“I have long maintained LLMs make the poor performers mediocre, the average slightly above average, but do not change, and maybe hinder, the performance of top performers. Here’s a result from a university-level physics coding task.  https://twitter.com/deliprao/status/1772788031327523082

“Kind of wild that one of the companies with the most revenue from generative AI is a consultancy: Accenture Over $600M booked this quarter, on track for up to $2.4B annualized 🤯  https://twitter.com/peter/status/1772104137175650619?s=20 

Briefing: Canadian Pension Fund PSP To Co-Lead Funding in Cohere at $5 Billion Valuation — The Information – https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/canadian-pension-fund-psp-to-co-lead-funding-in-cohere-at-5-billion-valuation 

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AI News #25: Week Ending 03/22/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 55 Links

The post you just read is an deep dive extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.

• Agents/Copilots
• Amazon
• Apple
• Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
• Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
• Autonomous Vehicles
• AI Audio
• Business and Enterprise AI
• Chips and Hardware
• Consumer Products
• Education
• Ethics/Legal Security
• Google
• Images/Photos
• International AI News
• Locally Run AI Models
• Meta
• Microsoft
• OpenAI
• Open Source
• Podcasts/YouTube
• Publishing and News
• Robots and Embodiment
• Science and Medicine
• Video
• Vision/Multimodality
• X/Twitter/Grok
• Tech and Development

Credits/Sources

Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.

• Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer 
• Ethan Mollick:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/ 
• Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/ 
• Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia   
• The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/ 
• Bilawal Sidhu:  https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/  
• TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai  
• Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang  
• Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats  
• Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan 
• All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI   
• Marshall Kirkpatrick:  https://aitimetoimpact.com/

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“A new report from a16z / @sarahdingwang surveyed top enterprises on AI adoption, finding that both attitudes and investments have shifted dramatically. This stat was shocking: Enterprise spending on LLMs averaged $7M in 2023, with 2-5x budget increases planned for 2024.  https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1772836612352696512 

AI-Powered Accounting Startup FundGuard Locks Up $100M – https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/accounting-startup-fundguard-venture-investment/ 

AI turning nuclear power plants into prime DC real-estate • The Register – https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/25/ai_boom_nuclear/ 

Airtable AI: Transform operations with generative AI | Airtable – https://www.airtable.com/platform/ai 

The Fight for AI Talent: Pay Million-Dollar Packages and Buy Whole Teams – WSJ – https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-fight-for-ai-talent-pay-million-dollar-packages-and-buy-whole-teams-c370de2b?st=2l78j42j10xntba&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

16 Changes to the Way Enterprises Are Building and Buying Generative AI | Andreessen Horowitz – https://a16z.com/generative-ai-enterprise-2024/

AI Now Report: The top 100 use-cases for generative AI – https://learn.filtered.com/thoughts/ai-now-report

AI21 Completes $208 Million Oversubscribed Series C Round – https://www.ai21.com/blog/ai21-completes-208-million-oversubscribed-series-c-round 
“Thrilled to announce our $6.7M seed round to help you replace GPT-4 with your own fine-tuned models! Round was led by @costanoavc alongside @ycombinator, @OfficialLoganK, @alexgraveley, @Altimor, @mojombo, @immad, @Austen and many others. ❤️  https://twitter.com/corbtt/status/1772628544721461457