• Google has finally released Gemini:
-Built multimodal from the ground up, it can reason seamlessly across text, images, video, audio, and code.
-It comes in three sizes, Ultra, Pro, and Nano.
-Ultra is the first model to defeat GPT-4 on 30 out of 32 major benchmarks.
-It’s also the first to outperform human experts on the MMLU benchmark with a 90% score.
-Ultra isn’t broadly available yet, only to select customers and partners for now, and will come to the Bard chatbot early next year.
-For now, Google is launching Gemini Pro in Bard, and Gemini Nano in their Pixel 8 Pro smartphone.
-In the near future, Gemini will come to Search, Ads, Chrome, and Duet AI.
-Developers and enterprise customers will get access to Gemini Pro from December 13 via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Google Cloud Vertex AI. - Google
• “[Our customers] just want the human to disappear. That is where you see the massive cost savings,” says the CEO of Retool, which helps companies integrate LLMs into their software – he predicts the job of SaaS Sales Developments Reps won’t be around for long. - Semafor
• AstraZeneca partners with Absci to develop an antibody for cancer treatment that would replace chemotherapy – part of a trend of pharmaceutical companies partnering with AI companies to innovate disease treatments and reduce development costs. - Financial Times
• Meta and IBM launch the AI Alliance for open AI development, in clear opposition to Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI’s closed model – startups, universities, scientific institutes like CERN, and companies like Dell, Sony, AMD, and Intel have already joined, and they argue that AI should be built on open-source principles for broader innovation and accessibility. - AI Alliance, IBM
• OpenAI COO, Brad Lightcap, shares insights on AI and ChatGPT:
-The success of ChatGPT was unexpected, and surpassed any predictions and business analyses.
-The slowest industries to adopt it are heavy industries like oil and gas.
-He notes that AI is overhyped for delivering immediate business transformation, but underhyped for how much it empowers individual users.
-ChatGPT Enterprise has seen overwhelming enthusiasm and keeps scaling up to meet demand.
-OpenAI prioritizes usage over revenue, focusing on building useful tools. - CNBC
• New approach enables training of Large Vision Models without any linguistic data, and could be used to solve many different vision tasks. - Yutong Bai
• Towards better facial reconstruction – the DPHMs generative model moves forward AIs ability to reconstruct intricate facial expressions. - Jiapeng Tang
• The internet enabled en masse surveillance, and AI will enable en masse spying – it will understand conversations and interactions on a massive scale, and no regulatory actions have been taken to prevent it. - Slate
