☕️ Apple's Brewing A Model

The week starts strong with Apple's first sneakpeek at ReALM, an AI system that its researchers claim can make GPT-4 break a sweat. On the other side, Microsoft and OpenAI start work on a $100 billion supercomputer, Samsung gets ready to retrofit Bixby with AI, and Beyoncé makes a statement against the tech's rising popularity in music. Join us at AI Tangle as we untangle this week's happenings in AI.

Apple AI researchers tout a model that can supposedly outperform GPT-4

The researchers at Apple's AI division have been cooking something up in the lab, as the company reportedly developed a new artificial intelligence system to "see" and understand on-screen context. Dubbed ReALM, or Reference Resolution As Language Modeling, Apple claims that its method of dissecting reference resolution and visual elements is a class above existing ones, stating that their "larger models substantially outperform GPT-4."

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What do we know?

Apple researchers claim that ReALM's main merit is its ability to leverage large language models to convert the complex task of reference resolution, including understanding references to visual elements on a screen, into a pure language modeling problem, incurring performance gains. ReALM's capabilities were shown in a small demo combined with fine-tuned models for resolution reference.

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Elon Musk's and xAI's Grok-1.5 is on the near horizon

Recently, xAI's homepage has added an interesting blog post about Grok-1.5, detailing that the upgraded model would be hitting the shelves "in the coming days," with public benchmarks and specs showcasing a noticeable difference between it and the current Grok-1.0. The context window, or how much information a model can take into consideration when figuring out an output, has been substantially increased to a total of 128,000 tokens, with xAI also claiming that Grok-1.5 understands more complex prompts better.

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Microsoft and OpenAI to collaborate on a $100 billion supercomputer project

OpenAI and Microsoft are reportedly planning a U.S.-based data center nicknamed "Stargate," a project that could cost up to $100 billion and would be mainly funded by Microsoft, according to sources. Housing a supercomputer with millions of AI chips, it would be the largest of five installations planned over six years, with Microsoft executives eyeing an expected launch date of as early as 2028.

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Beyoncé takes a stand against AI amidst her ground-breaking Cowboy Carter album

Beyoncé's new album "Cowboy Carter," released just last week, is breaking records, and the artist seems to be taking the chance to take a jab at AI's growing presence in the industry. During one of her rare interviews, Beyoncé talks about wanting to "go back to real instruments" and the "purity" of making AI-less music in an evolving digital world. Her album, "Cowboy Carter," though not explicitly about AI, does address theft and appropriation of artworks without consent.

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Samsung prepares its voice assistant Bixby for a generative AI makeover

South Korean-based electronics bigwig Samsung is planning a large-scale generative AI technology makeover to enhance its voice assistant, Bixby, according to a top executive at the company. The move aims to make Bixby more conversational and capable of handling complex queries, similar to current-age chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude 3. While no timeline has been given, the company is reportedly working hard to deliver these features.

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Chinese AI industry leaders emphasize the need for domestic AI improvements before going global

Chinese AI firms need to develop domestic hardware and software to compete with US market leaders, some Chinese industry leaders claim. Liu Cong, VP of iFlytek, acknowledged a gap in generative AI and emphasized the need for "independently owned and controlled" technology. The US ban on selling powerful chips to China has further highlighted the need for domestic development in AI technology, which has recently put pressure on Huawei to meet that demand.

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Cognition Labs eyes a $2 billion valuation following the launch of its AI software engineer Devin/

Hailing from the United States, AI startup Cognition Labs is reportedly in talks to raise funds at a $2 billion valuation, which would be six times larger than what it was weeks ago. Notable Silicon Valley venture firms, like Founders Fund, are also hinted to be part of the funding round. The company, initially a cryptocurrency firm, made big headlines when it turned to AI and released Devin, Cognition's (and the world's) first AI software engineer.

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