Amazon enters the AI race 🤖

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In today's edition:

• Amazon enters the AI race.

• Twitter’s content algorithm might become open source.

• Google makes breakthrough in Quantum Computing

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Main Thing ☕️

Amazon enters the AI race

Generative AI is the new platform

What: Amazon is joining forces with AI startup Hugging Face to develop ChatGPT rival.

Hugging Face will build the next generation of BLOOM language model, while Amazon will provide cloud services for training and make the final product available to public on AWS.

Zoom Out: Neural networks powering AI systems are huge! For instance, OpenAI's GPT3 has over 175 billion parameters! Training these large models is expensive.

This is where cloud providers like Amazon, Microsoft and Google come in. Startups build the AI algorithms while big tech provides the computing power and accessibility.

Here are recent strategic partnerships:

• Microsoft 🤝🏼 OpenAI

• Google 🤝🏼 Anthropic AI, Cohere Inc

• Amazon 🤝🏼 Stability AI, AI21 Labs and Hugging Face

Bonus: Bloom, the AI model from Hugging Face, has 176 billion parameters! The model is massive: Hugging Face had to use a 'supercomputer' for 3.5 months to train it!

Tech Roundup

Prompt Engineer: Rise of generative AI models has created a new job title, Prompt Engineer. Job is to design prompts and tweak parameters to get consistent results from AI models. OpenAI’s rival, Anthropic, is hiring prompt engineers with salary range of $250k - $335k.

Twitter: The algorithm powering Twitter might become open source by next week! It would be the first time a major social media platform opens up its unique recommendation algorithm. This move could help twitter navigate political biases and regulations around content recommendations.

Google: The company passed a ‘break-even’ point in development of Quantum computers by developing a technique to lower errors in quantum computing to 4%. Qubit error correction is one of the biggest hurdle in building a practical quantum computer.

Quick Bites

• ChatGPT: OpenAI’s ChatGPT is banned is China because output of generative AI model cannot be ‘censored’ by Chinese Gov.

• GoDaddy: Multi-year breach hijacked customer websites, allowing attackers to access to source code, steal customer data and inject malware on customer websites!

• AI Spam: The popular science fiction magazine stopped accepting user submissions due to spam stories written by AI.

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