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Meta Launches Midjourney, Dall-E-3 Competitor

How does the new tool stand up to other image generators? And what else did Meta AI announce. The day following Google's Gemini was a mixed bag for the company. On the one hand, socials acted betrayed on discovering the most impressive demo video had sort of been staged. On the other hand, Wall Street drove the stock up 5+% - adding $80B to the company's market cap. Interested in the January AI Education Beta program? Learn more and sign up for the waitlist here - https://bit.ly/aibeta ABOUT THE

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OpenAI's COO Says AI for Business is Overhyped. Is He Right?

OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap recently got a big conversation going when he suggested that AI for business was overhyped. NLW explores whether he's right. Before that, Elon Musk is raising up to $1B for xAI. 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 Bre

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BREAKING: Google Launches Gemini

GPT-4 finally has a credible competitor as Google launches Gemini! NLW covers the three-size model, the emphasis on reasoning and multimodality, and why some are skeptical of Google's claims at outperforming OpenAI. 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 th

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Meta, IBM Form AI Alliance to Counter OpenAI with More Open AI

OpenAI is not open enough; at least not according to the new AI Alliance - a group led by Meta, IBM, AMD and others that is trying to ensure AI stays more open and not controlled by just a handful of companies. Before that on the Brief, Getty Images is going to court against Stability AI while forming partnerships with Runway, and Google delays Gemini again. Today's Sponsors: Listen to the chart-topping podcast 'web3 with a16z crypto' wherever you get your podcasts or here: https://link.chtbl.co

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How Clashing Egos and Disagreements Shaped the AI Field

From Elon Musk's fallout with Larry Page to...well...Elon Musk's fallout with Sam Altman...to Sam Altman's fallout with Dario Amodei to...Sam Altman's fallout with the OpenAI board. The history that shaped the AI space. 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 Joi

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Predictions for Generative AI Year 2

Thursday was the one-year anniversary of ChatGPT. NLW reads (with the help of ElevenLabs) a group of predictions around what year 2 for generative AI will look like. Read the predictions: https://www.fastcompany.com/90989785/what-year-2-of-the-generative-ai-craze-will-look-like-according-to-41-experts 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 B

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The Fight for AI's Soul Following OpenAI's Leadership Battle

NLW reads excerpts from a set of pieces opining about AI after OpenAI's leadership battle and on the one year anniversary of ChatGPT. Excerpts from: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-11-29/openai-sam-altman-firing-chatgpt-artificial-intelligence https://www.theinformation.com/articles/to-continue-innovating-openai-should-return-to-its-nonprofit-roots https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/23/opinion/sam-altman-openai.html ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most im

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Did Google DeepMind Just Revolutionize Materials Science?

Deepmind's GNoME AI has 10x'd the number of known stable materials, and more than 736 of them have already been successfully created in the lab. Plus Amazon's new Titan image generation model and Microsoft sets up in the UK. Today's Sponsors: Notion - Notion AI. Knowledge, answers, ideas. One click away. - https://notion.com/aibreakdown 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

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ChatGPT Launched 1 Year Ago Today: A Retrospective

Happy Birthday ChatGPT! The incredibly influential software was launched on November 30, 2022. Five days later it had a million users. Five weeks after that, 100 million. The rest, as they say, is history -- a history that NLW explores. 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/@T

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Amazon Launches Q Chatbot: Is It A Disappointment or AI On Trend?

We didn't get Amazon's rumored "Olympus" model, but we did get an enterprise focused chatbot called Q. NLW explores whether it's a disappointment that continues to show how behind OpenAI the big tech co's are, or whether it actually exemplifies a broader AI trend of workflow integration. Also: is Stability AI facing financial pressure? 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://thea

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Is Pika 1.0 AI Video's Breakout Moment?

Pika Labs officially launched 1.0 and many think it might be representative of a coming breakout moment for text-to-video generation. Plus a look at the complicated geopolitical tension around AI between the US, China and the United Arab Emirates. Today's Sponsors: Notion - Notion AI. Knowledge, answers, ideas. One click away. - https://notion.com/aibreakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown

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Q*: Was This New Advance the Reason for Sam Altman's Firing?

More information came out late last week about a model that showed signs of more advanced reasoning called Q*, leading to additional speculation that this was part of the reason for Sam Altman's firing from OpenAI. Also on this episode, Inflection claims their latest model is the second most powerful LLM. 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/subscrib

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