Microsoft Leaves OpenAI Board, Free Open Source Video Editor, and GenAI ROI

A few links and apps to check out in the artificial intelligence space.

Jul 11, 2024

Morning y’all!

I’ve survived a few, long weeks and I’m getting ready for another weekend of doing absolutely nothing! I hope you do too!

I have enjoyed having some outside “chats” with some of you via the comments or email or elsewhere and I appreciate that! I’m always down and my email is on the About Page (if I remembered to update it properly).

※\(^o^)/※

— Summer

Microsoft just decided to drop it’s board observer role at OpenAI and people have a lot of thoughts. A lot of this stems from the antitrust authorities in the U.S. and EU.

LivePortrait is a free tool available on Hugging Face that allows users to transform static photos into moving, portrait animations.

Simplify global talent recruitment. Cut interview hours, ensure compliance, and seamlessly onboard top engineers with matching skills. Handle payments, benefits, and global compliance effortlessly. That’s Crew.

There is a free open source AI video editor called Clapper. It's made by @FLNGR, the HuggingFace guy also responsible for AI Comic Factory and AITube.

Meta's CTO Andrew Bosworth joined Facebook in 2006 as the company's ~10th engineer. He helped build the original News Feed, Messenger, Groups, and many early anti-abuse and infrastructure systems. Bosworth ran the Ads and Business Platform product group and he is currently also the Head of Reality Labs. In this interview, Bosworth discusses Meta's metaverse strategy, VR/MR headset sales, the specs of his dream headset, Meta's spending on Reality Labs, and much more.

Scale is partnering with AWS to boost enterprise and government adoption of genAI, offering customization tools and secure platforms to leverage and deploy the tech effectively.

The question that’s on everyone’s mind is whether or not GenAI is worth it. Period. Well, Goldman Sachs has a report for you.

Must really likes to build his own stuff so hearing that he’s leaving the deal with Oracle and, instead, building his own AI datacenter makes a lot of sense. That’s just Elon.

Writer helps you build chat apps with explainable AI, built-in RAG, and more.

SmartCrawl by Firecrawl helps you turn any website into an API with AI.

Fluidworks is a live video AI agent for SaaS sales demos. If you’re in the market for one of these then take a look.

And finally a few links that might be fun to review:

Balaji shows how to go from idea to working prototype (a todo app) in just a few minutes — powerful, using Claude.
This app listens to you and then “steals” your voice. The concept is compelling.
GraphRAG is a way of exploring unstructured text using LLMs.
MobileLLM optimizes sub-billion parameter LLMs for on-device use cases.
Is AI going to replace Product Managers?
How to prove ROI of AI; an attempt, at least.
Airbook connects your data sources.