AI is Like Water, a Tattoo Generator, PDF Search, Visual Reports, and a Cute AI Assistant
A smattering of apps and industry news.
Morning folks!
We’ve made it through another week! Whew! Thank goodness. It’s been one helluva week as I’ve spent the week onboarding into a new project that essentially builds AI tech for large organizations with some unique approaches to (bespoke) LLMs and knowledge graphs. The team is nice and I think they like me.
I won’t lie, I’ve had a few headaches this week and those usually affect me to the point of feeling nauseous! I’ll make it and I’m glad for a shorter day today and the much-needed weekend. I hope you’re getting the rest that you need too.
I’ve got a few apps and news that I’ve found fascinating and possibly useful so we’ll keep Friday’s update to the point. Have a great one friends!
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— Summer
Inflection 2.5 is out:
Inflection has launched a new model to power its personal assistant, Pi. The model performs within 94% of GPT-4 with impressive reasoning scores on benchmarks. Inflection claims it only took 40% of the compute to train relative to GPT-4. Interesting fact: The average conversation with Pi lasts 33 minutes.
Competition is always good for the end user and consumer.
Today, we’re releasing Answer.AI’s first project: a fully open source system that, for the first time, can efficiently train a 70b large language model on a regular desktop computer with two or more standard gaming GPUs (RTX 3090 or 4090). This system, which combines FSDP and QLoRA, is the result of a collaboration between Answer.AI, Tim Dettmers (U Washington), and Hugging Face’s Titus von Koeller and Sourab Mangrulkar.
That’s a big, local model! And I love that it’s open source.
I really like this piece of writing and the overall idea of how water is water but how folks have figured out how to sell it:
Technology alone is no longer enough to provide a competitive advantage for GenAI companies. This makes GenAI and bottled water similar, as the underlying product is essentially the same. The key differentiators must come from factors such as user experience, distribution, perceived value to customers, branding, and marketing.
I can’t believe how much water I buy (and at the price I buy it!).
Were they really misled?
The SEC is investigating OpenAI, focusing on CEO Sam Altman's internal communications after accusations that he misled investors. This inquiry coincides with global attention on OpenAI's ChatGPT and scrutinizes the competitive impact of AI investments by OpenAI and tech giants in the sector.
Oh! More music! Here you can turn a simple prompt, lyric, and melody into full songs.
This one is pretty obvious. Check it out here.
Glimmer makes searching through large PDFs easy. As easy as searching. And it’s actually really fast. Try the demo.
As one person stated, “Heaven forbid the open-source community steals proprietary IP. Anyone but them.” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Visual reports? They are nice looking:
Create and share visually stunning and insightful AI-powered reports effortlessly with Reporfy, a modern tool for teams.
Give it a go and let me know what you think!
The character is super-cute! This AI assistant will help you understand your own personal data with the hopes of enhancing your work and life. I’m not really sure what that means but it sounds like it has potential.
And that’s a wrap! Have a great one!
※\(^o^)/※
— Summer
