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OpenAI is gearing up to break free from Nvidia's chip stranglehold, eyeing its latest venture into developing its very own custom AI chips.
Is this just another tech innovation race — or does the path toward AGI face a serious compute / supply challenge? Let’s investigate…
In today’s AI rundown:
OpenAI wants its own AI chip
The state of AI humanoids and robotics
How to test and customize GPT-4o mini
Apple’s new 7B open-source AI model
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
OPENAI
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The Rundown: OpenAI is reportedly in talks with chip designers like Broadcom to develop its own AI chip, aiming to reduce dependence on scarce and expensive GPUs from Nvidia.
The details:
OpenAI has already hired former Google employees who worked on Google’s tensor processing unit (Google’s AI chip).
The ChatGPT maker has been talking to chip designers including Broadcom, however production of the new chip isn't expected until 2026 at the earliest.
The company is exploring various chip packaging and memory components to optimize performance.
OpenAI is also considering creating new companies with outside investors to finance infrastructure like data centers.
Why it matters: This move isn't just about OpenAI playing chip designer — it's a power play. By developing its own chips, OpenAI could break free from the GPU shortage bottleneck, potentially supercharging its mission towards AGI.
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COATUE
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The Rundown: Coatue Management, an investment firm with over $70B assets under management, has released a comprehensive report on the current state and future prospects of AI humanoids and robotics.
The details:
Coatue argues that robotics won't have a sudden "ChatGPT-like" moment due to restricting factors such as physical limitations to adoption, high upfront costs, and a nascent ecosystem.
2023 saw a surge in new robotics companies, with over 20 launching humanoid initiatives since 2021 — which is expected to continue in 2024.
The report predicts that AI and quality training data, rather than hardware, will be the key differentiator for humanoids.
Coatue envisions robots going through a progression from warehouse and store automation to more complex tasks like firefighting, surgery, and in-home assistance.
Why it matters: While we might not see a robot butler in every home overnight, Coatue's analysis suggests we're on the cusp of a gradual yet profound transformation. As AI and robotics capabilities increase, many industries, from manufacturing to healthcare, will be completely reshaped.
AI TRAINING
The Rundown: Last Thursday, OpenAI revealed the GPT-4o mini, a compact version of its flagship GPT-4o model. While the model is slowly rolling out into ChatGPT accounts, the OpenAI Playground lets you access and customize the model instantly.
Step-by-step:
Go to OpenAI’s Playground and sign in with your credentials.
On the left side, click where it says “Chat”.
Click on the Models dropdown menu and select “gpt-4o-mini”.
Enter a prompt where it says “User,” play around with the different parameters (e.g., system prompt, temperature, or maximum length), and personalize your outputs.
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APPLE
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The Rundown: Apple just unveiled a new 7 billion parameter open-source AI model, dubbed DCLM-7B, that outperforms Mistral 7B and closes in on other leading open models like Llama 3 and Gemma across key benchmarks.
The details:
The DCLM-7B model achieves 63.7% 5-shot accuracy on MMLU, surpassing Mistral 7B and nearing performance of Llama 3 and Gemma.
Apple open-sourced not just the model weights and training code, but also the complete pretraining dataset.
The model was trained on 2.5 trillion tokens using pretraining recipes based on the OpenLM framework.
The model was released alongside the family of DCLM models, and are available on Hugging Face.
Why it matters: While Apple has been a bit slow to the open-source hype train, developers from around the world will still appreciate the unexpected open dataset. What this means is that researchers and developers now have open access to not just the model, but the entire process behind its creation.
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🌐 Glean - Community Manager
🤖 Fiddler AI - Machine Learning Engineer
QUICK HITS
Anthropic is reportedly working on a new screenshot tool for Claude, potentially allowing users to seamlessly take screenshots from other screens or tabs.
Electronic Arts created digital clones of 11,000 college football players for their upcoming video game in 3 months — using AI to create the avatars using athletes’ headshot photographs.
California state legislators are pushing for a proposed bill that would require big tech companies to test AI for "catastrophic" risks before public release.
Ukraine is reportedly developing AI-enabled war drones, aiming to overcome Russian signal jamming and enable swarm operations on the battlefield.
AMD claims its new laptop chips can outperform Apple's M3 — boasting improved performance in multitasking, image processing, and gaming.
Google is reportedly developing a ‘Prompts Gallery‘ to allow users to curate a collection of favorite prompts and get inspiration from other users within it’s Gemini chatbots.
Perplexity rolled out Voice Mode to it’s AI assistant on its iOS app, allowing Pro users to chat and ask questions to the AI search engine through various voice modes.
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