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🔔 Bada-Bing!
🇮🇳 India needs AI talent ASAP
📖 Is open source the optimal way forward?
🤑 AI Fundraising News
🤖 Top AI News
🔔 Bada-Bing!
Waitlist no more.
Microsoft has officially launched the Bing search engine through an open preview, and users can access the chatbot by signing into Bing on the Edge browser or the Bing app.
Here’s a rundown of the newest features:
Visual searches: text is so 2022. Bing search now supports visuals in the form of charts, graphs, and better formatting. It can also produce AI-generated pics and supports more than 100 languages.
Chat history: much like on ChatGPT, Microsoft will store all chats so that users can continue conversations where they left off.
Plugins: Possibly the most exciting update - the company will soon offer plugins, helping with things like confirming reservations through OpenTable or solving math equations from Wolfram|Alpha.
Better Summaries: ‘nuff said.
Microsoft will most likely reveal a whole host of new features at their Build conference coming up later this month, but it looks like they are shipping at breakneck speeds.
Google, wya & wyd?
Read more: Engadget
🇮🇳 India needs AI talent ASAP
Credit: Bloomberg|Nasscom|Yahoo Finance
In case you didn’t know, AI is poppin’ off. When a piece of technology becomes this popular this fast, it acts like a true gold rush moment, and many countries take advantage of it.
India is no exception - they currently:
Have the second largest pool of highly-skilled AI, machine learning, and big data talent after the US.
Produce 16% of the world’s AI talent pool.
Have invested $4B into 1500 AI-based startups to date.
The problem? The most populous country in the world has an enormous shortage of AI talent. Oh, the irony.
When demand for talent is much greater than supply, two big things happen:
The price of talent goes up → i.e., higher salaries, leading to increased costs for companies
The rate of progress slows down → there is not enough talent for the amount of work, leading to efficiency issues in the economy.
I want to thank my Econ 100 Professor for making me seem bright.
Currently, 416K people work in AI and data science companies in India, but the additional demand for talent is nearly 220k.
Upskilling and recruiting overseas talent would be India's most likely short-term play, but this demand will only grow over time.
What’s a sustainable long-term play for them?
Let us know in the comments or by hitting reply to this email!
Read more: Yahoo Finance
📖 Is open source the optimal way forward?
Credit: Vectara
The conversations around open source vs. restricted/private LLMs have been going on for some time.
But a fascinating document from Google was leaked yesterday, which suggests that open-source models are eating Google and OpenAI’s lunch, dinner, and dessert.
The memo argues that open-source LLMs are “lapping” the giants, especially when it comes to “solving big problems” such as scalable personal AI or introducing LLMs on phones.
The author makes it seem like Google is out of the race already and would be better served if they worked with others building in the open-source space and learned from them.
They also suggest that “giant models are slowing [them] down” and that the best models would be the smaller ones that can be iterated upon quickly.
While those were the overarching points being made by the memo, two interesting things caught my attention.
One was this question, posed mid-way through the memo:
“Who would pay for a Google product with usage restrictions if there is a free, high-quality alternative without them?”
Who would, indeed?
The other was this:
There is no concrete evidence that this memo came from Google, but regardless, it seems like a unique take on a rapidly iterating industry.
Highly recommend a read.
Read more: SemiAnalysis
🤑 AI Fundraising News
Billing platform Inbox Health raises $22.5M series B round led by Ten Coves Capital.
Essential AI raises $8M from Thrive Capital to build software for enterprises to use large language models.
🗞️ Byte size: AI article summaries
Disclaimer: AI is (partially) used to summarize these articles.
Slack is getting in on the GPT AI trend [Engadget] - Salesforce unveiled Slack GPT, an integration of AI features, including an AI-ready platform for developers and Einstein GPT, which powers the user's ability to generate insights and summaries instantly. The company has assured users that they can integrate their choice of language models into the AI-ready Slack platform, including OpenAI’s. (Read more)
Amnesty International criticized for using AI-generated images [The Guardian] - Amnesty International has drawn criticism for using images generated by AI, depicting protests and police brutality in Colombia. Though the systematic brutality used by Colombian police during the 2021 protests was accurate and well-documented, the group explained that they used AI-generated images to protect protesters and had used photographs previously in their reports. (Read more)
🐦️ Tweet of the day
A selfish one today, but still a good one 😃
👾 ICYMI: The latest AI Roundtable featuring @Wayne, founder @LLMShield is out now!
Will Siri be the first on-device LLM with mass adoption? 👀
You heard it here first!
— Not A Bot 🤖 (@notabotdaily)
4:18 PM • May 4, 2023
And that does it for today's issue.
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