• Q* is the codename of a potential AGI breakthrough from OpenAI – before Altman’s firing, OAI researchers apparently wrote a letter to the board warning them of a powerful new discovery, which would be consistent with Altman’s statement at a recent economic conference about the 4th major AI leap in the history of OAI. - Reuters
• Influencer marketing with generative AI content is surprisingly effective – the Billion Dollar Boy agency reports that their genAI content gets 2x the engagement of normal content, and average play rate of their genAI videos was 1,403% higher than standard ones. - Business Insider
• Stability released their first genAI video model, the state-of-the-art Stable Video Diffusion – “not intended for real-world or commercial applications at this stage” though, so Runway is still your best bet if you want genAI vids for marketing. - Stability
• Anthropic released Claude 2.1 with an “industry first” huge, 200K context window, a 2x decrease in hallucinations compared to 2.0, and tool use – new beta feature to integrate Claude with your existing processes, products, and APIs. – Anthropic
• In a signal of strength for the industry, Nvidia thrives thanks to their dominance in AI – their revenue grew 206% year over year for this quarter, with earnings $4.02 per share (vs $3.37 expected) and revenue $18.12 billion (vs $16.18 billion expected). - CNBC
• DeepMind and YouTube are experimenting with genAI music – trialing their Lyria model with select creators of YouTube shorts and designing a suite of music AI tools, they also built SynthID, a way to watermark generative audio with sounds that humans can’t hear. - DeepMind
• The US Federal Trade Commission just issued a resolution that will make it easier for them to launch consumer protection and competition investigations into companies using AI systems – possibly an optimistic sign of their readiness to combat AI fraud. - FTC
