Google Takes Down AI Image Generator After "Anti-Woke" Backlash

Plus, Nvidia is now the third biggest company

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Nathaniel Whittemore
February 22, 2024

The AI Breakdown First Five - Thursday February 22, 2024

Today on the First Five:

  • 5. Microsoft Working with Intel on Chips

  • 4. Behind Magic’s $100m Breakthrough

  • 3. OpenAI ChatGPT Freak-Out Post Mortem

  • 2. Nvidia Smashes Earnings Once Again

  • 1. Google Takes Down Image Generation After “Anti-Woke” Outcry

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5. Microsoft Working with Intel on Chips

Microsoft will work with Intel on their forthcoming in-house chip. As every big tech company gets into the Silicon game, this marks a big win for Intel, who is racing to make its mark in the foundry market producing custom chips for other companies.

4. Behind Magic’s $100m Breakthrough

According to The Information, Magic’s recent $100m raise was sparked by a significant breakthrough. Not only does it claim to be able to process 3.5m words worth of text, but they also apparently achieved a breakthrough that has enabled “active reasoning” capabilities.

3. OpenAI ChatGPT Freak-Out Post Mortem

According to OpenAI, the mass freakout of ChatGPT the other day wasn’t emergent shoggoth sentience, but a good ol’ fashioned bug. Does that make you feel better (or worse)?

2. Nvidia Smashes Earnings Once Again

Welp, Nvidia is now the third biggest company in the US, behind only Apple and Microsoft and ahead of Google, Amazon and Meta. In it’s latest earnings report, Q42023 revenue trippled from a year before, while profit was up 9x. And nothing appears to be slowing down.

1. Google Takes Down Image Generation After “Anti-Woke” Outcry

Despite Gemini 1.5 having a million token context length, and Gemma being Google’s first open model, the Google-related discussion was all about their image generation refusing to provide historically accurate image generation. While it would be tempting to view this through a culture-war lens, it’s actually opened up a much bigger pandora’s box question of the relationship between AI and who owns the future. Google has, for the moment, paused AI image generation.

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