PLLaVA, DoorDash and Knowledge Graphs, an Open Source Perplexity: Perplexica
AI news and tools that you can use.
Morning y’all!
I hope the weekend was as restful as you wanted it to be! I didn’t end up doing much resting and spent the day with friends and family, which is both restful in its own way and also very stimulating and tiring.
Perhaps that’s what my newsletter is like for some of you — ***GULP!***
Anyways! A new week and another newsletter. For my friends.
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— Summer
Pretty neat new model for images to video: PLLaVA. Cool overview:
It isn’t surprising anymore when I encounter new technology like this that I can begin to imagine for dozens of real-world applications. Exciting.
A new safety and security board has been created by the Biden Adminstration tapping a handful of Tech CEOs, like the ones from Apple, Microsoft, and OpenAI.
A little bit of a technical breakdown of how DoorDash is using their knowledge graph with large language models.
A new toolkit for AI developers by Cohere is out and folks are excited.
One person’s take on how AI is ruining everything, including Meta’s apps.
A report via Google on the economic impact of AI. The high-level note is that 80% of jobs will be impacted. That’s big.
I really like Perplexity and it’s almost entirely taken over my Google usage. But here’s an open source version!
People are complaining about AI’s power use and it’s the same argument they had for bitcoin and cryptocurrency. It’s all so tiring now.
Is AI the new (form of) SEO?
As consumers, employees and investors increasingly rely on large language models (LLMs) to answer questions or give recommendations, brands are tracking how these tools are representing them.
Companies want to make sure their brand-approved language is used and that they are not associated with problematic messaging or narratives.
For example, financial firms do not want LLMs to associate them with terminology like "ESG" or "woke" during an election year, per Fast Company.
Funny how often we cycle through “control” and “democratize” in technology (super) cycles. New tech disrupts control and everything resets.
China is going to build their own chips by 2026. The competition is fierce and definitely global at this point and the question is who will be the single, dominant winner.
AI Town can run locally with Llama 3:
A MIT-licensed, deployable starter kit for building and customizing your own version of AI town - a virtual town where AI characters live, chat and socialize.
So neat!
Apple is going to possibly integrate with OpenAI for the iPhone iOS 18 update. That would be a huge win for OpenAI, if true, adding 1.4b+ users overnight. Wow.
And that’s it friends! Have a great week!
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— Summer
