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AI Startups Are Having More Trouble Fundraising. Here's What It Means.

AI startups have run counter to the trend of decreased VC all year, but even they're now feeling the pinch as well. Here's why it matters more broadly than just for AI startup founders. Before that on the Brief, tension around the EU AI Act, and a CEO gets fired over an AI kerfuffle. Interested in the January AI Education Beta program? Learn more and sign up for the waitlist here - https://bit.ly/aibeta ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and disc

The AI Daily Brief 12 Dec 2023

RUMOR: GPT-4.5 Coming Before EOY (Maybe Even This Week?)

NLW looks at rumors from some sources that have previously had OpenAI insider leaks that GPT-4.5 could be coming as soon as this week and likely before the end of the year. Also a look at fast moving open source developments with Mistral closing its fundraise and releasing its API. 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 u

The AI Daily Brief 11 Dec 2023

The Significance of Sam Altman as TIME CEO of the Year

When Taylor Swift was named TIME's Person of the Year, many in the AI space had questions. Apparently TIME had a plan, however, naming Sam Altman as CEO of the Year and writing a verrry long piece about him. 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 commun

The AI Daily Brief 10 Dec 2023

China Drives D.C. to Be More AI Ambitious

A reading of https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/11/30/china-global-ai-plans-00129160 vs https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/opinion/ai-sam-altman-openai.html 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://theaibreak

The AI Daily Brief 9 Dec 2023

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

The AI Daily Brief 8 Dec 2023

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

The AI Daily Brief 7 Dec 2023

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

The AI Daily Brief 6 Dec 2023

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

The AI Daily Brief 5 Dec 2023

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

The AI Daily Brief 4 Dec 2023

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

The AI Daily Brief 3 Dec 2023

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

The AI Daily Brief 2 Dec 2023

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

The AI Daily Brief 1 Dec 2023