Leo's Lightbulbs

Hello everyone and welcome to Leo’s Lightbulbs! I’ll be covering the top news from the past week every Monday morning in your inbox. This newsletter was written completely by hand, without any AI assistance or even AI editing.

So, let’s jump right in! What happened in AI this week?

The big news is definitely Microsoft’s massive deal to make AI chips working together with Intel. Until at least 2025 there are no real competitors in the AI silicon market, and it is good for everyone if more companies enter the market, driving down silicon prices and thus compute costs and barriers to entry for new AI companies, who generally can’t afford costly server farm level chips due to insufficient supply driving prices up.

OpenAI is getting in the chip foundry game as well, and I’m expecting further news from AMD and TSMC about chip manufacturing.

💡Microsoft’s home-grown AI chips will be produced in Intel foundries in a $15 billion deal

💡Nvidia stock soars 15% on massive earnings beat on Wednesday in after-hours trading

💡Stable Diffusion v3, announced on Thursday, is better at text and multiple subjects, coming soon!

💡Tyler Perry pauses $800 million expansion to his studio due to fears of Sora and AI taking jobs

💡Adobe adds conversational AI to Adobe PDF - for editing and for asking documents questions.

💡ChatGPT sh*t the bed Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, spewing nonsensical, rude or infinitely-looping answers worldwide. Do we have too many eggs in one basket?

💡AI makes possible breakthrough in the quest for clean, limitless fusion energy

💡Free AI in windows Photos app - Microsoft adds "generative eraser" to photos app

💡Google temporarily takes down their entire image generator due to issues with its diversity engine (Native American founding fathers, Black Elon Musk and more)

💡Intel is developing free AI plugins for open source audio editor Audacity - awesome!

Have you heard about Horizon AI? It’s run by my friend Gina, check it out! She’s a brilliant data scientist and an awesome person.

Have a wonderful week everybody! I check this email address ([email protected]) daily, so don’t hesitate to reply with any thoughts or questions for a chance to get featured next week!

Yours,

Leo💡