GPT-4

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Howdy readers 👋🏻

This week has been packed with product launches and announcements!

In today’s edition:

• A look at the new GPT-4 AI model.

• Google’s attempt to steal spotlight.

• An AI that controls your computer to do your tasks, from web search to formatting your excel rows 😮

Reading time is 4 minutes. Let’s go!

The Main Thing
You should know

GPT-4 launched with major improvements!

OpenAI launched GPT-4, the newer version of the popular AI model.

GPT-4 is vastly better than previous generations in terms of performance and safety, but there are 2 key improvements you should know:

1. Better memory: GPT-4 can read, analyze or generate up to 25,000 words of text! This means you can ask your AI assistant to answer questions from a ~50 page document!

2. Understand images - GPT-4 can understand the content of images and use it with text in sophisticated ways! Let me show you examples:

Between the lines: OpenAI released a 98 page technical paper on GPT-4, but we found this interesting bit tucked between the lines.

Why is it a big deal: The future of work is set to change faster than we might realize. In 5 years, we went from a very basic GPT-1 to GPT-4, a model that is in the same ballpark as average human intelligence!

The next model might surpass human cognitive abilities!

Why would an employer hire full-time workers when an AI could do the same job much cheaper and order of magnitude faster? OpenAI is betting on that future to become the next $T company.

Tech Roundup
Stay Informed

Google: Google announced a new AI that can write an email from a single sentence and summarize entire email chains, build reports and presentations.

Neat, but let’s zoom out on use of AI in emails:

1. Sender types bullet points - AI generates filler content and sends email.

2. Recipient uses AI to condense the AI-generated-email into bullet point summary.

This makes no sense, why not send short straight-to-the-point emails to begin with?

The timing for this announcement is interesting: right between the launch of GPT-4 and Microsoft’s Future of work with AI event.
But what Google needs is an actual product to compete with OpenAI+Microsoft, not announcements for “waitlists".

Anthropic: AI startup backed by Google launched a new ChatGPT rival, Claudie. Similar to ChatGPT, Claudie can help you search across documents, summarize articles and assist with writing code.
Anthropic has been quietly testing Claude and has big companies lined up including Robin AI, AssemblyAI, Notion, Quora and DuckDuckGo!

Product Spotlight
Level up with new tech

Adept: The startup is building an AI that can interact with everything on your computer! Example, you can ask Adept to create profit and loss columns for the last quarter in your Google sheets, or to find a new refrigerator for under $1,000 on craigslist.

Here’s in an example of Adept’s AI interacting with a website to find a property in Houston!

Adept raised $350M in Series B funding this week at $1B valuation! The startup funding might be drying but, but it’s raining dollars for AI companies 🤑

Around the Internet
Juicy quick bites

• 😮 Meta: cuts 10,000 jobs, withdraw 5,000 open roles and cancel 'low priority projects'.

• 💸 Samsung: $230B investment to build "Mega" chip cluster in South Korea.

• 🥴 Microsoft: Entire AI Ethics and society team was laid off!

• 🛰️ SpaceX: to begin testing Satellite-to-Cellphone service.

  
  

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