EP 260: AI News That Matters - April 29th, 2024

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There's a new AI video competitor for Sora. Nvidia has a huge $700 million acquisition that's going to shake up the space. And now Apple is reportedly back on good terms with OpenAI for future iPhone developments. There's a lot going on in AI news as there is every single week. So you could spend hours a day trying to keep up or you could spend your Mondays with us going over the AI news that matters. What's going on y'? All? My name is Jordan Wilson. I'm the host of Everyday AI. We're a daily live stream, podcast and free daily newsletter serving as your guide to generative AI. So how we can all actually learn what's going on in the world, but how we can leverage it to grow our companies and to grow our careers. So if that sounds like something you need to do or something you'd want to do, well, number one, you can join us here live every single Monday or listen on the podcast. So if you're listening on the podcast, thanks for that as well. 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So thanks everyone for, you know, joining from Juan joining here in Chicago, like myself to we got a Florida crew here with, with Victor and Rolando joining us, Dr. Harvey Castro joining us from Texas and and Jay joining us from Michigan. Thank you as always. As we go along, I'd love to get your questions, comments about the AI news that matters, but let's get right into it and I think there's a big one here. So is do we finally have our first real SORA competitor? Well, Shangshu, a Chinese company, just introduced Vidoo. All right, so Shengshu AI and Singhao University just introduced Vidyu, a text to video AI model. So Vidu can generate 16 second HD clips with one click utilizing their technology Universal Vision Transformer or UVIT architecture. So the UVIT model integrates the diffusion and transformer AI models showcasing scenes with detailed physical laws like light shadow effects and facial expressions. So the technology behind VIDU was actually proposed by its research team in September 2022 preceding Sora's model architecture. Video's capabilities include simulating the real physical world, generating complex dynamic shots and understanding Chinese cultural factors. All right, so let's actually take a look live. So if you're joining us here on the live stream, we're going to play maybe about 30, 30 to 40 seconds of this, this, this new kind of tech here. So let's go ahead, take a watch. You'll probably hear some on the podcast. You'll probably hear something. I'm not going to go too long here, but let's go ahead and take a look at this new model. Let's, let's go ahead. So yeah, we'll, we'll make sure to include more of it in today's newsletter. So yeah, pretty, pretty good that that video shared about 90 seconds worth of, you know, kind of promotional video. And you'll see this is very similar to Sora. It is not yet on the same level as Sora. And if you are brand new, or maybe you missed the, what I would say is pretty groundbreaking news about. In late fall, OpenAI announced their Sora model, which is an, you know, you could just call it on the surface a text to video AI generator, but it's actually much more than that. I think what a lot of people are overlooking about these new kind of text to video or AI video platforms is how they can simulate the real world and what that actually means not just for the future of artificial intelligence, but actually the future of AGI, artificial general intelligence. Right. I've talked about this on the show before, was lucky enough to partner with Nvidia and go out to their GTC conference last week and, or sorry, last month and something that no one was talking about is Nvidia CEO mentioned Sora multiple times unprompted, but wasn't necessarily talking about the quality of the video. He was talking about kind of its implications or this tech, the technology's implications on AGI. So it's something that, you know, not a lot of people are talking about. But you know, as you can see here from the live stream and make sure, if you are on the podcast, make sure to check out the newsletter, we will be sharing this, this video, but the results are pretty impressive. So I'll tell you this right now, neither of these platforms right now video or Sora are publicly available. But this might put pressure, I mean, who knows, this might put pressure on OpenAI to release Sora. It may not. But we did see if you tune into the show a few weeks back, Adobe and OpenAI tease a collaboration which would bring Sora to Adobe's AI or sorry, to Adobe's video editing suite. So presumably some segment of the public will be receiving Sora access one way or another. But yeah, it'll be interesting to see what this new Chinese company or sorry, not a new company, but what this Chinese company, Shengshu, their new AI video platform, Vidu. You know, kind of what's going to become of this? Is it going to become publicly available? You know, if I'm being honest and we've talked about this on the show before, I think this technology, I don't know if the world's ready for it right now, right? Because at least with, with images and you know, even kind of audio, you can tell, right? And people can understand that, you know, this is very easy to be deep faked, but with video you could see something like this and people don't. You know, I'd say 99% of the general Population, you know, you know, doesn't know that this technology exists. Therefore, I think it is very easy to put out misinformation and disinformation, which is, I think one of the reasons why OpenAI has been a little slow in, in getting out this technology because I don't know if the general population is ready for it, especially before the election here in the us. So a lot more in the newsletter today on that. Yeah, like, like what Jay said here from our live stream. He said this stuff is getting scary good. Yes. If you haven't seen this video already. Yeah. Make sure to check it out in our newsletter. All right, so let's keep on going with the AI news that matters for this week. Big one here. Speaking of Nvidia. Nvidia has acquired Run AI for $700 million. All right, so Nvidia has acquired Run AI, an AI infrastructure management company for a price tag of $700 million. So this will enhance Nvidia's DGX Cloud AI platform and give customer acts customers access to run AI's capabilities. So this is a 700 million dollar acquisition for Nvidia. So not a small one by any means. And essentially Run AI does this. It streamlines AI hardware infrastructure management. Or in other words, like the, the way I like to talk to it is, you know, so many companies out there, you know, are kind of stuck in this space right now where they're wondering should they be investing a lot of money, sometimes millions of dollars in hardware, right, in buying, you know, these, you know, Nvidia GPU racks, right, Their, their new Blackwell chip or other chips, you know, or should they rent it? Right? So essentially, not to oversimplify things, but that's, you could kind of think of Run AI and there's a lot of other companies out there that do something similar where they essentially rent compute power. So you might need a lot, you know, this quarter, it might go down a little bit next quarter, or maybe you're just testing it to see if this is a long term play for your enterprise company. So pretty big acquisition here for Nvidia. Also, Run AI already has a large customer base of Fortune 500 companies and has raised already over $118 million in capital prior to the acquisition. And you know what, this, this makes a lot of sense now because about three weeks ago there was reports of this. But before that I was at the NV conference and I was probably about five feet away. I was, I was actually in a line and I was about five feet away from Nvidia. CEO Jensen Wong posing for photos with the Run AI team. And I was like, huh, this is interesting. Why of all companies is he making a little photo op with the Run AI team? And now this all makes sense, right? Probably if I wasn't, you know, doing this everyday AI thing every single day, maybe I would have done a little digging into that and you know, you know, try to, try to break a story or two. But it makes sense now why there's that kind of photo op and a lot of attention between Nvidia and RUN AI at their GTC conference. All right, speaking of other big names in the AI space. Yeah, talks, talks are apparently back on between Apple and OpenAI for integration into Apple's next iPhone and their iOS system. So according to a brand new report from Bloomberg, Apple is considering using OpenAI's technology for new features in the upcoming iOS 18 and iPhone. So if you're listening and you're like, wait, have I heard this before? Yes, there is more flip flops in this story than feet on the beach. So let me tell you just a little bit right now, what's been going on. So about six months ago we heard reports that Apple was developing its own large language model for the future iPhone. Reportedly spending more than a million dollars a day in, in development. Right. And then about a month and a half ago, we saw that there were talks between Google and OpenAI. So Apple was kind of considering either one or the other. And then right after that we heard that Apple, no, Apple's probably going to be working with Google and integrating their Gemini model into future iPhones and their iOS. And then we actually heard a couple days after that, oh no, actually Apple has a brand new large language model that they put out a research paper on. And here we are today with brand new news that. Oh, Nope, Apple and OpenAI are reportedly in talks again. So yeah, a lot of back and forth between what's happening with the next iteration. We will find out for soon here in about six weeks at Apple's worldwide developer conference WWDC in the second week of June. So it should be interesting. I've said this once, I said it a hundred times. Apple's never first to the party, but usually the coolest kid. So it is going to be interesting to see what their eventual generative AI plans are. Apple, obviously one of the, the leaders in hardware in the entire world with billions of devices already out there in the wild. So pretty big, pretty big move for Apple here to see what they eventually kind of, or how they eventually integrate large language models and generative AI into their next piece of hardware and their software.

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To, to be honest, I, I think that this is probably where they may end up. If I had to guess. I know that there's been a lot of hype recently, especially after, you know, some of Google's recent announcements with their Gemini model. Personally I, I haven't been super impressed with, with Google's AI offerings. So we'll see. You know, Apple here reportedly just, just going back and forth and this could be one of those things. Hey, as a former journalist, I used to do this for, I don't know, seven years. A lot of times big companies will kind of put stories out there. Not saying this is what's happening there, but a lot of times companies will put stories out there just to kind of see what the public sentiment is, see how analysts react to the news, see, see what happens with their stock price. Could that be a case of this? Possibly. Right. We've seen so many kind of leaks and reports over the last three or four weeks, specifically when it comes to Apple's partnership here. And to tell you the truth, it's a pretty big deal. I think it's a bigger deal than a lot of people think because whether you look at it with Apple, whether Apple's going off on its own, whether Apple's going to be teaming up with Alphabet Google, or whether Apple is going to be partnering with Microsoft backed OpenAI. Regardless, that's going to be three of the largest five companies here in the US and obviously Nvidia is going to be involved in that somehow because they're building the chips that are powering all of these AI models. So June should be a pretty big announcement. Not just for the future of technology, not just for the future of Apple, its devices and its software, but also for the US economy. You know, take a look at what's going to be happening in May, June, July, kind of leading up to this announcement and right after, because I do think it is going to set the, the US economy and kind of the magnificent seven stocks going one way or the other. All right, I know that was a lot on that one. There's more. Speaking of AI, you gotta always talk safety. So the US government is creating a big name, star studded panel to focus on AI safety. So the Department of Homeland Security has created an advisory panel to address the potential security threats posed by artificial intelligence to critical infrastructure. So this new panel that was just announced includes prominent CEOs in technology, transportation, defense and civil rights and will focus on developing recommendations to mitigate these security risks. So some of the big names named to this panel include OpenAI's Sam Altman, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Microsoft Microsoft CEO Sadia Nadella and many more. So this new board is called the Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board. And like we said, it was established by the DHS, the Department of Homeland Security here in the U.S. and it aims to protect critical infrastructure from AI related disruptions. Right. We've talked about it many times on the show here before. But the, not just how much right now generative AI and all these companies mean to the US economy, but also on the flip side, you know, there are foreign states and foreign bad actors now using AI to launch attacks. Right? To, you know, I guess cyber security has obviously been a huge sector impacting, you know, so many businesses here in the US but as generative AI becomes more and more accessible and the learning curve is lower, we talk about all of these platforms that are now being used for deep fakes, you know, video cloning, voice cloning, etc, you know, security is, is paramount right now here in the U.S. so the government's defense against these potential threats may also involve using the AI technology itself, which is something we've talked about here on the show. So this, some may argue though that this new kind of board, it's, it's kind of like AI regulating itself. And a lot of people are saying that maybe this could hinder advancements in the technology. Also there are concerns about the effectiveness and potential biases of using AI to counter AI threats, which is, you know, something that a lot of these companies have been talking about. Another thing that you should be keeping an eye on is, you know, kind of just overall here, the US Government, I've said this before, I think lawmakers here on the US are, are so inadequate in, in terms of their ability to understand this technology. So there is, whether you say fortunately or unfortunately, there is really no other way for the US Government right now to start to, to regulate this technology to mitigate potential risk than to bring on some of the biggest names in the space. Right? But a lot of people are saying, okay, well, so you're going to kind of police AI with the police of AI, right? Like you're going to have the people overseeing or helping oversee this technology, who are creating and building the technology. So a lot of people are saying this doesn't make sense, which I understand that. But on the flip side, right now, US Lawmakers have such a poor understanding, if I'm being honest, a lot of US lawmakers don't even understand the Internet, which has been, you know, mainstream for, for 30 years. Right? So there is such a lack of understanding amongst lawmakers. So there really is, I'd say, no real hope for legislation with teeth here in the U.S. so the U.S. has, I think, I think the, the Biden White House has done a fairly good job. They put out an executive order regulating AI. They've been building these kind of, you know, informal groups. But now we see a formal panel along with the DHS with these new, new, the new panel here, the Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board. So we'll be linking to a couple of stories in the newsletter about that. So make sure you go check that out. All right, our next piece of AI news that matters is Adobe releases Firefly 3 in image model and it integrates it into Photoshop. All right, so Adobe has unveiled an all new beta version of Fire Photoshop with groundbreaking advancements in generative fill and a new Firefly image, their Firefly 3 image foundation model, allowing for greater control and creativity and image editing and bridging the gap between ideation and creation. So Adobe has unveiled these new features in the beta version of its very popular Photoshop. So we have new features like reference image generate, image generate, similar generate background and enhance detail in the latest Photoshop beta release. So what is kind of new here is seeing this kind of rolled out across all different platforms. So if you're joining us here on the live stream, I kind of have a screenshot of Adobe's website here. So not just text to image, which they've had in Firefly, but some updates and some new capabilities in Generative Fill and Generative Expand. So being able to very easily, you know, just highlight something on an existing photo or in an AI image or in an AI generated photo and to change anything that you highlight with text commands, which I think is pretty cool. You also have Generative Fill and text in Adobe Express and then also bringing these, these new AI capabilities into Adobe's other pieces of software such as Adobe illustrator, Adobe InDesign and just really all across Adobe's platforms. So pretty big news here. And if you haven't checked this out, we, we talked about this on the show last week with the new Firefly 3. So definitely some, some huge advancements in this new model. And I will say right Now Firefly Firefly 3 is probably about on par with OpenAI's Dall E. But it's not quite as good as Mid Journey or the stable Diffusion a, you know, text to photo models. However, you know, for the most part Adobe has been building their models in a, you know, reportedly much more ethical way, just trained on for the most part and they say about 95% has been trained on sources that it has access to. So a lot of these other models, you know, reportedly Stable Diffusion Mid Journey and some others are just training on the open Internet. So there's a lot of copyright questions around some of these, you know, kind of text to image models. Whereas Adobe has taken maybe the slower approach but probably a little more methodical and a little safer and a little with a little more heavy lean into the ethics side. So even though right now this brand new Firefly 3 is not quite on par, you know, with mid journeys version 6 with the new Stable Diffusion XL models, it has gone, gone about it in a probably a little bit more ethical way. All right, so there's going to be a lot more in the newsletter about that today as well. And hey, like, like a comment here coming from our live stream audience. AI safety is a great point. Yes, it has to be because there's going to be, you know, I, I've talked about this here on the show before 2024, you're going to see it. There's going to be a big domino falling. You know, eventually we're going to hear something from this. The, the Big OpenAI vs. New York Times lawsuit, or I should say the New York Times vs OpenAI lawsuit. The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft for reportedly using millions of its pieces of copyrighted material to train its, you know, GPT model. So I, I do think there will probably be a settlement in there at some point. I don't see this going to court, but that's the biggest, that's, that's the big domino that's going to fall. And then I think we're going to be talking a lot more on, on ip, right? On intellectual property, on, you know, the conversation at that point, I think is going to explode on, oh, we've been using these models now for a year, you know, whether you're talking, you know, Dall E or Mid Journey or Firefly, right? So many people have been using all of these different generative AI, you know, models out in the wild now and publicly and commercially now for, you know, a year plus. And I think once that big domino falls, we're going to have the conversation of, okay, how should we be ethically using this? Are we safe to use this? And a lot of the big companies have provided some kind of copyright protection, saying, hey, if you use this and you do get in trouble for whatever reason, we are going to back you. So, you know, at least at certain levels, especially if you're using the enterprise version of the product. So Firefly again, I think, has separated itself with a much different approach than some of the other kind of text to photo AI generators. All right, I think we have our last story of the day for AI news that matters. Meta has updated its Ray Ban partnership to include multimodal inputs. So along with its new Llama 3 model updates. So, yeah, Metas. Metas have a had a busy week. So along with the new Llama 3 model that is now open for people to go use, Meta has also added some new AI capabilities to its flagship hardware device, which is in partnership with Ray Ban. So the Ray Ban Meta smart glasses now have multimodal inputs, which essentially, I think makes it a very useful piece of hardware for identifying anything that you may be looking at. So we'll put the link in today's newsletter. But essentially, if you're wearing these new Meta Ray Bans, you can talk to them and say, hey, Meta, what am I looking at? And it will say, hey, you are looking at, you know, maybe you're looking at something in another language and you can say, hey, Meta, what am I looking at? And what does it mean? And it will translate it. You could be looking at a historical, you know, site, maybe you are traveling and using these, or maybe, you know, who knows, maybe you're looking at a, at a train sign and you're like, hey, I'm not sure which train this is. So essentially tapping into llama 3. But these new, the, the new multimodal aspect of the Meta Ray Ban glasses allows it to see and understand and decipher different images that you are looking at, you know, in real time through the meta glasses. So essentially it snaps a picture, it kind of does all of its smart processing on the back end using some kind of vision and computer vision, you know, AI technology, to put it very simply. And it tells you, hey, here's what's going on on the front end. So pretty cool update there from Meta. And hey, speaking of that, as we wrap up today's show on the AI news that matters, hey, if that sounds cool, those, those Meta Ray Ban glasses, well, we're giving them away, right? 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