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OpenAI Building Google/Perplexity Killer?
Plus $100M to build AI coders
Nathaniel Whittemore
February 15, 2024
The AI Breakdown First Five - Thursday February 15, 2024
Today on the First Five:
5. Microsoft to Invest $3.5B into AI in Germany
4. Amazon Builds Largest Ever Text-to-Speech Model
3. $100M for AI Coder Magic.Dev
2. Iran, North Korea, Russia and China using Gen AI in Cyber Attacks
1. OpenAI Building Google/Perplexity Killer
5. Microsoft to Invest $3.5B into AI in Germany
Big tech’s flurry of investments around AI in Europe continues. Microsoft President Brad Smith announced that it will invest 3.2B euros to build out AI and data center infrastructure in Germany over the next two years. Google also announced a new AI hub in Paris that will house more than 300 researchers.
Microsoft $MSFT will invest $3.44 Billion in Germany 🇩🇪 in the next two years, mostly in AI
This would be Microsoft's biggest investment in Germany in the last 40 years as it aims to double the capacity of its AI and data center infrastructure in the country - Reuters
— Evan (@StockMKTNewz)
2:48 PM • Feb 15, 2024
4. Amazon Builds Largest Ever Text-to-Speech Model
Researchers at Amazon claim that the text-to-speech model they’ve trained - the largest ever — is exhibiting “emergent” qualities that are improving it’s ability to speak naturally. The model is called Big Adaptive Streamable TTS or BASE TTS.
Amazon presents BASE TTS
Presents 1B TTS model trained on 100k hours of public domain speech data, achieving a new SotA speech naturalness
proj: amazon-ltts-paper.com
abs: arxiv.org/abs/2402.08093— Aran Komatsuzaki (@arankomatsuzaki)
2:56 AM • Feb 14, 2024
3. $100M for AI Coder Magic.dev
One of the biggest areas of effort for AI devs right now is building AI that can code. Former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman says his investment, Magic.dev, performs better than any other model on that front.
Magic.dev has trained a groundbreaking model with many millions of tokens of context that performed far better in our evals than anything we've tried before.
They're using it to build an advanced AI programmer that can reason over your entire codebase and the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Nat Friedman (@natfriedman)
2:57 PM • Feb 15, 2024
2. Iran, North Korea, Russia and China using Gen AI in Cyber Attacks
According to a report published yesterday, Microsoft says it has tracked hacking groups affiliated with Iran, Russia, China, and North Korea using its (and OpenAI’s) tools. China’s US embassy spokesperson strenuously denied the report.
OpenAI, in coordination with Microsoft, has disrupted five state-affiliated actors that attempted to put their agents to malicious use.
Two affiliated with China. One with Iran. One with North Korea. One with Russia.
— Andrew Curran (@AndrewCurran_)
6:17 PM • Feb 14, 2024
1. OpenAI Building Google/Perplexity Killer
The growing success of Perplexity seems to be on OpenAI’s radar. The Information reports that the company has been developing a web search product, partly powered by Bing, that would compete directly with not only Perplexity but Google search as well.
New: OpenAI making a search product.
Maybe *this*, unlike Bing, will actually “make Google dance”?
theinformation.com/articles/opena…
— Amir Efrati (@amir)
9:35 PM • Feb 14, 2024
Bonus: What Type of (AI) Startups Is YC Looking For?
YC put out their "requests for startups" today
It's a good list. The categories are spot on. Nicely done.
— Shaun Maguire (@shaunmmaguire)
3:57 AM • Feb 15, 2024
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