AI-Booming Amazon Announces Q Assistant

Plus a new newspaper lawsuit against OpenAI

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Nathaniel Whittemore
May 01, 2024

The AI Breakdown First Five - Wednesday May 1, 2024

Today on the First Five:

  • 5. Github Launches Copilot Workspace

  • 4. Google’s New Med-Gemini Outperforming

  • 3. Another Newspaper Lawsuit Against OpenAI

  • 2. The AI Lobbying Landscape

  • 1. AI-Booming Amazon Announces Q Assistant

5. Github Launches Copilot Workspace

Coding continues to be the vanguard of AI, with AI coding assistants looking to the Agentic future. The latest entrant is Github, who have expanded their popular Copilot tool into an AI-powered IDE.

4. Google’s New Med-Gemini Outperforming

Google released a paper about their new Med-Gemini model. The models are built on Gemini 1.0 and 1.5 but customized for medicine. On the MedQA benchmark they scored a 91.1%, significantly surpassing the previous state of the art.

3. Another Newspaper Lawsuit Against OpenAI

Another week, another group of newspapers suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. This time it’s a group of 8 papers including the Chicago Tribune and the Denver Post. As always, the lawyers are the true winners.

2. The AI Lobbying Landscape

TIME has written a piece profiling the explosive growth in lobbying around AI policy. The number of groups engaged in AI lobbying is up approximately 300%. To be honest, can’t really see this slowing down any time soon.

1. AI-Booming Amazon Announces Q Assistant

Amazon’s revenue for the most recent quarter was up 13%. Both revenue and profit growth exceeded analyst expectations, and AI demand in their cloud business was the big driver. The company also rebranded their CodeWhisperer to “Q” and made it more widely available.

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