5th issue: 🚌 Another One Rides the Bus

🌯 Wrap for the week

A close look at all the main headlines in AI

Look who has joined the AI race?! Hint: it offers things from A to Z.

The AI race is heating up with one more big contender, Amazon.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched Amazon Bedrock, a service that enables customers to build generative artificial intelligence (AI) powered apps with AI models from third-party startups hosted on AWS.

The new service offers pre-trained models from firms such as AI21 Labs, Anthropic, and Stability AI. It also gives access to Titan FMs, a suite of models trained in-house by AWS.

Unlike ChatGPT from OpenAI, AWS claims that Bedrock is for large customers that are building "enterprise-scale" AI apps. Bedrock is in a "limited preview" and AWS hasn't announced its formal pricing.

Other than Bedrock, Amazon also announces CodeWhisperer. By the name of the tool, you might have guessed this tool is quite similar to GitHub Copilot. Yes, it helps developers to complete the code to make coding more efficient.

News credit:
With Bedrock, Amazon enters the generative AI race from TechCrunch

Once an OpenAI cofounder, now a competitor?

Elon Musk has reportedly incorporated a new company focused on AI, called X.AI. Musk is listed as the director and Jared Birchall, the director of Musk’s family office, is listed as the secretary.

Reports suggest that Musk has been buying thousands of graphics processing units (GPUs) to power an upcoming generative AI product, leading to speculation about an AI firm competing with Microsoft-backed OpenAI.

Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 but walked away from it in 2018 and recently signed a letter calling for a pause on "giant AI experiments."

The new company will compete in an AI space that has become increasingly competitive in recent months, with major technology companies such as Google and Microsoft integrating AI tools more deeply into their products.

Also, this is what Sam Altman’s thought about the news:

News credit:
Elon Musk founds new AI company called X.AI from The Verge

Other top AI headlines for the week

OpenAI’s CEO confirms the company isn’t training GPT-5 and ‘won’t for some time’ from The Verge

Well, progress in expanding GPT-4’s capability is still happening by the sound of it but it won’t be going to GPT5 straightaway. Maybe GPT-4.5 could be the next release?

Hear it directly from Sam Altman from OpenAI:

Spain’s privacy watchdog says it’s probing ChatGPT too from TechCrunch

OpenAI has yet again got “in trouble” with another European government. Although not at the level of a suspension, it does sound like The Spanish Data Protection Agency is going to look into ChatGPT carefully.

If you are into regulations on AI, there are a bit more for you to browse through:

• Italy gives OpenAI initial to-do list for lifting ChatGPT suspension order from TechCrunch

• Biden Administration Weighs Possible Rules for AI Tools Like ChatGPT from Wall Street Journal

Google unveils never-before-seen text-to-video AI tool in this week's 60 Minutes from CBS news

At the time of publishing the newsletter, I can only see a preview of the chat but not the specific AI tech. Text-to-video is always an interesting area as video is a much more engaging medium nowadays. I am curious about what else is in Google’s AI pipeline. 🤔 

🧰 Toolbox

Check out this week’s tools and resources that give you more superpowers with prompt crafting!

1. 📺️ Yann LeCun and Andrew Ng: Why the 6-month AI Pause is a Bad Idea
Although not necessarily this week, if you have seen the open letter for the pause, you might be interested to explore the opposite side of the argument.

2. 🔧 AgentGPT
If you have seen those videos about AI tackling the proposed problem or achieving a goal in a step-by-step fashion by utilising different tools, you might be interested to try that out via AgentGPT.

3. 🔧 Open Assistant
In simple terms, this is basically ChatGPT but open source. I still haven’t received my link to log in to try yet. Let’s see if this is enough to persuade me to drop the subscription with ChatGPT.

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