Microsoft Is Threatening Data Restrictions on Rival Companies

⚡ Today’s Highlights

• 📰 News: Microsoft is threatening smaller companies with data restrictions

• 💰 Funding: Pragman Bio and Axios HQ

• 🦾 Tools: AI-powered voiceover services for automated narrations

• 📅 Events: Don’t miss Microsoft Secure and MemCon, both of which are starting tomorrow!

📰 Today's Top Stories

Microsoft Threatens Data Restrictions In Rival AI Search

(3 min read) (Source: Bloomberg)

TLDR: Microsoft is allegedly threatening to cut off access to its internet-search data if rival companies don't stop using it as the basis for their own artificial intelligence chat products.

• Microsoft licenses its Bing search index data to other companies that offer web search, such as Yahoo and DuckDuckGo. In recent months, AI chatbots have become increasingly popular and some customers are using the index to feed their AI chat tools.

• The customers remain unnamed but note that DuckDuckGo recently launched DuckAssist, while You.com and Neeva have also recently debuted the AI-fueled searches YouChat and NeevaAI, respectively. It seems that Microsoft's threat could potentially affect some major companies that rely on Bing search index data.

• Ironically, despite the lawsuits being brought against OpenAI from artists whose work has gone uncredited, Microsoft seems to be taking a strong stance to protect its intellectual property and prevent competitors from using its data to build competing products.

The Big Picture: The dispute highlights the increasing potential for data licensing agreements to become contentious pain points in the B2B data-selling space as companies seek to protect their intellectual property and competitive advantage. It also underscores the power that large technology companies like Microsoft have in the market, as they can leverage their data and intellectual property to gain an edge over smaller competitors.

💰 Funding Alerts

1. Axios HQ, a communications software company spun off from Axios, has raised $20 million in Series A funding led by Glade Brook Capital Partners and including Greycroft. The company has developed an AI-powered communication software trained on the expertise and knowledge of top writers in the Axios newsroom to deliver clear, concise and effective communication. They plan to use the funds to scale the tool to clients beyond its current 500 enterprise clients.

2. Pragma Bio is a technology-enabled drug discovery platform that leverages artificial intelligence, genomic sequencing, and synthetic biology to identify biomarkers and therapeutics for immunologic disorders. The company recently secured an additional $10 million in equity funding, led by The Venture Collective and including investors such as Viking Global Investors, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, and CJ Investments. The funding will be used to expand the company's operations, increase product development, and recruit new team members to support its growth.

🦾 Trending Tools

• Wavel.ai offers cutting-edge AI Voiceover services, allowing users to generate human-like voices for automated narration, text-to-speech conversion, and voice response systems. With advanced technology, users can quickly generate subtitles, captions, dubbing, and voiceover in over 20+ languages. Wavel's platform and generative AI also help creators save time and produce high-quality videos.

• Sidekick by Jigso is a free NLP-based tool that aims to make it easy for you to understand organizational data and track project development. Connect your organizational apps and ask any questions you have about tracking data and events, analyzing and querying data in Excel or Google sheets, setting reminders, and summarizing Slack channels related to your business.

• SnippetSage is a Chrome extension that detects code snippets and offers real-time ChatGPT-powered chatbot assistance for coding optimization, generation, and debugging. With SnippetSage, developers of all skill levels can enhance their coding skills and have a friendly coding mentor available 24/7.

• Post Genie is an AI-powered tool that creates unique social media posts with just a few clicks. Users can input subject, mood, platform, length, and other options such as adding a link and specifying hashtags.

👀 More Reading

• Opinion | Yuval Harari on Threats to Humanity Posed by A.I. “You Can Have the Blue Pill or the Red Pill, and We’re Out of Blue Pills” (The New York Times)

• ChatGPT is about to revolutionize the economy. We need to decide what that looks like. (MIT Technology Review)

• How AI might change our judgment and decision-making (Axios)

• How Machine Learning Can Improve the Customer Experience (Harvard Business Review)

• Opinion | ChatGPT Is Parroting Myths About Slavery (POLITICO)

• Is AI Turning Me Into an Obsolete Machine? (New York Magazine)

🌎 Fresh Content

1. Lex Fridman recently sat down with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to discuss ChatGPT/GPT-4, the impact of AI on the world and the future, the state of society, and the meaning of life. This discussion was incredibly insightful and you don’t want to miss it. (YouTube and Spotify)

2. CBS Mornings published their full interview with the “Godfather of artificial intelligence”, Geoffrey Hinton. Hinton is a pioneer in machine learning and is noted for his work in artificial neural networks. His work is cited often in the advancement of artificial intelligence to what it is today. He shared his thoughts on the past, present, and future of AI with CBS mornings. (YouTube)

3. Runway recently hosted the first annual AI Film Festival. The festival included many celebrated artists showcasing their work at the forefront of AI filmmaking. Check out the top 10 films from this year's festival here including the grand prize winner, “Generation” by Riccardo Fusetti. (YouTube)

4. Sir Arthur C. Clarke, legendary science fiction writer, futurist, inventor, and co-writer of the screenplay for 2001: A Space Odyssey, had some very interesting insights on the future of AI nearly 60 years ago. “I suspect that organic or biological evolution has about come to its end, and we are now at the beginning of inorganic or mechanical evolution.” (Twitter) 

🧠 Resources

1. This video from Simplilearn provides an easy-to-understand introduction to the concept of deep learning. It covers the basics of where deep learning is used, how it differs from artificial intelligence and machine learning, and explores the training of neural networks to recognize handwritten digits. Additionally, the video explores some popular applications of deep learning.

1. After gaining a general understanding of deep learning through the first video, explore the differences between deep learning and machine learning in this video by IBM’s Martin Keen using…pizza.

 📅 Upcoming Events

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2. MemCon (March 28-29, 2023 @ The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA, USA) is the first memory event focused on end users and systems. MemCon empowers engineers and architects working on memory-constrained problems with peer insights from case studies in genomics, AIML, datacenter, HPC, computational fluid dynamics, in-memory databases, and enterprise knowledge graphs. If you are working on a memory-bound problem, come and unpack it with your peers, meet enterprise data experts, and get your hands on tech demos at the same time. Register your interest today.

 💼 Jobs

• Samsung Research America Internship: 2023 NLP Intern

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  • $36 - $63/hour

• Spring Health: Senior Software Engineer I - Data and ML Ops

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