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The LLM for Coding Competition Heats Up!

On the Brief: Stability AI releases StableCode as Google opens the waitlist for its in-browser AI-powered coding environment; Google is in talks with major record labels around AI music and AI discovers an asteroid. On our main episode: NVIDIA announces its state of the art Grace Hopper superchip is coming next year, alongside a slew of other generative AI updates. NLW explores how the AI chip competitive space is developing, including the latest from AMD, startups like Tenstorrent, and efforts

The AI Daily Brief
The AI Daily Brief

GPTBot AI Data Controversy and the Remaining Challenges of LLMs

NLW reviews a recent research paper which provides a comprehensive overview of the state of LLM development and organizes remaining challenges and problems to be solved -- along with prospective solutions. Before that on the Brief: OpenAI launches GPTBot to crawl the web for AI training purposes; Zoom has to back off ToS changes that would allow them to collected data for AI training purposes. Plus a terrifying new cyberattack that can tell what you typed just by listening to your keystrokes. Re

The AI Daily Brief
The AI Daily Brief

Apple Reveals It Spent Billions on AI R&D

During last week's earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Apple anticipated putting generative AI into every product, and intimated that they had spent billions on artificial intelligence research and development. Before that on The Brief: after the community questioned some art from an upcoming book, Wizards of the Coast and D&D Beyond are clarifying their AI art policies; Morgan Stanley says AI bubble may be peaking, University College London study says 27% can't recognize deepfakes, and

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The AI Daily Brief

Why We're Radically Underestimating the Political Implications of AI Job Displacement

NLW opines on the increasingly popular canard "AI won't take your job; someone using AI will" and finds it lacking. 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/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/n

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Why Do People Who Think AI Could Kill Us All Still Work on AI?

A reading of "Given Extinction Worries, Why Don’t AI Researchers Quit? Well, Several Reasons" by Daniel Eth. 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/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/nlw / ht

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The AI Daily Brief

Code Interpreter is GPT-4.5: A Summer AI Technical Roundup [feat. Swyx and Alessio of Latent Space]

Today NLW is joined by Swyx and Alessio, the hosts of the Latent Space podcast to discuss the key technical developments from the last month of AI, including code interpreter; llama 2; the latest in AI agents; growing interest in AI companions, and more. Latent Space podcast -https://www.latent.space/podcast / https://twitter.com/latentspacepod Swyx - https://twitter.com/swyx Alessio Fanelli - https://twitter.com/FanaHOVA ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most impo

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The AI Daily Brief

The Frontier of AI-Generated Music Models

On today's episode NLW explores Meta's newly launched AudioCraft compared to Google MusicLM. Before that on the Brief, Goldman Sachs predicts AI investment will reach 4% of GDP by 2025; a 9-figure investment for an Nvidia competitor; new Alibaba AI models and more. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: ht

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Has Open Source Screwed a Whole Generation of AI Startups?

NLW explores some of the unexpected developments in the AI space, with a focus on how open source has changed the way enterprises think about AI procurement. Before that on the Brief; DALL-E 3 leaks; AMD earnings results; YouTube testing AI summaries. Today's Sponsor: Giskard - the testing framework for ML models - https://www.giskard.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://t

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Is GPT-5 On the Way? OpenAI Files Trademark

A look at a recent trademark filing; Facebook launching AI Personas; a leaked Instagram feature identifying content made by AI; Dell's AI efforts; Google Assistant's AI makeover; plus a deep dive on McKinsey's State of AI in 2023 report which was released earlier today. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newslette

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The AI Daily Brief

The AI-Robotics Revolution: Robots That Think Like LLMs

Google recently shared its RT-2 model which can translate generalized instructions into robotic control. Also on today's episode, researchers use AI to discover ancient antibiotics from Neanderthals and Denisovans; Google releases research on Med-PaLM M, a general multimodal medical model; and AI might be coming to Dungeons & Dragons. Today's Sponsor Netsuite | The leading business management software | Get no interest and no payments for 6 months https://netsuite.com/breakdown ABOUT THE AI BREA

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The 5 Most Important AI News Stories Last Month

OpenAI Superalignment? Claude 2? White House? Find out what NLW thinks were the most important AI news stories in July. 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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AI for War? Debating the Military Use of AI

A reading of Palantir CEO Alex Karp's recent essay for the New York Times and discussing the military applications of artificial intelligence. Links: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/25/opinion/karp-palantir-artificial-intelligence.html https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/u-s-china-competition-and-military-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

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