The AI Breakdown First Five - Thursday September 28, 2023

5. Hyped French AI Startup Mistral Drops Free First Modelh

In June, pre-product Mistral raised a $113m seed round. Some saw it as signs of an AI bubble, but others pointed at the caliber of the ex-Google/Meta team and said “let them cook.” Well, cook they have, dropping a fully open source 7B llm that outperforms Llama 2-13B.

4. Biden Teases Executive Order on AI

As competition among ideas on how to regulate AI in the use grows, President Biden has said that an executive order from his White House on AI will be coming in the next few weeks. So far nothing too new in the language — profound opportunities, profound risks, etc etc etc.

3. ChatGPT Browse is Back

In an announcement whose timing definitely has nothing to do with all of Meta’s AI announcements, the ability to let ChatGPT browse the web is back. The feature had been turned off for more than a month after it was discovered that people were using it to get around paywalls.

2. What 1600 Scientists Think of AI

Another week, another survey of opinion around AI, although this Nature survey of 1600 scientists carries with it perhaps slightly more informed opinions. Interestingly the biggest negative impact they identified was 69% worrying that AI would create “more reliance on pattern recognition without understanding.”

1. Meta Connect’s Top AI Announcements

Meta held its big connect event and although nominally the big announcement was the Quest 3 mixed reality device, really the story was artificial intelligence. We finally got more information about the AI chatbot personalities; we got to see AI integrated into Rayban sunglasses; and we got a preview of how Meta AI would be accessible from basically every Meta app interface.

BONUS: ChatGPT Vision takes whiteboard mockups and turns them into websites

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