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US Gov't Requiring AI Companies to Notify Around LLM Training
Plus Bard with Gemini Pro jumps to #2
Nathaniel Whittemore
January 29, 2024
The AI Breakdown First Five - Monday January 29, 2024
Today on the First Five:
5. Blackstone’s $25B AI Bet
4. A Midjourney v6 Update
3. ElevenLabs Bans Account Behind Biden NH Robocall
2. Gemini Pro Jumps to #2 on Chatbot Arena ELO Ranks
1. OpenAI and Other AI Companies Now Need to Notify US Gov’t on Advanced Models
5. Blackstone’s $25B AI Bet
In 2021, massive private equity firm Blackstone took over data center operator QTS for $10B. At the time, the company had around $1B of property investments under development. That number has risen to $15B thanks to the growing demand around AI.
>profile on private equity's growing interest in data centers to power AI
>features Blackstone's $10B takeover of data center operator QTS in 2021, for which they paid > 20x earnings.
>says QTS could be one of the best investments in Blackstone's history (!!)
>BX said power… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…— matthew sigel, recovering CFA (@matthew_sigel)
12:38 PM • Jan 29, 2024
4. A Midjourney v6 Update
Midjourney V6 has continued to expand the features available as part of it’s latest V6 update. The latest to come to the application include panning, zooming, as well as the ability to vary a particular region of the image being created.
We've now released pan / zoom / vary (region) on V6
— Midjourney (@midjourney)
3:02 AM • Jan 25, 2024
3. ElevenLabs Bans Account Behind Biden NH Robocall
You’ll remember last week when NH Democrats started getting a robocall from President Joe Biden telling them not to vote in the primary? Newly minted AI unicorn ElevenLabs has suspended the account that was used to create the voice.
Remember the Fake Biden NH robocall?
The firm @pindrop was able to analyze the call and figure out that it was likely created using tools from the AI startup ElevenLabs:
— Adam Kovacevich (@adamkovac)
1:59 AM • Jan 29, 2024
2. Gemini Pro Jumps to #2 on Chatbot Arena ELO Ranks
LMSYS Chatbot Arena is a crowdsourced platform for human LLM evals that has collected over 200,000 human preference votes. Google Bard, now powered by Gemini Pro, has jumped above everything except GPT-4-Turbo.
🔥Breaking News from Arena
Google's Bard has just made a stunning leap, surpassing GPT-4 to the SECOND SPOT on the leaderboard! Big congrats to @Google for the remarkable achievement!
The race is heating up like never before! Super excited to see what's next for Bard + Gemini… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— lmsys.org (@lmsysorg)
4:38 PM • Jan 26, 2024
1. OpenAI and Other AI Companies Now Need to Notify US Gov’t on Advanced Models
US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo has announced new details about the requirements for companies to share information with the US government when they train new LLMs. The government is claiming authority based on the Defense Production Act.
The Biden administration won't be caught by surprise when the next AI evolution drops. They're using the Defense Production Act to compel tech companies to tell the government when they train AI models using a significant amount of computing power.
— WIRED (@WIRED)
11:02 PM • Jan 26, 2024
Bonus: @ Mention GPTs Inside of ChatGPT
HOLY SHIT they built it
— Dan Shipper 📧 (@danshipper)
10:14 PM • Jan 26, 2024
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