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OpenAI Leader Says "Work on AI Agents!"

OpenAI Leader Says "Work on AI Agents!"

Plus Inflection creates an LLM to rival GPT and Google

Nathaniel Whittemore
June 26, 2023

The AI Breakdown First Five - Monday June 26, 2023

Today on the First Five:

5. ElevenLabs Introduces Global Voice Library
4. YouTube Testing Translation Dubbing
3. OpenAI's Andrej Karpathy Says “Work on AI Agents!”
2. Inflection Releases LLM to Rival Google and OpenAI
1. Midjourney Releases Zoom and 5.2 Updates

Visual AI is moving fast. As of tonight, Midjourney allows you to zoom out of images
Technical barriers are falling quickly: I expect we will soon see AI images with real text, consistent "characters" across multiple images, the ability to apply brand identity across images, etc
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick)
1:58 AM • Jun 23, 2023

5. ElevenLabs Introduces Global Voice Library

Generative voice company ElevenLabs follows up their recent Series A funding announcement with a new product called Voice Library. When users create voices, they can share them with the Library and get platform rewards when others use them. It's an interesting example of how generative AI users may build on each other's work.

4. YouTube Testing Translation Dubbing

YouTube is current testing a tool from Aloud that uses AI to create multi-lingual dubs of YouTube videos. Imagine AI Breakdown's but in Spanish. It seems possible that in a few years language barriers as we know them will be fundamentally different.

3. OpenAI's Andrej Karpathy Says "Work on AI Agents!"

AI agents are easily one of the most discussed themes of the year, and in this recent speech at the AGI House hackathon, OpenAI's Andrej discussed 1) why it was an important problem; why entrepreneurs not the big labs are at the forefront; 3) why it's a problem that's easy to imagine but could take 10 years to actually build the thing that will work long term.

Inspired by @karpathy’s words on why you - yes YOU - should work on AI Agents
— swyx.ai (@swyx)
7:20 PM • Jun 24, 2023

2. Inflection Releases LLM to Rival Google and OpenAI

Inflection is the well-funded, famous-founder company building the Pi personal conversational agent. It just announced Inflection-1 which it contends is of similar size and capability to GPT3.5. The one area where it doesn't compete with similar models is coding, which is something Inflection has been clear isn't a priority.

We have amazing results to announce! Inflection-1 is our new best-in-class LLM powering Pi, outperforming GPT-3.5, Llama and PALM-540B on major benchmarks commonly used for comparing LLMs.
— Mustafa Suleyman (@mustafasuleymn)
4:34 PM • Jun 22, 2023

1. Midjourney Releases Zoom and 5.2 Updates

Midjourney has released its 5.2 update and the community is absolutely loving it. The big headliner feature is the Zoom Out feature which allows a user to expand the images they create. Twitter is already full of some of the coolest examples. The new update also proposes stronger stylization and more granular controls on how much variety a user wants in the images their prompts return.

Zoom out + interpolation = magic
Only an hour into v 5.2 and I could cry
This is an incredible Midjourney update
— Nick St. Pierre (@nickfloats)
1:35 AM • Jun 23, 2023