EP 235: AI News That Matters - March 25th, 2024

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So make sure you go sign up for that@your everydayai.com the free daily newsletter is amazing and our website, I tell people it is a free generative AI university now with 230 plus, you know, backlogs, live streams, podcasts, newsletters, you can go read them all. $0.00.00. All you got to do is go to your everydayai.com all right, let's get into it. Let's talk about the AI news that matters for the week of March 25th. All right, first and foremost, pretty big one, kind of under the radar. But Microsoft has announced not only its new AI division, but its first leader. So Mustafa Suleiman is the co founder of DeepMind and he's been hired by Microsoft to lead Microsoft's new AI division alongside his Inflection co founder, Karen Simignon. All right, so essentially Microsoft is hiring away the two top leaders from Inflection AI, which has been a popular, you know, they have their popular AI chatbot PI and their inflection large language models. So essentially, you know, Microsoft is now creating its own dedicated AI division to lead Copilot, which is kind of its, you know, main AI offering. So, you know, essentially hiring off two of the top people from Inflection AI. So the, the move by Microsoft though has I, I'd say generated a little bit of controversy due to past accusations of bullying behavior at Google DeepMind and concern concerns about AI consolidation. So Suleiman will be the EVP, so the executive by press executive vice president and the CEO of Microsoft AI. So that is reportedly the new division's name, Microsoft AI. And Soliman will be focusing on advancing Co Pilot and other consumer AI products and research. And then you have Karen Simonyan will join as the chief scientist of Microsoft AI. So some very interesting developments here and a lot of people have been talking about online. Okay, is this originally back when we had the OpenAI controversy back in November when OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was kind of fired and then subsequently rehired, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella kind of said, hey, don't worry, we're going to hire Sam Altman and he's going to lead, you know, our new AI project here at Microsoft. So presumably this has been in the works for some time, this new Microsoft AI division. You know, reportedly Sam Altman was going to be leading it when he was ousted from OpenAI. But now we have the former, you know, a Google co founder of Google DeepMind in Mustafa Soliman and you know, the top two people there at Inflection AI. So pretty, pretty interesting news. And yeah, if you're joining us live, I'd love to hear what you all think of this move. Is Microsoft becoming too big in the AI space? Maybe. But I mean this is just another, another example of Microsoft just flexing its muscle here, you know, hiring on, know, one of the biggest names, you know, if you want to talk about this, it's you know, as sports, you know, is definitely one of the biggest free agents, so to speak, in Mustafa Suleiman, even though he wasn't a Free agent. You know, he was the CEO at Inflection, but you know, going out and acquiring one of the biggest names in AI to lead the new Microsoft AI division. All right, but don't worry, hey, if, if you are Inflection, you user, if you use PI, they're still continuing on. Inflection has named new CEO and has talked about their new AI model development as well. So Inflection did announce that Sean White will be the new CEO and the company plans to bring its new Inflection large language model inflection 2.5 to micro, to Microsoft Azure and other cloud platforms. All right, that's not the only Microsoft news of the past couple of days. Maybe this one's even a little bigger because I would say you have here Microsoft CEO Sadia Nadella kind of throwing some shade here at OpenAI. All right, so Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella kind of dismissed OpenAI's importance amidst some closed source content controversy. All right, so Nadella claimed in an interview with New York magazine that Microsoft is fully equipped with people, compute, power, data and capabilities, suggesting self sufficiency and AI development. So the recent statement from Nadalia has caught kind of the tech world a little bit off guard. You know, there was, there has been kind of this, this chatter going on for the last couple of months. Then Microsoft was maybe a little too reliant on OpenAI. And you know, if, if you're new here, you know, to the generative AI world essentially. Microsoft has invested more than $10 billion into OpenAI and reportedly has a 49 ownership stake in the company. But CEO Sadia Nadella's some, some quotes here from this interview ready saying, and I quote, saying it wouldn't matter if OpenAI disappeared tomorrow we have the data, IP rights and all the capability. And then another quip from Sadia Nadella said that OpenAI is, or sorry, that Microsoft is below them, above them, around them in reference to OpenAI. And this, this remark has been praised by many. So pretty bold move here by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, essentially, you know, putting investors and large scale partners at ease, right? Because I think a lot of people are looking at what's happening at OpenAI and they look at what happened in November, right, with this ouster and the rehiring and the board shakeup at OpenAI. And I think, you know, Sonia Nadella during that time came in and was essentially a third party mediator to kind of get Sam Altman back in the driver's seat there at OpenAI. So this is, I would say, A pretty bold move. Some headlines said that, you know, this was a boss move by Satya Nadella. You know, essentially saying, hey, as important as OpenAI is to our partnership to Microsoft AI, you got to look at these two things in tandem, right? So this, this big kind of a pseudo acquisition, it's something short of a pseudo acquisition of inflection because they're not acquiring any of their technology. But within the course of a week, you have Microsoft essentially acquiring the two head people at Inflection AI. And then in this interview essentially coming out and saying that it wouldn't matter if OpenAI disappear tomorrow. We have the data IP rights and all the capability. So this is, I would say, hey, all other big tech CEOs, Google, Amazon, etc. You should be looking at what Sadia Nadella is, is doing here. Huge acquisition and getting the these two leaders to lead Microsoft AI as well as a pretty bold move, right? It's like I was even scratching my head. I'm like, okay, is this a bold move or is this kind of throwing shade at OpenAI and saying, you know, know, maybe underplaying the importance. But I would say you can't understate the importance right now of the GPT technology and how important that is to Microsoft. Right. Presumably they're probably working up on, you know, working on a backup plan just in case you would assume, especially with this, you know, this kind of new splash hire for their new Microsoft AI division. But you have to imagine that the GPT technology is extremely important right now to Microsoft, a multi trillion dollar company and its copilot, right? So Copil is built on top of the GPT4 technology. So interesting, you know, statements from Sadia Nadella. But yeah, what do y' all think? Was this, was this a pretty bold move here by, by Microsoft in this acquisition and this statement? I think so. All right, more AI news that matters this week. Here's one that was grabbing some headlines. So the neuralink, the first neuralink patient talks about the impact of the AI powered brain chip. So Elon Musk's brain chip company neuralink has successfully demonstrated a patient moving a cursor using the brain implants with the goal of connecting human brains to computers to help tackle neurological conditions. So according to a video released by the neuralink team, the first patient to receive the neuralink brain chip is named Noland Arbaugh. And he was able to play chess and a video game with using the device. So Nolan was paralyzed from the shoulders down or is paralyzed from the shoulders down and used The Neuralink brain chip to play chess and control a computer cursor in the video released by Neuralink. So pretty amazing, right? So I think you have to look at this two different ways. What Neural link has been working on, as controversial as it may be, right. You got to think brain chip, you know, in, in, in. In order to control things in the real world. It is, you know, a little bit of sci fi, but there's obviously some very positive implications. You know, people who are suffering paralysis and, and other neurological conditions. This is obviously great news. Also another thing to keep in mind, you know, you, you have to think, okay, what's, what's the bigger picture here? Well, obviously Elon Musk also has a couple other AI companies, not just, you know, Xai, but Optimus. Right? So, so the Tesla Optimus bot. So Musk has previously alluded to the ability for the ability to use Neuralinks technology to restore full body movements when combined with Optimus robot limbs. So you do have to think eventually there will be a marrying of these two technologies of the Neural Link kind of AI powered brain chip technology with kind of Tesla's bot or their, their Optimus bots ability to move and function around in the real world. Talk about sci fi. When you combine, you know, a brain chip with a physical robot arm, things start to get both exciting and scary. Yeah, I'm excited for what's next too, Tara. All right, so what's, what's next here on our AI news that matters. The Stability AI CEO has resigned. Not huge news here, but interesting nonetheless. All right, let's give you the quick recap here. So Stability AI's founder and CEO Imad Mostock has stepped down from his role and the company's board with the COO and CTO stepping in as interim CO CEOs. So at stability AI this, you know, if, if you've been following the AI news, this isn't, you know, it shouldn't be a shock because we've been hearing about this for months now, but this does follow a difficult period for the AI startup Stability AI as they've had high turnover and multiple unsuccessful fundraising attempts. So the stock's departure highlights concerns about the concentration of power in AI and the need for more transparency governance. Like we talked about, the startup has faced a lot of challenges including high turnover and many unsuccessful fundraising attempts, despite its popular image generation tool, Stable diffusion, and we've seen some of its new video capabilities. So pretty interesting that even though the stable diffusion model has been fairly successful, here you have a, a very highly Visible CEO stepping down from a notable AI company and Stability AI. And you have to wonder if this is signaling to what's to come in the future where even though you have seemingly successful, you know, AI companies that you think have to be doing great, they might be struggling. Right? And I think this does ultimately come down to the cost of compute and being able to, to capitalize and commercialize off said compute and off, you know, large partnerships. So pretty, pretty interesting developments there at Stability AI. All right, our next piece of AI news that matters. Open Interpreter has released a new hardware device called 01 or 01, right? Hey, I'd love for all these AI companies to get together and maybe come up with some names that are a little easier to remember because I think we had, you know, not only the now the open interpreter 01, I think we had the rabbit 01, which was a hardware device. We have figure 01. I get it, you know, this is the 01. But can we come up with names that maybe are a little unique? That would be great. Anyways, Open Interpreter has released their new hardware device called the O1. So it is powered by AI in the O1 project is an open source ecosystem for artificially intelligent devices that combines cod code interpret code interpreting language models with speech recognition and voice synthesis. So right now this is a hardware device. Think of it as a small little button, right? And you can carry it around with you and you can talk to it. And right now it's available for Pre order for $99 and allows users to use that small button to power their home computer even when they're not nearby. So make sure if you haven't already to sign up for our daily newsletter@your everydayai.com we'll be sharing some more thoughts on this as well as a video from the company, a nice little eight minute kind of video overview. But essentially I do think that this device actually has promise. You know, I'm not, you know, super bullish on a lot of AI hardware devices yet even the aforementioned rabbit. I wasn't crazy about it. And then you have the humane pin. Not crazy about that either. Hey, of all the ones I've seen, I think Open Interpreter is, is the one that would interest me the most. The only one that I'm seriously considering. All right. Hey, for 99 bucks I might give this one a look. So essentially, you know, using large language models and voice analysis, you can speak to this button essentially no matter where you are. Again, this is according to the marketing, so we'll see once the the hardware device is actually released but the ability to essentially talk to it and you know, in the demo it says, you know, asking you know, questions to your computer at home. So you can essentially pair it with a home computer and you know, you can say hey what's in this document on my desktop? And it'll open up the document, it'll read it and then it can perform actions on your behalf as well. You can also program the open interpreter 01 to learn and understand certain tasks that you may manually do on your computer. Such as in the video example they kind of teach the figure 01 what it means to send a slack message, right? And hey, side note, I'm not a slack fan, you know, can we stop just slack messages in general and maybe work a smarter way like I don't know, ClickUp, something like that. Anyways, pretty, pretty interesting concept and it does seem that Open Interpreter to, true to its name, does want to kind of be the Linux. You know, they, they want to be a very open platform and allow users who buy this hardware device to also program it and inviting developers into the fold as well. So you know, I think a lot of people, when they think about generative AI and AI in general, right, we all think of software, we all think of, you know, the chat GPTs and mid journey and Sora Runway etc. But I do like kind of not all devices that have been released, but I like, you know that you do have some of these companies pushing the hardware because here's the reality as generative AI gets smarter and smarter, how we use it, where we use it, why we use it obviously changes, right? And presumably the smarter that these large language models and you know, kind of natural language processing, the stronger those things get in theory, the, the less we should be in front of a computer, right? So whether, you know, we are seeing a lot more edge AI obviously with the Samsung S24 and Galaxy AI presumably we'll be getting some updates here from Apple at the WWDC here in June. So bringing generative AI to the next Apple iPhone device reportedly. But I do like to see other hardware companies getting into the fold because I do think the future, whether we see it now or not, is not, you know, taking advantage of all of this generative AI in front of our, you know, computers. I do think that there is, that there are other and better ways. So make sure to check the newsletter out for more on that.

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All right, our next piece of AI news we have a little, I mean there wasn't a ton of news, but a little here, but Sam Altman joined the Lex Freeman podcast and talked about the future of GPT technology. Yes, you are listening to a podcast that is promoting another podcast because I do think that this interview is a must listen, right? This was one of my favorite the first time that that Lex and Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI talked. It was one of my favorite podcasts this one. I I full disclosure because I was at the Nvidia GTC last week, haven't listened to the whole thing. I've listened to clips. But let me just go ahead and give you a high level overview of does this matter? Well, a little bit. So first and foremost, no GPT5 was not announced in the podcast, regardless of what you read on Twitter. No is no GPT5, at least not now. So Sam Altman did say that they will that OpenAI will be releasing a new model this year. He did say that, but he did not specifically say that model would be GPT5. So in theory we could be looking at GPT4. 5. Sam Altman did say that in the coming months OpenAI would release many different things. And you know, so that could be sora, it could be other products. Right. We talked about here on the show, we've looked at multiple pieces of reporting that shows that OpenAI is working on agents. Right. So you know, we're not really sure what is coming in the coming months and this year, but Sam Altman did confirm that yes, they will be releasing a new model this year and they will be having other releases or updates coming in the coming months. And you know, as, as always, I, I do think one of the, the main points of emphasis that same Altman was talking about is compute, right? And talking about how important compute is, which we're going to be talking about on the show tomorrow. So I don't want to give away too much of that. All right. Speaking of OpenAI, our last piece of AI news that matters this week. OpenAI is apparently taking Sora to Hollywood. All right, so SORA is of course open AIs. Well, it's, it's more than a text to video model, but on the surface that's what it is. It allows you to enter a text prompt and output a very impressive, you know, 20 to 60 second. We've seen different reporting 20 to 60 second video that is at least right now light years ahead of any competitor. Whether you're talking about Runway, Pika Labs, etc. It's, it's, it's a pretty big deal. Right? And we talked about on this show that SORA is not really about AI video. Right. So we'll try to link it in the description here. If you haven't listened to our, our podcast already on what SORA actually is, make sure to do that. And we're going to be talking about that a little bit on tomorrow show as well because the Nvidia CEO is actually referencing something as well about Sora, but not necessarily its AI video quality. But in this case with this new report of OpenAI is kind of shopping Sora around Hollywood. It obviously is for the AI video capabilities. So the software has impressed industry insiders like Tyler Perry, who reportedly delayed an $800 million studio expansion after witnessing Sora's capabilities. We talked about that on the show as well. SORA is expected to be released to the public later this year with discussion ongoing to introduce AI advances in phases for safe implementation. So obviously the industry right now is a buzz with talks of AI's disruptive potential, especially following last year's Hollywood writers strike. So OpenAI is hoping to gain traction in Hollywood and potentially disrupt the film industry with this new AI text to video technology. I mean, what do y' all think? Join it. Do you think that we're gonna be seeing just mainly AI powered videos in the future? I would not be surprised. Right. My bold prediction last year was that 2024 was going to be the year of AI video. Personally, I, I don't think we're going to see any full length, you know, any, you know, 90 minute, you know, AI videos in 2024 via Sora. Well, it especially depends on when, you know, some of these studios may get a hold of this. But it is going to be extremely disruptive for the industry. I do think that we're going to be seeing it on the big screens, you know, whether we're talking in film festivals or in blockbuster movies. I do think that we're going to be seeing it within a year again, depending on when these Hollywood studios get it. Again, not saying that it's going to be used exclusively, right, to, to create entire videos, but I do think that, that studios are going to start using this pretty much immediately to, to fill in shots. You know, sometimes you, you read, you know, studios have to spend, you know, tens of millions of dollars, you know, reshooting a single scene or, you know, reshooting something that they maybe forgot. I do think that you're going to see Sora pretty, you know, sooner rather than later that's going to start to piece together some of these major productions as well as, you know, some, some shorts. I do think this is gonna, you know, Sora talked about this on the show before. I think it's going to see a rise to more personalized video. So a lot of, you know, you know, niche, you know, animation, some, some niche shirts, shorts. But you know, I think gone, you know, when we look at the, the near future, gone are the days where, you know, hey, here's the five big movies, you know, that come out, you know, every single weekend. Instead, I think you're gonna see a lot of shorter films that are more targeted to very specific niche audiences. I do think that that is what the future of Sora looks like. Yeah, and, and like what Douglas is saying here in the live stream, I think Sora, Sora will come and impact with Pixar like film first. Absolutely right. Like that's, that's a great example. You would see all these like little Pixar shorts that would win film festivals that were pretty short, you know, you had some that were 10 minutes, 15 minutes, Etc. Yeah, I, I do think that is the future of filmmaking. But pretty big news here from OpenAI reportedly shopping Sora around to Hollywood. All right, and then there's obviously some other big news, but we're going to talk about that tomorrow. But the Nvidia GTC conference just went down in San Jose, so make sure to join us tomorrow. Right. I, I was lucky enough to get some kind of closed door access to some cool events with Nvidia as well as some talks with their CEO. So I'm going to be sharing tomorrow. So make sure you tune in. Uh, the Nvidia GTC recap and three ways Nvidia is going to change the AI world. So make sure you join us for Hot Take Tuesday. Coming in hot with three things that I think a lot of people aren't really talking about. You know these new Nvidia GTC announcements. So make sure you check that out. And speaking of gtc, it is not too late if you missed the entire conference. Don't worry. Make sure to check the the link in the show notes and the link in our newsletter. You can actually still sign up for free and rewatch every single workshop session event at GTC for free. So make sure you check that out. It's going to be in the newsletter. I don't know how how much longer it's going to be up. I was told maybe just through the end of March. So if you haven't already, I mean there's amazing like there's a panel Q and A that Jensen, the Nvidia CEO hosted with essentially the pioneers of the GPT technology. There's so much great exclusive AI content. It is free. 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