Elon Musk Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk has initiated legal action against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, alleging deviation from...
5 Things To Know About Claude 3 - Anthropic’s Would-Be GPT-4 Killer
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Anthropic has just released Claude 3, and according to the benchmarks, it's GPT-4 level and then som...
AI's Threat to History
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/opinion/ai-history-deepfake-...
AI Is Transforming How We Interact With Computers
02 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A reading and discussion of the changing nature of the relationship between humans and computers, in...
The 10 Biggest AI News Stories of the Past Month
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From Sora to Nvidia's stock surge to Mistral and Microsoft to controversy around Gemini and beyond, ...
REPORT: Llama 3 Coming in July (with Fewer Guardrails)
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Information reports that Meta's most advanced model Llama 3 will be arriving in July, and will s...
Work Disruption? Klarna's AI Assistant Does Work of 700 Full Time Agents
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Klarna's new AI chatbot, powered by OpenAI, has showcased impressive capabilities in its first month...
Bing’s Sydney is Back, Unhinged and Very Unaligned
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While everyone has been watching the Gemini controversy (which wiped about $70B off of Alphabet/Goog...
Mistral Launches Close-to-GPT-4-Level Model with Microsoft Partnership
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The model is proprietary rather than the open source Mistral has become known for. Also, a monster f...
Google Gemini Anti-Woke Backlash: Culture War or AI Fear?
25 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dive into the recent controversy surrounding Google Gemini's image generation. This discussion unrav...
The Next Phase of Generative AI
24 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
NLW argues that another phase of expectation in genAI has begun thanks to Groq, Sora, and Gemini Pro...
After Seeing OpenAI’s Sora, Tyler Perry Cancelled Building an $800m Studio
24 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Discover how OpenAI's groundbreaking Sora video model impacted Hollywood, leading Tyler Perry to rec...
Why Nvidia's Earnings Show AI is Still Just Beginning
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After smashing earnings once again, Nvidia rocketed up 15% and now has a bigger market cap than Meta...
Is Elon Musk Bringing Midjourney to X?
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Elon says they're having discussions with the Midjourney team. Meanwhile, Google introduces its firs...
Groq is 10x Faster than ChatGPT and Gemini
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alongside Gemini 1.5's massive new context window, and Sora's mindblowing video generation, Groq has...
Why Are People So Scared of Sora?
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
NLW discusses the rise in anti-AI sentiment that seems to have followed the public announcement of O...
The Science Behind Sora, OpenAI's Game Changing Video Model
18 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On today's episode NLW digs into the recently published research on OpenAI's Sora. Read more: https...
The Surprising Way AI Will Make Us Value "Soft Skills"
17 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A reading and discussion of https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/14/opinion/ai-economy-jobs-colleges.html...
OpenAI's Stunning New Video Model SORA Shocks the AI World
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welp, they've done it again. On a day when it was supposed to be all about Google's million+ token l...
Google Launches Gemini 1.5 with ONE MILLION Token Context Window
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Google surprises everyone with a massive context window on their new Gemini 1.5 model. Speaking of h...
Karpathy Leaves OpenAI as OpenAI Launches Memory for ChatGPT
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI makes headlines with Andrej Karpathy's departure and the launch of a groundbreaking memory fe...
OpenAI Hits $2B Revenue Run Rate
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI is growing even faster than we knew, according to new numbers shared with the Financial Times...
Nvidia Surges Past Amazon's Market Cap and is Creeping on Google
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
AI hype continues to drive results in the market. Also on this episode, Google is investing $25m int...
Is Ukraine the First "AI War"?
11 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ukraine has become a testing lab for advanced AI integrations into combat operations. ABOUT THE AI ...
Why the Impact of AI Will Be Even Weirder Than We Think
10 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/on-holding-back-the-strange-ai...
Sam Altman Wants to Raise $5-$7 TRILLION for AI Chip Plants
10 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
WSJ writes about an incredibly ambitious plan to transform the landscape for compute. Additionally, ...
OpenAI Building AI Agents as Google Launches Gemini Advanced
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bard is no more! Bard has become Gemini and Gemini now features Gemini Advanced, which uses Gemini U...
AI is Personal: On Microsoft's Copilot Super Bowl Ad
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Microsoft has released a 60-second Super Bowl commercial focused on their AI Copilot. NLW explores h...
AI Unlocks Ancient Greek Scrolls Destroyed by Mt Vesuvius
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Vesuvius Challenge is a $1m prize to use AI to decipher text seemingly lost on ancient Greek pap...
LEAK: Google Gemini Ultra Coming This Week?
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
According to a changelog found by an Android developer, Google Ultra is coming out on Wednesday, and...
How AI Will Change Organized Labor
03 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A reading and discussion of an essay by one of Biden's most senior economic advisors. https://financ...
Tim Cook Is FINALLY Hyping Apple AI
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Apple AI is coming this fall! At least according to a recent earnings call with CEO Tim Cook. Also, ...
The FCC Wants AI Robocalls to Be Illegal
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this extended brief, NLW covers: the FCC's new push to make AI robocalls illegal; VW's new AI lab...
These Are the Most Used AI Applications
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A new study has some surprising results for which AI applications are being the most used. Plus, is ...
OpenAI Launches Education and Safety Initiative
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI has launched an education and safety initiative with Common Sense Media. Also, Biden's Execut...
US Gov't Says AI Labs Need to Notify Them Around LLM Training
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
NLW looks at recent comments from Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo about an LLM disclosure regime...
Train Humans, Not AI
27 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion prompted by Esther Dyson's new essay "Don’t Fuss About Training AIs. Train Our Kids" ...
Google and HuggingFace Partner in Boost to Open Source AI
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A new partnership between Google Cloud and the 'Github for AI/ML models' team up to make open source...
Can Viral NSFW Taylor Swift AI Images Make Deepfake Issues Go Mainstream?
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If anyone can make AI deepfakes a mainstream issue it's Taylor Swift. Plus geopolitical competition ...
Google’s Announcements Show 2 Key 2024 AI Trends
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Google Chrome announces 3 AI features for Chrome as well as an innovative new Video generation tool ...
The Surprising Reason AI Won't Steal Your Job
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A recent MIT study explored how cost effective automation really was and found that only 23% of jobs...
Sam Altman's Secret Quest to Build AI Chip Plants
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bloomberg and FT report on Sam Altman's latest efforts to raise billions to build more AI chip manuf...
An Optimistic Take on AI and Inequality
20 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A reading and discussion based on "For all our fear of AI dystopia, it may help to level up society"...
Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Make Open Source AGI
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Other revelations from an Instagram reel include that Meta will have around $20B worth of compute by...
Google's AlphaGeometry Breakthrough
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A massive improvement in how AI can reason around geometry plus Samsung releases the AI-est AI phone...
Altman Says AGI Soon, But Will Change the World Less Than We Think
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Altman is among the business and political leaders descending upon Davos for the World Economic ...
60% of US Jobs Could Be Impacted by AI
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
That's according to new research from the IMF. NLW also covers Elon wanting more control before buil...
The Four Wars of the AI Stack: The Battles Shaping the Development of AI
14 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The wars include the Quality Data Wars, the War of the GPU Rich/Poor, the Multimodality War, the RAG...
The Things We Know About AI So Far
13 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A reading and exploration of: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/signs-and-portents ABOUT THE AI BREAK...
The AI Assistant and Agent Battle Heats Up
13 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Note: This episode was produced on Wednesday January 10th, but due to an ice storm never came out! A...
What an OpenAI AMA Tells Us About the Future of GPTs and the GPT Store
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Plus a new Congressional working group focused on AI. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps...
The GPT Store is LIVE! (But Does Anyone Care?)
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After a couple months of anticipation and more than 3 million user created GPTs, the GPT store has o...
Duolingo Replaces 10% of Contractors With AI
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Plus OpenAI claps back at the New York Times copyright lawsuit. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Break...
Andrej Karpathy Tries to Rebrand AI
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is "Intelligence Amplification" a better term? Plus, Nvidia prepares to manufacture new chips for th...
What Roles Should Government Play in AI?
06 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A reading of two essays that explore this question with very different answers. https://www.newswee...
5 Predictions for the GPT Store Coming Next Week
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI announced the GPT Store is finally launching next week. NLW gives 5 predictions on how it wil...
AI Researchers Put Risk of Human Extinction from AI at 5%
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A new survey asked 2,700+ AI/ML researchers about their fears concerning AI. This is how they respon...
Is AI Headed for a Trough of Disillusionment?
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After the peak of inflated expectations comes the trough of disillusionment. After a dismal outing o...
The State of AI in 2024
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
NLW breaks down the industry as 2024 begins, from policy to AI safety to the state of the art in tec...
How AI Will Impact Jobs in 2024
29 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NLW looks across a range of studies, surveys and predictions to try to parse out what the real impac...
New York Times Sues OpenAI In What Could Be A Landmark Lawsuit
28 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft. While it's not the first copyright suit of its typ...
Testing Suno.ai: The Viral AI Music Generator
24 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NLW looks at the state of AI music generators and gives the new Suno.ai a test run for the holidays....
8 Predictions for AI in 2024
23 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NLW reviews one set of predictions as a way of discussing what's coming next in AI. Built off of ht...
The 10 Biggest AI Events of 2023
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NLW builds off of this list of the 10 biggest events of AI of 2023 to do a yearly recap! Interested...
Anthropic Raising Another $750M at $15B-$20B Valuation
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anthropic is raising money again. Also on this episode, a new poll suggests Americans want more gove...
GPT-Engineer Launches App as Text-to-Code Platforms On the Rise
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Between GPT-Engineer App and v0 by Vercel, there are a growing number of text to code platforms that...
The More Workers Use AI, The More They Fear for Their Jobs
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A new study from CNBC shows that the American workers who use AI the most are the most scared of it ...
Will AI Girlfriends Destroy the Fabric of Society?
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Digi's new AI girlfriend announcement went viral over the weekend, supercharging a conversation abou...
2024 Generative AI Trend: Moving Beyond Chat Interfaces
17 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode, NLW explores how companies are increasingly combining natural language chat inte...
Can AI Be Regulated In A Way That Preserves Freedom?
16 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A reading and discussion of a new piece by Zvi Mowshowitz https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2399849...
The Latest Developments in Superalignment
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI's Superalignment team, launched this summer, has just published their first paper about weak-...
Is the GPT-4.5 "Leak" Real?
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A pricing page for GPT-4.5 is flying around and everyone is trying to figure out if it's real. Also,...
Is ChatGPT Acting Lazy Because of the Holidays?
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Believe it or not, there is some fairly good evidence that ChatGPT is acting lazy (i.e. returning sh...
AI Startups Are Having More Trouble Fundraising. Here's What It Means.
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
AI startups have run counter to the trend of decreased VC all year, but even they're now feeling the...
RUMOR: GPT-4.5 Coming Before EOY (Maybe Even This Week?)
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NLW looks at rumors from some sources that have previously had OpenAI insider leaks that GPT-4.5 cou...
The Significance of Sam Altman as TIME CEO of the Year
10 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When Taylor Swift was named TIME's Person of the Year, many in the AI space had questions. Apparentl...
China Drives D.C. to Be More AI Ambitious
09 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A reading of https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/11/30/china-global-ai-plans-00129160 vs htt...
Meta Launches Midjourney, Dall-E-3 Competitor
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How does the new tool stand up to other image generators? And what else did Meta AI announce. The da...
OpenAI's COO Says AI for Business is Overhyped. Is He Right?
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap recently got a big conversation going when he suggested that AI for busines...
BREAKING: Google Launches Gemini
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
GPT-4 finally has a credible competitor as Google launches Gemini! NLW covers the three-size model, ...
Meta, IBM Form AI Alliance to Counter OpenAI with More Open AI
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI is not open enough; at least not according to the new AI Alliance - a group led by Meta, IBM,...
How Clashing Egos and Disagreements Shaped the AI Field
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From Elon Musk's fallout with Larry Page to...well...Elon Musk's fallout with Sam Altman...to Sam Al...
Predictions for Generative AI Year 2
03 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Thursday was the one-year anniversary of ChatGPT. NLW reads (with the help of ElevenLabs) a group of...
The Fight for AI's Soul Following OpenAI's Leadership Battle
02 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NLW reads excerpts from a set of pieces opining about AI after OpenAI's leadership battle and on the...
Did Google DeepMind Just Revolutionize Materials Science?
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Deepmind's GNoME AI has 10x'd the number of known stable materials, and more than 736 of them have a...
ChatGPT Launched 1 Year Ago Today: A Retrospective
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Birthday ChatGPT! The incredibly influential software was launched on November 30, 2022. Five ...
Amazon Launches Q Chatbot: Is It A Disappointment or AI On Trend?
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We didn't get Amazon's rumored "Olympus" model, but we did get an enterprise focused chatbot called ...
Is Pika 1.0 AI Video's Breakout Moment?
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pika Labs officially launched 1.0 and many think it might be representative of a coming breakout mom...
Q*: Was This New Advance the Reason for Sam Altman's Firing?
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
More information came out late last week about a model that showed signs of more advanced reasoning ...
How Close Are We To True AI Agents?
26 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An exploration of one of the hottest topics in AI. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you...
Self-Regulation vs. More Regulation: The Right Approach for AI
25 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A reading of "Why self-regulation is best for artificial intelligence" https://thehill.com/opinion/4...
The Winners and Losers Following the OpenAI Power Struggle
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As the dust settles, NLW looks at who has benefitted and who has lost out after Sam Altman's removal...
Stability AI Releases Stunning Stable Video Diffusion Model
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The company claims the video generator out performs Pika and Runway. Note: this is the Brief that wa...
IT'S OVER! Sam Altman BACK as CEO of OpenAI
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After 5 days of tense negotiations, Sam Altman has returned as CEO of OpenAI, bringing Greg Brockman...
OpenAI Board Asked Anthropic For Merger
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Apparently in addition to asking half of Silicon Valley to be the new CEO, over the weekend the Open...
Latest OpenAI Drama: Altman/Brockman to Microsoft, Board Hires Former Twitch CEO; Employees Rebel
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
WTAF is going on? First the board announced former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear as new CEO. Then Microsof...
Sam Altman and Greg Brockman COMING BACK to OpenAI?!
19 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Act 3 of the Dumbest Palace Coup Ever, as employees and investors revolt and the board appears force...
What REALLY Happened at OpenAI?
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Backstabbing. Ambition. Betrayal. After Sam Altman was fired and Greg Brockman quit, NLW digs in to ...
BREAKING: Sam Altman FIRED from OpenAI
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI has announced that Sam Altman has been removed over failures of communication with the board....
Gemini Delayed: Is Google In the Innovator's Dilemma?
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Information reports that much-anticipated Gemini has been officially delayed. NLW explores inter...