Welcome insideBIGDATA AI News Briefs, our timely new feature bringing you the latest industry insights and perspectives surrounding the field of AI including deep learning, large language models, generative AI, and transformers. We\u2019re working tirelessly to dig up the most timely and curious tidbits underlying the day\u2019s most popular technologies. We know this field is advancing rapidly and we want to bring you a regular resource to keep you informed and state-of-the-art. Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ChatGPT\u2019s New Search Feature<\/a> – ChatGPT can now browse the internet to provide you with current and authoritative information, complete with direct links to sources. It is no longer limited to data before September 2021. Since the original launch of browsing in May, OpenAI received useful feedback. Updates include following robots.txt and identifying user agents so sites can control how ChatGPT interacts with them. Browsing is particularly useful for tasks that require up-to-date information, such as helping you with technical research, trying to choose a bike, or planning a vacation. Browsing is available to Plus and Enterprise users today, and will expand to all users soon. To enable, choose Browse with Bing in the selector under GPT-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Takeaways from Meta Connect<\/a> by Forrester VP, Research Director Mike Proulx – <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cArguably, the star of Meta Connect today was Meta AI \u2014 a first generation assistant based on Meta\u2019s Llama 2 language model. It can access real-time information due to a partnership with Microsoft\u2019s Bing search. It also embeds Emu (Meta\u2019s Expressive Media Universe image model) into its UI. This enables users to generate custom photorealistic images and stickers. And Emu\u2019s soon-to-launch Instagram integration for advance AI-photo manipulation will be one to watch as it will bring immediate utility to the IG experience.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n It was Meta AI\u2019s integration into its <\/em>next generation Ray-Ban Smart Glasses<\/em><\/a> that was perhaps today\u2019s biggest surprise. Almost (but not quite yet) like fictional Tony Stark\u2019s Jarvis-enabled glasses, Ray-Ban users can interact with Meta AI using voice commands. As Zuckerberg put it, this is \u2018an AI assistant that will hear what you\u2019re hearing and see what you\u2019re seeing.\u2019 Yes, this is both creepy and promising for the future of smart glasses.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Cisco to acquire Splunk in $28B mega deal<\/a> – Cisco just snapped up analytics and cybersecurity firm Splunk for $28B. Cisco-Splunk will be one of the world’s largest software firms, gaining strong ARR and powerful AI initiatives and capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ChatGPT<\/a> announced it will integrate voice and image capabilities, enabling the commonly used AI tool to hear, see and speak. Voice and image give you more ways to use ChatGPT in your life. Snap a picture of a landmark while traveling and have a live conversation about what\u2019s interesting about it. When you\u2019re home, snap pictures of your fridge and pantry to figure out what\u2019s for dinner (and ask follow up questions for a step by step recipe). After dinner, help your child with a math problem by taking a photo, circling the problem set, and having it share hints with both of you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pryon raises $100M to index and analyze enterprise data<\/a> – Pryon<\/a>, a startup developing an AI-powered platform to look for insights in \u2014 and surface answers from \u2014 enterprise knowledge bases, today announced that it raised $100 million in a funding round led by Thomas Tull\u2019s U.S. Innovative Technology Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Coqui Releases Model Weights for Their New Generative Voice Model<\/a> – XTTS is a Voice generation model that lets you clone voices into different languages by using just a quick 6-second audio clip. 3-second cloning, Multilingual speech generation, Cross-language voice cloning, 24khz quality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Tabby: The Open-Source GitHub Copilot<\/a> – Tabby is an open-source, self-hosted AI coding assistant, positioning itself as a practical alternative to GitHub Copilot. It allows teams to effortlessly leverage any Coding LLM, ensuring flexibility and compatibility in code completion tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Top Authors Join Lawsuit Against OpenAI Over Copyright Infringement of Novels<\/a> – The suit marks the third legal action from authors, who take issue with AI companies using their novels as training data without consent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Amazon Invests $4B into Anthropic to Competing Against Microsoft (OpenAI)<\/a> – Amazon plans to invest up to $4 billion in the AI startup Anthropic. The two companies will collaborate on developing reliable and high-performing foundation models. Amazon Web Services (AWS) will be the primary cloud provider for Anthropic. The investment also includes AWS’s Trainium and Inferentia chips to be used for model training and deployment. This investment marks a significant move in the AI industry, positioning Amazon to compete directly with other tech giants like Microsoft, Google, and Nvidia. The collaboration aims to make AI more safe, reliable, and widely accessible. It also gives AWS customers access to advanced AI capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Amazon invests billions in AI startup Anthropic \u2013 insights from Forrester Senior Analyst Rowan Curran – <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00ad\u201cThis announcement from Amazon and Anthropic puts together another powerful pairing of enterprise expertise and advanced LLM capabilities. It \u2013 and also signals that some of the biggest and most technologically advanced companies in the world are being equaled or surpassed by small startups. The partnership between Amazon and Anthropic looks similar to other announcements we\u2019ve seen of this kind. Here, \u2013 Amazon will provide compute and storage for the research and development of more advanced models, and in turn Anthropic will provide advanced access to future models for AWS customers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Anthropic has made the creation and delivery of responsible AI technologies one of their foundational principles. Paired with Amazon\u2019s emphasis on privacy and security aspects when using their own models in Bedrock, this could potentially be an appealing alternative for companies and governments who want to deploy LLMs at scale in a secure cloud environment.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n “Light-Touch” AI Bill<\/a> – Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn) plan to introduce a bill requiring AI companies to self-certify the safety of high-risk AI systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n AI Regulation: step with care, and great tact<\/a> – Spending years constructing the “perfect AI legislation” and “completely new AI agencies” will end up like the parable of the blind men and an elephant<\/a> – creating repackaged laws that attempt to regulate AI from different angles without holistically solving anything. We need AI regulation that defaults to action, that balances opening the door to innovation and creativity while casting a shadow over misuse of data and punishing discriminative, abusive, and prejudicial conduct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNo Cloud Needed\u201d<\/a> – <\/strong>A new Intel chip due in December will be able to run a generative artificial intelligence chatbot on a laptop rather than having to tap into cloud data centers for computing power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Roblox acquires voice moderation startup Speechly<\/a> – The buyout of voice API startup Speechly will bring its advanced real-time voice chat and AI Voice Chat Moderation services to the online gaming network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n