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Lore #65: Perplexity Raised $73.6M
Nathan Lands
January 10, 2024
Good morning.
This week, one of my favorite AI startups, Perplexity, raised $73.6M from some of the top investors in the world, such as Elad Gil, NVIDIA and Jeff Bezos.
I’ve noticed many more people mentioning Perplexity on social media and podcasts. I have found myself using it more and more. If you haven’t checked it out yet, you’re missing out. It’s the best AI-powered search out there.
Also noteworthy this week is ChatGPT just added memory to GPT-4. Meaning it will learn and improve based on your previous conversations with it. This is one of the killer features I’ve been waiting for. I can’t wait to try it and see how well it works!
Plus:
Ex-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal raised $30M for a new AI startup building software for LLMs. The company’s name and specific product offerings have not yet been announced (Link)
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Google is facing a $1.67 billion lawsuit from Singular Computing, alleging the tech giant infringed on patents for technology used in its AI-supporting Tensor Processing Units. Google denies these claims, stating its chips were independently developed and fundamentally different from Singular's patented technology. The case also involves a separate appeal regarding the validity of Singular's patents.
Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz separately announced integration of AI assistants into some of their new vehicles at CES 2024 this week.
Volkswagen will be the first volume manufacturer to offer ChatGPT as a standard feature from the second quarter of 2024 in many production vehicles. Mercedes-Benz highlighted the AI-powered MBUX Virtual Assistant and new MB.OS architecture for a more personalized user experience.
OpenAI has stated that creating AI tools like ChatGPT without using copyrighted material is impossible, as these models are trained on vast internet data, much of which is copyrighted.
This statement comes amid increasing legal pressure, including a lawsuit from the New York Times accusing OpenAI and Microsoft of unlawful use of copyrighted content. At the same time, the company is contending with additional legal challenges from notable authors and entities such as Getty Images.
Other news
The year of AI influencers
2024 will be the year of AI #influencers... Fully generated characters that can engage, entertain, and earn!
They're not just a concept anymore; some are already seeing significant revenue.
You can create one today. Learn how to build it from A to Z, including all aspects of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Emm (@emmanuel_2m)
7:50 AM • Jan 5, 2024
Identity verification in the age of AI: the internet can’t tell who’s real
Application mockups with Midjourney
Midjourney v6 🤝🏻 Application Mockup
📱💬 Over the shoulder shot of a person holding an iPhone with a completely <color> screen
🖥️ 💬 Over the shoulder shot of a person in front of an entirely <color> computer screen
→ Make sure to take in consideration reflections, for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Hugo Ventura (@hugovntr)
5:58 PM • Jan 4, 2024
Chess-GPT, a 50M parameter LLM
I trained Chess-GPT, a 50M parameter LLM, to play at 1500 ELO. We can visualize its internal state of the board. In addition, to better predict the next character it estimates the ELO of the players involved. 🧵
— Adam Karvonen (@a_karvonen)
4:09 PM • Jan 6, 2024
Stylar: Brings controllability to AI-assisted design with its intuitive drag-and-drop canvas (Link)
Superhuman: AI-powered email built for high-performing teams (Link)
SlaySchool: Create flashcards and quizzes from any file, image or handwritten note (Link)
RecordOnce: A recording tool for professional-looking video tutorials (Link)
Find more tools at FutureTools.io.
Mixtral of Experts: Mixtral 8x7B, a Sparse Mixture of Experts (SMoE) language model (Link)
DocLLM: A layout-aware generative language model for multimodal document understanding (Link)
Understanding LLMs: A Comprehensive Overview from Training to Inference (Link)
TinyLlama: An Open-Source Small Language Model (Link)
LLaMA Beyond English: An Empirical Study on Language Capability Transfer (Link)
WhiteRabbitNeo-33B is a spectacular open source LLM that “knows” red and blue team Cybersecurity.
I have been testing it intently and frankly blown away by abilities and potential protection.
More superior in this domain than ChatGPT-4 turbo.
Link:
— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele)
5:08 PM • Jan 5, 2024
That's it!
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