Sam Altman got fired
Sam Altman has stepped down as CEO of OpenAI, as announced in a company blog post.
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Here’s what happened this week:
Generate music with Lyria from Google
Draw-a-UI
GPT-5 is coming
New custom AI chips from Microsoft
Sam Altman got fired by OpenAI's board
Let's dive in.
Generate music with Lyria from DeepMind
YouTube introduces 'Dream Track,' an AI-powered tool that can generate 30-second vocal tracks from text prompts. This allows for the creation of music with AI-generated singing.
Highlights:
Expanding Music AI Tools: YouTube is developing additional music AI tools, such as the ability to hum a melody to generate instrumentals and seamlessly edit the style of a track. These tools aim to assist musicians in their creative processes.
Collaboration with Renowned Artists: The project involves collaboration with well-known musicians, including T-Pain, Charlie Puth, Sia, Demi Lovato, and John Legend, who will provide valuable input and feedback.
Limited Test Group: Initially, these AI music tools will be available to a small test group, allowing YouTube to gather feedback and refine the tools for potential future release.
Why it's important: YouTube's AI music experiments mark a significant development in the creative landscape, particularly for musicians and content creators. These tools have the potential to democratize music production, making it more accessible to a broader audience.
Check the 2-min demo here.
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Draw-a-UI
Tldraw is a digital whiteboard that simplifies UI design. It uses GPT-4 Vision to understand and enhance your UI sketches.
Highlights:
Effortless UI Design: Users can sketch their user interface (UI) designs on it, and the app transforms these sketches into polished UI designs automatically.
No Login Required: You can start using Tldraw without the hassle of creating an account or logging in, making it accessible and convenient. You can try Tldraw here.
Open Source: The editor, user interface, and underlying libraries of Tldraw are open source, meaning that the software's inner workings are transparent and available for others to use and modify.
Why it's important: Tldraw offers a user-friendly solution for UI designers by simplifying the design process. Making UI design has never been so easy.
GPT-5 is coming
OpenAI, led by CEO Sam Altman, has announced active development on GPT-5, the next generation of its famous AI language model. GPT-5 aims to be even more advanced and capable.
Highlights:
The Goal: OpenAI wants to create AGI (artificial general intelligence). Think about it as a super smart and CONSCIOUS human-level AI.
Seeking Microsoft's Support: OpenAI is in discussions with Microsoft, their partner, to secure additional funding. The company faces significant expenses in training complex AI models and needs more resources to continue their work.
Data Acquisition: Altman emphasized the importance of obtaining more data, both from public and private sources, to enhance the capabilities of GPT-5.
Why it's important: OpenAI's pursuit of GPT-5 and AGI represents a significant step in advancing artificial intelligence. GPT-5, with improved capabilities, could revolutionize various industries.
New custom AI chips from Microsoft
Microsoft unveiled the Maia chip, specifically created for handling large language models like GPT. These models are crucial for Azure AI services.
Highlights:
Cobalt CPU for General Cloud Computing: The company also introduced the Cobalt CPU, designed to power general cloud computing tasks. This chip will support various cloud-related functions.
Deployment in Data Centers: Microsoft plans to use these chips in its data centers initially to enhance its internal services. Eventually, they will be made available as part of Azure's offerings.
Continued Partnerships: Microsoft emphasized that it will maintain partnerships with other chip manufacturers like AMD, NVIDIA, and Arm.
Why it's important: These custom chips enable Microsoft to boost its services' capabilities and volume while reducing reliance on NVIDIA chips, enhancing their control over technology infrastructure.
Sam Altman got fired by OpenAI's board
Sam Altman has stepped down as CEO of OpenAI, as announced in a company blog post.
Highlights:
Sam Altman is no longer the CEO of OpenAI due to a lack of support from the board.
Mira Murati, OpenAI’s CTO, is the interim CEO, and a search for a permanent successor is ongoing.
Also, Greg Brockman, President and Co-Founder of OpenAI, is leaving the company after this news.
Altman co-founded OpenAI and advocated for AI regulation during his time as CEO.
Why it's important: Sam Altman's departure as CEO of OpenAI marks a significant change in the leadership of one of the most prominent organizations working on artificial general intelligence (AGI). The decision by the board suggests a need for clear and transparent leadership as OpenAI continues its mission to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity.
Top-5 AI tools this week
Synthetic users - test your idea or product with AI participants and take decisions with confidence (link)
Mistral AI - free open source alternative for GPT-4 (link)
Product Lab AI - Product Discovery in 1 hour 10X faster & 100X cheaper (link)
Meshy - Create stunning 3D models with AI (link)
Profile Review - Your personal dating profile guru in ChatGPT (link)
Weekly AI image
Hogwarts party! (source)
Weekly Thread
Weekly Midjourney Prompt
an asian girl wearing sunglasses and a t shirt, in the style of anime art, light red and turquoise, xiaofei yue, chromepunk, ferrania p30, social media portraiture, victor nizovtsev, red background --s 200 --chaos 8 --ar 4:5
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