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NewsBurst: Your Weekly Digest of Diverse Updates
Your Gateway to the Week's Most Compelling Stories
Andres Franco
November 22, 2023
Top 5 news happening in the AI space:
Sam Altman to Return As CEO in a Turnaround Saga at OpenAI
AI Startup Stability Dives into Video-Generating Realm, Unveils Stable Video Diffusion
Discord Mutely Pulls the Plug on AI Chatbot, Clyde
Meet Claude 2.1 - The Now Twice as Potent Chatbot by Anthropic
Toku’s AI Platform Flags Heart Risk with Eyes Scan
In a dramatic corporate saga worthy of a Netflix series, Sam Altman makes his big comeback as CEO of the most valuable U.S. startup, OpenAI after an abrupt, controversial dismissal.
The announcement followed five days of intense negotiations, board revamps, and high-power additions like Salesforce veteran Bret Taylor.
In a plot twist, Microsoft was ready to scoop Altman to lead a new AI group, but seems to be playing nice, expressing encouragement at the board restructuring.
The AI realm is getting a new dimension with Stability AI's Stable Video Diffusion, a ground-breaking module that can turn images into dynamic videos.
The model, designed with stringent usage restrictions, raises concern over potential misuse in negative ways.
Yet, with its planned evolution and extension, the application scope ranges from versatile advertising to innovative educational tools.
Discord is signing off Clyde, an AI chatbot born from experimentation earlier this year.
From December 1st, Clyde will no longer be part of DMs or server chats, a surprising twist after initial plans to make it a cornerstone of its app.
Whether Clyde will return or not, as a paid feature, Discord plays coy, sparking speculation among users.
Times are changing! OpenAI rival Anthropic just supercharged its chatbot Claude with groundbreaking capabilities.
This wonder bot, version 2.1, doubles its interpretive abilities to a whopping 200,000 tokens - that's over 500 pages! Moreover, Claude's hallucinating antics have been halved, introducing a new level of reality.
It can now connect with API tools, and even take custom instructions. Watch out world, Claude is only getting smarter!
Our new model Claude 2.1 offers an industry-leading 200K token context window, a 2x decrease in hallucination rates, system prompts, tool use, and updated pricing.
Claude 2.1 is available over API in our Console, and is powering our claude.ai chat experience.
— Anthropic (@AnthropicAI)
Nov 21, 2023
Toku's AI platform CLAiR has earned FDA "breakthrough device status" as a potentially life-saving tool.
By tapping into the link between eye and heart health, it offers a glimmer of hope for early detection of previously undetected diseases like stroke and diabetes by using non-invasive AI-powered retina scans.
Able to flag cardiovascular risks in 20 seconds. Toku hopes to integrate this tool into routine eye exams, revolutionizing cardiovascular disease detection.
While still awaiting market approval, the company is aiming to bring it to market by 2025.
Looking to earn with chatbots?
Quora's AI chatbot platform, Poe is switching up the game, converting bot creators into income generators. The innovative program gives creators the chance to turn their bots into moneymakers, via user subscriptions or per-message fees.
What I learned this week. I hope these spark some questions in your own business or careers:
When it comes to #innovation
Established companies lack behind because when they come up with something new, managers scratch it off because it’s not as profitable as their main service.
In addition, companies get user feedback from their existing user base when instead they should talk to those whose need might be served by their new innovation.
Bezos aligns innovation and failure with incentives.
He believes that many attempts will be failures but one or two that work out will cover the losses for the ones that didn’t work.
This is how VC firms also perceive investments.
Show me the incentives and I’ll show you the outcome.
Cool tools of the week from insidersedge.io
InfraNodus - discover connections and context with graph-powered insights
Need extra money to take on your innovation? Meta’s got you with this grant.
EvoDiff - Generation of protein sequences and evolutionary alignments via diffusion models.
Local AI Stack - Build Local apps for $0.
ChatGPT - Your way to endless information
Midjourney - Image generation on steroids
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