Inflection's $1.3B AI, OpenAI Competition, MidJourney Zoom, Fun with GPT-4 Vision | E21

In Episode 21 we discussed Inflection AI’s $1.3B fundraise from Greylock, Microsoft, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt and the increasing competition to OpenAI’s dominance. We discuss the makeup of future AI Agents and look at the emerging race to build the world’s most powerful AI.

We also cover GPT-4 Vision LOLs and ask if Sydney is back with Bing’s GPT-4 Vision Implementation and discuss the latest release from MidJourney, Stable Diffusion and why Nikon is begging people to take REAL photos!

SOURCES
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CHAPTERS
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00:00 - LOLs from GPT-4 Vision on Bing Chat
00:39 - Inflection AI's $1.3B Fundraise (and Pi) & The Race to Build the World's Most Powerful AI
11:07 - Divergent Future Visions of AI Agents/Assistants & ChatGPT Workspaces Leak
17:06 - Future AI "stacks", Custom LLM Training as a Service, Comparing LLMs
28:10 - MosaicML Acquired by DataBricks for $1.3B & Private LLM training, Agents Creating Specialized LLMs
34:00 - Are LLM APIs becoming commoditized? Is the ChatGPT brand and distribution the most valuable thing?
40:56 - How Much Context? Building the AI Brain & Aligning it to Your Values
46:27 - Stable Diffusion XL, MidJourney Zoom Out & Nikon's Desperation
54:36 - Bing's GPT-4 Vision Implementation LOLs: Is Sydney Back?
58:27 - Is AI Going to Destroy The Internet and Become Stupid? Spam sites, Crawlers, AI-Generated Book Spam on Amazon
1:02:00 - OpenAI ChatGPT Lawsuit over Data Use: Class Action? 

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