AI Weekly Digest #2: AI Powered Developers, The New Norm.

Welcome to the second edition of our AI newsletter, where we bring you the latest updates on artificial intelligence and its impact on our world. NoBS!

So much to cover! In this issue, we'll explore:

• The Main Headlines: GPT4, Midjourney-v5, Office 365 copilot, Adept AI.

• Hot Topics: Stanford Alpaca 7B, Claude API, Google's PaLM API, Google’s GenAI, Pytorch 2.0, Falcon LLM!

• Beyond the Hype, the story: AI Powered Developers, The New Norm.

• Bonus! Discover 10 useful AI tools you‘ve probably never heard about!

Beyond the Hype, The Story

“AI Powered Developers, The New Norm”

The software development landscape is witnessing a significant transformation with the emergence of AI-powered tools, such as GitHub Copilot, which now generates 46% of developers' code on average. As these groundbreaking technologies continue to gain momentum and deliver impressive results, like a 90% increase in task completion speed, it is essential for developers to embrace this change to unlock new possibilities and stay competitive!

Main Headlines

This has been a crazy week! But we’ll keep it short!

#1 OpenAI has released GPT4,

• an advanced language model that offers improved capabilities compared to its predecessor, ChatGPT.

• Everything you need to know here.

GPT4 is less prone to hallucinations, has increased factual accuracy, and displays enhanced complex reasoning abilities. While the early version of GPT4 is currently only available to ChatGPT Plus subscribers and can analyze text, the feature-complete version will soon be able to analyze both text and images. This opens up new possibilities, such as generating functional code from a hand-drawn mock-up or solving complex engineering tasks requiring both image & text understanding.

#2 AdeptAI has raised $350 million in funding, after a first round of $65M, to build AI that learns how to use software for you! Imagine an AI capable of interacting with any other system via APIs. Adapt is one of the emergent AI competitor founded by an ex-OpenAI VP Engineering! All the details are available here.

#3 Midjourney V5 is the latest version of an engine that comes with natural language prompting and more realistic, photography-like images. This development could help bridge the gap between human language and AI-generated responses.

#4 Microsoft 365 Copilot: This tool can assist with a variety of tasks, such as writing emails, summarizing meetings, generating roadmaps, formalizing business proposals, and creating PowerPoint presentations. The possibilities are endless with this type of technology. See video here, and this awesome thread below!

Hot Topics!

Several other announcement where made this week! Here’s a short list of exciting news:

• Stanford Alpaca 7B: Stanford shows that you can compete with GPT3.5 models with $600 with a “small” 7B parameter model!! How? by asking Davinci-003 to generate the needed fine-tuning dataset, and training Meta’s LLaMA opensource model. Dataset & Publication available here.

• ChatGPT & GPT4 competitors and rolling out their solutions: Anthropic & Google are announcing their APIs with respectively the releases of Claude API and PaLM’s API. We’ll soon start seeing real alternatives to OpenAI APIs.

• Google adds GenAI to workspaces. Equivalent to Microsoft’s 365 copilot! Working will never be the same!

• Pytorch 2.0: “faster, more Pythonic and Dynamic as ever”! Release announcement.

• LLM Falcon, 40B parameter state-of-the art LLM: New players are entering the LLM space everyday as it's becoming a strategic asset. This time with Falcon LLM (by TII, UAE), "a foundational large language model (LLM) with 40 billion parameters that outperforms GPT3". We can bet that they will follow Alpaca’s approach mentioned earlier to fine-tune a chatGPT like model!

Bonus!

That’s it for today! If you made it this far, I’d appreciate a quick feedback 😋! We know thee is room for improvement! So don’t hesitate to share with me the things you liked and those that you didn’t.

Have a great Sunday and may AI always be on your side!