Elon Musk Creates His Own Generative AI Company Joining the Race for the LLMs

Elon Musk has created through his family office a new company named X.AI, intended to compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, Adept, and StabilityAI, and other startups in the artificial intelligence generative space. The billionaire entrepreneur owner of Tesla, Space X, and Twitter now plans to attract investors while seeking to recruit a team of top AI researchers and engineers. According to Financial Times, for the new project, Musk has secured thousands of high-powered Nvidia’s GPU processors, the high-end chips required for building a large language model. Elon Musk is, for now, the company’s only director. The private firm, incorporated in Nevada on March 9, lists as secretary Jared Birchall, the ex-Morgan Stanley banker who manages Musk’s wealth. Musk left the board of OpenAI in 2018 amid clashes with its management, including over attitudes to AI safety. Since then, Musk became increasingly vocal in his fears of broader existential threats from AI systems. He also criticized OpenAI for becoming, in his view, less transparent and too focused on commercialization in its pursuit of advanced AI. Musk could use Twitter content as data to train its language model and tap Tesla for computing resources. Its homegrown supercomputer, Dojo, is used to train Tesla’s Autopilot self-driving system. . The pace of AI is incredible right now. 🤯 Here's another groundbreaking week for AI: Elon's new company "X" No ChatGPT-5 AutoGPT, BabyAGI Adobe text to video on Premere Pro Meta Animated Drawings New Stable Diffusion XL Free Amazon launched OpenAI’s rival Come and see 🧵👇 — Barsee 🐶 (@heyBarsee) April 15, 2023  

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Special Report: The AI Revolution, A Wild 2023 | Newsletter #54 | January – April 2023

AI's WILD YEAR | DECEMBER 2022 – APRIL 2023 – NEWSLETTER #54   April 2023 • AWS Will Sell Access to Multiple LLMs Through a New Service Called 'Amazon Bedrock' • Databrick Releases an Improved Open Source LLM Licensed For Reuse and Commercial Use • The AI Apps Associated Themselves with ChatGPT Generated Hefty Revenue • Cerebras Releases as Open Source Seven Large LLMs with 13 Billion Parameters • International Baccalaureate Assessment System Allows Students to Use ChatGPT • Bloomberg Introduces a 50-Billion Parameter LLM Built For Finance • The OpenAI's CEO Envisions a Universal Income Society to Compensate for Jobs Replaced by AI • Artificial Intelligence Enters a New Phase of Corporate Dominance • Udacity Incorporates an OpenAI Provided Chatbot • Italy Bans ChatGPT While Elon Musk and 1,100 Signatories Call to a Pause on AI [Open Letter] March 2023 • Generative AI Will Impact Labor Market and Have Notable Economic, Social, and Policy Implications • Adobe Unveils Firefly, a Family of Creative Generative AI Models Coming to Its Products • Quora Released its Poe Chatbot, A Tool That Includes GPT-4, Claude and ChatGPT • Databricks Launches Dolly, an Open Sourced LLM Clone of Stanford's Alpaca Model • Microsoft Search Engine Bing Adds DALL-E's Image AI Creator • Google Provides Limited Access to Bard, Its "Early Experiment Chatbot" • OpenAI Starts to Roll Out Plugins in ChatGPT • Canva Unveils New AI-Powered Design Tools • GitHub Launches an Upgraded AI Assistant for Developers, Copilot X, With GPT-4 • Anthropic Launched 'Claude' A More Ethical Bot That Competes With ChatGPT • Google Shows What AI-Embedded Writing Will Look Like in Gmail and Google Docs • Microsoft Corp Embeds Generative AI Into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams • Duolingo and Khan Academy Are Integrating the GPT-4 Model Into Their Offer • Bing, Microsoft's Search Engine, Crossed 100 Million Daily Active Users • Stripe Integrates OpenAI's New GPT-4 AI Into Its Digital Payment Process • OpenAI Introduced Its GPT-4 Model That Accepts Image and Text Inputs • OpenAI Positions Itself as a Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit Business • Microsoft Made ChatGPT Available On Its Azure OpenAI Service • DuckDuckGo Unveils a Feature that Summarizes Information Using Generative AI • Grammarly Announces a Generative AI Writing Assistant • Microsoft Releases an AI Chatbot for Marketers, Customer Reps, and Sales People • Salesforce Issues a ChatGPT-Style AI Agent For Writing Marketing Content • Israeli Start-Up D-ID's API Enables Face-to-Face Chats with AI • OpenAI Expects Revenue of $200M In 2023, After Making $30M Last Year • Character.ai, an Alternative to ChatGPT, Valued at $1 Billion • OpenAI Will Offer A Dedicated ChatGPT Platform for Businesses • OpenAI launches an API for ChatGPT. Quizlet and Shopify, Among the Early Adopters • Microsoft Releases a Windows 11 Update that Includes AI-Powered Bing Chatbot February 2023 • Snapchat Introduces My AI, a ChatGPT-Powered Artificial Intelligence Bot Into Its App • JPMorgan Chase, Verizon, Citigroup, and Goldman Sachs Block Access to ChatGPT • Microsoft Released the Bing and Edge Mobile Apps Powered by ChatGPT • Meta Released LLaMA, an Open Large Language Model with 65-Billion-Parameters • AWS Partners With Hugging Face, an AI Startup Rival to ChatGPT Working on Open Source Models • The Most Expensive School in the World, Swiss Rosenberg, Teaches How to Use ChatGPT • GitHub Copilot, which Suggests Code in Real-Time through Generative AI, Launches Its Business Offer • A Rush of Early Adopters In the Corporate World to Avoid Falling Behind on Generative AI • The Domain AI.com Now Takes Users to ChatGPT • Open AI: "Aligning AI Systems with Human Values Is a Top Priority for Our Company" • Opera Will Release a New Browser with Built-In Access to ChatGPT and Other AI Services • "Students Need to Learn How to Prompt an AI, and Evaluate Its Accuracy and Originality" • Over 1 Million People Signed Up for the Bing Waitlist; Microsoft Shows Viva Sales Emails • "ChatGPT is High Tech Plagiarism; It Undermines Education," Says Noam Chomsky • Microsoft Reaches a $2 Trillion Market Cap Helped with the Rise of ChatGPT • Microsoft Presented Its New Bing Search, Powered by ChatGPT • Google Announces 'Bard', a Testing, ChatGPT-Style AI Service • ChatGPT and Upcoming AI Bots Will Make Jobs Obsolete in Several Industries • Top Contenders Challenge ChatGPT. Google Invests $300M In Anthropic • ChatGPT Surpasses 100 Million Users in January, with 13 Million Daily Visitors • Microsoft Launches Teams Premium with Features Powered by ChatGPT • OpenAI Announces ChatGPT Plus, a $20/Month Premium Service • OpenAI Issues a Free Tool to Help Determine If Any Text Is Written by ChatGPT January 2023 • China’s Baidu Will Soon Launch an AI Platform Similar to ChatGPT • MusicML, a Research Project by Google, Generates Songs From Text Descriptions • An AI Application Allows Asking Questions and Gain Insights About Documents • BuzzFeed Will Use ChatGPT to Help Generate Online Content and Quizzes • "Everybody is Cheating," Says a Wharton Professor; He Has Adopted an AI Policy • ChatGPT Passes Law School Exam Signaling the Risk of Widespread Cheating • ChatGPT Alternatives Start to Emerge Throughout the Internet • Microsoft Announces an Investment of $10 Billion in OpenAI to Advance ChatGPT Technology • ChatGPT Passes an MBA Exam at UPenn's Wharton • Augmenting GTP-3 with Additional Information Prompts New Coding Businesses • ChatGPT and Its Consequences on Work and Life Are the Talk of the Business Leaders in Davos This Year • OpenAI CEO Refuses to Confirm If Chat GPT—4 Will Be Released This Year [Video] • Coursera Will Integrate ChatGPT into Its Course Catalog This Year [Video] • Microsoft CEO Says at Davos that the Company Plans to Flood its Products with Chat GPT [Video] • Microsoft Starts Offering Access to Azure OpenAI [Video] • Microsoft Will Make OpenAI's Language Models Available on Its Azure Cloud Services • Chat GPT 'At Capacity' Due to Its Massive Popularity • ChatGPT Prepares a Paid Version to Monetize Its Wildly Successful Tool • Language Models – Based Tools Will Radically Change Education • Microsoft Might Invest $10 Billion in OpenAI's ChatGPT • Quora Tests Its Own Chatbot, Which Will Be Connected to More AI Agents • Princeton Student Launches an App that Detects Plagiarism from ChatGPT • Microsoft Works to Incorporate ChatGPT Into Its Bing Search Service • An AI Chatbot Promises to Help You to Become the Best Version of Yourself • ChatGPT-4, the Fined Tuned Version of ChatGPT-3, Might Prompt a Major Shift December 2022 • Cheating on Essays in Higher Education through ChatGPT Alarms Academia • The University of Phoenix Makes Its Chatbot More Engaging After Three Years of Experience • The Year of ChatGPT and the Large Language Models • Image Generator Lensa AI App Goes Viral with Its Magic Selfies Feature • AI Adoption Plateaus and Talent Shortages Threaten the Shift • The Release of OpenAI Keeps Educators and Professionals Processing the Implications • Cutting-Edge AI Chatbot Attracts Over a Million People In One Week • OpenAI Releases ChatGPT, an Advanced Text-Generating AI 2023 Events | All of the Key Conferences Listed! • Education Calendar 2023 – APRIL | MAY | JUNE | Conferences in Latin America & Spain This newsletter was created in collaboration with IBL Education, a New York City-based company specializing in AI-driven, skills open source learning platforms, and predictive analytics. 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AWS Will Sell Access to Multiple LLMs Through a New Service Called 'Amazon Bedrock'

Amazon’s AWS, the largest provider of cloud computing services, will sell access to multiple large language models, allowing companies to pick their own software and models. Among the pre-trained models AWS is making available through its program are ones made by Anthropic, Stability AI, and AI21 Labs. Also, AWS’s language model, called Titan FM, is included. Amazon Bedrock is the name of this service which is aimed at large enterprise customers. No formal pricing has been announced yet. The company says it wants to act as a neutral platform for businesses that want to incorporate generative AI features. By not being tied to any one AI startup, as Microsoft and Google are doing, AWS is marketing itself as the Switzerland of the cloud giants.   AWS‘s path seems will be avoiding a major investment in an outside AI company or consumer-facing tools. AWS said its AI would be more suited for businesses because it can be trained only on a customer’s data and internal documents rather than the set of webpages from other models. "That could make it a safer choice for businesses that are nervous their private data could end up shared and mixed up with other companies, Adam Selipsky, chief executive of Amazon Web Services," said in an interview at The Wall Street Journal today. Another feature the company is pushing is CodeWhisperer, which generates and fixes computer code. It will compete directly with Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot, which uses generative AI. Previously Amazon had made CodeWhisperer available only to a small number of users.

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Databrick Releases an Improved Open Source LLM Licensed For Reuse and Commercial Use

Databricks released yesterday an improved version of its open-source, free-to-commercialize, large language model (LLM) with 12 billion parameters, called Dolly 2.0. Based on the EleutherAI pythia model family, Dolly 2.0 has been "fine-tuned exclusively on a new, high-quality human-generated instruction following dataset, crowdsourced among Databricks 5,000 employees during March and April of 2023.," according to the company. "We are open-sourcing the entirety of Dolly 2.0, including the training code, the dataset, and the model weights, all suitable for commercial use. This means that any organization can create, own, and customize powerful LLMs that can talk to people, without paying for API access or sharing data with third parties." Under the licensing terms (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License), anyone can use, modify, or extend this dataset for any purpose, including commercial applications. databricks-dolly-15k on GitHub contains 15,000 high-quality human-generated prompt / response pairs specifically designed for instruction tuning large language models. The first version of Dolly was trained using a dataset created by the Stanford Alpaca team created using the OpenAI API. That dataset contained output from ChatGPT, and that prevented commercial use, as it would compete with OpenAI. "As far as we know, all the existing well-known instruction-following models (Alpaca, Koala, GPT4All, Vicuna) suffer from this limitation, prohibiting commercial use. To get around this conundrum, we started looking for ways to create a new dataset not “tainted” for commercial use." Databricks said that "it doesn't expect Dolly to be state-of-the-art in terms of effectiveness." "However, we do expect Dolly and the open source dataset will act as the seed for a multitude of follow-on works, which may serve to bootstrap even more powerful language models." • Download Dolly 2.0 model weights at Databricks Hugging Face page • Dolly repo on databricks-labs with databricks-dolly-15k dataset.

The AI Apps Associated Themselves with ChatGPT Generated Hefty Revenue

The top 10 AI mobile apps have already pulled in over $14 million to date, according to analytics provider data.ai. These apps are mostly dubious ChatGPT apps claiming to be associated with OpenAI in order to charge hefty subscription prices for accessing ChatGPT — a service that’s been free via the web. This phenomenon is an indication of how much ground OpenAI has ceded in the mobile app market by not having its own official mobile app available. For the most part, none of this group of apps are trying to establish their own brand and identity. Instead, they’re keyword-stuffing their apps’ titles to match the search terms of people who are looking for ChatGPT or similar, which are mostly "AI," "Chat," or "Chatbot" and “Assistant” will help drive. The majority of the top 10 apps saw little consumer spending before ChatGTP's addition, in December 2022. The only exception is the app Pixelcut AI Photo Editor, a “magic writer” copywriter tool that uses GPT. Its creator AI Photo Editor generated $19.8 million in 2022. In addition to Pixelcut, the other nine earning apps are: Genie – AI Chatbot; AI Chat – Chatbot AI Assistant; AI Chatbot – Open Chat Writer; Apo – AI Personal Assistant; Chat AI Bot – Writing Assistant; ChatOn – AI Chatbot Assistant; AI Chat – Ask Anything; Chat AI – Ask Anything; and GoatChat. Of these, Genie has generated the most revenue this year, with $3.2 million in global consumer spending so far in 2023.