Our 164th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps + links:

• Tools & Apps
  • (00:04:02) Meta, in Its Biggest A.I. Push, Places Smart Assistants Across Its Apps
  • (00:07:26) Microsoft launches Phi-3, its smallest AI model yet
  • (00:15:35) The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses have multimodal AI now
  • (00:17:32) OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships in 2022
  • (00:18:44) Baidu claims 200 million users for Ernie chatbot after only 13 months
  • (00:21:13) The new Adobe Photoshop gets an in-app image generator, major Generative Fill upgrades
• Applications & Business
  • (00:22:22) Intel & The Pentagon Deepen Ties To Develop World’s Most Advanced Chips
  • (00:27:58) Meta Says It Plans to Spend Billions More on A.I.
  • (00:31:36) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman invests in solar power firm Exowatt to fuel AI datacenters
  • (00:33:58) Google consolidates AI-focused DeepMind, Research teams
  • (00:36:22) Microsoft and OpenAI bet $100 billion to free themselves from the shackles and overreliance on the world's most profitable semiconductor chip brand for AI chips
• Projects & Open Source
  • (00:39:03) Apple releases OpenELM: small, open source AI models designed to run on-device
  • (00:44:12) Snowflake launches Arctic, an open ‘mixture-of-experts’ LLM to take on DBRX, Llama 3
• Research & Advancements
  • (00:48:08) The Instruction Hierarchy: Training