TLDR AI 2023-11-21

OpenAI is in disarray following the board's ousting of CEO Sam Altman, with over 700 employees threatening to leave for Microsoft. One board member who previously supported Altman's removal now regrets his decision. Microsoft, holding a 49% stake in OpenAI, has reportedly guaranteed positions for all OpenAI employees at a new AI subsidiary.

Despite being hired by Microsoft, Sam Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman are still willing to return to OpenAI if the remaining board members who fired him step down.

Amazon is starting free educational courses on generative AI with an aim to extend critical skills to adults and young learners everywhere.

LLaVa is a recipe for training a multi-modal model from a text model. It can now work with video. The resulting model (based on Vicuna) is extremely powerful and easily achieves state-of-the-art performance in video summarization and captioning.

The Orca models are a set of small models from Microsoft that excel at reasoning tasks. There has been concern about validity because much of the information was kept closed. Orca 2 has now been released and the model is available on HuggingFace. It demonstrates good performance for its size, outperforming several larger models on reasoning benchmarks.

An in-depth way to study what data was used to train language models. The results of which suggest that many closed-source models likely didn't train on popular benchmarks.

A list of exploits that have been found and responsibly disclosed in AI applications.

tldraw made a viral app recently that allows users to design software quickly with its paint-like interface and then use GPT-V to generate code for a web version of the design. It works surprisingly well and generates robust and working code. It also takes natural language instructions.

The newly introduced CoWPiRec approach improves recommender systems by blending collaborative filtering information with text-based item representations. This innovative method, which utilizies word graphs for item interactions, has shown superior performance in various recommendation scenarios, including addressing the cold-start problem.

Microsoft has dramatically altered the AI landscape by acquiring key personnel and IP from OpenAI, including co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, following Altman's firing and Brockman's resignation from OpenAI, which was struggling with its non-profit model and internal conflicts.

Bain Capital Ventures has created a new AI incubator and technical community called BCV Labs, offering office space, events, a fellowship program, GPU credits, and recruiting support, along with funding.

The rapid advancement of AI, particularly AGI, could significantly impact the valuation of SaaS and tech companies by increasing competition, compressing margins, and reducing the demand for traditional project management and CRUD apps, while also challenging incumbents with new AI-native startups and self-serve app creation, ultimately leading to a shift in the software value chain.

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has revealed the firm will provide full compensation for OpenAI staff who join Salesforce’s Einstein Trusted AI research team.

A web ChatGPT clone entirely crafted using Rust and HTMX.

Microsoft is rebranding Bing Chat to "Copilot," unifying the name of its generative AI assistant across its products, including Bing Chat Enterprise, now also known as Copilot.