#19 Microsoft is going for the kill.

This week ChatGPT's Shared Links, Anthropic's $450Mn Series C made some news, but with a whopping 50+ announcements at the Build 2023, Microsoft has made its intention to win at AI clear.

May 27, 2023

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🛠️ Tools

Opera Aria- Integrated browser AI [link]
Courseau- Turn that 2 Hour Podcast into a Fun Mini-Course [link]
Tyles- AI first note taking app [link]
BetterLegal- Instantly understand complicated legal jargon with AI [link]
StudyWand- AI-powered studying [link]
Fina- AI-powered financial advisor [link]

📑 Developments

Microsoft announces interoperability with OpenAI plugins, launches Azure AI Studio, Windows Copilot, and Microsoft Fabric at Build 2023 [link]
Anthropic raises $450 Million Series C [link]
ChatGPT Shared Links [link]
Google is opening access to Search Labs [link]
OpenAI announces ten $100,000 grants for building prototypes of a democratic process for steering AI [link]
Adobe supercharges Photoshop with Firefly Generative AI [link]
Character.AI launches an iOS app [link]
AI-powered ads with Google announced at Google Marketing Live [link]
1X deploys humanoid robots in real world jobs [link]
Neuralink received FDA’s approval for first-in-human clinical study [link]
Figure AI raises a $70Million Series A [link]

+ 🐣 Thoughts
Andrej Karpathy on State of GPT at Microsoft Build 2023, OpenAI’s take on Governance of Superintelligence, and Is GPT-4 a Good Data Analyst?

+ 🥷 Random
a16z’s AI Cannon, Matrix India’ Generative AI Landscape, and Cohere’s LLM University

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🛠️ Tools

Opera Aria- Integrated browser AI [link]
Aria allows you to enhance your creativity and productivity by harnessing the power of AI. Based on our own “Composer” infrastructure, Aria connects to OpenAI’s GPT technology and is enhanced by additional capabilities such as adding live results from the web.
Courseau- Turn that 2 Hour Podcast into a Fun Mini-Course [link]
Grab something complex - a youtube video, academic paper, or podcast - and transform it into an engaging mini-course in seconds.
Tyles- AI first note taking app [link]
Save information from web, PDFs or other apps, and connect information with simple drag and drop interface
BetterLegal- Instantly understand complicated legal jargon with AI [link]
This AI-powered extension translates tricky legal jargon into clear, plain English.
StudyWand- AI-powered studying [link]
Turn notes into searchable flashcards automatically. Remember-Find-Learn with ease.
Fina- AI-powered financial advisor [link]
Fina's allows you to connect accounts, categorize transactions, and track custom metrics. Want to know specific things like: "How much money have I actually spent at Starbucks this year??" Just ask!

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🐣 Thoughts

Research- Is GPT-4 a Good Data Analyst? [link]
Experimental results show that GPT-4 can achieve comparable performance to humans in analysing data.
Making YouTube more searchable- DeepMind x YouTube [link]
Working together with YouTube’s product and engineering teams, how DeepMind has helped optimise the decision-making processes that increase safety, decrease latency, and enhance the viewer, creator, and advertiser experience for all.
OpenAI’s take on Governance of Superintelligence [link]
Within the next ten years, AI systems will exceed expert skill level in most domains, and carry out as much productive activity as one of today’s largest corporations.
In terms of both potential upsides and downsides, superintelligence will be more powerful than other technologies humanity has had to contend with in the past. We can have a dramatically more prosperous future; but we have to manage risk to get there.
We must mitigate the risks of today’s AI technology too, but superintelligence will require special treatment and coordination.
Andrej Karpathy on State of GPT at Microsoft Build 2023

📑 Developments

50+ announcements from Microsoft at Build 2023 [link]
Some of the key announcements from Microsoft Build 2023-
- Integrating Bing with ChatGPT to provide live search on ChatGPT and ensuring interoperability for ChatGPT plug-ins across Bing AI, Edge Browser, Microsoft 365 Copilot
- Windows Copilot- AI copilot comes to Windows 11
- Azure AI Studio- Building AI copilots, train your own models
- Microsoft Fabric- Fabric is an end-to-end analytics product that addresses every aspect of an organization's analytics needs, and it is powered by AI. It is an umbrella on top of Microsoft's three main Data Analytics products: Power BI, Azure Data Factory, and Azure Synapse.
Anthropic raises $450 Million Series C [link]
Anthropic has raised $450 million in Series C funding led by Spark Capital with participation from Google, Salesforce Ventures, Sound Ventures, Zoom Ventures, and others.
ChatGPT Shared Links [link]
Shared links are a new feature that allow users to generate a unique URL for a ChatGPT conversation, which can then be shared with friends, colleagues, and collaborators. With shared links, users can let others see - and continue - interesting, funny, or insightful exchanges with ChatGPT.
Google is opening access to Search Labs [link]
Google is starting to open up access to Search Labs, where you can try early generative AI experiments from Google.
Join the waitlist here.
OpenAI announces ten $100,000 grants for building prototypes of a democratic process for steering AI [link]
OpenAI is launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting up a democratic process for deciding what rules AI systems should follow, within the bounds defined by the law.
Adobe supercharges Photoshop with Firefly Generative AI [link]
Photoshop subscribers can use Firefly directly in the Photoshop desktop (beta) app – using natural language to prompt Photoshop to create extraordinary images with Generative Fill. These prompts can be used to add content, remove or replace parts of an image and extend the edges of an image.
Also, AdobeFirefly is now available for everyone to try.
Character.AI launches an iOS app [link]
With the Character.AI app users can talk to millions of user-created AIs, each with their own personality, bring new characters to life and enjoy unlimited conversations for free (and with no ads)!
AI-powered ads with Google announced at Google Marketing Live [link]
Google is introducing a new era of AI-powered ads that will transform the advertising industry by automating ad creation, optimising performance, and unlocking new converting audience segments.
1X deploys humanoid robots in real world jobs [link]
1X, a robotics company, has successfully deployed humanoid robots as security guards. Next, they will be deploying the robots in hospices and assisted living facilities.
Neuralink received FDA’s approval for first-in-human clinical study [link]
Elon Musk’s Neuralink has received the FDA’s approval to launch our first-in-human clinical study!
Figure AI raises a $70Million Series A [link]
Figure is the first-of-its-kind AI robotics company bringing a general purpose humanoid to life.
Know more about Figure’s Master Plan here.

🥷 Random

a16z’s AI Cannon [link]
A curated list of resources from a16z to get smarter about modern AI. They call it the “AI Canon” because these papers, blog posts, courses, and guides have had an outsized impact on the field over the past several years.
Cohere launches LLM University [link]
This course will take you on a journey through the world of large language models (LLMs), teaching you everything you need to know about this game-changing AI technology. From what LLMs are to Prompt engineering, and how to come up with use case ideas.
Matrix India’s Generative AI Landscape [link]
ChatGPT app now available in 30+ countries [link]

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