Five Things AI: China, Gemma, Reddit, Data Sets, Sora
Five Things AI: China, Gemma, Reddit, Data Sets, Sora
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Every evening when I sit down to write this newsletter, I want to start with a witty sentence and mention how this was yet another week of breathtaking developments in the AI space. And it’s true. There is so much going on and I’m not even covering all the new startups doing crazy things, all the really useful apps popping up everywhere, utilizing the power of huge Large Language Models. There is so much fierce competition out there, which sparks so much creativity, or maybe it’s vice versa.
What I’m trying to say each and every week: there’s is never a dull moment in the current development of the AI industry.
So, please read on, I put together five interesting articles for you!
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China’s Rush to Dominate A.I. Comes With a Twist: It Depends on U.S. Technology
China wanted to become the leading AI superpower by 2030, but the whole GenerativeAI development took them by surprise. Let’s see how fast China will catch up. I’m sure they will pour almost endless ressources into achieving this goal.
Google goes “open AI” with Gemma, a free, open-weights chatbot family
This is obviously huge. As more and more companies are looking into how they can benefit from AI, there is an obvious issue about trust and data - and open models like Meta’s Llama2 and now Gemma will allow for more choice.
Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content
Is this the future of revenues for media companies? If chatbots will proliferate and answer users’ questions and thereby reducing the traffic platforms like Reddit will get, which will reduce their advertising income, then this might be a way. It could also be that Reddit just wants some attention now, as they just declared to do an IPO soon.
DatologyAI is building tech to automatically curate AI training data sets
As more and more LLM’s get deployed, companies and researchers alike need proper training data. So this startup will most probably have a lot to do in the next years.
What’s the Future of Advertising? Ask Sora
Sora is pretty impressive and yet its release did not surprise me a bit. We invested in a video analytics startup seven years ago and the founder back then had the clear vision that soon video could be generated by text. Obviously, the AI platforms at that time weren’t even close to the performance of ChatGPT now. But the writing was on the wall. Sora will change advertising very quickly. And in a few years we will all be watching our own personal content. Not Netflix, but Myflix.
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