🤞ChatGPT vs. Amazon's $4B Bet

Plus: 💬 You Can NOW Talk to ChatGPT, and check the new AI landscape with apps that solve real-life problems.

September 25, 2023

Today’s issue, brought to you by GrowthSchool, shares how Amazon is throwing a heck of a lot of money into Anthropic, do they feel behind in AI developments? Maybe, as ChatGPT keeps releasing updates, you can now have a full conversation with it. And we present the new AI landscape with the apps that are solving real-life problems.

  • ChatGPT vs. Amazon’s $4B Bet

  • Become an AI & ChatGPT Genius in 3 hours for FREE 🤯

  • You Can NOW Talk to ChatGPT

  • The New “AI Landscape” that solves real problems

  • 🧰 AI Tools of the Day (Vacation and Trip Planners)

  • 💰 Follow the Money

  • 📰 Publications I am currently reading and recommending

💪🏽 Important AI News and Trends.

  • TikTok introduces a way to label AI-generated content (TheVerge)

  • AI can now program living organisms (WSJ)

  • Meta’s AI chatbot plan includes ‘sassy robots’ to entice young users. (TV)

  • Religious leaders in Iran believe that AI can strengthen Islam (FT)

  • White House could force cloud companies to disclose AI customers (Semafor)

🌐 Web3 and Tech news.

  • Tesla’s Optimus robot is getting scarily good (Teslarati)

  • Facebook's VR Headset Not Selling, Literally Giving It Away (Yahoo)

  • The race to create factories in space, work better be remote (TheGuardian)

  • California governor vetoes bill to ban driverless AV trucks (TC)

  • The largest-ever asteroid sample was brought to Earth after a 7 years (TV)

  • Microsoft: Ads Clicks Within Bing Chat Are 1.8X Higher (SEraound)

ChatGPT vs. Amazon’s $4B Bet.

Anthropic just announced it raised up to $4 billion from Amazon, making AWS its primary cloud provider for training and deploying future models, despite Google investing $400 million in February and being named Anthropic's "preferred" provider.

This is the latest AI investment from the major cloud providers, but an unusual one since AWS has framed itself as neutral by providing various models, unlike Microsoft which resells OpenAI - so the Anthropic bet may confirm suspicions that AWS is lagging in AI. The deal likely makes Amazon the largest Anthropic shareholder, opening the door for a potential acquisition or profit-sharing, and shows the growing strength of incumbents given the investment needed for large language models. The AI battle increasingly seems to be Microsoft versus others given its OpenAI first-mover advantage, while there's excitement around Google's upcoming Gemini models, contrasting little news about AWS' Titan. This partnership will give AWS a needed boost.

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You Can NOW Talk to ChatGPT

OpenAI keeps making ChatGPT better, last week was Dall-3 and now it has added new voice and image capabilities to ChatGPT in a major update. Users can now speak questions and get voice responses from one of five synthetic voices modeled after actors, hope there is no strike due to this. This uses Whisper for speech recognition and a new text-to-speech model. ChatGPT can also now answer questions about images uploaded to the app, leveraging image recognition abilities.

These updates demonstrate OpenAI swiftly spinning cutting-edge AI research into consumer products. However, combining modalities brings risks, like asking how to build bombs from images. OpenAI tried addressing potential misuses but challenges remain around accessibility, cultural perceptions of synthetic voices, and emergent issues from combining models. Overall, the updates make ChatGPT more useful as a one-stop AI assistant while raising new considerations around responsible deployment.

The New “AI Landscape” that solves real problems.

One year after predicting generative AI's impact, Sequoia Capital reflects on its progress. Early "Act 1" apps demonstrated novel technology, but "Act 2" apps are emerging to solve real human problems end-to-end. Killer apps proved a strong product-market fit but challenges remain around retaining users and proving daily value. Despite the hype wearing off, we remain steadfast believers in generative AI's long-term potential. Check the Apps in the above landscapes and check out linkedin for a link to every company.

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💰 Follow the Money

  • $4B - Raised by Anthropic, an LLM developer, from Amazon.

  • $25M raised by Diligent Robotics, which develops AI-powered robots for hospitals.

  • $16.1M amount raised by JURA Bio, which uses machine learning and synthetic biology to develop therapeutics.

  • $14M by Secoda, an AI startup that helps businesses with data search, cataloging, and documentation

  • $10M - Continuum Industries, an Edinburgh, UK-based startup using AI to help infrastructure developers complete projects, raised $10 million.

  • $9M Elicit, a startup offering an AI “research assistant” for scientists and research labs, raised $9 million.

  • $7M - Correcto, a Madrid-based AI language writing tool raises $7M

  • $3.5M - Raised by Gizmo, an AI learning startup that creates gamified quizzes.

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