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Meta has started talking up their latest AI art generation model⁸⁹², and they’re claiming state-of-the-art performance on text-to-image generation, with it able to accurately create captions for images too. Called CM3Leon⁹⁶⁴ (jarring name, I know), it moves away from diffusion models to rely on transformers, boosting speed, requiring 5x less compute, and being parallelisable.

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If EU wasn’t enough, China unveils the final version of its generative AI guidelines.³¹² This draft omits some restrictions from its April 2023 draft, signalling more flexible regulations. There will be an overseeing body made up of seven Chinese state committees to keep AI in check over there. In the meanwhile, Musk tells China's leaders^430† that superintelligent AI could overthrow them.

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Talking about Musk, here are some highlights from his Twitter Space about X AI.³⁹⁶ It will work with Tesla for both data and hardware collaboration. It will use Twitter content to train a new LLM (with the promise of not being politically correct). Musk even topped it off by alleging that existing AI companies have used Twitter data illegally.

One other thing: they also spoke about Dojo, a supercomputer Tesla is developing for AI machine learning and computer vision training purposes.

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Open AI is under the FTC’s investigation^194† for damaging people’s reputation via generating false information. This is an early stage investigation with not much being public about it. Unlikely that this will cause any big damage for Open AI. FTC investigation of Open AI.

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• Examples from Bard’s new multimodal updates⁵⁷⁹ transforming images to code, tables and read out aloud podcasts.

• AI is good for you⁵⁸⁴ by Eric Jang - A book about the last 10 years and the next 10 years of artificial intelligence.

• No, I'm not scared of AI⁴⁶¹, even though I write for a living.

• The problem with Langchain⁷⁶⁷.

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• Godspeed AI project scoper⁷⁴⁹ - Receive a complete product scope with user journeys, roles, app features by entering your problem and solution.

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• Resume GPT⁹¹⁵ - Create a perfect resume in seconds and land your dr^126†eam job.

• Al Zebra⁴⁵¹ - AI powered maths tutor for kids.

• Dream with Vision Pro⁴⁵⁰ - A lucid text-to-3D tool built with the Apple VisionOS. They won the scale AI hackathon this weekend, more finalists here.¹²⁸

• AI plugin for Obsidian⁴¹¹ - Semantic search, generative answers, and other AI tools for Obsidian.

• Code Interpreter API^523† - Open source implementation of the ChatGPT Code Interpreter.

• Air⁶⁵⁵ - Conversational AI that can perform full 5-40 minute long sales & customer service calls over the phone sounding like a human.

• Salience³⁷⁴ - Automatic sentence highlights based on their significance to the document.

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 From the network 

• The optimal level of optimization²⁶⁷.

• How to use AI to do stuff^664† - An opinionated guide.

• Weeknotes from Simon Wilson - Self-hosted language models¹⁴² with LLM plugins and new Datasette tutorial.

 Ben’s Bites News  top posts from the last 24 hours

• Emad Mostaque rebuts fraud claims²²⁵ made by his former co-founder.

• HyperDreamBooth¹⁷² - HyperNetworks for fast personalization of text-to-image models.

• Replit’s report on state of AI development²⁶⁰ - 34000% growth in AI projects, OpenAI's dominance, the rise of open-source, and more.

• YC announces a special round of early interviews for AI startups.^277†

• With Nvidia’s help¹⁰¹, revenue surges at smaller cloud providers.

• Where investors will make money in AI.⁵¹³

• Chad Nelson - Creating Critterz, an AI animated short movie¹⁷⁵, and the future role of AI.

• WormGPT²²¹ - The generative AI tool cybercriminals are using to launch business email compromise attacks.

• Scale to zero¹⁹¹ for AI workloads.

• How generative AI can save you hours⁴⁵¹ at your tech job.

• Why AI detectors think the US Constitution was written by AI.²³⁸

• The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data²⁴⁸ for AI training.

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