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Howdy, AI aficionados! Brace yourselves, as it's that time of the week again. Pure Future Weekly Newsletter is back with your source for what is happening in AI.
Here is what we got for you today:
🤖 Meta's new Llama 2
🔧 Wix’s game-changing AI site generator
🚀 Apple fires up AI engines
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🤖 Meta's new Llama 2
Meta has made a giant leap in the AI world with the announcement of Llama 2, a new generation of text-generating AI models set to enhance the capabilities of popular chatbot applications.
Key Points:
Llama 2 offers improved performance over its predecessor, thanks to extensive training on two trillion tokens of publicly available data.
Unlike Llama, the new model will be available for research and commercial use, ready for fine-tuning on AWS, Azure, and Hugging Face's AI model hosting platform.
Llama 2 comprises two main flavors: Llama 2 and Llama 2-Chat, further divided into versions with 7 billion, 13 billion, and 70 billion parameters to offer varying degrees of sophistication.
Despite falling slightly behind high-profile rivals like GPT-4 and PaLM 2 in some benchmarks, Llama 2 performs on par with ChatGPT regarding "helpfulness," according to human evaluators.
The release of Llama 2 marks a significant step in the evolving landscape of generative AI, fueling anticipation for the innovations it may spur and its impact on how we communicate with machines.
Wix, the veteran website-building platform, is ready to usher in a new era of website creation with its AI Site Generator. This innovative tool generates complete websites based on user intent, including features like event sections, booking services, etc.
Key Points:
Wix’s AI Site Generator results from nearly a decade of AI experience. It combines in-house and third-party AI systems to transform user inputs into fully-functional websites.
The AI tool enables the creation highly-customized websites with personalized text courtesy of ChatGPT and auto-generated images and designs.
The technology produces the design and includes built-in functionalities like e-commerce, scheduling, food ordering, and event ticketing, depending on the customer’s specifications.
The AI Site Generator is the latest addition to Wix’s suite of AI tools, which already includes a text creator, domain generator, and various image editing and fine-tuning tools.
While AI has the potential to revolutionize web design, it also raises concerns regarding low-quality content, search engine spam, misinformation, and plagiarism. To prevent and detect model abuse, Wix plans to leverage OpenAI’s moderation and its in-house models.
Apple is reportedly developing its own artificial intelligence (AI) tech, dubbed 'Apple GPT,' potentially setting the stage for a showdown with OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard.
Key Points:
Apple has reportedly created a base for large language models called "Ajax" and used it to create 'Apple GPT,' a ChatGPT-like conversational AI.
This move to build its own AI capabilities is a part of Apple's effort to compete with big tech players like Google and Microsoft in the AI field.
CEO Tim Cook highlighted the potential of AI, stating it will "affect every product and every service that we have."
However, Cook also noted the importance of thorough safety testing before AI deployment, signaling no immediate rush to launch new AI products.
Despite tech analyst Michael Gartenberg’s critique that Apple has lagged in AI, the company's stock rose following the Bloomberg report, suggesting investor confidence.
Quick Hits
Elon Musk says the Fermi paradox could be explained by extraterrestrial civilizations being wiped out by their own AI.
OpenAI doubles the number of messages ChatGPT Plus users can send using its most advanced large language model, GPT-4
GitHub Copilot Chat is now available in a preview for businesses, allowing developers to collaborate with the AI assistant in real-time.
Tools of the Week
Funding Friday
It’s Friday, so it is time for us to look at all this green money flooding into AI.
Runway got a $27 million series A to reinvent how businesses used financial data.
Ceanlab got a $5 million seed round to automate data curation for LLMs.
Gushwork.ai got $2.1 million in pre-seed funding to outsource business tasks.
FedML got $11.5 million seed funding to combine MLOps tools with decentralized AI computing.
