Leo's Lightbulbs - This Week in AI

Hello everyone and welcome to the second episode of 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?

💡ChatGPT Turbo offers a longer context window and is up to date through April 2023. 💡Longer context window for GPT Plus users. 💡Custom GPT models and bots introduced, with a public marketplace coming soon (“AI app store”). 💡Lower prices on GPT API calls. 💡Indemnity shield for API and Enterprise (NOT for GPT Plus).💡Loads of outages

💡Amazon leaks their AI Olympus.

💡Anthropic using Google brand AI chips to power Claude

💡Samsung announces text and image AI “Gauss” to run locally on phones

💡Siemens introduces industrial AI, partnered with Microsoft

💡NVIDIA releases three new chips for China export

💡SAG-AFTRA strike is over after AI sticking point resolved

💡Humane AI pin released

💡Lots of big news from the ChatGPT developer conference! GPT Turbo mode is introduced, up to date through April 2023, with a 128k token count allowing for the equivalent of 300 pages of “context window”, or the amount of information GPT remembers from a conversation, available to API and Enterprise.

• GPT4 (GPT Plus users) gets up to 32k token count

• ”GPTs”, or custom trained models, introduced and available to “all” users

• Lower prices on API calls, good news for developers

• GPT marketplace coming soon, where users can design custom GPTs and sell them to others with revenue sharing.

• Indemnity shield for API and Enterprise users, explicitly NOT covering free or GPT Plus users.

💡I’m pleased to release my first three public GPTs:

• Learning is Fun

• Sales Roleplay Bot

• LinkedIn Post Writer

💡ChatGPT experiences major outages on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, following their announcements on Monday. Google Bard also experienced outages on Tuesday, likely when users unable to get into ChatGPT flooded Bard. Thursday was due to a DDoS and not regular overloading. My bet? It was someone whose business model just got screwed.

💡Amazon is working on an AI named Olympus. The model will be integrated into Alexa and their store, and is expected to rival Bard and ChatGPT - we’ll see about that. Supposedly it has 2 trillion parameters, compared to GPT4’s 1 trillion. Expected unveil some time in December.

💡Anthropic will be deploying Google’s chips to power its AI Claude. Previously, NVIDIA had been the only real option for AI chips currently available. Many companies have made announcements, but few have actually delivered chips.

💡Wednesday, Samsung announced its text, image and code AI “Gauss”, which they are claiming can run on-device on the Galaxy S24 phone.

💡Siemens announces partnership with Microsoft for Siemens Industrial Copilot, for use in manafacturing, transportation, healthcare and more.

💡NVIDIA releasing three new chips designed to be permissible under US export laws to China. Last month, they attempted to release three new chips designed to be compliant with export laws, and they were promptly banned by the US from export to China, causing their first major stock dip this year. Let’s see if these next ones get banned too!

💡SAG-AFTRA strike is settled. TV shows are back! The final sticking points in contract negotiation were about AI likenesses and compensation for AI use.

💡Humane AI pin is released. This is a pin that replaces your cell phone and uses ChatGPT and a projector to power its system. I was surprised this came out as an independent, cell phone replacement and not a bluetooth device to pair with your phone. I first said no way, but now I’m leaning yes. What do you think, should I get one? I feel like readers would enjoy seeing it covered.

Q&A with my Readers:

Great question Max! I think that it really depends on the startup. Some startups are doing little more than providing a simple wrapper for ChatGPT APIs, and those companies may be in some trouble. They’ll be competing with OpenAI itself, and I can’t imagine they can offer lower prices. So, these companies are going to have to offer innovative features and a better user experience to stay competitive.

Some companies are running API calls in a complex way and may benefit from switching their business model from an API wrapper to selling a GPT in the OpenAI marketplace. I think we’ll also see a lot more entries to the market, with such a low barrier to entry. Overall, I think this is good for progress, and was bound to happen eventually. I think that many/most GPT wrapper startups knew this day would come and have contingency plans in place. That said, they’re probably not thrilled about the lack of notice. Stay tuned!

Leo

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Yours,

Leo💡

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