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| Welcome to Inside AI! Here are today's top stories: - Amazon plans to invest up to $4B in Anthropic.
- Meta plans to launch chatbots with personalities on Facebook and Instagram.
- Hollywood writers and studios reached a tentative deal that includes AI protections.
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| 1 | | Amazon plans to invest up to $4B in Anthropic, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI staffers. Amazon's initial investment will be $1.25B, with the chance for an additional $2.75B. Amazon will gain a minority stake in Anthropic, known for its AI-powered chatbot Claude 2. More: - Under the strategic collaboration, Amazon will incorporate Anthropic's AI technology into its products.
- Amazon cloud customers and engineers will gain early access to Anthropic's technology, including model customization and fine-tuning capabilities.
- Meanwhile, Anthropic said it will use custom Amazon's Trainium and Inferentia chips to build, train, and deploy its foundation models for AI applications.
- Anthropic will receive a financial boost to cover the substantial expenses of training and operating large AI models.
- The startup has also named Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its primary cloud provider.
Zoom out: - Google invested $300M in Anthropic last year. Anthropic later announced that Google Cloud would be the startup's preferred cloud provider.
- Meanwhile, Microsoft has invested over $10B in Anthropic competitor OpenAI, gaining a 49% stake and integrating the ChatGPT maker's technology across its services.
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| 2 | | Meta plans to launch personality-driven AI chatbots on its platforms, with the rollout expected as soon as next week, per The Wall Street Journal. The "Gen AI Personas" are set to launch across Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, targeting Gen Z users, who are the most frequent users of ChatGPT and could be more likely to embrace Meta's rival chatbots. 
Details: Meta's chatbots reportedly feature unique personalities, including "Bob the Robot," inspired by Futurama's sassy Bender character. Another bot, "Alvin the Alien," supposedly seeks personal information from users to better "understand humans." Other bots could be geared toward productivity, including coding assistance. What's next: Meta plans to develop "dozens" of the bots and is working on a tool to allow celebrities to create their own chatbots for fan interactions, according to the WSJ. The company is expected to announce the bots at its Meta Connect event on Sept. 27-28. Why it matters: According to the Journal, Meta aims to attract younger users with the chatbots, potentially increasing their time spent on the platforms and thus Meta's ad opportunities. Meghana Dhar, a former Snap and Instagram executive, said that while AI chatbots don't "exactly scream Gen Z to me," the generation tends to be "much more comfortable" with the technology. | | | |
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| 3 | | The Writers Guild of America (WGA) and major studios have a tentative deal that may end the ongoing writers' strike, offering higher royalties and protections against AI use in scriptwriting. Specific details are undisclosed, but the deal is said to have "groundbreaking additions" for AI use in TV and filmmaking. More: - The WGA had pushed for tighter restrictions on AI-generated scripts, whereas studios aimed for greater flexibility to explore the technology.
- Nearly 12,000 WGA members will now vote on the deal, which includes minimum writer staffing rules, higher residuals, and the AI-generated script restrictions.
- The deal reportedly ensures AI won't affect writers' credits and compensation. It also boosts writer pay, especially for streaming content.
- Picketing stopped Sunday, but the strike continues until WGA members approve the deal.
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| 4 | | Stock photo platform Getty Images introduced a generative AI tool trained exclusively on its own licensed content. The "commercially safe" tool generates images from text prompts, providing customers with a royalty-free license and protection against copyright lawsuits. More: - The "Generative AI by Getty Images" tool is built on Nvidia's Edify text-to-visual AI model and trained on a portion of Getty's roughly 477 million assets.
- The tool restricts the creation of images depicting public figures or mimicking a living artist's style.
- All images generated by the tool are watermarked as AI-generated.
Zoom out: - In Feburary, Getty Images sued Stability AI, the creator of the Stable Diffusion image generator, alleging copyright infringement.
- A study of 12 million photos from Stable Diffusion's training dataset indicated that more than 15,000 of those photos came from Getty.
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| 5 | | Snap has partnered with Microsoft for advertising in its AI chatbot, My AI. Snapchat plans to introduce sponsored links in My AI using Microsoft Advertising's "Ads for Chat" API. More: - Microsoft's new API allows publishers, apps, and online services to select and display their ideal ad formats.
- My AI's Sponsored Links will offer relevant content and experiences to Snapchat users from various partners.
- If a user asked My AI for dinner recommendations, for example, the chatbot could respond with a sponsored link from a nearby restaurant or food delivery app.
- Since launching to all users in April, Snapchat's My AI has received over 10 billion messages from more than 150 million users.
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 | AI and technology writer | | Beth is the writer of Inside's AI and Tech newsletters, with a career spanning journalism and editing since 2007. She has written for publications including The Arizona Republic, USA Today, and others, and authored a book on the solar industry in 2016. Reach out to her at Beth.Duckett@yahoo.com. | | This newsletter was edited by Aaron Crutchfield | |
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