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Hey folks, today we’ve got the official app for ChatGPT, after a long wait of 6 months. Perplexity is back with a search copilot, and Meta is going big on hardware as well with AI-specific chips and a supercomputer.

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Highlights if you've only got 2 minutes

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OpenAI brings ChatGPT to your iPhone^1,244

You’ll no longer need to go via Safari and fanny around with window resizing to get ChatGPT up on your iPhone! OpenAI is bringing it to iOS. (Only in the US for now tho - sad times.) Not only that, but it’s integrated with Whisper, their speech-to-text model, meaning that it’ll support voice input too.

OpenAI just continues to beat everyone to market on every aspect, and it’ll be interesting to see how ChatGPT-on-the-go impacts how much people jump to Google for a quick search. Oh and android users: apparently it’s coming soon for you guys too.

Here’s the app store link.^2,802

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Meta is making moves in chips, supercomputers, and generative code¹⁹⁹

Couple of bits and bobs out of Meta today. Firstly, they’re jumping onto the big tech in-house bandwagon with fine tuned computer chips and supercomputers. On the chip front, it’s called MTIA (official deets here¹⁷⁶). It aims to accelerate training and inference, claiming that it handles various AI models more efficiently than a GPU… wow, nice!

Secondly, they say they have a code generation AI³⁰⁶ in the pipeline called CodeCompose (best name yet imo…). It’s fine-tuned on Meta’s internal code base, has nearly 7B parameters, and thousands of employees are actively using it daily.

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Perplexity Copilot, your interactive AI search companion⁸⁷⁴

Yo! It’s been a long time since we’ve heard from the search based companies that were the highlight earlier this year. Perplexity is back with a copilot now. When you search for something, the copilot asks you for more specific inputs and then curates answers based on your need. For eg, if you search “how to learn coding,” it asks which language you want to learn, free vs paid courses, etc.

It has a share feature where you can share your queries and other people can also ask follow-up questions. I think they are targeting the “research-oriented searches” market, but what percentage of searches fall into that category? Send me some stats if you all know.

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Product launches, updates and demos

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• Clippy - A very rude office assistant. (link^1,534)

• AI wearable that can see the world. (link⁹⁹¹)

• Arize - LLM observability to pinpoint prompt engineering improvements and identify fine-tuning opportunities. (link⁴⁴⁸)

• SingleStore Kai for MongoDB - Vector searches & 100X faster JSON analytics. (link²⁹⁵)

• Prospect with Persana AI - GPT superpowers for prospecting + auto reply on Gmail. (link⁴⁷⁴)

• BytePods from 2pods - Daily podcasts generated by AI. (link³⁶⁷)

• Langdock - Create, deploy, test & monitor ChatGPT plugins in minutes. (link⁴²⁵)

• PlaylistAI - Create Spotify playlists in ChatGPT. (link⁶⁹⁶)

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• Blend Studio - Sell more of your products with beautiful designs and images created by AI. (link⁵⁶⁹)

• HoopsGPT - Instant answers to your NBA questions. (link^422†)

• Seodity - AI content generator fuelled by real SEO data. (link⁵⁹⁹)

• Exemplary AI - Transform audio/video into content, summaries & insights. (link⁴²⁸)

• GPT-Code UI - Open source ChatGPT code interpreter. (link⁶⁹⁰)

🤓 Miscellaneous

News, podcasts, videos, blogs etc

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• Grammarly Business to roll out in June 2023 with generative AI to summarise key points in email threads, compose replies, and more. (link²⁸⁰)

• British Telecom to cut 55,000 jobs with up to a fifth replaced by AI. (link⁴²⁷)

• AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio says governments must move fast to protect the public. (link⁶⁹, without paywall here¹⁷⁸)

• How can AI improve or erode equity in global health and development? (link¹⁵⁸)

• Exploring biomedical AI with Karan Singhal - no priors podcast. (link¹⁵³)

• Beijing calls on cloud providers to support AI firms. (link¹⁰⁷)

• NYC public schools lift the ban on ChatGPT to support educators and students in learning and exploring AI. (link¹⁷³)

• Apple restricts internal use of ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and other external AI tools due to concerns over potential leaks of confidential data. (link¹⁹⁴) — can’t be more ironic with the app release.

• Drag Your GAN - Interactive point-based manipulation on the generative image manifold. (link³¹⁰)

• LDM3D - Latent diffusion model for 3D. (link²⁹⁸)

🎓 Learn

How-to’s and resources

• CLI tools for working with ChatGPT and other LLMs. (link³⁵²)

• Preparing website content for large language models with ai.txt. (link³⁹⁶)

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