The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
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The 10 Biggest AI Events of 2023
NLW builds off of this list of the 10 biggest events of AI of 2023 to do a yearly recap! Interested in the January AI Education Beta program? Learn more and sig…
Anthropic Raising Another $750M at $15B-$20B Valuation
Anthropic is raising money again. Also on this episode, a new poll suggests Americans want more government involvement in AI. Today's Sponsors: Listen to the c…
GPT-Engineer Launches App as Text-to-Code Platforms On the Rise
Between GPT-Engineer App and v0 by Vercel, there are a growing number of text to code platforms that are expanding creativity and democratizing the capacity to…
The More Workers Use AI, The More They Fear for Their Jobs
A new study from CNBC shows that the American workers who use AI the most are the most scared of it impacting their employment. Also on today's show we look at…
Will AI Girlfriends Destroy the Fabric of Society?
Digi's new AI girlfriend announcement went viral over the weekend, supercharging a conversation about the impact of AI companions on society. Also, ByteDance ge…
2024 Generative AI Trend: Moving Beyond Chat Interfaces
In today's episode, NLW explores how companies are increasingly combining natural language chat interfaces with other types of interfaces that are custom design…
Can AI Be Regulated In A Way That Preserves Freedom?
A reading and discussion of a new piece by Zvi Mowshowitz https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23998493/artificial-intelligence-president-joe-biden-executive-orde…
The Latest Developments in Superalignment
OpenAI's Superalignment team, launched this summer, has just published their first paper about weak-to-strong generalizations, and how they can analogize using…
Is the GPT-4.5 "Leak" Real?
A pricing page for GPT-4.5 is flying around and everyone is trying to figure out if it's real. Also, Pope Francis calls for a binding treaty on AI. Interested i…
Is ChatGPT Acting Lazy Because of the Holidays?
Believe it or not, there is some fairly good evidence that ChatGPT is acting lazy (i.e. returning shorter results for example) because it's mimicking the produc…
AI Startups Are Having More Trouble Fundraising. Here's What It Means.
AI startups have run counter to the trend of decreased VC all year, but even they're now feeling the pinch as well. Here's why it matters more broadly than just…
RUMOR: GPT-4.5 Coming Before EOY (Maybe Even This Week?)
NLW looks at rumors from some sources that have previously had OpenAI insider leaks that GPT-4.5 could be coming as soon as this week and likely before the end…
The Significance of Sam Altman as TIME CEO of the Year
When Taylor Swift was named TIME's Person of the Year, many in the AI space had questions. Apparently TIME had a plan, however, naming Sam Altman as CEO of the…
China Drives D.C. to Be More AI Ambitious
A reading of https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/11/30/china-global-ai-plans-00129160 vs https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/opinion/ai-sam-altman-openai…
Meta Launches Midjourney, Dall-E-3 Competitor
How does the new tool stand up to other image generators? And what else did Meta AI announce. The day following Google's Gemini was a mixed bag for the company…
OpenAI's COO Says AI for Business is Overhyped. Is He Right?
OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap recently got a big conversation going when he suggested that AI for business was overhyped. NLW explores whether he's right. Before tha…
BREAKING: Google Launches Gemini
GPT-4 finally has a credible competitor as Google launches Gemini! NLW covers the three-size model, the emphasis on reasoning and multimodality, and why some ar…
Meta, IBM Form AI Alliance to Counter OpenAI with More Open AI
OpenAI is not open enough; at least not according to the new AI Alliance - a group led by Meta, IBM, AMD and others that is trying to ensure AI stays more open…
How Clashing Egos and Disagreements Shaped the AI Field
From Elon Musk's fallout with Larry Page to...well...Elon Musk's fallout with Sam Altman...to Sam Altman's fallout with Dario Amodei to...Sam Altman's fallout w…
Predictions for Generative AI Year 2
Thursday was the one-year anniversary of ChatGPT. NLW reads (with the help of ElevenLabs) a group of predictions around what year 2 for generative AI will look…