The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
A daily news analysis show on all things artificial intelligence. NLW looks at AI from multiple angles, from the explosion of creativity brought on by new tools like Midjourney and ChatGPT to the potential disruptions to work and industries as we know them to the great philosophical, ethical and practical questions of advanced general intelligence, alignment and x-risk.
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A daily news analysis show on all things artificial intelligence. NLW looks at AI from multiple angles, from the explosion of creativity brought on by new tools like Midjourney and ChatGPT to the potential disruptions to work and industries as we know them to the great philosophical, ethical and practical questions of advanced general intelligence, alignment and x-risk.
What You'll Learn
Why AI Didn't Impact the 2024 Elections
11/06/2024
The anticipated influence of AI on the 2024 elections turned out to be minimal, with few cases of AI ...
The Record Labels Are Coming for Suno and Udio
06/25/2024
In a major lawsuit, the record industry sued AI music generators SUNO and Udio for copyright infring ...
Apple Intelligence Powered by…Meta?
06/25/2024
Apple is in talks with Meta for a potential AI partnership, which could significantly shift their co ...
Early Uses for Anthropic's Claude 3.5 and Artifacts
06/21/2024
Anthropic has launched the latest model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and a new feature called artifacts. Clau ...
Ilya Sutskever is Back Building Safe Superintelligence
06/20/2024
After months of speculation, Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI, has launched Safe Superintelligen ...
Nvidia Becomes World's Biggest Company: Bubble or Destiny?
06/19/2024
Nvidia has ridden the AI wave all the way to the top of the public markets, exceeding the market cap ...
What Runway Gen-3 and Luma Say About the State of AI
06/18/2024
Explore the latest in AI video technology with Runway Gen-3 and Luma Labs Dream Machine. From the ad ...
Just How Different is Apple's AI Strategy?
06/17/2024
A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-apples-ai-tells-us-experi ...
The Top 5 AI Stories This Week
06/14/2024
Counting down the top 5 AI stories of the week, from AI candidates running for political office to A ...
Meet the AI Avatars Running for Elected Office
06/14/2024
In Wyoming, an AI avatar is running for mayor. In the UK, one is running for Parliament. Are imparti ...
AI Makes Apple World's Most Valuable Company Again
06/13/2024
Apple’s recent AI strategy announcement has catapulted them back to being the world’s most valua ...
Can Apple Intelligence Actually Protect Your Privacy?
06/11/2024
Apple’s recent AI strategy announcement at WWDC 2024 has sparked discussions about the balance bet ...
7 Takeaways from Apple's AI Announcement at WWDC
06/11/2024
Apple made its much-awaited announcement about AI today. NLW covers everything that was said, and ho ...
The Danger of an AI Counterreaction
06/08/2024
A reading and discussion inspired by https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1797635177973158182 ** Join Su ...
How US Antitrust Investigations Into Nvidia, OpenAI and MSFT Could Make Things Worse Not Better
06/07/2024
The U.S. government is investigating Nvidia, OpenAI, and Microsoft for potential antitrust violation ...
Do AI Lab Employees Have a "Right to Warn" The Public About AGI Risk?
06/06/2024
Dive into the latest controversy in the AI world as current and former employees of AI labs call for ...
Is the AI Revolution Losing Steam?
06/03/2024
That's the argument in a new WSJ piece: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-ai-revolution-is-already-los ...
Dueling Letters from the OpenAI Board
06/02/2024
This week, the Economist posted two letters from current and former members of the OpenAI board. Whi ...
How Disinformation Agents Are Using ChatGPT
05/31/2024
Dive into today’s AI Daily Brief Headlines Edition to explore how disinformation agents are using ...
The "Most Influential" AI Companies
05/31/2024
Explore the AI companies featured on Time’s 100 Most Influential Companies list. This video review ...
What Actually Matters with the Latest OpenAI Controversy
05/29/2024
The OpenAI controversy continues to dominate headlines, with recent comments from former board membe ...
AI Competition Heats Up as xAI Closes Biggest Series B of All Time
05/29/2024
Today’s extended headlines edition covers the massive Series B round completed by Elon Musk’s xA ...
The Big Shift in AI Safety Discourse
05/24/2024
A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-05-21/ai-safety ...
Anthropic Begins to Unlock the Mystery of LLMs
05/24/2024
Anthropic’s new research brings us closer to understanding the inner workings of LLMs. By identify ...
After Rough Launch, is Humane AI Pin Looking to Sell?
05/23/2024
AI wearables are facing scrutiny as reports suggest that Humane, the company behind the AI Pin, is n ...
Scarlett Johansson vs. OpenAI
05/22/2024
OpenAI is facing controversy after Scarlett Johansson claimed they used a voice eerily similar to he ...
5 Things to Watch at Microsoft Build
05/20/2024
Will OpenAI and Google's events in the books, NLW looks at what he's watching for with Microsoft's B ...
95 Theses on AI Safety
05/19/2024
A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.secondbest.ca/p/ninety-five-theses-on-ai ** Join Su ...
The Significance of Ilya Sutskever Leaving OpenAI
05/18/2024
OpenAI’s chief scientist and co-founder Ilya Sutskever has left the company, sparking widespread s ...
Senators Debut a New US AI Roadmap
05/17/2024
...and lots of people -- particularly on the AI safety side of things -- aren't happy about it. NLW ...
Who Won the Week: Google or OpenAI?
05/15/2024
Explore the recent AI announcements from OpenAI and Google, comparing their new products and innovat ...
7 Use Cases for GPT-4o
05/14/2024
Explore seven innovative uses for OpenAI’s new GPT-4o model, a natively multimodal model capable o ...
Why OpenAI's Announcement Was A Bigger Deal Than People Think
05/14/2024
This episode dives into OpenAI's recent product event, unpacking the key takeaways and why it might ...
We're Thinking About AI Adoption Completely Wrong
05/11/2024
This episode challenges the traditional top-down view of enterprise AI adoption. The show highlights ...
Microsoft's Top Secret AI for Spy Agencies
05/09/2024
Microsoft unveils a new top-secret AI system designed for US intelligence agencies. This video explo ...
The gpt2 Chatbot is Back as OpenAI Talks Data
05/09/2024
Today on The AI Daily Brief, NLW looks at expanded restrictions the White House is considering to de ...
With MAI-1, Is Microsoft Trying to Compete with OpenAI?
05/08/2024
Microsoft is training a 500B parameter model. It's caused huge speculation that the company is tryin ...
How Worried About AI Should Professionals Be?
05/04/2024
A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/29/ai-professio ...
RUMOR: Is ChatGPT About to Launch Search?
05/03/2024
Plus Nick Bostrom on what if AI fixes everything? ** ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps ...
Anthropic Launches iOS App and Teams as Altman Says He'd Burn $50B a Year to Get to AGI
05/02/2024
Busy day in the world of leading LLM labs. Anthropic announced a much anticipated iOS app, as well a ...
Biden's AI Executive Order, 6 Months Later
05/02/2024
Six months after the Biden administration issued a historic executive order on artificial intelligen ...
Is Mysterious GPT2-Chatbot Actually GPT5?
05/01/2024
Explore the buzz surrounding a mysterious AI model dubbed "GPT-2 Chatbot" recently spotted on a benc ...
Why Everyone is Angry About the AI Safety Board
04/30/2024
Explore the widespread backlash against the newly established Artificial Intelligence Safety and Sec ...
AI Doesn't Have to Automate Away All the Jobs
04/27/2024
A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/19/artificial-i ...
Does xAI's $6B Raise for Grok Make Sense?
04/26/2024
Explore the strategic reasoning behind X AI's massive $6 billion fundraising effort in this episode ...
How Moderna's ChatGPT Use Shows the Future of Corporate AI
04/26/2024
Moderna's integration of ChatGPT across its entire organization marks a significant shift in corpora ...
What Perplexity's Raise Says About the State of AI Hype
04/25/2024
Explore the implications of Perplexity's recent valuation surge in today's episode of AI Breakdown. ...
A Preview of the AI Agent Future
04/23/2024
Explore the rapidly evolving world of AI agents in this episode of AI Breakdown. Discover how Micros ...
Tucker Carlson Says We Should Bomb the Data Centers and Kill AI Before It's Too Late
04/22/2024
Some dramatic discourse from the former Fox journalist, plus Drake uses AI Snoop and Tupac in a diss ...
Will Big Tech's AI Needs Solve Energy Issues?
04/20/2024
A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.ft.com/content/8af1f467-2953-4cbc-a336-4c92c92e6792 ...
Boston Dynamics Shows Next Frontier in Robotics
04/19/2024
Boston Dynamics has unveiled a new version of their Atlas robot, showcasing advanced mobility with u ...
Llama 3 Is Here (And Seemingly Better Than Expected)
04/18/2024
Meta has released the first of its Llama 3 models, enhancing the landscape of open-source large lang ...
The State of AI In 13 Stats
04/17/2024
Today's episode explores the state of artificial intelligence through Stanford University's AI Index ...
Microsoft's $1.5B AI Geopolitical Gambit in the UAE
04/16/2024
Microsoft's $1.5 billion investment in UAE-based AI company G42 represents a strategic geopolitical ...
AI Wearables: Is There a There There?
04/15/2024
Critiques of Humane, a new launch from Limitless (i.e. Rewind), plus Meta is (supposedly) sharing tw ...
What AI Is Capable Of Today
04/13/2024
A discussion inspired by https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-just-happened-what-is-happening ** CH ...
Game of Thrones, but for AI Chips
04/12/2024
Apple's unveiling of the M4 chip aims to rejuvenate its Mac lineup with enhanced AI capabilities, fo ...
The 5 Important AI Models Released This Week
04/11/2024
This week witnessed the introduction of five notable AI models, highlighting the field's swift advan ...
Al Is The Biggest Work Disruption Of Our Lifetimes
04/11/2024
AI's impact on the workforce is substantial, with executives predicting that up to 60% of jobs could ...
8 Questions on the Future of AI
04/09/2024
Inspired by a recent essay by Niall Ferguson, NLW discusses 8 questions on the future of AI. https: ...
The Ethical Gray Area of AI Labs and Data
04/08/2024
The New York Times alleges AI companies, including OpenAI and Google, may bypass their own policies ...
Can AI Help Restore the Middle Class?
04/06/2024
A reading and discussion inspired by: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2024/04/04/call-a ...
Debating GPT-4 Reduced Conspiracy Theories
04/05/2024
A study by MIT and Cornell showed that debating with GPT-4 reduced believers' confidence in conspira ...
30% of Young Americans Have Used ChatGPT at Work
04/03/2024
A new survey shows that genAI is being adopted in a work context faster than for entertainment or le ...
The Most Important AI Stories Last Week
04/02/2024
On today's episode, NLW catches up on the big stories over the last week, including Grok 1.5, OpenAI ...
How to Redesign Organizations for the AI Era
03/30/2024
A reading and discussion based on https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/reshaping-the-tree-rebuilding-org ...
What AI Developers Are Building Next, with Swyx and Alessio of Latent Space
03/29/2024
NLW is back with Part 2 of his conversation with the hosts of Latent Space. In this segment they hon ...
The Four Wars of the AI Stack - An Update with Swyx and Alessio of Latent Space
03/28/2024
NLW is joined today by the hosts of the Latent Space podcast for part one of a wide-ranging conversa ...
A Report from the AI Frontlines with The Neuron's Pete Huang
03/27/2024
In this conversation, NLW talks with The Neuron co-founder Pete Huang. They discuss Pete's recent ti ...
How Businesses Are Using AI Right Now with Greg Kamradt
03/26/2024
There is a huge amount of discussion about AI, but is it actually translating to new behaviors insid ...
How AI Is Shifting with Nathan Labenz
03/25/2024
A wide-ranging conversation with host of The Cognitive Revolution and AI multi-threat Nathan Labenz. ...
Why Boring AI is Driving Adoption
03/24/2024
NLW builds off an essay by Ethan Mollick https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/in-praise-of-boring-ai He ...
The 5 Most Important Stories in AI This Week
03/22/2024
Top 5 AI Stories This Week: Open Interpreter's new device, Reddit's AI-driven IPO, Apple's AI shifts ...
U.S. Gov't Grants Intel $8.5B for AI Chip Production
03/21/2024
Intel secures a preliminary deal with the U.S. government for up to $8.5 billion in Chips Act fundin ...
Bye Bye Pi? Inflection CEO and Team Head to Microsoft
03/21/2024
Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Inflection AI, moves to Microsoft as the new CEO of Microsoft AI, le ...
Nvidia’s Blackwell is Radically More Powerful AI Compute
03/19/2024
Nvidia's new Blackwell GPU announced at the GTC conference revolutionizes AI computing with unmatche ...
Wait, Apple is Putting Google Gemini AI on iPhones?!
03/18/2024
Apple is negotiating with Google to integrate Gemini AI into iPhone features, signaling a major stra ...
The AI Revolution Through an Economic Lens
03/17/2024
A reading and discussion based on Per Bylund's "The Economics of the AI Revolution" https://mises.or ...
Should AI Gains Mean a 32-Hour Workweek?
03/15/2024
According to new legislation from Bernie Sanders, the answer is yes. Also on this episode, Apple buy ...
ChatGPT Gets a Body with the Figure 01 Robot
03/14/2024
A wild demo has the world talking about AI and robotics. Plus, Google has a new AI agent called SIMA ...
GPT-4.5 - Does a Cached Announcement Blog Prove It’s Coming?
03/14/2024
NLW gives the update on the EU AI Act, and why multiple parties don't love where it landed. Also, do ...
A New AI Safety Report (and Why the Media Loves the AI Extinction Narrative)
03/13/2024
US-funded report sparks media frenzy, advocating for drastic AI measures. Unpacking the actual conte ...
The Questions That Remain Around OpenAI's Board
03/11/2024
Elon Musk's latest attempt to differentiate from OpenAI is that he's promised to open source Grok th ...
Does AI Have a Capital Concentration Problem?
03/10/2024
A reading and discussion based off of this essay by Tim O'Reilly https://www.theinformation.com/arti ...
Inflection-2.5 Is a "Personal" AI at Near GPT-4 Levels
03/08/2024
Plus President Joe Biden talks AI at the State of the Union. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdow ...
Google Engineer Arrested for Selling AI Secrets to Chinese Companies
03/07/2024
A former Google engineer has been arrested for allegedly sharing AI secrets with Chinese companies. ...
OpenAI Publishes Emails Showing Elon Pushed For-Profit Conversion
03/06/2024
OpenAI has clapped back after Elon Musk sued them, publishing a set of emails that make it appear li ...
Elon Musk Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman
03/05/2024
Elon Musk has initiated legal action against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, alleging deviation from ...
5 Things To Know About Claude 3 - Anthropic’s Would-Be GPT-4 Killer
03/05/2024
Anthropic has just released Claude 3, and according to the benchmarks, it's GPT-4 level and then som ...
AI's Threat to History
03/04/2024
A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/opinion/ai-history-deepfake- ...
AI Is Transforming How We Interact With Computers
03/02/2024
A reading and discussion of the changing nature of the relationship between humans and computers, in ...
The 10 Biggest AI News Stories of the Past Month
03/01/2024
From Sora to Nvidia's stock surge to Mistral and Microsoft to controversy around Gemini and beyond, ...
REPORT: Llama 3 Coming in July (with Fewer Guardrails)
02/29/2024
The Information reports that Meta's most advanced model Llama 3 will be arriving in July, and will s ...
Work Disruption? Klarna's AI Assistant Does Work of 700 Full Time Agents
02/28/2024
Klarna's new AI chatbot, powered by OpenAI, has showcased impressive capabilities in its first month ...
Bing’s Sydney is Back, Unhinged and Very Unaligned
02/27/2024
While everyone has been watching the Gemini controversy (which wiped about $70B off of Alphabet/Goog ...
Mistral Launches Close-to-GPT-4-Level Model with Microsoft Partnership
02/26/2024
The model is proprietary rather than the open source Mistral has become known for. Also, a monster f ...
Google Gemini Anti-Woke Backlash: Culture War or AI Fear?
02/25/2024
Dive into the recent controversy surrounding Google Gemini's image generation. This discussion unrav ...
The Next Phase of Generative AI
02/24/2024
NLW argues that another phase of expectation in genAI has begun thanks to Groq, Sora, and Gemini Pro ...
After Seeing OpenAI’s Sora, Tyler Perry Cancelled Building an $800m Studio
02/24/2024
Discover how OpenAI's groundbreaking Sora video model impacted Hollywood, leading Tyler Perry to rec ...
Why Nvidia's Earnings Show AI is Still Just Beginning
02/22/2024
After smashing earnings once again, Nvidia rocketed up 15% and now has a bigger market cap than Meta ...
Is Elon Musk Bringing Midjourney to X?
02/21/2024
Elon says they're having discussions with the Midjourney team. Meanwhile, Google introduces its firs ...
Groq is 10x Faster than ChatGPT and Gemini
02/20/2024
Alongside Gemini 1.5's massive new context window, and Sora's mindblowing video generation, Groq has ...
Why Are People So Scared of Sora?
02/19/2024
NLW discusses the rise in anti-AI sentiment that seems to have followed the public announcement of O ...
The Science Behind Sora, OpenAI's Game Changing Video Model
02/18/2024
On today's episode NLW digs into the recently published research on OpenAI's Sora. Read more: https ...
The Surprising Way AI Will Make Us Value "Soft Skills"
02/17/2024
A reading and discussion of https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/14/opinion/ai-economy-jobs-colleges.html ...
OpenAI's Stunning New Video Model SORA Shocks the AI World
02/16/2024
Welp, they've done it again. On a day when it was supposed to be all about Google's million+ token l ...
Google Launches Gemini 1.5 with ONE MILLION Token Context Window
02/15/2024
Google surprises everyone with a massive context window on their new Gemini 1.5 model. Speaking of h ...
Karpathy Leaves OpenAI as OpenAI Launches Memory for ChatGPT
02/14/2024
OpenAI makes headlines with Andrej Karpathy's departure and the launch of a groundbreaking memory fe ...
OpenAI Hits $2B Revenue Run Rate
02/13/2024
OpenAI is growing even faster than we knew, according to new numbers shared with the Financial Times ...
Nvidia Surges Past Amazon's Market Cap and is Creeping on Google
02/12/2024
AI hype continues to drive results in the market. Also on this episode, Google is investing $25m int ...
Is Ukraine the First "AI War"?
02/11/2024
Ukraine has become a testing lab for advanced AI integrations into combat operations. ABOUT THE AI ...
Why the Impact of AI Will Be Even Weirder Than We Think
02/10/2024
A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/on-holding-back-the-strange-ai ...
Sam Altman Wants to Raise $5-$7 TRILLION for AI Chip Plants
02/10/2024
WSJ writes about an incredibly ambitious plan to transform the landscape for compute. Additionally, ...
OpenAI Building AI Agents as Google Launches Gemini Advanced
02/08/2024
Bard is no more! Bard has become Gemini and Gemini now features Gemini Advanced, which uses Gemini U ...
AI is Personal: On Microsoft's Copilot Super Bowl Ad
02/07/2024
Microsoft has released a 60-second Super Bowl commercial focused on their AI Copilot. NLW explores h ...
AI Unlocks Ancient Greek Scrolls Destroyed by Mt Vesuvius
02/06/2024
The Vesuvius Challenge is a $1m prize to use AI to decipher text seemingly lost on ancient Greek pap ...
LEAK: Google Gemini Ultra Coming This Week?
02/05/2024
According to a changelog found by an Android developer, Google Ultra is coming out on Wednesday, and ...
How AI Will Change Organized Labor
02/03/2024
A reading and discussion of an essay by one of Biden's most senior economic advisors. https://financ ...
Tim Cook Is FINALLY Hyping Apple AI
02/02/2024
Apple AI is coming this fall! At least according to a recent earnings call with CEO Tim Cook. Also, ...
The FCC Wants AI Robocalls to Be Illegal
02/01/2024
On this extended brief, NLW covers: the FCC's new push to make AI robocalls illegal; VW's new AI lab ...
These Are the Most Used AI Applications
01/31/2024
A new study has some surprising results for which AI applications are being the most used. Plus, is ...
OpenAI Launches Education and Safety Initiative
01/30/2024
OpenAI has launched an education and safety initiative with Common Sense Media. Also, Biden's Execut ...
US Gov't Says AI Labs Need to Notify Them Around LLM Training
01/30/2024
NLW looks at recent comments from Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo about an LLM disclosure regime ...
Train Humans, Not AI
01/27/2024
A discussion prompted by Esther Dyson's new essay "Don’t Fuss About Training AIs. Train Our Kids" ...
Google and HuggingFace Partner in Boost to Open Source AI
01/26/2024
A new partnership between Google Cloud and the 'Github for AI/ML models' team up to make open source ...
Can Viral NSFW Taylor Swift AI Images Make Deepfake Issues Go Mainstream?
01/25/2024
If anyone can make AI deepfakes a mainstream issue it's Taylor Swift. Plus geopolitical competition ...
Google’s Announcements Show 2 Key 2024 AI Trends
01/24/2024
Google Chrome announces 3 AI features for Chrome as well as an innovative new Video generation tool ...
The Surprising Reason AI Won't Steal Your Job
01/23/2024
A recent MIT study explored how cost effective automation really was and found that only 23% of jobs ...
Sam Altman's Secret Quest to Build AI Chip Plants
01/22/2024
Bloomberg and FT report on Sam Altman's latest efforts to raise billions to build more AI chip manuf ...
An Optimistic Take on AI and Inequality
01/20/2024
A reading and discussion based on "For all our fear of AI dystopia, it may help to level up society" ...
Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Make Open Source AGI
01/19/2024
Other revelations from an Instagram reel include that Meta will have around $20B worth of compute by ...
Google's AlphaGeometry Breakthrough
01/19/2024
A massive improvement in how AI can reason around geometry plus Samsung releases the AI-est AI phone ...
Altman Says AGI Soon, But Will Change the World Less Than We Think
01/17/2024
Sam Altman is among the business and political leaders descending upon Davos for the World Economic ...
60% of US Jobs Could Be Impacted by AI
01/16/2024
That's according to new research from the IMF. NLW also covers Elon wanting more control before buil ...
The Four Wars of the AI Stack: The Battles Shaping the Development of AI
01/14/2024
The wars include the Quality Data Wars, the War of the GPU Rich/Poor, the Multimodality War, the RAG ...
The Things We Know About AI So Far
01/13/2024
A reading and exploration of: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/signs-and-portents ABOUT THE AI BREAK ...
The AI Assistant and Agent Battle Heats Up
01/13/2024
Note: This episode was produced on Wednesday January 10th, but due to an ice storm never came out! A ...
What an OpenAI AMA Tells Us About the Future of GPTs and the GPT Store
01/12/2024
Plus a new Congressional working group focused on AI. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps ...
The GPT Store is LIVE! (But Does Anyone Care?)
01/11/2024
After a couple months of anticipation and more than 3 million user created GPTs, the GPT store has o ...
Duolingo Replaces 10% of Contractors With AI
01/10/2024
Plus OpenAI claps back at the New York Times copyright lawsuit. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Break ...
Andrej Karpathy Tries to Rebrand AI
01/08/2024
Is "Intelligence Amplification" a better term? Plus, Nvidia prepares to manufacture new chips for th ...
What Roles Should Government Play in AI?
01/06/2024
A reading of two essays that explore this question with very different answers. https://www.newswee ...
5 Predictions for the GPT Store Coming Next Week
01/05/2024
OpenAI announced the GPT Store is finally launching next week. NLW gives 5 predictions on how it wil ...
AI Researchers Put Risk of Human Extinction from AI at 5%
01/04/2024
A new survey asked 2,700+ AI/ML researchers about their fears concerning AI. This is how they respon ...
Is AI Headed for a Trough of Disillusionment?
01/03/2024
After the peak of inflated expectations comes the trough of disillusionment. After a dismal outing o ...
The State of AI in 2024
01/02/2024
NLW breaks down the industry as 2024 begins, from policy to AI safety to the state of the art in tec ...
How AI Will Impact Jobs in 2024
12/29/2023
NLW looks across a range of studies, surveys and predictions to try to parse out what the real impac ...
New York Times Sues OpenAI In What Could Be A Landmark Lawsuit
12/28/2023
The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft. While it's not the first copyright suit of its typ ...
Testing Suno.ai: The Viral AI Music Generator
12/24/2023
NLW looks at the state of AI music generators and gives the new Suno.ai a test run for the holidays. ...
8 Predictions for AI in 2024
12/23/2023
NLW reviews one set of predictions as a way of discussing what's coming next in AI. Built off of ht ...
The 10 Biggest AI Events of 2023
12/22/2023
NLW builds off of this list of the 10 biggest events of AI of 2023 to do a yearly recap! Interested ...
Anthropic Raising Another $750M at $15B-$20B Valuation
12/22/2023
Anthropic is raising money again. Also on this episode, a new poll suggests Americans want more gove ...
GPT-Engineer Launches App as Text-to-Code Platforms On the Rise
12/20/2023
Between GPT-Engineer App and v0 by Vercel, there are a growing number of text to code platforms that ...
The More Workers Use AI, The More They Fear for Their Jobs
12/19/2023
A new study from CNBC shows that the American workers who use AI the most are the most scared of it ...
Will AI Girlfriends Destroy the Fabric of Society?
12/18/2023
Digi's new AI girlfriend announcement went viral over the weekend, supercharging a conversation abou ...
2024 Generative AI Trend: Moving Beyond Chat Interfaces
12/17/2023
In today's episode, NLW explores how companies are increasingly combining natural language chat inte ...
Can AI Be Regulated In A Way That Preserves Freedom?
12/16/2023
A reading and discussion of a new piece by Zvi Mowshowitz https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2399849 ...
The Latest Developments in Superalignment
12/15/2023
OpenAI's Superalignment team, launched this summer, has just published their first paper about weak- ...
Is the GPT-4.5 "Leak" Real?
12/14/2023
A pricing page for GPT-4.5 is flying around and everyone is trying to figure out if it's real. Also, ...
Is ChatGPT Acting Lazy Because of the Holidays?
12/13/2023
Believe it or not, there is some fairly good evidence that ChatGPT is acting lazy (i.e. returning sh ...
AI Startups Are Having More Trouble Fundraising. Here's What It Means.
12/12/2023
AI startups have run counter to the trend of decreased VC all year, but even they're now feeling the ...
RUMOR: GPT-4.5 Coming Before EOY (Maybe Even This Week?)
12/11/2023
NLW looks at rumors from some sources that have previously had OpenAI insider leaks that GPT-4.5 cou ...
The Significance of Sam Altman as TIME CEO of the Year
12/10/2023
When Taylor Swift was named TIME's Person of the Year, many in the AI space had questions. Apparentl ...
China Drives D.C. to Be More AI Ambitious
12/09/2023
A reading of https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/11/30/china-global-ai-plans-00129160 vs htt ...
Meta Launches Midjourney, Dall-E-3 Competitor
12/08/2023
How does the new tool stand up to other image generators? And what else did Meta AI announce. The da ...
OpenAI's COO Says AI for Business is Overhyped. Is He Right?
12/07/2023
OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap recently got a big conversation going when he suggested that AI for busines ...
BREAKING: Google Launches Gemini
12/06/2023
GPT-4 finally has a credible competitor as Google launches Gemini! NLW covers the three-size model, ...
Meta, IBM Form AI Alliance to Counter OpenAI with More Open AI
12/05/2023
OpenAI is not open enough; at least not according to the new AI Alliance - a group led by Meta, IBM, ...
How Clashing Egos and Disagreements Shaped the AI Field
12/04/2023
From Elon Musk's fallout with Larry Page to...well...Elon Musk's fallout with Sam Altman...to Sam Al ...
Predictions for Generative AI Year 2
12/03/2023
Thursday was the one-year anniversary of ChatGPT. NLW reads (with the help of ElevenLabs) a group of ...
The Fight for AI's Soul Following OpenAI's Leadership Battle
12/02/2023
NLW reads excerpts from a set of pieces opining about AI after OpenAI's leadership battle and on the ...
Did Google DeepMind Just Revolutionize Materials Science?
12/01/2023
Deepmind's GNoME AI has 10x'd the number of known stable materials, and more than 736 of them have a ...
ChatGPT Launched 1 Year Ago Today: A Retrospective
11/30/2023
Happy Birthday ChatGPT! The incredibly influential software was launched on November 30, 2022. Five ...
Amazon Launches Q Chatbot: Is It A Disappointment or AI On Trend?
11/29/2023
We didn't get Amazon's rumored "Olympus" model, but we did get an enterprise focused chatbot called ...
Is Pika 1.0 AI Video's Breakout Moment?
11/28/2023
Pika Labs officially launched 1.0 and many think it might be representative of a coming breakout mom ...
Q*: Was This New Advance the Reason for Sam Altman's Firing?
11/27/2023
More information came out late last week about a model that showed signs of more advanced reasoning ...
How Close Are We To True AI Agents?
11/26/2023
An exploration of one of the hottest topics in AI. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you ...
Self-Regulation vs. More Regulation: The Right Approach for AI
11/25/2023
A reading of "Why self-regulation is best for artificial intelligence" https://thehill.com/opinion/4 ...
The Winners and Losers Following the OpenAI Power Struggle
11/24/2023
As the dust settles, NLW looks at who has benefitted and who has lost out after Sam Altman's removal ...
Stability AI Releases Stunning Stable Video Diffusion Model
11/23/2023
The company claims the video generator out performs Pika and Runway. Note: this is the Brief that wa ...
IT'S OVER! Sam Altman BACK as CEO of OpenAI
11/22/2023
After 5 days of tense negotiations, Sam Altman has returned as CEO of OpenAI, bringing Greg Brockman ...
OpenAI Board Asked Anthropic For Merger
11/21/2023
Apparently in addition to asking half of Silicon Valley to be the new CEO, over the weekend the Open ...
Latest OpenAI Drama: Altman/Brockman to Microsoft, Board Hires Former Twitch CEO; Employees Rebel
11/20/2023
WTAF is going on? First the board announced former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear as new CEO. Then Microsof ...
Sam Altman and Greg Brockman COMING BACK to OpenAI?!
11/19/2023
Act 3 of the Dumbest Palace Coup Ever, as employees and investors revolt and the board appears force ...
What REALLY Happened at OpenAI?
11/18/2023
Backstabbing. Ambition. Betrayal. After Sam Altman was fired and Greg Brockman quit, NLW digs in to ...
BREAKING: Sam Altman FIRED from OpenAI
11/17/2023
OpenAI has announced that Sam Altman has been removed over failures of communication with the board. ...
Gemini Delayed: Is Google In the Innovator's Dilemma?
11/17/2023
The Information reports that much-anticipated Gemini has been officially delayed. NLW explores inter ...
The Biggest AI Announcements from Microsoft Ignite
11/16/2023
Microsoft confirms long speculated Project Athena with the announcement of its first custom chips fo ...
OpenAI's AGI Committee
11/15/2023
OpenAI has a 6-person committee that will decide when AGI is achieved, with major implications for t ...
Which LLMs Hallucinate Least?
11/14/2023
On today's episode, NLW looks at new research about LLM hallucination; Google suing AI scammers; and ...
OpenAI Is Officially Training GPT-5
11/13/2023
Today on the AI Breakdown NLW looks at what GPTs are (and what they're not) and why many people are ...
How Close to Agents Are GPTs?
11/12/2023
A reading of Ethan Mollick's "Almost an Agent: What GPTs Can Do" https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/al ...
Humane Ai Pin: The Future of Computing or Solution in Search of a Problem?
11/11/2023
Humane has officially launched its Ai Pin and, if nothing else, it has stirred some serious controve ...
The Significance of OpenAI's New Data Partnerships Program
11/10/2023
OpenAI closed the week with yet another announcement -- this time about a new data partnerships prog ...
2X Bigger than GPT-4!? Amazon Is Training "Olympus"
11/09/2023
Sources are suggesting that Amazon is training a 2 trillion parameter model called Olympus. NLW look ...
Samsung Gauss and the AI Phone Wars
11/08/2023
Samsung announced a set of AI models they're calling Gauss as well as plans to put parts of the mode ...
OpenAI DevDay: Everything You Need To Know
11/07/2023
Yesterday OpenAI announces 128k GPT-4 Turbo at 1/3rd the price; a new Text-to-Speech model; Whisper ...
The AI Stack for Content Creators (aka the AI Tools I Actually Use)
11/06/2023
The best AI tools for content creators -- or at least the ones I use regularly, including Descript, ...
ChatGPT All Tools and What OpenAI Is Really Building
11/05/2023
In the lead up to November 6th's OpenAI DevDay, NLW looks at their recent launch of PDF reading and ...
BREAKING: Elon Announces xAI ChatGPT Competitor Grok
11/04/2023
A special, all-AI created bonus episode about Elon Musk's announcement of xAI's ChatGPT competitor G ...
An OpenAI Researcher on "Techno-Humanism"
11/04/2023
A reading of OpenAI research scientist Richard Ngo's essay "Techno-humanism is techno-optimism for t ...
Regulatory Capture? Meta AI Chief Accuses OpenAI, Anthropic of Stoking Fears
11/03/2023
The war of words between the AI safety advocates on the one side and the AI open source advocates on ...
Judge Delivers Blow to Artists AI Copyright Lawsuit
11/02/2023
A judge has dismissed many of the charges in a class action lawsuit brought against Stability AI, De ...
Apple is FINALLY Talking About AI
11/01/2023
With the M3 Max chip, Apple is finally pitching how they're going to compete in AI. Also on this epi ...
AI Proxy War: Google Invests $2B in Anthropic
10/31/2023
Google joins Amazon in investing in OpenAI rival Anthropic. Also a look at the reactions, debates an ...
Biden's AI Executive Order: Everything You Need to Know
10/30/2023
The Biden White House has released its expected Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence. NLW runs ...
The State of AI Regulation in the USA
10/30/2023
On the eve of the Biden Administration's anticipated executive order on artificial intelligence, NLW ...
Hinton and Bengio on Managing AI Risks
10/28/2023
A group of scientists, academics and researchers has released a new framework on managing AI risks. ...
OpenAI Forms Catastrophic Risk Preparedness Team
10/27/2023
OpenAI forms a team to focus on how to prepare for the biggest most catastrophic risks around AI. NL ...
White House AI Executive Order Coming Monday
10/26/2023
The Biden Admin's long promised AI executive order is coming Monday and it seems like it will use th ...
Midjourney vs. DALL-E-3: Can Midjourney's New Website Compete with ChatGPT Integration?
10/25/2023
Midjourney has made a number of moves recently after DALL-E-3 was integrated into ChatGPT. Those inc ...
LEAKED: First Look at Gemini Multimodal?
10/24/2023
A Medium user has posted a set of screenshots that purport to show Google's forthcoming Gemini model ...
Can We Have AI Progress and AI Safety at the Same Time?
10/23/2023
NLW explores a new policy proposal from some extremely notable AI leaders around how we can continue ...
The AI Competitive Landscape One Year After ChatGPT
10/22/2023
NLW looks at where companies fit in the competitive matrix of artificial intelligence - from OpenAI ...
AI Leaders Call for International Panel on AI Safety
10/21/2023
In this weekend's long read, two very different takes on the future than those we heard about in the ...
OpenAI Quietly Abandoned Arrakis Model Earlier This Year
10/20/2023
In a rare miss, OpenAI had to shutter their Arrakis model earlier this year. They had hoped that the ...
Which AI Model is the Most Transparent?
10/19/2023
A group of researchers from Stanford, MIT and Princeton have come up with a new system for determini ...
China-US AI Tensions and AI Safety Summit Controversy
10/18/2023
The US has once again tightened restrictions on chip exports and other AI engagements with China. NL ...
AI Agents Coming to OpenAI Dev Event?
10/17/2023
NLW digs into rumors and reports around what we can expect from the OpenAI developer event coming in ...
The Techno-Optimist Manifesto
10/16/2023
Marc Andreessen has just published The Techno-Optimist Manifesto. NLW reads the piece and provides c ...
The 7 Use Case Categories of ChatGPT-4 Vision
10/15/2023
ChatGPT-4 Vision is one of the biggest AI product updates of the last few months and people are stil ...
Can AI Detect AI? And Other Frequently Asked Questions
10/14/2023
NLW excerpts Professor Ethan Mollick's recent essay "What people ask me most." https://www.oneuseful ...
The US Wants To Block China's Access to Advanced AI Models
10/13/2023
The US-China AI battle heats up as the Biden Administration looks into ways to deny China access to ...
The State of AI Report: Research, Industry, Politics and Safety
10/12/2023
On today's episode, NLW reviews Air Street's epic 6th annual State of AI report - https://www.stateo ...
AI Chip Wars: Tesla Building "Bunkerlike" Home for Dojo Supercomputer
10/11/2023
Tesla is building a massive facility for their Dojo supercomputer. NLW explores how it could impact ...
The Latest AutoGPT and AI Agent Developments
10/10/2023
AutoGPT held a hackathon last weekend and is in the midst of a global virtual hackathon. Also the la ...
AI Operations and AI Engineer: The New Careers AI Is Creating
10/09/2023
On today's episode, NLW explores the ways AI is changing people's career paths. In particular, he ex ...
What's Next in Phase Two of Generative AI?
10/08/2023
In today's episode, NLW picks up where yesterday leaves off with a discussion of what's coming down ...
The End of the First Phase of Generative AI
10/07/2023
A reading and exploration of Prof. Ethan Mollick's The shape of the shadow of The Thing https://www. ...
The Epik AI Yearbook Trend Taking Over Social Media
10/06/2023
Epik's AI Yearbook photos are everywhere you look. In this video, NLW explores why AI avatar apps ke ...
AI's Integration Phase: Canva Launches Slate of AI Features
10/05/2023
AI is moving to a phase of integration where companies are figuring out how to bring AI tools into e ...
Anthropic Raising at a $20B-$30B Valuation
10/04/2023
Just a couple weeks after announcing their big Amazon deal, Anthropic is out fundraising again with ...
The AI Wearable Wars
10/03/2023
Tab and Rewind Pendant both announced AI wearables this week, while Humane premiered on a fashion ru ...
Mobile LLMs? The Battle to Get AI on Our Phones
10/02/2023
Stability AI has released a new 3b model that outperforms some 7b and 20b models, and previews the f ...
Warriors, Doomsayers, Reformers: Understanding the Factions in AI
10/01/2023
NLW explores an argument from a recent essay around the three factions that drive discourse in artif ...
Are Copyright Battles Against AI Destined to Fail?
09/30/2023
NLW looks at three arguments around AI and copyright and why the current contentious approach being ...
ChatGPT Vision: 8 Ways People Are Using It Already
09/30/2023
ChatGPT Vision hasn't even been broadly rolled out yet and already people who do have access are sho ...
The 5 Most Important AI Announcements from Meta Connect
09/28/2023
Yesterday at Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg announces that AI was going everywhere across the Meta su ...
OpenAI Raising at $90B and Trolls Everyone, Saying AGI Has Been Achieved
09/27/2023
OpenAI man. The company is reportedly offering employees a chance to sell shares between an $80b-$90 ...
Automated AI Translations Come to Spotify, Undermining Numerous AI Startups
09/26/2023
Last week Youtube announced automated dubbing features and now Spotify has unveiled AI translation f ...
ChatGPT Can Now See and Hear
09/25/2023
The race towards multimodal LLMs is heating up! With rumors of a big impending launch of Google Gemi ...
Americans Are Getting Less Trustful of Artificial Intelligence
09/24/2023
On today's episode, NLW looks at a set of recent survey results surrounding attitudes towards AI. Th ...
6 Months After the "6-Month Pause" Letter, Has the AI Safety Conversation Changed?
09/23/2023
Six months ago, a group of scientists and other leaders signed a letter asking for a six month pause ...
Is This The First AI-Powered Operating System?
09/22/2023
Microsoft announced that the complete Windows 11 operating system was going to have access to their ...
5 Reasons DALL-E 3 in ChatGPT is a Huge Deal
09/21/2023
OpenAI has announced that DALL-E 3 image generation is coming natively to ChatGPT. NLW explores 5 re ...
Will Intel's New Chip Usher in the 'Age of the AI PC'?
09/20/2023
Intel has announced a new AI focused chip that they say will allow generative AI applications to run ...
Google Bard Gets Major Update While OpenAI Races to Multimodal
09/19/2023
Google Bard announced a big update including a deep integration with Google Workspace apps. At the s ...
Knowledge Workers Produce 40% Better Results When Using AI - Study
09/18/2023
A new study undertaken by Boston Consulting Group and prominent AI researchers shows that consultant ...
GPT-4 More Creative Than the Average Person According to Recent Study
09/17/2023
On this research recap, NLW looks at AI creativity https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-4085 ...
Should OpenAI Have Been A Government Program?
09/16/2023
That's what Sam Altman argued, but the state of America's civic life brings up many questions of whe ...
SCOOP: Google Testing Gemini With Partners -- Launch Soon?
09/15/2023
The Information has another Google AI scoop with reports that Google has pushed Gemini to testing wi ...
$550B In Net Worth Met In D.C. To Talk AI: Did Anything Get Done?
09/14/2023
Senator Chuck Schumer hosted an AI Summit with the CEOs of most of the world's biggest tech companie ...
Apple's AI Strategy Revealed?
09/13/2023
At the iPhone/Apple Watch event yesterday we learned about Apple's new, more powerful chip and neura ...
Open Interpreter: How People Are Using Github's Hottest AI Project
09/12/2023
Open Interpreter is a local, private version of GPT4 Code Interpreter. It was released last week and ...
Meta is Working on a ChatGPT Killer
09/11/2023
Today NLW looks at a WSJ report that Meta is pushing for a GPT-4 powered Llama 4 to be released open ...
How Elon Musk Became Consumed with AI Safety
09/10/2023
A new TIME Magazine cover story excerpts Walter Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk to tell the story ...
Don't Believe the Lull: AI Is Screaming Forward
09/09/2023
An exploration of an essay from Tyler Cowen "The AI Hype Has Subsided But The Revolution Continues" ...
AI's 100 Most Influential (According to TIME)
09/09/2023
Today NLW looks at TIME's first ever list of the 100 most influential people in AI, including some o ...
Apple Spending Millions Each Day Training AI
09/07/2023
According to new reporting from The Information, Apple is spending millions each day training AI. Th ...
An Open GPT-4 Level Model? Meet Falcon 180B
09/06/2023
Falcon 180B is a new open access foundation model that reportedly performs between GPT3.5 and GPT-4 ...
Study: Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback Performs As Well As Human Feedback
09/05/2023
Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW looks at new research from Google that shows that reinforcement learn ...
Is OpenAI Secretly Training GPT-5?
09/04/2023
Inflection's Mustafa Suleyman indicates that he is skeptical of claims that OpenAI isn't training GP ...
Who Will Create and Capture the Most Value in AI?
09/03/2023
An exploration of defensibility, value capture and economic structure in artificial intelligence. Wi ...
Should AI Make Us Want A National Privacy Law?
09/02/2023
NLW explores questions of privacy prompted by the essay "Want Protection from AI? The First Step is ...
Are Educators Ready for a ChatGPT School Year?
09/01/2023
As September and the Fall begins, NLW checks in on the conversation about ChatGPT among educators as ...
The Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence
08/31/2023
On today's episode, NLW looks at news that the US has pushed Nvidia and AMD to stop AI chip exports ...
OpenAI Is Now On A Billion Dollar Revenue Pace
08/30/2023
On the Brief, NLW looks at new reports that OpenAI is clearing $80,000,000 a month, even before the ...
ChatGPT Enterprise Is Here - How It Shapes the AI Competitive Landscape
08/29/2023
OpenAI yesterday announced the much anticipated ChatGPT Enterprise. The service comes with the most ...
Was Elon's Tesla FSD Demo the ChatGPT Moment For Self-Driving Cars?
08/28/2023
On Friday, Elon Musk did a live video on X to show off Tesla's Full Self Driving v12. The interestin ...
How Will We Know When AI Becomes Conscious?
08/27/2023
Exploring a new paper attempting to begin creating a systematic approach to answering that question. ...
The Peril and Potential of AutoGPT
08/26/2023
Reading excerpts from Zvi Moshowitz' "On AutoGPT" from his blog/newsletter "Don't Worry About the Va ...
Code Llama Kicks LLM for Code Battle Into Overdrive
08/25/2023
Meta has released LLM-for-coding Code Llama in numerous versions. NLW explores the community discuss ...
Was Nvidia's Earnings Call A '1995 Internet Moment'?
08/24/2023
One Wall Street analyst thinks that Nvidia's earnings will be seen in the future as a 1995 Internet ...
How Big A Deal Is GPT-3.5 Fine-Tuning From OpenAI?
08/24/2023
OpenAI has released finetuning for GPT-3.5 Turbo. It's expensive, and for some comes with privacy co ...
The Future of AI Music: YouTube and Universal Partner
08/22/2023
Universal and YouTube are partnering on an AI music incubator and other approaches to AI music that ...
Should the US Nationalize the Artificial Intelligence Industry?
08/21/2023
That's the argument of one Politico columnist. NLW examines the argument in depth. Before that on th ...
Could Google's Gemini Be A ChatGPT Killer?
08/20/2023
AI Twitter is buzzing with cryptic posts about how the LLM world is set to change in the next few mo ...
Could AI End Up Being Good for Democracy?
08/19/2023
The standard discourse around AI and politics is one of fear. Deepfakes. Election tampering. Misinfo ...
Meta to Launch Open Source Coding AI as Latest Assault on OpenAI
08/18/2023
Meta is launching a new open source AI specifically for code generation which could undercut paid to ...
Snapchat Users Freaked Out as My AI Goes Rogue
08/17/2023
Users were not stoked when Snapchat's My AI chatbot posted a story yesterday -- something it wasn't ...
Why AI Hype Has Peaked (And Why That's A Good Thing)
08/16/2023
In today's episode, NLW explores the factors that have driven AI past its peak of hype, and what's a ...
AGI By 2032? The Most Interesting AI Predictions
08/15/2023
On today's episode, NLW looks at Metaculus prediction markets around various AI events. Before that ...
How The AI Backlash Killed This Literary Startup
08/14/2023
Prosecraft is the first casualty of the AI backlash. Was it justified, or simply inevitable? Before ...
As WormGPT Goes White Hat, Evil-GPT Emerges
08/13/2023
WormGPT was initially advertised as an LLM for doing bad things. According to a recent interview wit ...
AI and the Turning Point Moment in Human History
08/12/2023
A reading of and discussion around Tyler Cowen's "Existential risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in h ...
The Alignment Problem: How To Tell If An LLM Is Trustworthy
08/11/2023
New research attempts to put together a complete taxonomy for trustworthiness in LLMs. Before that o ...
76% of Americans Think AI Might Kill Us
08/10/2023
A new survey from the AI Policy Institute shows that Americans are extremely concerns about AI and s ...
The LLM for Coding Competition Heats Up!
08/09/2023
On the Brief: Stability AI releases StableCode as Google opens the waitlist for its in-browser AI-po ...
GPTBot AI Data Controversy and the Remaining Challenges of LLMs
08/08/2023
NLW reviews a recent research paper which provides a comprehensive overview of the state of LLM deve ...
Apple Reveals It Spent Billions on AI R&D
08/07/2023
During last week's earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Apple anticipated putting generative ...
Why We're Radically Underestimating the Political Implications of AI Job Displacement
08/06/2023
NLW opines on the increasingly popular canard "AI won't take your job; someone using AI will" and fi ...
Why Do People Who Think AI Could Kill Us All Still Work on AI?
08/05/2023
A reading of "Given Extinction Worries, Why Don’t AI Researchers Quit? Well, Several Reasons" by D ...
Code Interpreter is GPT-4.5: A Summer AI Technical Roundup [feat. Swyx and Alessio of Latent Space]
08/04/2023
Today NLW is joined by Swyx and Alessio, the hosts of the Latent Space podcast to discuss the key te ...
The Frontier of AI-Generated Music Models
08/03/2023
On today's episode NLW explores Meta's newly launched AudioCraft compared to Google MusicLM. Before ...
Has Open Source Screwed a Whole Generation of AI Startups?
08/02/2023
NLW explores some of the unexpected developments in the AI space, with a focus on how open source ha ...
Is GPT-5 On the Way? OpenAI Files Trademark
08/01/2023
A look at a recent trademark filing; Facebook launching AI Personas; a leaked Instagram feature iden ...
The AI-Robotics Revolution: Robots That Think Like LLMs
07/31/2023
Google recently shared its RT-2 model which can translate generalized instructions into robotic cont ...
The 5 Most Important AI News Stories Last Month
07/30/2023
OpenAI Superalignment? Claude 2? White House? Find out what NLW thinks were the most important AI ne ...
AI for War? Debating the Military Use of AI
07/29/2023
A reading of Palantir CEO Alex Karp's recent essay for the New York Times and discussing the militar ...
A Mysterious GPU Startup Sets Up In The Middle East
07/28/2023
On today's episode: The Information reports on a mysterious startup with ex-Meta, AWS and Azure team ...
Better Than Midjourney? Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 Can Generate Words
07/27/2023
Text-to-image but with non-gibberish words! The dream is now real thanks to Stable Diffusion XL whic ...
Can OpenAI and Anthropic's Frontier Model Forum Improve AI Safety?
07/26/2023
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft have teamed up to create the Frontier Model Forum. Will it i ...
Does This Research Prove That ChatGPT Has Gotten Worse?
07/25/2023
A new research paper from Stanford and Berkeley says that yes, indeed ChatGPT has gotten worse. Howe ...
Can Worldcoin Help Solve AI's Big Economic Problems?
07/24/2023
Dystopia or solution? That's the debate that rages around Worldcoin, one of the most ambitious and c ...
Is Open Source AI Dangerous?
07/23/2023
Last week, Meta announced its Llama 2 model, one of the most powerful open source LLMs yet. Today on ...
5 Ways People Are Using ChatGPT's Powerful New Custom Instructions Feature
07/22/2023
This week ChatGPT released a new "Custom Instruction" feature that allows users to customize informa ...
White House Secures Responsible AI Commitment from OpenAI, Meta, Google, Anthropic and Others
07/21/2023
The White House continues its engagement with the artificial intelligence space today releasing a se ...
AppleGPT? Apple Has Been Secretly Working on a ChatGPT Competitor
07/20/2023
Bloomberg reports that Apple has developed an LLM platform called Ajax upon which they've built a ch ...
Meta Llama 2 Is Here! Everything You Need to Know About OpenAI's Biggest Open Source Competitor
07/19/2023
The much anticipated Meta Llama 2 model has been released, and as hoped it is available for commerci ...
Where Are All the Aliens: Does AI Explain the Fermi Paradox?
07/18/2023
The Fermi Paradox refers to the discrepancy between what seems like the high chance of other intelli ...
AI Bubble? Layoffs Hit AI Companies
07/17/2023
Jasper and Mutiny have both laid off part of their teams in recent weeks, leading some to question w ...
Bard vs. Bing vs. Claude vs. ChatGPT: The Right LLM For Every Task
07/16/2023
LLM competition ratchets up seemingly every week. At this point, the different design choices that m ...
Bill Gates on Why Humans Can Handle AI Risks
07/15/2023
Bill Gates has penned another letter about AI, this time arguing that humans are more prepared than ...
OpenAI Investigated by FTC for ChatGPT Harms
07/14/2023
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is looking into whether OpenAI's ChatGPT has caused consumer harm ...
Elon Musk Announces xAI: Here's Everything We Know So Far
07/13/2023
Elon Musk is launching xAI, a new AI company to explore the big questions of the universe. NLW looks ...
ChatGPT's First True Competitor? Anthropic Releases Claude 2
07/12/2023
Anthropic has released Claude 2. The model preforms comparably to GPT-4 but offers a 100k context wi ...
Why Google Is Intentionally Limiting the Power of Bard AI
07/11/2023
Google CEO Sunday Pichai told 60 Minutes that the company is purposefully limiting the power and cap ...
5 Ways AI Could Improve Humanity
07/10/2023
Today NLW reads the companion piece to yesterday's episode -- 5 Ways AI Could Improve the World htt ...
5 Ways AI Could Destroy Humanity
07/09/2023
A reading of "Five ways AI might destroy the world: â€Everyone on Earth could fall over dead in the ...
Forget Alignment, Here's Why Every AI Needs an Individual "Soul"
07/08/2023
A reading of David Brin's "Give Every AI a Soul - or Else" https://www.wired.com/story/give-every-ai ...
ChatGPT Code Interpreter Is Finally Coming Next Week!
07/07/2023
After months of waiting, ChatGPT Code Interpreter plugin is coming to all ChatGPT plus users next we ...
OpenAI Sets Moonshot Goal of AI Superalignment in 4 Years
07/06/2023
Yesterday OpenAI announced a major effort for what they call 'Superalignment' to align superintellig ...
Will AI Replace All Coders Within 5 Years?
07/05/2023
Stability AI's CEO Emad Mostaque has predicted that there will be no human coders within 5 years. On ...
Will AI Increase Freedom or Help Authoritarians?
07/04/2023
AI could be a tool for the promotion of freedom, or it could aid in surveillance, control, and an ex ...
The AI Data Wars: Why Elon Musk's Rate Limits Are About More Than Twitter
07/03/2023
The AI Data Wars come to Twitter as Elon Musk rate limits users in an attempt to block AI data scrap ...
Translating Brainwaves to Images and Other Cutting Edge AI Research
07/02/2023
Today on The AI Breakdown, a research recap of the most interesting recent AI research, including: ...
60 Possible AGI Futures
07/01/2023
The debate around AI safety is often presented as a binary, but in reality there are a huge array of ...
Inflection Raises Monster $1.3 Billion Round to Build One of World's Biggest AI Clusters
06/30/2023
Inflection has raised $1.3B for its "personal intelligence" and to build one of the world's largest ...
The AI Arms Race Heats Up: US Considers Blocking AI Chip Exports
06/29/2023
The Commerce Department is considering blocking AI chip exports from companies like Nvidia to China. ...
AI M&A: Billion Dollar Acquisitions Reshape AI Landscape
06/28/2023
Today on The AI Breakdown Brief: Databricks acquires Mosaic for $1.3B Ramp acquires Cohere.io ...
DragGAN's Amazing Drag-to-Edit Photo AI Releases Source Code
06/27/2023
Today on The AI Breakdown Brief: DragGAN the much hyped AI image editing tool that allows massive ...
Is AI "Alien Intelligence?" Emerson Spartz on Mental Models for AI
06/26/2023
Emerson Spartz has been building internet and media companies since starting MuggleNet, the world's ...
What the Head of the New UK AI Foundation Model Taskforce Thinks of AI
06/25/2023
Entrepreneur and investor Ian Hogarth was recently named Chair of the UK's AI Foundation Model Taskf ...
"AI Will Modify Our Interface For Information" A Conversation with Maven CEO Gagan Biyani
06/24/2023
For more than a decade, across numerous startups Gagan Biyani has helped lead the online education r ...
Multi-On is What You Wanted AutoGPT to Be - Interview with Founder Div Garg
06/23/2023
Today NLW is joined by Div Garg, the founder of Multi-On which is an AI personal agent that uses the ...
AI is the First UI Paradigm Shift in 60 Years
06/22/2023
AI represents the third major UI paradigm shift in computing. From batch processing to command-based ...
Biden Meets AI Safety Experts As White House Promises Decisive Action
06/21/2023
President Biden yesterday met with AI safety experts in San Francisco as the White House promises "d ...
The Faux Outrage Around OpenAI's EU Lobbying
06/20/2023
Today TIME published a "scoop" about OpenAI's lobbying efforts in 2022 around the EU AI Act. NLW arg ...
GPT Engineer Generates An Entire Codebase Based On A Prompt
06/19/2023
GPT-Engineer is the latest AI project to have Github developers going nuts. The project promises to ...
The Most Interesting AI Research This Week
06/18/2023
A Research Roundup including: -AssistGPT -LLaMA multimodal adapter -Meta Voicebox -Text-to-Video -LL ...
A Critique of Marc Andreessen's "Why AI Will Save The World"
06/17/2023
Last week's Long Reads was Marc Andreessen's "Why AI Will Save the World." This week we read Dwarkes ...
How Worried About China AI Should We Be?
06/16/2023
Senators Mark Warner and Ted Cruz discus China's AI advances while Bill Gates meets with Chinese Pre ...
EU Passes AI Act, But Generative AI Provisions Remain Controversial
06/15/2023
The EU has passed its AI Act. The risk-based approach has banned some things (like live facial recog ...
Why OpenAI's API Updates Will Change How We Use ChatGPT
06/14/2023
OpenAI has announced a set of API updates including lower prices, a larger 16k context window, and s ...
AI at Work: Is Enterprise AI the Next Big Trend?
06/13/2023
Enterprise AI is a major theme for investors and corporations alike. Salesforce just announced their ...
New ChatGPT Features Leaked?
06/12/2023
Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW looks at how the real estate industry is thinking about the impact of ...
Will AI Save The World?
06/11/2023
That's the claim in Marc Andreessen's massive new 7000 word missive "Why AI Will Save The World." ...
Creating Worlds From Words: The Most Essential AI News This Week
06/10/2023
Today on the Weekly Recap, NLW looks at the most essential AI news stories across new tools, importa ...
The 5 Most Exciting AI Tools Launched This Week
06/09/2023
From text-to-3D avatar to text-to-video to music you create with gestures, these are the most intere ...
Are We In An AI Bubble?
06/08/2023
Is AI in bubble territory yet? Ever since Nvidia's massive move up recently, people have been asking ...
OpenAI's 6 Strategies For Better ChatGPT Prompting
06/07/2023
OpenAI has published a new guide with 6 recommendations for better ChatGPT prompting. The recommenda ...
Can SuperAGI Be What People Wanted from AutoGPT?
06/06/2023
AutoGPT was all the AI hotness a few months ago, with its promise of autonomous AI agents. Now, a ne ...
Apple AI? Apple Didn't Say "Artificial Intelligence" Once at WWDC
06/05/2023
Those expecting a big AI announcement at Apple's WWDC were disappointed today, however those waiting ...
AI Gaming Lights Up: The Biggest AI News This Week
06/04/2023
AI news continues to come fast and furious. On today's weekly recap, NLW covers the biggest stories ...
TIME Asks: Is AI the End of Humanity?
06/03/2023
TIME Magazine's current cover story is titled "The End of Humanity: How Real Is The Risk?" It's a ma ...
BONUS: Riley Goodside on The Art of Prompting ChatGPT [The Cognitive Revolution preview]
06/03/2023
This is a special preview episode of The Cognitive Revolution: How AI Changes Everything. Hosted by ...
An AI Drone Killed Its Operator In A USAF Simulation -- Except That's Not Actually What Happened
06/02/2023
A bogus story about an AI simulation gone wrong made headlines around the world, until the progentio ...
Can OpenAI's New GPT Training Model Solve Math and AI Alignment At the Same Time?
06/01/2023
A look at the latest developments from OpenAI, including new features, a cybersecurity grant program ...
Are ChatGPT Plugins Overhyped?
05/31/2023
ChatGPT Plugins are one of the most hyped things in AI -- but are they overhyped? In this episode, N ...
Nvidia Is Building an AI Supercomputer and Gaming Platform
05/30/2023
Nvidia made a huge number of AI related announcements at Computex, including new chips, a new AI sup ...
AI Alignment and AGI - How Worried Should We Actually Be?
05/28/2023
A reading of Max Tegmark's essay "The 'Don't Look Up' Thinking That Could Doom Us With AI" The AI B ...
The 5 Biggest AI News Stories This Week
05/27/2023
AI news this week - here are the 5 most important stories! AI regulation and safety - OpenAI, Mi ...
The 9 AI Tools I Actually Use Every Day As A Content Creator
05/26/2023
Lists of 1000s of AI tools abound, but here are the 9 I actually use every day (with a watchlist wit ...
NVIDIA Sets Off An AI Stock Frenzy While Elon Warns of the Terminator Scenario
05/25/2023
Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW reviews comments from Elon Musk and Eric Schmidt at yesterday's WSJ C ...
Mind-Reading AI Generates Videos from Brainwaves
05/24/2023
Researchers have developed a new method called Mind-Video for generating semantically accurate video ...
This Massive New AI Model is 5.7x Bigger than ChatGPT's Dataset
05/23/2023
On today's episode, NLW looks at global regulatory proposals from OpenAI and Google, as well as a nu ...
Can ChatGPT Outperform Wall Street?
05/22/2023
Last month, a University of Florida study showed ChatGPT with 500% returns using news and sentiment ...
How Bad Will AI Jobs Loss Be?
05/21/2023
On Tuesday, there was a strange exchange between Senator Richard Blumenthal and OpenAI CEO Sam Altma ...
Are OpenAI Trying for Regulatory Capture?
05/20/2023
On this edition of The AI Breakdown weekly recap, NLW looks at all the AI news, including Mind-blo ...
The Official ChatGPT Mobile App Will Change How We Use AI
05/19/2023
Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW goes over the news of OpenAI's release of an official ChatGPT app, an ...
Yuval Noah Harari on the Challenge of AI and the Future of Humanity
05/18/2023
Find the complete presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWiM-LuRe6w&t=2005s 0:00 Int ...
The 10 Most Interesting and Useful ChatGPT Plugins So Far
05/17/2023
From Youtube video summarizers to Spotify playlist generators to tools to chat with your PDFs, some ...
7 Takeaways from the Senate's AI Hearing
05/16/2023
From a surprising lack of skepticism to clear echoes of social media regulatory failures, NLW covers ...
Is Google's New Bard Really the ChatGPT Killer?
05/15/2023
NLW tests ChatGPT and the newly updated and opened Bard across 5 categories including creative, trav ...
Can Blockchains Solve Deep Fakes and Other AI Challenges?
05/14/2023
This is an excerpt from a discussion that originally happened on The Breakdown crypto/macro podcast. ...
The Most Important AI News From A Week Where We Glimpsed The Future
05/13/2023
On this week's Weekly Recap: OpenAI Shap-E text-to-3D Anthropic 100k context window Meta ImageBi ...
"How I Went from Non-Technical to Building an Andrew Tate LLM Chatbot in 3 Months"
05/12/2023
Today in the first of a series on AI learning journeys, NLW is joined by Emmet Halm. At the beginnin ...
The Top 5 AI Announcements from Google I/O
05/11/2023
Google tries to reclaim a leadership position in generative AIÂ Honorable Mention - Adobe Firefly ...
What Comes After ChatGPT? A Preview of the Future of LLMs
05/10/2023
Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW describes three bits of news from this week that together help us get ...
How to Get AutoGPT on Your Phone (And What People Are Actually Finding it Useful For)
05/09/2023
A check-in on AutoGPT as well as the headline news: Updates from the US copyright office Pitchboo ...
Warren Buffett Compares AI to the Invention of the Atom Bomb
05/08/2023
On today's episode, we discuss Warren Buffett's recent comments on AI as well as cover a primer of t ...
AI Just Quietly Had One of It's Most Important Weeks in Recent History
05/06/2023
NLW argues Geoffrey Hinton's defection from Google and his progress mainstreaming the AI safety conv ...
Google Losing to Open Source AI? "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"
05/05/2023
This week, a Google researcher had a note leaked that argued that Google (and OpenAI) were going to ...
6 Ways ChatGPT Code Interpreter Is Already Being Used
05/04/2023
Code Interpreter is a new plugin for ChatGPT that is allowing for amazing data analysis and visualiz ...
The First Anti-AI Strike: The Writers Guild of America Protests AI Writing
05/03/2023
The Writers Guild of America is striking after not being able to come to an agreement with TV and fi ...
Mind-Reading AI? Scientists Use GPT-Like AI to Accurately Translate Thoughts into Text
05/02/2023
Our main discussion is focused on new research out of the University of Texas Austin on GPT-like AI ...
Text-to-Image AI That Can Actually Spell!? Meet DeepFloyd IF
05/01/2023
If you've ever used Midjourney, Dall-E, Stable Diffusion or another text-to-image generator, you'll ...
Raoul Pal: AI is the Most Disinflationary Force in Our Lifetimes
05/01/2023
On this episode of The AI Breakdown, NLW is joined by Real Vision CEO Raoul Pal to discuss AI as a d ...
Real Life "Her"? A Chat with AI Avatar Call Annie About AI Alignment and More
04/29/2023
On Wednesday night I had a "FaceTime" with Call Annie. It's a new app that matches AI language model ...
The Most Important AI News This Week: ChatGPT Browse, Apple Quartz, GPT Robot Dogs
04/28/2023
Discussed on the show: ChatGPT Privacy - https://twitter.com/DataChaz/status/1650961357913616402 ...
The Latest on AutoGPT and BabyAGI: Semi-Autonomous Specialized Agents (SASAs)
04/27/2023
Meet semi-autonomous specialized agents (SASAs), more descreet, focused implementations of AutoGPT a ...
ChatGPT Adds Private Mode as HuggingFace Launches Open Source Competitor
04/26/2023
Yesterday ChatGPT announced a number of important updates, including a privacy preserving mode that ...
Profit or Piracy? How AI Disrupts Industries
04/25/2023
A case study in the disruptive force of AI to traditional industries. Will they respond as have prev ...
Why GPT-4-32k Will Totally Transform What We Can Do With AI
04/24/2023
GPT-4 as most people use it has an 8K token limit. Some already have access to a version with a 32K ...
The Problems with AutoGPT and BabyAGI: How Useful Are They Really?
04/22/2023
For the last 3 weeks, AutoGPT has massively captured the attention of the AI community. But how usef ...
I Asked ChatGPT and Its New Open Source Competitor StableLM if AI Should Be Open Source. Here's What They Said.
04/21/2023
Stability AI announced StableLM this week and open source AI advocates are over the moon. On this ep ...
The AI Data Wars: Elon Threatens to Sue Microsoft While Viral AI Drake Track Stuns Music Industry
04/20/2023
We're seeing more and more instances of industries, companies and individuals fighting back against ...
AI that Can See the World? Meet MiniGPT-4 an Open Source Image-to-Text Model
04/19/2023
We've had many examples of text-to-image but fewer AI models that can interpret images. MiniGPT-4 is ...
Can Open Source AI Compete with Big Tech? A Look at TruthGPT, RedPajama and MiniGPT
04/18/2023
Some argue that open source AI is the key to making AI's benefits to the entire world, as well as ma ...
The AI Arms Race: Where the World's Biggest Companies Stand
04/17/2023
Google is working on a top secret search update called "Magi." Amazon announced Bedrock last week. T ...
Is AutoGPT Dangerous?
04/15/2023
There's no denying AutoGPT represents an incredible advance in AI, but does it create new risk we sh ...
5 Ways AutoGPT is Already Being Used
04/13/2023
AutoGPT is lighting up the developer and AI community. Here are five uses happening right now: Sta ...
What is AutoGPT and Why is Everyone Talking About It?
04/12/2023
Less than a week old, AutoGPT has exploded onto the scene. AutoGPTs are AIs that, once assigned a ta ...
Should the US Gov't Have to Review and License AI Tools?
04/12/2023
That's the question the Biden Administration is asking American citizens to comment on. WSJ and othe ...
Introducing The AI Breakdown
04/04/2023
Meet The AI Breakdown - a semiweekly news analysis show on all things artificial intelligence, aka A ...
What OpenAI's RecentAcquisitions Tell Us About Their Strategy
06/26/2024
OpenAI has made significant moves with their recent acquisitions of Rockset and Multi, signaling the ...
7 Observations From the AI Engineer World's Fair
06/28/2024
Dive into the latest insights from the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco. This event, tout ...
The Most Important AI Product Launches This Week
06/28/2024
The productization era of AI is in full effect as companies compete not only for the most innovative ...
AI and Autonomous Weapons
07/01/2024
A reading and discussion inspired by: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/25/ai-weapon-u ...
Will AI Acqui-hires Avoid Antitrust Scrutiny?
07/02/2024
Amazon bought Adept...sort of. Just like Microsoft soft of bought Inflect. NLW explores the new big ...
Apple is Getting an OpenAI Board Observer Seat
07/04/2024
Plus, Figma pulls its AI after claims it produces results too close to existing apps. NLW covers all ...
Privacy, Censorship and AI: A Conversation with Venice.ai
07/05/2024
On this holiday weekend bonus episode, NLW is joined by Erik Voorhees and Teana Baker-Taylor of Veni ...
How AI Could Accelerate Digital Nations
07/07/2024
A reading of Balaji's 2013 ""How Software is Reorganizing the World" with a discu ...
Can AI Keep Propping Up the Stock Market?
07/08/2024
NLW covers recent comments by Fed Chair Jerome Powell on AI; a shifting narrative around AI and stoc ...
What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About Sequoia's $600B AI Gap Argument
07/10/2024
Sequoia recently published a blog post about AI's $600B problem. The piece has been used as evid ...
Goldman Sachs Is Wrong About AI (Why AI Isn't A Bubble)
07/10/2024
Recently, Goldman Sachs made waves in the AI space with their report "Gen AI: too much spend, t ...
Marc Andreessen Gives a Meme-Obsessed AI Agent $50k in BTC
07/11/2024
In one of the wilder stories we've had here at The AI Daily Brief for some time, NLW covers the ...
OpenAI's New System for Determining How Close AGI Is
07/12/2024
OpenAI introduces a new leveling system to track the progress towards AGI. Learn about the five stag ...
AI Is The Fastest Adopted Work Tech Ever, But Still Not Fast Enough for Some
07/13/2024
Explore why AI is the fastest adopted work tech ever, yet still not fast enough for some. A nuanced ...
OpenAI's Q* Reasoning AI is Now Code-Named "Strawberry"
07/16/2024
Discover OpenAI’s latest breakthrough with the newly announced reasoning AI, code-named “Strawbe ...
Why Republican VP Nominee JD Vance is Loudly For Open Source AI
07/17/2024
NLW covers the pro-open source AI statements of JD Vance and situates his previous VC career. Before ...
A Draft Republican Exec Order Calls for AI "Manhattan Projects"
07/18/2024
NLW covers reporting about a draft Republican AI executive order. Also, Menlo Ventures and Anthropic ...
AI and the Necessary Transformation of Education
07/21/2024
A reading and discussion inspired by https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-what-teachers-call-ai-cheat ...
Elon Turns On "Most Powerful AI Training Cluster In the World"
07/22/2024
At 4:20am, Elon Musk turned on the Memphis Supercluster to begin training what he claims will be the ...
GPT-4o Mini and the Rise of Smaller, Low Cost AI Models
07/22/2024
OpenAI released GPT-4o Mini this week. It's both more powerful and 60% cheaper than GPT-3.5. In ...
Llama 3.1 405B Eliminates Gap Between Open and Closed Source AI
07/24/2024
According to the earliest benchmarks, the newly released Llama 3.1 405B has almost entirely (if not ...
What the Senate Wants to Know About OpenAI
07/25/2024
A group of 5 Senators sent a letter to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman asking for more information about a sla ...
OpenAI's Potential $5B Hole
07/26/2024
Examine the recent report from The Information on OpenAI’s capital expenditures, suggesting it cou ...
Zuckerberg on Why Open Source AI is the Path Forward
07/27/2024
Mark Zuckerberg shares why open source AI is the future. Explore Meta’s recent release of the LLAM ...
Report: Apple Delays Release of AI Features
07/30/2024
Bloomberg is reporting that Apple Intelligence will roll out in October, weeks after the launch of i ...
Canva Acquires Leonardo - Is a Wave of AI M&A Coming?
07/31/2024
Canva has acquired AI image generation company Leonardo, marking its second major acquisition this y ...
ChatGPT Launches Voice, Midjourney Launches 6.1
08/01/2024
Explore the latest in AI advancements as OpenAI rolls out voice mode for ChatGPT, and MidJourney rel ...
The Picks and Shovels Businesses Quietly Driving the AI Build Out
08/01/2024
Explore the unsung heroes behind the AI revolution: the businesses providing essential infrastructur ...
Another AI Sorta Acquisition as Character AI Founders Head (Back) to Google"
08/05/2024
Inflection, Adept and now Character. All have been sorta-but-not-exactly acquired. NLW explores the ...
Point-Counterpoint on Open Source AI
08/06/2024
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: Friday August 2nd On today's episode, NLW reads a point counterpoint on op ...
OpenAI Has More High Profile Executive Departures
08/07/2024
OpenAI faces a series of high-profile executive departures, raising questions about the company’s ...
The Latest in AI + Humanoid Robots
08/08/2024
NLW looks at the Figure 02 launch and the latest competition in humanoid robots. Plus rumors of a ne ...
SB1047: The World's Most Important and Problematic AI Policy Debate
08/09/2024
Join the conversation on California’s controversial AI legislation, SB 1047. Explore the heated de ...
The Most Important Events in Open vs. Closed AI
08/10/2024
NLW is joined by Venice Co-Founder Teana Baker-Taylor to discuss the most important recent events re ...
AI and How To Plan for Unknowable Futures
08/12/2024
A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/confronting-impossible-futures ...
A New OpenAI Model Coming?
08/13/2024
Rumors are swirling around OpenAI’s potential release of a new advanced reasoning model, codenamed ...
Financial Data Shows Business AI Usage is Way Up
08/14/2024
NLW covers a recent study from Ramp that uses proprietary card spend data to show how usage of AI is ...
Google Beats OpenAI to Full Voice Mode Release
08/15/2024
Google has taken a significant step ahead of OpenAI with the full release of Gemini Live, a cutting- ...
The Controversy Surrounding Elon Musk's New Image Generation AI
08/16/2024
Elon Musk’s latest AI model, Grok 2, has stirred up significant controversy, especially around its ...
Why We Shouldn't Fear AI
08/18/2024
A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/07/31/opinion/ai-fears ...
Nancy Pelosi Urges SB1047 Veto
08/20/2024
Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has voiced opposition to California’s controversial AI Bi ...
The Next Phase of Generative AI Adoption
08/21/2024
Generative AI is entering a new phase of adoption, with companies shifting from employee experimenta ...
473.5% Increase in Fortune 500's Citing AI as a Business Risk
08/21/2024
A recent report reveals a 473.5% increase in Fortune 500 companies citing AI as a business risk in t ...
For the Hyperscalers, There's No Such Thing as "Spending Too Much on AI"
08/23/2024
NLW discusses the commoditization of LLMs and reflects on a new essay from VC Sarah Tavel about the ...
The 5 Most Important Stories in AI This Week
08/24/2024
Covering the five most significant stories in AI this week. Major product releases like MidJourney†...
The Debate About and Consequences of AI Regulation
08/25/2024
A reading and discussion inspired by: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/08/22/regulators-are-fo ...
10 Observations About the Top 100 AI Apps
08/27/2024
Explore the latest trends in consumer AI apps with an in-depth analysis of the top 100 AI apps, base ...
OpenAI's Next Big Model is Called Orion
08/28/2024
In this episode, explore the latest developments at OpenAI, including the upcoming AI model codename ...
5 Questions Shaping the Near Future of GenAI
08/29/2024
Exploring the five critical questions that are shaping the near-term future of generative AI. From t ...
What Nvidia's Stock Says About the State of AI
08/30/2024
Nvidia beats Wall Street expectations yet sees its stock drop—what does this say about the state o ...
US Gov't to Get Advanced Access to OpenAI, Anthropic Models
08/31/2024
OpenAI and Anthropic have reached agreements with the US government to share their advanced AI model ...
What Happens After the Homework Apocalypse?
09/02/2024
A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/post-apocalyptic-education Co ...
67% of Enterprises Scaling Generative AI Pilots
09/04/2024
Deloitte has released its latest “State of AI in the Enterprise” report, highlighting that 67% o ...
Ilya Sutskever Raises $1B for Safe Superintelligence
09/05/2024
Former OpenAI founder Ilya Sutskever recently announced his new company Safe Superintelligence. Now ...
Multibillion Dollar AI Infrastructure Build Out Coming to the US
09/06/2024
Sam Altman’s ambitious AI infrastructure buildout is taking shape, starting in the U.S. This episo ...
What TIME's AI100 List Says About the State of AI
09/07/2024
Breaking down TIME’s AI100 list, which highlights the most influential people shaping AI today. Fr ...
Dealing with AI's Sycophancy Problem
09/09/2024
A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.cio.com/article/3499245/so-you-agree-ai-has-a-sycop ...
Why OpenAI's $2000/Month Model Isn't Crazy
09/10/2024
...or at least not as crazy as it might seem. Rumors suggest OpenAI may introduce a $2,000/month su ...
Apple Intelligence - Everything You Need to Know
09/11/2024
Apple has officially unveiled “Apple Intelligence,” bringing generative AI capabilities to the i ...
Is AI Going to Eat SaaS?
09/12/2024
Is generative AI about to disrupt the SaaS industry? Klarna’s recent decision to phase out Salesfo ...
How to Get The Most Out of ChatGPT's New o1 Model
09/14/2024
OpenAI has just released its latest model, the o1, ushering in a new era for LLMs focused on advance ...
From Cointelligence to Agent
09/16/2024
A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/something-new-on-openais-straw ...
What Freedom Means In the Age of AI [feat. Venice.ai Founder Erik Voorhees]
09/18/2024
In this episode, Venice AI co-founder Erik Voorhees joins the AI Daily Brief to discuss pressing iss ...
AI Agents -- The Latest Push from Microsoft and Salesforce
09/19/2024
Microsoft and Salesforce are leading the charge with their latest AI agent offerings. Microsoft rece ...
AI Video Comes to Hollywood and Youtube; Controversy Ensues
09/20/2024
AI video is making waves in both Hollywood and YouTube, sparking excitement and controversy. Lionsga ...
OpenAI Raising $6.5B at $150B Valuation with $250M Minimum
09/21/2024
OpenAI's latest funding round is set to raise $6.5 billion, with a valuation reaching $150 billi ...
Is the EU Doomed to Miss Out on AI?
09/23/2024
A reading and discussion inspired by https://euneedsai.com/ Learn how to use AI with the world' ...
iPhone Designer Jony Ive and Sam Altman Working on AI iPhone Alternative
09/24/2024
Jony Ive, the iconic designer behind Apple's iPhone, has teamed up with OpenAI's Sam Altman ...
Prosperity and Promise in "The Intelligence Age”
09/25/2024
Sam Altman’s latest essay, The Intelligence Age, has sparked widespread discussion with bold predi ...
A Manhattan Project for AI Infrastructure
09/26/2024
Sam Altman and OpenAI have pitched the White House on an ambitious AI infrastructure plan, aiming to ...
Is Zuckerberg the New Jobs?
09/27/2024
Meta’s Connect Developer Conference showcased the latest advancements in AI and AR, with a special ...
What’s Really Going on at OpenAI?
09/28/2024
A series of executive exits at OpenAI has sparked questions about what’s happening within the comp ...
Newsom Vetoes SB-1047, Sending Controversial AI Regulation Fight National
10/01/2024
Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed SB-1047, a major bill that aimed to regulate AI development in Cali ...
How AI Fits Into the Longshoreman Strike
10/02/2024
The international longshoreman strike is set to disrupt the U.S. economy, and one of the central con ...
OpenAI's DevDay And A Preview Of Our Agentic Future
10/03/2024
OpenAI’s second annual DevDay showcased a glimpse into the agentic future with powerful new tools ...
OpenAI Closes Largest Venture Round of All Time
10/04/2024
OpenAI closes the largest venture capital deal in history, raising $6.6 billion at a $157 billion va ...
GenAI is Being Adopted Faster than PCs or the Internet
10/05/2024
Generative AI is being adopted faster than both PCs and the internet! A new study from the Harvard K ...
The AI Automation Blues [Featuring NotebookLM]
10/07/2024
NLW does a Long Reads episode featuring a cameo from Google's NotebookLM. Discussion inspired by and ...
Meta's New Movie Gen Model Could Change AI Video
10/09/2024
Meta has unveiled its latest breakthrough in AI with MovieGen, a powerful new video generation model ...
The Challenge of Enterprise AI Adoption
10/09/2024
Enterprise AI adoption faces significant obstacles, from employees using AI without sharing discover ...
What Most Companies Will Get Wrong About AI At First
10/10/2024
NLW joined Nationwide at their TechX event in Columbus, Ohio yesterday. On this episode, he gives po ...
AI Wins Not One But Two Different Nobel Prizes
10/11/2024
This week, Geoffrey Hinton and Dennis Hassabis won Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry for their g ...
The AI Agent Era Begins
10/13/2024
A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/generative-ais-act-o1/ Conce ...
Is AI Optimism In the Air?
10/16/2024
Today's episode explores the growing shift toward AI optimism, highlighted by Anthropics CEO Dario A ...
How AI Is Fundamentally Reshaping the Web
10/17/2024
The New York Times issues a cease and desist to Perplexity AI, spotlighting how AI is fundamentally ...
Amazon Joins Google and Microsoft in AI Nuclear Buildout
10/18/2024
Amazon joins Google and Microsoft in a major push toward nuclear energy to meet AI’s growing power ...
5 Business Uses for NotebookLM
10/19/2024
NotebookLM gets a major upgrade with customizable audio overviews, unlocking a range of business use ...
AI and the Looming Economic Challenge
10/21/2024
A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/opinion/economy-us-aging-wor ...
The AGI-Sized Hole in the Microsoft-OpenAI Partnership
10/23/2024
Tensions rise between Microsoft and OpenAI as financial pressure and disagreements strain their part ...
The Next Step in Our Journey to AI Agents: Anthropic's Computer Use
10/24/2024
Anthropic unveils a new feature enabling AI to use computers like humans, marking a significant adva ...
xAI Releases AI API
10/25/2024
xAI has officially launched an API, allowing developers to build on top of Grok models. With access ...
GPT-5 Coming In December
10/26/2024
Reports suggest OpenAI’s newest model, potentially named GPT-5 or "Orion," is expected by December ...
Hands on with Our Agentic Future
10/28/2024
A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/when-you-give-a-claude-a-mouse ...
No GPT-5 This Year, But Maybe Gemini 2.0
10/29/2024
OpenAI has clarified that no model codenamed "Orion" or GPT-5 will arrive this year, though Google i ...
Apple Intelligence is Here, But Is It Any Good?
10/30/2024
Apple Intelligence has officially launched with iOS 18, bringing features like system-wide writing t ...
More Than 1/4 of Google's Code Now Generated by AI
10/31/2024
More than a quarter of Google’s new code is now generated by AI, signaling a major shift in softwa ...
The 9 Most Important AI Stories from October
11/01/2024
October saw major developments across the AI industry, from the White House prioritizing AI for nati ...
ChatGPT Search and the AI Search Arms Race
11/03/2024
The search industry is in the midst of a transformative period as OpenAI releases ChatGPT search. Th ...
Who is the Better Candidate for AI?
11/04/2024
A point-counterpoint of opeds about presidential candidates and AI. https://www.newsweek.com/donald ...
OpenAI's o1 Accidentally Released
11/05/2024
OpenAI’s O1 model accidentally becomes available, sparking insights into its advanced capabilities ...
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