a llama standing outside a corporate office. large text label reads “Open AI” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize ytt1577 –v 6.1
“A lot of models were at least partially trained on GPT-4 outputs (against their policy). It is why so many identify as GPT-4 when pushed and tell the same jokes as GPT-4. A subtle effect of this new policy is the next generations of models will have a more Llama-like personality” / X
“The last four customer calls I had all said they heard about Formula Bot from ChatGPT. To be ahead of Microsoft is 🤯
“the openresearch team releases the first result from their UBI study:
“We’re testing SearchGPT, a temporary prototype of new AI search features that give you fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources. We’re launching with a small group of users for feedback and plan to integrate the experience into ChatGPT.
SearchGPT Is OpenAI’s Direct Assault on Google | WIRED
SearchGPT is a prototype of new AI search features | OpenAI
OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine – The Verge
“Rolling out SearchGPT as a heavily caveated ‘prototype’ is smart because it allows OpenAI to dial in a UX that makes both users and publishers happy. Great opportunity for OAI to flex lucrative partnerships with the likes of News Corp and The Atlantic, while putting Bing Maps
AI paid for by Ads – the gpt-4o mini inflection point
OpenAI bleeding money: OpenAI faces potential $5 billion loss this year and may run out of cash in 12 months – Tech Startups
OpenAI training and inference costs could reach $7bn for 2024, AI startup set to lose $5bn – report – DCD
“SCOOP: OpenAI may lose $5B this year & may run out of cash in 12 months, unless they raise more $, per analysis @theinformation. Investors should ask: What is their moat? Unique tech? What is their route in profitability when Meta is giving away similar tech for free? Do they
“New: OpenAI is on track to lose $5 billion this year, we estimate based on internal financial data and sources. OpenAI expects to spend around $4b on Azure bills for running ChatGPT and other inferencing, while training costs could exceed $3b. Details:
Why OpenAI Could Lose $5 Billion This Year — The Information
“GPT5 is going to be college graduates too cheap to meter… That’s going to be painful for a lot of people next year” / X
“Customize GPT-4o mini for your application with fine-tuning. Available today to tier 4 and 5 users, we plan to gradually expand access to all tiers. First 2M training tokens a day are free, through Sept 23.
“Introducing GPT-4o mini! It’s our most intelligent and affordable small model, available today in the API. GPT-4o mini is significantly smarter and cheaper than GPT-3.5 Turbo.
OpenAI announces free fine-tuning for GPT-4o mini model | InfoWorld
“we try not to get too excited about any one eval, but excited to see GPT-4o mini so close to GPT-4o performance on lmsys at 1/20th the price!” / X
“GPT-4o mini launched 4 days ago. already processing more than 200B tokens per day! very happy to hear how much people are liking the new model.” / X
“”If we’re right, OpenAl, most recently valued at $80 billion, will need to raise more cash in the next 12 months or so.”” / X
“Exciting Chatbot Arena Update — GPT-4o mini’s result is out! With 4K+ user votes, GPT-4o mini climbs to the top of the leaderboard, now joint #1 with GPT-4o while being 20x cheaper! Significantly better than its early version (“upcoming-gpt-mini”) in Arena across the boards.
OpenAI Has Talked to Broadcom About Developing New AI Chip — The Information
OpenAI is rolling out voice capabilities soon. – The Verge
“I told you OpenAI solved this [the 9.11 > 9.9 issue] last year… It’s crazy discipline that they kept it under wraps with even most of their employees on the business side not knowing what going on. For all the talk of lousy opsec…”
“If anyone is interested, OpenAI did work similar to the new AlphaProof 2 years ago, at a smaller scale, and has written a paper on it.
“OpenAI asks New York Times to disclose reporters’ notes in ‘vindictive’ legal move
US lawmakers send a letter to OpenAI requesting government access
OpenAI’s latest model will block the ‘ignore all previous instructions’ loophole – The Verge
“Canonical Epic San Altman op-ed in Wapo. Reaching major decision point soon, and has 4 asks 1) beef up physical and cybersecurity 2) build out massive physical infra 3) clear and tight export controls on both hardware and software 4) setting up global institutions” / X
Sam Altman urges formation of US-led AI freedom coalition • The Registerhttps://www.theregister.com/2024/07/25/sam_altman_ai_freedom/
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AI News #43: Week Ending 07/26/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 97 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
- Images/Photos
- International AI News
- Locally Run AI Models
- Mobile
- Meta
- Microsoft
- OpenAI
- Open Source
- Podcasts/YouTube
- Publishing and News
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) News
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- Vision/Multimodality
- X/Twitter/Grok
- Tech and Development
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- 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/
- AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/
- Andrej Karpathy: https://x.com/karpathy
- Brett Adcock: https://x.com/adcock_brett
- Florent Daudens: https://x.com/fdaudens
- Ate-a-Pi: https://x.com/8teAPi
- Francesco Marconi: https://x.com/fpmarconi
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