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| Here's a glance at today's AI briefing: - OpenAI unveils GPT-4 Turbo, GPT Store during developer conference.
- Elon Musk's AI startup announces first AI model for X, formerly Twitter.
- Microsoft partners with Inworld AI to create AI tools for Xbox developers.
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| 1 | OpenAI unveiled GPT-4 Turbo and introduced a GPT app store at its first-ever developer conference. The much-hyped DevDay event, held today in San Francisco, attracted close to 1,000 developers, who came together "to explore tools and exchange ideas." More: - GPT-4 Turbo, now in API preview, is trained with data up to April 2023, an advancement over the earlier GPT-4, which used data only up to September 2021.
- Turbo's expanded 128K context window — equivalent to a 300-page book — allows it to comprehend longer inputs compared to earlier versions with context windows of 8K and 32K.
- The input cost for Turbo is $0.01 per 1,000 tokens, less than the $0.03 charged for GPT-4.
Zoom out: - OpenA also announced a personalized chatbot builder for individual ChatGPT users.
- Users can create custom chatbots, called "GPTs," for their own purposes or to share with others.
- Alongside the builder, OpenAI is introducing a GPT Store or marketplace for users to post personalized AI chatbots for public download.
- Eventually, users will be able to earn money from their apps based on usage statistics, according to OpenAI.
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| 2 | | Elon Musk plans to integrate his AI startup, called xAI, with his social media platform X, formerly Twitter. xAI unveiled its first AI model, a bot called Grok, on Friday to select X users, tapping into the booming market for AI-powered chatbots. More: - xAI — which is working on AI tools to "assist humanity in its quest for understanding and knowledge" — will now be built into the X app, Musk said in a post on Sunday.
- xAI will also launch as a standalone app, he added, though he did not specify a release date, features, or pricing.
- xAI's first product, Grok, competes with market leaders such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Microsoft Bing AI.
- The chatbot, modeled after "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," was introduced as a "very early beta product" on Friday to select X users for testing and will eventually become part of X Premium+, its subscription service that costs $16 per month.
Features: - According to xAI, Grok is designed to provide witty and occasionally rebellious answers to questions, and it can respond to "spicy questions" that other chatbots might avoid.
- Musk said the Grok bot has a "massive advantage" over other AI models as it has "real-time access" to information on X.
- Tesla also plans to incorporate Grok AI as an assistant into its electric vehicles,
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| 3 | | Microsoft is teaming up with Inworld AI to create AI-driven tools for Xbox developers, including an "AI design copilot" for scripting and dialogue. Despite concerns about job displacement in the gaming industry, Microsoft is touting the A tools as a way for developers to innovate, push boundaries, and improve gameplay. Details: Today, Microsoft and Inworld AI announced a multi-year partnership to develop generative AI game tools for Xbox developers. The collaboration will initially focus on two game development tools: an AI design copilot for generating scripts and quests from text prompts and an AI character runtime engine for dynamic in-game character interactions that are based on a player's actions. Quotable: Inworld AI CEO Ilya Gelfenbeyn said the emergence of generative AI and large language models have brought "new opportunities for storytelling and character engagement within games." He noted that AI could streamline gaming production, potentially speeding up game releases by saving time and resources. The bigger picture: A study conducted by global consulting firm Bain & Company predicts that generative AI's presence in game development, currently at less than 5%, will rise to 50% or more within the next five-to-10 years. Meanwhile, the generative AI in the gaming industry is expected to grow at a CAGR of 23.3%, reaching $7.1B by 2032. 
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| 4 | | Chinese startup 01.AI, founded by AI expert Kai-Fu Lee, has reached a valuation of over $1B after securing funding from Alibaba's cloud unit and other investors. 01.AI recently launched its first large language model, the open-source Yi-34B, which handles both English and Chinese. More: - 01.AI started recruiting employees in March and officially launched operations in June.
- Yi-34B, its bilingual base model trained with 34 billion parameters, is notably smaller in size compared to open models like Meta LlaMa2-70B.
- Hugging Face, known for its LLM performance leaderboards, recently ranked Yi-34B as the top performer in the pre-trained base LLM category.
- 01.AI is now set to release a language model with 6 billion parameters while also planning to develop language models with 100 billion to 400 billion parameters.
- The company plans to make money by offering proprietary AI models tailored for specific industries and use cases.
Zoom out: - Lee, a former computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, is now the CEO of Beijing-based venture capital firm Sinovation Ventures, founded in 2009 after his tenure at Google, where he led the company's Chinese business unit.
- He is the author of "AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future."
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| 5 | | Chinese fintech giant Ant Group gained government approval to launch public-facing AI products built on its large language model, Bailing. Ant Group, Alibaba's financial affiliate and the owner of Alipay, is the latest to secure approval for AI product releases after the country's recently unveiled generative AI rules. More: - Ant Group's AI model, tailored for finance, has been undergoing testing since September, when it launched in consumer and professional apps.
- With the approval, Ant Group can now release public products based on Bailing, which the company also plans to use across its operations.
Zoom out: - In recent weeks, Chinese tech giants like Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu have also gained permission to publicly release their AI models, apps, and chatbots.
- Alibaba Cloud, which hosts an estimated half of all of China's generative AI firms, launched Tongyi Qianwen 2.0, its latest large language model, last week.
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| 6 | | AI Events and Conferences: - International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Computing: Nov. 6-7, San Francisco.
- Computer Vision Summit London, Nov. 9, London.
- AI World Barcelona: Generative AI Conference: Nov. 14-15, Barcelona, Spain.
- Cerebral Valley AI Summit 2.0, Nov. 15, San Francisco.
- MLCon 2023, Nov. 28-29, online or Berlin, Germany.
- AI & Big Data Expo Global 2023: Nov. 30-Dec. 1, London, U.K.
- The AI Summit New York: Dec. 6-7, New York, N.Y.
- AI Expo, Powered by AWS, Dec. 9, Austin, Texas.
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 | AI and technology writer | | Beth is an editor and writer of Inside's AI and Tech newsletters, with a career spanning journalism since 2007. She has written for publications including The Arizona Republic and USA Today and authored a book on the solar industry in 2016. Reach her at Beth.Duckett@yahoo.com. | | This newsletter was edited by Aaron Crutchfield | |
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