The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis

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.newsweek.com/why-nationalizing-ai-bad-idea-opinion-185749...

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 will play out. Before that on the Brief: rumors of AI...

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 responded. Today's Sponsors: Listen to the chart-toppin...

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 on the first day of public market trading, some won...

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 technology. Today's Sponsors: Listen to the chart-to...

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 impact of AI in the workplace might be. Today's Sponso...

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 type, it's certainly the most significant so far. The...

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. Interested in the January AI Education Beta prog...

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 https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/19/8-predictions-for-...

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 in the January AI Education Beta program? Learn ...

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 government involvement in AI.  Today's Sponsors: List...

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 are expanding creativity and democratizing the ca...

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 impacting their employment. Also on today's show w...

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 about the impact of AI companions on society. Also, By...

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 interfaces with other types of interfaces that are cus...

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/23998493/artificial-intelligence-president-joe-biden-exec...

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-to-strong generalizations, and how they can analog...

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, Pope Francis calls for a binding treaty on AI. I...

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 shorter results for example) because it's mimicking ...

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 pinch as well. Here's why it matters more broadly...

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 could be coming as soon as this week and likely befor...

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. Apparently TIME had a plan, however, naming Sam Altman as C...

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 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/opinion/ai-sam-alt...

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 day following Google's Gemini was a mixed bag for th...

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 business was overhyped. NLW explores whether he's right. ...

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, the emphasis on reasoning and multimodality, and w...

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, AMD and others that is trying to ensure AI stays ...

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 Altman's fallout with Dario Amodei to...Sam Altman's...

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 predictions around what year 2 for generative AI ...

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 one year anniversary of ChatGPT. Excerpts from: ...

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 already been successfully created in the lab. Plus ...

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 days later it had a million users. Five weeks afte...

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 Q. NLW explores whether it's a disappointment that...

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 moment for text-to-video generation. Plus a look at t...

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 called Q*, leading to additional speculation that ...

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 understand the most important news and discussion...

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/4300288-why-self-regulation-is-best-for-artificial-...

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 and reinstatement. Spoiler alert: no one comes ou...

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 was supposed to come out Wednesday which got bumped ...

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 with him. That doesn't mean nothing has changed h...

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 OpenAI Board asked Dario Amodei to take over and bring...

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 Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Sam Altman and Greg Brock...

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 forced to capitulate.  ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI B...

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 what we've learned so far.  ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOW...

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. NLW gets into speculation about what it all means...

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 interpretations for why Google has struggled to keep pa...

The Biggest AI Announcements from Microsoft Ignite

16 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Microsoft confirms long speculated Project Athena with the announcement of its first custom chips for AI including the Maia and Cobalt. They also anno...

OpenAI's AGI Committee

15 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI has a 6-person committee that will decide when AGI is achieved, with major implications for their relationship with Microsoft. NLW also explore...

Which LLMs Hallucinate Least?

14 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On today's episode, NLW looks at new research about LLM hallucination; Google suing AI scammers; and China and the US working towards an agreement not...

OpenAI Is Officially Training GPT-5

13 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today on the AI Breakdown NLW looks at what GPTs are (and what they're not) and why many people are thinking about them the wrong way. Plus, OpenAI is...

How Close to Agents Are GPTs?

12 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A reading of Ethan Mollick's "Almost an Agent: What GPTs Can Do" https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/almost-an-agent-what-gpts-can-do ABOUT THE AI BREAK...

Humane Ai Pin: The Future of Computing or Solution in Search of a Problem?

11 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Humane has officially launched its Ai Pin and, if nothing else, it has stirred some serious controversy. NLW explores the community's reactions. Toda...

The Significance of OpenAI's New Data Partnerships Program

10 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI closed the week with yet another announcement -- this time about a new data partnerships program through which they hope to expand the data tha...

2X Bigger than GPT-4!? Amazon Is Training "Olympus"

09 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sources are suggesting that Amazon is training a 2 trillion parameter model called Olympus. NLW looks at what it means for Google Gemini, OpenAI GPT-5...

Samsung Gauss and the AI Phone Wars

08 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Samsung announced a set of AI models they're calling Gauss as well as plans to put parts of the model on their next flagship Galaxy phone. NLW looks a...

OpenAI DevDay: Everything You Need To Know

07 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Yesterday OpenAI announces 128k GPT-4 Turbo at 1/3rd the price; a new Text-to-Speech model; Whisper 3; and proto-agent features like the Assistants AP...

The AI Stack for Content Creators (aka the AI Tools I Actually Use)

06 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The best AI tools for content creators -- or at least the ones I use regularly, including Descript, HeyGen, Perplexity, ChatGPT, ElevenLabs, Canva Mag...

ChatGPT All Tools and What OpenAI Is Really Building

05 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the lead up to November 6th's OpenAI DevDay, NLW looks at their recent launch of PDF reading and the All Tools model and explores that it suggests ...

BREAKING: Elon Announces xAI ChatGPT Competitor Grok

04 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A special, all-AI created bonus episode about Elon Musk's announcement of xAI's ChatGPT competitor Grok. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown help...

An OpenAI Researcher on "Techno-Humanism"

04 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A reading of OpenAI research scientist Richard Ngo's essay "Techno-humanism is techno-optimism for the 21st century." https://www.mindthefuture.info/p...

Regulatory Capture? Meta AI Chief Accuses OpenAI, Anthropic of Stoking Fears

03 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The war of words between the AI safety advocates on the one side and the AI open source advocates on the other has gotten increasingly contentious. Th...

Judge Delivers Blow to Artists AI Copyright Lawsuit

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A judge has dismissed many of the charges in a class action lawsuit brought against Stability AI, DeviantArt, and Midjourney. NLW explores on an exten...

Apple is FINALLY Talking About AI

01 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

With the M3 Max chip, Apple is finally pitching how they're going to compete in AI. Also on this episode, a preview of the AI Safety Summit in the UK....

AI Proxy War: Google Invests $2B in Anthropic

31 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Google joins Amazon in investing in OpenAI rival Anthropic. Also a look at the reactions, debates and controversy around Biden's AI executive order. I...

Biden's AI Executive Order: Everything You Need to Know

30 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Biden White House has released its expected Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence. NLW runs through the fact sheet and gives a first interpre...

The State of AI Regulation in the USA

30 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On the eve of the Biden Administration's anticipated executive order on artificial intelligence, NLW surveys the landscape of AI legislative efforts i...

Hinton and Bengio on Managing AI Risks

28 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A group of scientists, academics and researchers has released a new framework on managing AI risks. NLW explores whether we're moving to more specific...

OpenAI Forms Catastrophic Risk Preparedness Team

27 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI forms a team to focus on how to prepare for the biggest most catastrophic risks around AI. NLW explores as well as looking at the new UN AI adv...

White House AI Executive Order Coming Monday

26 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Biden Admin's long promised AI executive order is coming Monday and it seems like it will use the power of government procurement to try and set n...

Midjourney vs. DALL-E-3: Can Midjourney's New Website Compete with ChatGPT Integration?

25 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Midjourney has made a number of moves recently after DALL-E-3 was integrated into ChatGPT. Those include a new upscaler, a website (finally!) and even...

LEAKED: First Look at Gemini Multimodal?

24 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A Medium user has posted a set of screenshots that purport to show Google's forthcoming Gemini model in their recently opened Makersuite AI builder to...

Can We Have AI Progress and AI Safety at the Same Time?

23 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

NLW explores a new policy proposal from some extremely notable AI leaders around how we can continue to advance the beneficial development of AI while...

The AI Competitive Landscape One Year After ChatGPT

22 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

NLW looks at where companies fit in the competitive matrix of artificial intelligence - from OpenAI to Anthropic to the big techs in Meta, Google, Ama...

AI Leaders Call for International Panel on AI Safety

21 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this weekend's long read, two very different takes on the future than those we heard about in the Techno Optimist Manifesto earlier this week. Fir...

OpenAI Quietly Abandoned Arrakis Model Earlier This Year

20 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In a rare miss, OpenAI had to shutter their Arrakis model earlier this year. They had hoped that the model would bring GPT-4 level performance with lo...

Which AI Model is the Most Transparent?

19 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A group of researchers from Stanford, MIT and Princeton have come up with a new system for determining which AI foundation models are the most transpa...

China-US AI Tensions and AI Safety Summit Controversy

18 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The US has once again tightened restrictions on chip exports and other AI engagements with China. NLW explores the potential consequences, as well as ...

AI Agents Coming to OpenAI Dev Event?

17 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

NLW digs into rumors and reports around what we can expect from the OpenAI developer event coming in November, including reports that the company will...

The Techno-Optimist Manifesto

16 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Marc Andreessen has just published The Techno-Optimist Manifesto. NLW reads the piece and provides context on why it matters for the AI discourse. Rea...

The 7 Use Case Categories of ChatGPT-4 Vision

15 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

ChatGPT-4 Vision is one of the biggest AI product updates of the last few months and people are still just exploring all the ways it can be used. NLW ...

Can AI Detect AI? And Other Frequently Asked Questions

14 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

NLW excerpts Professor Ethan Mollick's recent essay "What people ask me most." https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-people-ask-me-most-also-some Toda...

The US Wants To Block China's Access to Advanced AI Models

13 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The US-China AI battle heats up as the Biden Administration looks into ways to deny China access to key advanced AI models. Before that on the Brief: ...

The State of AI Report: Research, Industry, Politics and Safety

12 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On today's episode, NLW reviews Air Street's epic 6th annual State of AI report - https://www.stateof.ai/ Before that on the Brief, Character AI launc...

AI Chip Wars: Tesla Building "Bunkerlike" Home for Dojo Supercomputer

11 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tesla is building a massive facility for their Dojo supercomputer. NLW explores how it could impact what they do in AI. Before that on the Brief: Adob...

The Latest AutoGPT and AI Agent Developments

10 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

AutoGPT held a hackathon last weekend and is in the midst of a global virtual hackathon. Also the latest from MultiOn and SuperAGI. Before that on the...

AI Operations and AI Engineer: The New Careers AI Is Creating

09 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On today's episode, NLW explores the ways AI is changing people's career paths. In particular, he examines two entirely new roles -- the AI Engineer a...

What's Next in Phase Two of Generative AI?

08 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, NLW picks up where yesterday leaves off with a discussion of what's coming down the piepleine in generative AI, and why the integr...

The End of the First Phase of Generative AI

07 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A reading and exploration of Prof. Ethan Mollick's The shape of the shadow of The Thing https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-shape-of-the-shadow-of-th...

The Epik AI Yearbook Trend Taking Over Social Media

06 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Epik's AI Yearbook photos are everywhere you look. In this video, NLW explores why AI avatar apps keep going viral. Before that on the Brief: OpenAI i...

AI's Integration Phase: Canva Launches Slate of AI Features

05 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

AI is moving to a phase of integration where companies are figuring out how to bring AI tools into existing user workflows. Case in point, today NLW d...

Anthropic Raising at a $20B-$30B Valuation

04 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Just a couple weeks after announcing their big Amazon deal, Anthropic is out fundraising again with a $2B round that is reported to have Google's invo...

The AI Wearable Wars

03 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tab and Rewind Pendant both announced AI wearables this week, while Humane premiered on a fashion runway. In this episode, NLW looks at the emerging w...

Mobile LLMs? The Battle to Get AI on Our Phones

02 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Stability AI has released a new 3b model that outperforms some 7b and 20b models, and previews the forthcoming battle to get local LLMs on our mobile ...

Warriors, Doomsayers, Reformers: Understanding the Factions in AI

01 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

NLW explores an argument from a recent essay around the three factions that drive discourse in artificial intelligence. He reads excerpts from "The A....

Are Copyright Battles Against AI Destined to Fail?

30 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

NLW looks at three arguments around AI and copyright and why the current contentious approach being taken by some authors, publishers, and policymaker...

ChatGPT Vision: 8 Ways People Are Using It Already

30 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

ChatGPT Vision hasn't even been broadly rolled out yet and already people who do have access are showing off some amazing use cases. Before that on th...

The 5 Most Important AI Announcements from Meta Connect

28 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Yesterday at Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg announces that AI was going everywhere across the Meta suite of apps including Messenger, Instagram, and Wh...

OpenAI Raising at $90B and Trolls Everyone, Saying AGI Has Been Achieved

27 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI man. The company is reportedly offering employees a chance to sell shares between an $80b-$90b valuation; discussing an AI hardware device with...

Automated AI Translations Come to Spotify, Undermining Numerous AI Startups

26 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Last week Youtube announced automated dubbing features and now Spotify has unveiled AI translation for podcasts. NLW explores the news, as well as wha...

ChatGPT Can Now See and Hear

25 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The race towards multimodal LLMs is heating up! With rumors of a big impending launch of Google Gemini, OpenAI is racing to push out their multimodal ...