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Sam Altman's Secret Quest to Build AI Chip Plants

Bloomberg and FT report on Sam Altman's latest efforts to raise billions to build more AI chip manufacturing capacity. Plus ElevenLabs becomes AI's latest unicorn. Interested in the EDU Beta? Learn more and sign up here: https://bit.ly/aibeta ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.

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An Optimistic Take on AI and Inequality

A reading and discussion based on "For all our fear of AI dystopia, it may help to level up society" https://www.ft.com/content/8f7b9b52-9243-4c34-af80-223522273ab4 ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://

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Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Make Open Source AGI

Other revelations from an Instagram reel include that Meta will have around $20B worth of compute by the end of 2024; that Llama 3 is being trained, and that it intends to be state of the art -- not just the best open source model. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIB

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Google's AlphaGeometry Breakthrough

A massive improvement in how AI can reason around geometry plus Samsung releases the AI-est AI phone to AI yet. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/

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Altman Says AGI Soon, But Will Change the World Less Than We Think

Sam Altman is among the business and political leaders descending upon Davos for the World Economic Forum. Today NLW looks at a set of comments he made about AGI, energy, GPT-5, and more. Before that on the Brief, Congress questions the Pentagon over support for an AI scientist with connections to China. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe

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60% of US Jobs Could Be Impacted by AI

That's according to new research from the IMF. NLW also covers Elon wanting more control before building advanced AI at Tesla and OpenAI's new election policies. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://bre

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The Four Wars of the AI Stack: The Battles Shaping the Development of AI

The wars include the Quality Data Wars, the War of the GPU Rich/Poor, the Multimodality War, the RAG/Ops War Inspired by this excellent framework from our friends at Latent Space https://www.latent.space/p/dec-2023 ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the

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The Things We Know About AI So Far

A reading and exploration of: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/signs-and-portents ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/

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The AI Assistant and Agent Battle Heats Up

Note: This episode was produced on Wednesday January 10th, but due to an ice storm never came out! Apologies for the delay. Today's Sponsors: Listen to the chart-topping podcast 'web3 with a16z crypto' wherever you get your podcasts or here: https://link.chtbl.com/xz5kFVEK?sid=AIBreakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to Th

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What an OpenAI AMA Tells Us About the Future of GPTs and the GPT Store

Plus a new Congressional working group focused on AI. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/

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The GPT Store is LIVE! (But Does Anyone Care?)

After a couple months of anticipation and more than 3 million user created GPTs, the GPT store has officially gone live. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/

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Duolingo Replaces 10% of Contractors With AI

Plus OpenAI claps back at the New York Times copyright lawsuit. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/

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