q. NLW explores whether... more

Pika Labs officially launched 1.0 and many think it might be representative of a coming breakout moment for text-to-video generation.... more

More information came out late last week about a model that showed signs of more advanced reasoning called Q*, leading... more

An exploration of one of the hottest topics in AI. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most... more

A reading of "Why self-regulation is best for artificial intelligence" https://thehill.com/opinion/4300288-why-self-regulation-is-best-for-artificial-intelligence/ vs "Underregulating tech is a relic of the 90s. AI... more

As the dust settles, NLW looks at who has benefitted and who has lost out after Sam Altman's removal and... more

The company claims the video generator out performs Pika and Runway. Note: this is the Brief that was supposed to... more

After 5 days of tense negotiations, Sam Altman has returned as CEO of OpenAI, bringing Greg Brockman with him. That... more

Apparently in addition to asking half of Silicon Valley to be the new CEO, over the weekend the OpenAI Board... more

WTAF is going on? First the board announced former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear as new CEO. Then Microsoft CEO Satya... more

Act 3 of the Dumbest Palace Coup Ever, as employees and investors revolt and the board appears forced to capitulate.  ABOUT... more

Backstabbing. Ambition. Betrayal. After Sam Altman was fired and Greg Brockman quit, NLW digs in to what we've learned so... more

OpenAI has announced that Sam Altman has been removed over failures of communication with the board. NLW gets into speculation... more

The Information reports that much-anticipated Gemini has been officially delayed. NLW explores interpretations for why Google has struggled to keep... more

Microsoft confirms long speculated Project Athena with the announcement of its first custom chips for AI including the Maia and... more

OpenAI has a 6-person committee that will decide when AGI is achieved, with major implications for their relationship with Microsoft.... more

On today's episode, NLW looks at new research about LLM hallucination; Google suing AI scammers; and China and the US... more

Today on the AI Breakdown NLW looks at what GPTs are (and what they're not) and why many people are... more

A reading of Ethan Mollick's "Almost an Agent: What GPTs Can Do" https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/almost-an-agent-what-gpts-can-do ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you... more

Humane has officially launched its Ai Pin and, if nothing else, it has stirred some serious controversy. NLW explores the... more

OpenAI closed the week with yet another announcement -- this time about a new data partnerships program through which they... more

Sources are suggesting that Amazon is training a 2 trillion parameter model called Olympus. NLW looks at what it means... more

Samsung announced a set of AI models they're calling Gauss as well as plans to put parts of the model... more

Yesterday OpenAI announces 128k GPT-4 Turbo at 1/3rd the price; a new Text-to-Speech model; Whisper 3; and proto-agent features like... more

The best AI tools for content creators -- or at least the ones I use regularly, including Descript, HeyGen, Perplexity,... more

In the lead up to November 6th's OpenAI DevDay, NLW looks at their recent launch of PDF reading and the... more

A special, all-AI created bonus episode about Elon Musk's announcement of xAI's ChatGPT competitor Grok. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI... more

A reading of OpenAI research scientist Richard Ngo's essay "Techno-humanism is techno-optimism for the 21st century." https://www.mindthefuture.info/p/techno-humanism-is-techno-optimism Made in part with... more

The war of words between the AI safety advocates on the one side and the AI open source advocates on... more

A judge has dismissed many of the charges in a class action lawsuit brought against Stability AI, DeviantArt, and Midjourney.... more

With the M3 Max chip, Apple is finally pitching how they're going to compete in AI. Also on this episode,... more

Google joins Amazon in investing in OpenAI rival Anthropic. Also a look at the reactions, debates and controversy around Biden's... more

The Biden White House has released its expected Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence. NLW runs through the fact sheet and... more

On the eve of the Biden Administration's anticipated executive order on artificial intelligence, NLW surveys the landscape of AI legislative... more

A group of scientists, academics and researchers has released a new framework on managing AI risks. NLW explores whether we're... more

OpenAI forms a team to focus on how to prepare for the biggest most catastrophic risks around AI. NLW explores... more

The Biden Admin's long promised AI executive order is coming Monday and it seems like it will use the power... more

Midjourney has made a number of moves recently after DALL-E-3 was integrated into ChatGPT. Those include a new upscaler, a... more

A Medium user has posted a set of screenshots that purport to show Google's forthcoming Gemini model in their recently... more

NLW explores a new policy proposal from some extremely notable AI leaders around how we can continue to advance the... more

NLW looks at where companies fit in the competitive matrix of artificial intelligence - from OpenAI to Anthropic to the... more

In this weekend's long read, two very different takes on the future than those we heard about in the Techno... more

In a rare miss, OpenAI had to shutter their Arrakis model earlier this year. They had hoped that the model... more

A group of researchers from Stanford, MIT and Princeton have come up with a new system for determining which AI... more

The US has once again tightened restrictions on chip exports and other AI engagements with China. NLW explores the potential... more

NLW digs into rumors and reports around what we can expect from the OpenAI developer event coming in November, including... more

Marc Andreessen has just published The Techno-Optimist Manifesto. NLW reads the piece and provides context on why it matters for... more

ChatGPT-4 Vision is one of the biggest AI product updates of the last few months and people are still just... more

NLW excerpts Professor Ethan Mollick's recent essay "What people ask me most." https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-people-ask-me-most-also-some Today's Sponsors: Listen to the chart-topping podcast 'web3 with... more

The US-China AI battle heats up as the Biden Administration looks into ways to deny China access to key advanced... more

On today's episode, NLW reviews Air Street's epic 6th annual State of AI report - https://www.stateof.ai/ Before that on the Brief,... more

Tesla is building a massive facility for their Dojo supercomputer. NLW explores how it could impact what they do in... more

AutoGPT held a hackathon last weekend and is in the midst of a global virtual hackathon. Also the latest from... more

On today's episode, NLW explores the ways AI is changing people's career paths. In particular, he examines two entirely new... more

In today's episode, NLW picks up where yesterday leaves off with a discussion of what's coming down the piepleine in... more

A reading and exploration of Prof. Ethan Mollick's The shape of the shadow of The Thing https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-shape-of-the-shadow-of-the-thing The piece argues that... more

Epik's AI Yearbook photos are everywhere you look. In this video, NLW explores why AI avatar apps keep going viral.... more

AI is moving to a phase of integration where companies are figuring out how to bring AI tools into existing... more

Just a couple weeks after announcing their big Amazon deal, Anthropic is out fundraising again with a $2B round that... more

Tab and Rewind Pendant both announced AI wearables this week, while Humane premiered on a fashion runway. In this episode,... more

Stability AI has released a new 3b model that outperforms some 7b and 20b models, and previews the forthcoming battle... more

NLW explores an argument from a recent essay around the three factions that drive discourse in artificial intelligence. He reads... more

NLW looks at three arguments around AI and copyright and why the current contentious approach being taken by some authors,... more

ChatGPT Vision hasn't even been broadly rolled out yet and already people who do have access are showing off some... more

Yesterday at Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg announces that AI was going everywhere across the Meta suite of apps including Messenger,... more

OpenAI man. The company is reportedly offering employees a chance to sell shares between an $80b-$90b valuation; discussing an AI... more

Last week Youtube announced automated dubbing features and now Spotify has unveiled AI translation for podcasts. NLW explores the news,... more

The race towards multimodal LLMs is heating up! With rumors of a big impending launch of Google Gemini, OpenAI is... more

On today's episode, NLW looks at a set of recent survey results surrounding attitudes towards AI. They range from broad... more

Six months ago, a group of scientists and other leaders signed a letter asking for a six month pause in... more

Microsoft announced that the complete Windows 11 operating system was going to have access to their Copilot AI assistant. Before... more

OpenAI has announced that DALL-E 3 image generation is coming natively to ChatGPT. NLW explores 5 reasons the announcement is... more

Intel has announced a new AI focused chip that they say will allow generative AI applications to run directly on... more

Google Bard announced a big update including a deep integration with Google Workspace apps. At the same time, The Information... more

A new study undertaken by Boston Consulting Group and prominent AI researchers shows that consultants who used generative AI did... more

On this research recap, NLW looks at AI creativity https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-40858-3 BrainLM https://t.co/MUobqXULfb RETFound retinal model https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02881-2 Any-to-Any Multimodal https://huggingface.co/papers/2309.05519 AI that can smell: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1701611251376497046 TAKE... more

That's what Sam Altman argued, but the state of America's civic life brings up many questions of whether the government... more

The Information has another Google AI scoop with reports that Google has pushed Gemini to testing with a number of... more

Senator Chuck Schumer hosted an AI Summit with the CEOs of most of the world's biggest tech companies. NLW explores... more

At the iPhone/Apple Watch event yesterday we learned about Apple's new, more powerful chip and neural engine. NLW argues that... more

Open Interpreter is a local, private version of GPT4 Code Interpreter. It was released last week and quickly became the... more

Today NLW looks at a WSJ report that Meta is pushing for a GPT-4 powered Llama 4 to be released... more

A new TIME Magazine cover story excerpts Walter Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk to tell the story of how he... more

An exploration of an essay from Tyler Cowen "The AI Hype Has Subsided But The Revolution Continues" including looks... more

Today NLW looks at TIME's first ever list of the 100 most influential people in AI, including some of the... more

According to new reporting from The Information, Apple is spending millions each day training AI. That said, its still not... more

Falcon 180B is a new open access foundation model that reportedly performs between GPT3.5 and GPT-4 level. NLW looks at... more

Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW looks at new research from Google that shows that reinforcement learning using artificial intelligence... more

Inflection's Mustafa Suleyman indicates that he is skeptical of claims that OpenAI isn't training GPT-5, and points out that even... more

An exploration of defensibility, value capture and economic structure in artificial intelligence. With excerpts from: https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-has-finally-become-transformative-humans-scale-language-model-6a67e641 https://a16z.com/2023/08/03/the-economic-case-for-generative-ai-and-foundation-models/ https://a16z.com/2023/01/19/who-owns-the-generative-ai-platform/ https://a16z.com/2023/08/11/cloud-lessons-for-the-ai-era/ https://a16z.com/2023/08/30/financial-opportunity-of-ai/ ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps... more

NLW explores questions of privacy prompted by the essay "Want Protection from AI? The First Step is a National Privacy... more

As September and the Fall begins, NLW checks in on the conversation about ChatGPT among educators as they prepare to... more

On today's episode, NLW looks at news that the US has pushed Nvidia and AMD to stop AI chip exports... more

On the Brief, NLW looks at new reports that OpenAI is clearing $80,000,000 a month, even before the launch of... more

OpenAI yesterday announced the much anticipated ChatGPT Enterprise. The service comes with the most powerful version of ChatGPT yet, according... more

On Friday, Elon Musk did a live video on X to show off Tesla's Full Self Driving v12. The interesting... more

Exploring a new paper attempting to begin creating a systematic approach to answering that question. Read the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08708 ABOUT THE... more

Reading excerpts from Zvi Moshowitz' "On AutoGPT" from his blog/newsletter "Don't Worry About the Vase." https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2023/04/13/on-autogpt/ ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI... more

Meta has released LLM-for-coding Code Llama in numerous versions. NLW explores the community discussion, including some interesting data around an... more

One Wall Street analyst thinks that Nvidia's earnings will be seen in the future as a 1995 Internet Moment. Before... more

OpenAI has released finetuning for GPT-3.5 Turbo. It's expensive, and for some comes with privacy concerns, but also opens up... more