• Learn how to get large language models to do exactly what you want with prompt engineering guides from OpenAI and Microsoft. - OpenAI, Microsoft
• Partnered with Microsoft and AI startup Harvey, a law firm is rolling out ContractMatrix, an AI contract negotiation tool – it’s already in use by over 1,000 of the firm’s lawyers with clients across different industries. - Financial Times
• The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for “billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages” for allegedly copying its works – the court has also been asked to prevent OAI and MSFT from training models with NYT content, and to have it removed from their datasets. - The Verge
• Anthropic joined Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google as the next big AI company to offer copyright infringement lawsuit protection for their customers. - Anthropic
• Stability launched a three-tier Stability AI Membership, “standardizing commercial rights to our core cutting-edge open models across multiple modalities” – the first tier offers free access to their models for non-commercial and personal uses. - Stability
• Apple researchers hard at work bringing LLM inference to edge devices – they devised a method for running models twice the size of a device’s memory, with up to 25x increase in speed compared to conventional approaches. - arXiv
• AI caution from U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts – he predicts that judicial work “will be significantly affected by AI”, not just because it will change how judges do their jobs, but also because it will increasingly play a role in the cases they preside over. - US Supreme Court
• AI Act drama continues – France, home to Mistral AI, is arguing that the AI Act will prevent European companies from competing in the market, and working with Italy and Germany to change the act or prevent it from being passed. - Financial Times
• LLMs are quite easy to build and you can run them on your own devices, they’re smart but also really dumb and gullible, code might be the best application for LLMs – Simon Willison’s “Stuff we figured out about AI in 2023”. - Simon Willison
• Science and AI:
– AI helped discover the first new class of antibiotics in 60 years. - Euronews
– AI came up with a new solution to the notoriously unsolvable cap set problem in mathematics, proving that AI can generate new knowledge. - MIT Technology Review
• Tencent developed a mobile AI agent, AppAgent, tested with decent proficiency on over 50 tasks in 10 different applications. - Hugging Face
• TikTok owner ByteDance has been caught using OpenAIs models to develop their own LLMs, resulting in OpenAI cutting off their API access because this goes against their terms of service. - The Verge
