🌯 The Weekend Wrap Up 🌯

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📰 This Week's Top Stories

GPT-4 is coming next week – and it will be multimodal, says Microsoft Germany 

(10 min read) (Source: Heise Online)

TLDR: The CTO of Microsoft Germany, Andreas Braun, just announced GPT-4, their latest Large Language Model (LLM), during an AI in Focus-Digital Kickoff event. The new GPT-4 model, with multi-modal capabilities, will offer new possibilities such as video features and has will work in multiple languages, such that one can ask a question in one language and receive an answer in another language.

OpenAI Rival Anthropic Raises Funding at $4.1 Billion Valuation

(5 min read) (Source: The Information)

TLDR: San Francisco-based AI startup, Anthropic, has reportedly raised another $300 million, this time led by Spark Capital, valuing the company at $4.1 billion. Anthropic is seen as the primary challenger to OpenAI in the AI race, and this latest funding round follows Google's $400 million investment in the company.

Google execs tell employees in testy all-hands meeting that Bard A.I. isn’t just about search 

(10 min read) (Source: CNBC)

TLDR: In an all-hands meeting on March 4, executives answered questions from Dory, the company’s internal forum, with most of the top-rated issues related to the priorities around Bard. Jack Krawczyk, the product lead for Bard, said the technology is not a search tool, but a collaborative AI service. Several Google employees told CNBC that the inconsistent answers from executives have led to greater confusion.

Meta will keep releasing AI tools despite leak claims 

(2 min read) (Source: Reuters)

TLDR: Meta Platforms Inc, the parent company of Facebook, recently released an AI model called LLaMA, which is currently only available to vetted researchers and entities affiliated with the government, civil society, and academia under a non-commercial license. Last week, some users on 4Chan claimed to have leaked the LLaMA model to unauthorized users. Despite these claims, Meta announced on Monday that it will continue to release its AI tools to approved researchers stating that its current release strategy strikes a balance between responsibility and openness.

Salesforce had a hectic week

TLDR: Salesforce Ventures launched a $250 million generative AI fund aimed at developing responsible generative AI and strengthening the startup ecosystem. The fund will initially invest in four companies, including Anthropic, Cohere, Hearth.AI, and You.com.

TLDR: Salesforce has launched Einstein GPT, a generative AI CRM technology. It will use AI-created content across sales, service, marketing, commerce, and IT interactions. Einstein GPT combines OpenAI's enterprise-grade ChatGPT technology with Salesforce's private AI models allowing customers to generate content that adapts to changing customer needs in real-time.

TLDR: Salesforce and OpenAI have also launched the ChatGPT app for Slack, integrating ChatGPT’s AI technology to deliver conversation summaries, research tools, and writing assistance directly in Slack. The app combines knowledge in Slack with ChatGPT's intelligence, providing customers with a conversational interface to get instant conversation summaries, research tools, and writing assistance to quickly draft messages.

Discord is Your Place for AI with Friends

(9 min read) (Source: Discord)

TLDR: Discord is launching three new AI experiences as free public experiments in a limited number of servers: Clyde, a chatbot that uses OpenAI tech; AutoMod AI, a service for alerting moderators when server rules may have been broken, taking into account the context of the conversation; and Conversation Summaries, AI-generated summaries to bundle streams of messages into topics. They are also launching an AI incubator as part of their ecosystem fund to fund innovative AI startups. Changes to their privacy policy that are happening at the same time are raising concerns about the gathering of user data without consent.

Microsoft introduces Dynamics 365 Copilot into its business suite

(6 min read) (Source: Microsoft)

TLDR: Microsoft launched a new AI-powered tool called Dynamics 365 Copilot, which is designed to assist users in sales, service, marketing, operations, and supply chain roles. This tool automates repetitive tasks such as data entry, content generation, and note-taking, freeing up time for more creative work. Copilot is integrated into several Microsoft Dynamics 365 tools, including Sales, Customer Service, Customer Insights, Marketing, Business Central, and Supply Chain Management.

Coming Soon: A New Generation in Writing

(4 min read) (Source: Grammarly)

TLDR: Grammarly launched a new suite of generative AI capabilities called GrammarlyGO that utilizes ChatGPT's AI model to produce text. It provides users with personalized, high-quality generative AI by taking into account their context, preferences, and goals to instantly generate high-quality drafts, outlines, replies, and revisions when they need them. GrammarlyGO will be integrated into existing tools, including Microsoft Word, Slack, Gmail, and the Chrome browser extension and will start rolling out in beta starting in April.

DuckDuckGo launches DuckAssist

(8 min read) (Source: DuckDuckGo)

TLDR: DuckDuckGo, the free browser and search engine that prioritizes searcher privacy, introduced DuckAssist, a new feature that generates natural language answers to search queries using Wikipedia. The AI-generated content is integrated into DuckDuckGo Private Search and will appear in search results when users search for questions that have straightforward answers on Wikipedia.

💰 Funding Alerts

1. Character.ai, a generative AI chatbot company, has received over $200 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, valuing the company at about $1 billion.

2. UK-based consumer lending service Abound has raised $601 million. The funding includes both debt and equity, with U.S. bank Citi plus clients of Waterfall Asset Management providing the debt portion and K3 Ventures, GSR Ventures, and Hambro Perks providing equity.

3. SOCi Inc. is a marketing platform for multi-location brands that has raised $120 million in a funding round led by JMI Equity, with participation from Vertical Venture Partners, Blossom Street Ventures, and Renew Group Private Limited.

4. Humane, an AI technology company, is building a software platform and consumer device designed for AI from the ground up. It raised $100 million in a Series C round led by Kindred Ventures along with Microsoft, LG Technology Ventures, Tiger Global, Valia Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Forerunner Ventures, Lachy Groom, Sam Altman, and many other prominent investors.

5. Mythic, an AI processor/semiconductor company, has raised $13 million in a new round of funding from existing investors Atreides Management, DCVC, and Lux Capital, along with new investors Catapult Ventures and Hermann Hauser Investment.

🔥 Hot Content

1. AI can now turn your thoughts into images 🤯 Scientists used Stable Diffusion to visualize images from MRI scan data. (Twitter)

2. sentdex went over some of the new AI photo and video editing tools on HuggingFace such as ControlNet, the revolutionary tool for Stable Diffusion that allows users to generate AI images from a doodle and a prompt. The tool is awesome and a ton of fun to use so be sure to give it a try here! (YouTube)

3. The evolution of war. Creativity can propel us forward just as well as it can set us back. (Twitter)

4. Kris Kashtanova has been making some amazing creations with Midjourney as well as customizable prompts to yield similar results! (Twitter)

5. Artist Refik Anadol created an exhibition called “Machine Hallucinations - Nature Dreams” for the König Galerie in Berlin. He created an AI Data Painting using 300 million publicly available that were used to train a GAN AI algorithm. The result was a beautiful swirl of shapes, colours, and patterns that represents the beauty of nature as well as the problems that it faces.

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