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?

To me the biggest news item is Microsoft’s acquisition of Inflection AI and Mustafa Suleyman. Microsoft’s acquisition-heavy tendencies are likely to continue to be scrutinized by regulators. And this is predictive of the whole future ecosystem for AI, as it was for other web technologies. Big companies will get acquired by the big dogs, and eventually we will see forced splits by the government, but too late to have much impact.

💡Mustafa Suleyman to head AI at Microsoft after acquisition

💡Nvidia announces new Blackwell AI processors coming soon

💡Intel announces $100 billion AI chip factory being built in Columbus, Ohio

💡SAG-AFTRA ratifies protections for animated TV and video voice actors

💡Nvidia announces their GR00T robot platform

💡Nvidia partnering with Hippocratic AI to create AI robot nurses that will work for $9/hr

💡Nvidia Audio2Face makes lip syncing in video games easier

💡Elon Musk releases xAI Grok as open-source, making it the largest open source AI currently available

Nvidia Latte3d generates 3d models from text, for future use in gaming, movies and more

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Yours,

Leo💡