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Bank of Japan ditches negative rates
Microsoft has hired the co-founder of Google’s DeepMind, the Bank of Japan raised interest rates for the first time since 2007, and leading European and UK artificial intelligence start-ups have been lobbied to move their headquarters to rival nations.
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Microsoft hires DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman to run new consumer AI unit
Bank of Japan ends era of negative interest rates
Unilever to split off ice cream business and cut 7,500 jobs
Rival nations seek to poach top UK and European AI start-ups
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OpenAI Launches Education and Safety Initiative
AI Startups Are Having More Trouble Fundraising. Here's What It Means.
OpenAI's AGI Committee
EP 136: Why so many AI startups will die
So many AI startups are going to run out of money, fail, and ultimately die. We know. That's a harsh take but it's the unfortunate truth. So what is the cause of all these AI startups dying? That's what we're discussing today along with the future of startups and how they're impacted by AI.
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Timestamps:
[00:02:00] The rise of AI startups
[00:08:01] Explosive growth in VC funding for AI
[00:11:42] AI startup explosion fueled by money influx
[00:13:51] Startups using someone else's technology will fail
[00:16:07] Build actual products, solve problems, forget money
[00:21:50] Why startups fail
[00:24:52] ChatGPT's new mode, All Tools
[00:27:10] Why ChatGPT will take over
[00:32:07] Microsoft 365 Copilot will be disruptive
[00:38:02] Invest in companies, not just features
Topics Covered in This Episode:
1. Factors driving the growth of AI startups
2. Overview of the impact AI has on the business landscape
3. Challenges and reasons for AI startup failures
4. Cautionary notes for startups and investors
Keywords:
AI startups, generative AI, innovation, startups, failing startups, pre-money valuation, OpenAI, ChatGPT, AI tools, VC industry, private equity, oversaturation, high valuations, disjointed nature, multiple AI tools, Copy AI, Cloud, Mid Journey, Runway, Pica, Canva, Microsoft 365 Copilot, commercial availability, raising awareness, unique products, dependency on OpenAI and Google, Everyday AI newsletter, generative AI with plugins, business landscape, influx of AI startups, funding, degenerative AI market potential.
#136 - Claude Pro, Ideogram, Chinese ChatGPT bots, Falcon 180B, RLAIF, export restrictions, Ghostwriter
Our 136th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps + links:
- (00:00) Intro
- (01:15) SuperDataScience Ad
- (01:51) Response to listeners
- Tools & Apps
- (02:47) Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot gets a paid plan for heavy users
- (04:36) Watch out, Midjourney! Ideogram launches AI image generator with impressive typography
- (06:37) Intuit launches generative AI–powered digital assistant for small businesses and consumers
- (07:17) Zoom Is Jumping on the AI Chatbot Bandwagon
- Applications & Business
- (08:47) China lets Baidu, others launch ChatGPT-like bots to public, tech shares jump
- (11:23) Tencent releases AI model for businesses as competition in China heats up
- (12:00) Microsoft says it will take the heat if Copilot AI users get sued
- (14:52) How We Chose the TIME100 Most Influential People in AI
- (17:30) ChatGPT creator OpenAI is reportedly earning $80M a month
- (19:16) AI chip startup d-Matrix raises $110 mln with backing from Microsoft
- (21:00) ThetaRay nabs $57M for AI tools to ID and fight money laundering
- (22:18) Sapeon raises $46m for AI chips
- (23:20) Imbue raises $200M to build AI models that can ‘robustly reason’
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (31:01) Qwen-VL: A Frontier Large Vision-Language Model with Versatile Abilities
- (33:57) RLAIF: Scaling Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback with AI Feedback
- (36:22) Perception, performance, and detectability of conversational artificial intelligence across 32 university courses
- (39:28) SyncDreamer: Generating Multiview-consistent Images from a Single-view Image
- Policy & Safety
- (41:00) US curbs AI chip exports from Nvidia and AMD to some Middle East countries
- (42:55) China suspected of using AI on social media to sway US voters, Microsoft says
- (46:37) Trusting A.I.-written mushroom hunting guides sold on Amazon could get you killed. But like deadly fungi, identifying them is tricky
- (48:25) Ads for AI sex workers are flooding Instagram and TikTok
- (50:30) The UK releases key ambitions for global AI summit
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (51:55) AI Took the Stage at the World's Largest Arts Festival. Here's What Happened
- (54:12) Ghostwriter Returns With an A.I. Travis Scott Song, and Industry Allies
- (56:17) Artists sign open letter saying generative AI is good, actually
- (58:57) The latest canvas for Refik Anadol’s AI-generated art? The new Sphere in Las Vegas
- (01:01:20) Outro
The Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence
EP 72: How Startups Can Adapt to AI Innovation
We dive into the world of startups and how they can adapt to the rapidly evolving landscape of AI innovation. Joining us is Xiaochen Zhang, President of FinTech4Good. We'll explore the challenges and considerations for founders when incorporating AI into their business offerings. From raising funds to customer involvement in product development, we cover it all.
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Timestamps:
[00:00:17] Daily AI news
[00:05:49] Fintech and AI
[00:07:57] Startups benefiting AI market, but caution long-term
[00:10:56] Double down investment for AI startups
[00:14:15] Entrepreneurs sensitive to trends, need market fit.
[00:19:36] Customer obsession: Listen, invest, improve, communicate, adapt.
[00:24:46] Final takeaways
Topics Covered in This Episode:
- Introduction to the prevalence of AI in various industries
- Mention of recent investments and developments in AI technology
- Introduction of guest Xiaochen Zhang, with experience in fintech startups
- Discussion of challenges and considerations for startup founders in relation to AI technology
- Questions raised about the difficulty of raising funds without incorporating AI
- Weighing the pros and cons of integrating AI into startup offerings
- Personal experience with Lemalist emphasizing the importance of involving customers in development process
- Question about startups using AI as a tool for tasks like finding new market segments and designing products
- Mention of AI-powered products like ChatGPT and coding tools
- Four key questions for successful tech products: problem, market fitness, customer, and pricing model
- Role of AI in improving products, reducing costs, and shortening time to market
- Possibility of creating new products to solve adjacent problems and tap into new markets
- Caution against solely focusing on AI as a distraction for existing products and problems
- Importance of responsible development and use of AI, considering ethics and potential harm
Keywords:
entrepreneurs, market trends, innovative, investors, ecosystem, area of investment, startups, innovators, successful, 1% that succeeds, solving the right problem, market demand, customers, pricing model, differentiation strategy, customer choice, unique value, customer testimonies, education, loyalty, customer obsession, understanding needs, challenges, go-to-market strategies, customer feedback, product design, improving customer needs, AI technology, raise funds, benefits and drawbacks, involving customers, AI-powered products
Will OpenAI Kill All Startups?
How will the rise of AI impact startups and entrepreneurs? Join Michael Seibel and Dalton Caldwell for a discussion on the opportunities and challenges AI brings for founders. Apply to Y Combinator: https://yc.link/DandM-apply
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The Sunday Read: ‘A Week With the Wild Children of the A.I. Boom’
HF0, or Hacker Fellowship Zero, is a start-up accelerator that provides 12-week residencies for batches of fellows from 10 different start-ups. Their experience, which culminates in a demonstration day, is supposed to be the most productive three months of the fellows’ lives. Dave Fontenot, one of HF0’s founders, was inspired by the two years he spent living in monasteries in his 20s: While monastery life was materially ascetic, he found that it was luxurious in the freedom it gave residents to focus on the things that really mattered. And this year at the Archbishop’s Mansion in San Francisco, the home of the fellows, almost everyone has been monastically focused on what has become the city’s newest religion: artificial intelligence.
The A.I. gospel had not yet spread in 2021, when Fontenot and his two co-founders, Emily Liu and Evan Stites-Clayton, started the accelerator. Even a year ago, when HF0 hosted a batch of fellows at a hotel in Miami, six out of the eight companies represented were cryptocurrency start-ups. But at the mansion in San Francisco, eight of the 10 companies in HF0’s first batch this year were working on A.I.-based apps.
That generative A.I. has largely supplanted crypto in the eyes of founders and venture capitalists alike is not exactly surprising. When OpenAI released ChatGPT late last year, it set off a new craze at a time when the collapsing crypto and tech markets had left many investors and would-be entrepreneurs adrift, unsure of where to put their capital and time. Suddenly users everywhere were realizing that A.I. could now respond to verbal queries with a startling degree of humanlike fluency. “Large language models have been around for a long time, but their uses were limited,” said Robert Nishihara, a co-founder of Anyscale, a start-up for machine-learning infrastructure. “But there’s a threshold where they become dramatically more useful, and I think now it’s crossed that.”
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How open-source & distributed models can win AI with MosaicML’s Naveen Rao | E1754
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(19:27) The competition with open-source models
(24:26) The cost of running AI models
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(48:49) The impact AI will have on education
(54:37) Thoughts on OpenAI becoming ClosedAI
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E118: AI FOMO frenzy, macro update, Fox vs Dominion, US vs China & more with Brad Gerstner
(0:00) Bestie intros!
(6:47) The VC FOMO frenzy in AI
(25:22) Current LP mindset, VCs leaving boards, startup cram downs and mark downs
(37:23) Macro update: inflation not done, weaker earnings, interest rates
(52:01) Marc Benioff channels his inner Elon Musk, the stock-based compensation boom
(1:11:59) Fox News facing defamation lawsuit over false election fraud claims, TikTok ban heats up, competition with China
(1:34:33) Ukraine update: China's peace proposal, US strategy
(1:46:34) Harvard legacy admissions, Draymond Green on Black History Month
(1:50:01) Stripe chart errata, bestie wrap!
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-maher-shares-definition-of-woke-during-jake-tapper-cnn-interview
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/doug-leone-lessons-from-a-titan/id1154105909?i=1000602027979
https://openai.com/blog/introducing-chatgpt-and-whisper-apis
https://twitter.com/heykahn/status/1628453782177865728
https://www.ft.com/content/21420ce2-92a1-43a0-a153-04ac7c872466
https://www.wsj.com/articles/instacart-sees-revenue-profit-boost-ahead-of-public-listing-1d7891d
https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/21023.jpeg
https://www.barrons.com/articles/home-prices-dropping-redfin-fac43ede
https://www.google.com/finance/quote/CRM:NYSE
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4583622-salesforce-inc-crm-q4-2023-earnings-call-transcript
https://twitter.com/altcap/status/1631361678582611970
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/06/fas123r.asp
https://www.wsj.com/articles/house-committee-lays-out-case-for-china-threat-ad62c611
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1496886759665586177
https://twitter.com/deloreshandy/status/1629516350602264582
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w26316/w26316.pdf
https://www.tmz.com/2023/03/01/draymond-green-calls-end-black-history-month-celebrate-all-year
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/how-the-biggest-fraud-in-german-history-unravelled
NY‘s moratorium on facial recognition, deepfakes in 2020, and more!
Our latest episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
This week:
- Google tolds its scientists to ‘strike a positive tone’ in AI research - documents
- Facial-Recognition Tools in Spotlight in New Jersey False Arrest Case
- The year deepfakes went mainstream
- 13 acquisitions highlight Big Tech’s AI talent grab in 2020
- AI Startups Raised $9.9B in second half of 2020, a 15% Jump
0:00 - 0:40 Intro 0:40 - 4:00 News Summary segment 4:00 News Discussion segment
Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/94
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