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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.
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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

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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 o...

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.
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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.

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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 Stab...

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.
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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-a...

NLW reads excerpts from a set of pieces opining about AI after OpenAI's leadership battle and on the one year anniversary of ChatGPT.
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https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-11-29/openai-sam-altman-firing-chatgpt-artificial-intelligence
https://www.theinformatio...

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.

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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.
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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 inte...