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AI Assistant Wars Heat Up with Rabbit R1 Launch
Plus Humane Pin lays off 4%
Nathaniel Whittemore
January 10, 2024
The AI Breakdown First Five - Wednesday January 10, 2024
Today on the First Five:
5. AI Regulation Gains Momentum As Bipartisan Goal
4. Amazon Going “Super Aggressive” On AI
3. Walmart’s New Shopping AI
2. Humane Lays Off 4%
1. AI Assistant Wars Heat Up with Rabbit
5. AI Regulation Gains Momentum As Bipartisan Goal
New polling from the AI policy institute found that by a margin of 56% to 22%, Americans support comprehensive AI legislation in 2024. Interestingly, the poll finds deep skepticism — with 56% also aggreeing that it would be a good thing if AI progress was stopped or significant slowed (compared to just 27% disagreeing)
1/ AIPI released our latest poll today with @semafor. AI regulation for 2024 is gaining momentum as a major bipartisan goal, and the public is in full support.
— Daniel Colson (@DanielColson6)
10:29 PM • Jan 8, 2024
4. Amazon Going “Super Aggressive” On AI
According to a new WSJ interview with Amazon’s Chief Security Officer Stephen Schmidt, the company is going “super aggressive” on generative AI. At CES, the company announced three new AI-powered experiences for Amazon Alexa via partnerships with companies including Character.AI.
Amazon Alexa AI upgrades coming.
— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer)
4:09 PM • Jan 9, 2024
3. Walmart’s New Shopping AI
Walmart is the poster child for retail technology advances. At a keynote at CES, the company unveiled a set of initiatives including expanded drone delivery, a new generative-AI powered search tool for iOS that suggests relevant products, an AI-powered in-home replenishment service, and photo-based checkout.
Walmart $WMT just offered a glimpse into multiple of the new Generative AI, Augmented Reality and other AI based features its working including:
- Generative AI search
- Walmart InHome Replenishment, which will create online shopping carts for customers with items they regularly… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…— Evan (@StockMKTNewz)
10:12 PM • Jan 9, 2024
2. Humane Lays Off 4%
Just as the AI assistant wars heat up (see our top story), one of the contenders is finding itself slightly overstaffed. Humane - maker of the recently revealed Pin - is laying off 4% of its team as part of a restructuring effort.
Humane already beginning layoffs before the product has even shipped
I don’t understand why it’s not selling.
It comes in three colorways: Eclipse. Lunar. Equinox
— BuccoCapital Guy (@buccocapital)
2:26 AM • Jan 10, 2024
1. AI Assistant Wars Heat Up with Rabbit
Meanwhile, another new contender in the AI assistant wars is generating lots of buzz. Rabbit just unveiled its first product (as well as an underlying “large action model” powering it) in a supremely Jobs-ian presentation. People are divided on whether consumers will have interest in another device, but the company has certainly succeeded in dominating the conversation.
I've done marketing for 30+ startups.
Rabbit's launch for their AI hardware was GENIUS.
Tbh the founder might be the next Steve Jobs.
Here's the hidden marketing tricks you definitely didn't notice:
— Jason Levin (@iamjasonlevin)
2:24 AM • Jan 10, 2024
Bonus: So THAT’S what they were doing with all that video data
ByteDance presents MagicVideo-V2
Outperforms SotA video models such as Pika 1.0, SVD-XT according to human evaluation
abs:
proj: magicvideov2.github.io— Aran Komatsuzaki (@arankomatsuzaki)
3:06 AM • Jan 10, 2024
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