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• Paul McCartney wants to give you one last Beatles song

• Microsoft & OpenAI have an awkward relationship

• OpenAI announces new updates to their API

• Meta unveils a new model that brings LeCun’s vision to life

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THE BEATLES ARE RELEASING A NEW SONG, SORT OF

Paul McCartney confirmed on a BBC radio show that he’s releasing an unheard Beatles song with some help from his friends (and AI).

If you’re a Beatles mega-fan, then you know that John Lennon left Paul a cassette in 1978 that contained his voice recording for the demo of “Now and Then,” amongst other recordings. There’s no telling how long Paul waited and mused about releasing this unheard track.

But thanks to AI, the impossible is now possible.

Paul didn’t specify what artificial intelligence they used in the process, but it might match Peter Jackson's toolkit for his DocuSeries, Get Back, which used AI to remaster imperfect recordings of their studio recordings and fix images.

We can confirm that the audio pulled from that cassette was cleaned up and “made pure” by the AI tool. Paul’s team is now working on mixing the record with that clear, isolated audio.

The label will release the song later this year. But should they?

People replicating John’s voice to sing modern songs scare Paul McCartney. He admitted that in the interview. That’s why this moment reflects the double-edged sword of generative AI.

On the one hand, a song will have its moment in the sun because we can now restore it. On the other hand, AI creators are pulling hardworking artists into creative work they never signed on for.

What would John want?

I’m not the guy to answer that, and this fugue around artists, copyright, and AI is not going away anytime soon.

We may as well get a new Beatles song out of it though, right?

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MICROSOFT & OPENAI STAY TOGETHER, BUT TENSION IS THERE

No one is saying that Microsoft and OpenAI are nearing a split. The relationship gives both of them top-billing in the AI space, and they align on long-term goals.

But consider other symbiotic relationships.

OpenAI is a clownfish enjoying the security of living in the anemone that is Microsoft. They need to sacrifice and work with discomfort to function.

For example, Microsoft forces OpenAI to limit its relationship with other search engine providers, and they compete for the same enterprise clients.

On the flip side, the AI team inside Microsoft is atrophying without its own foundational model to study and learn from—not to mention its growing dependence on OpenAI to flesh out its AI foundations.

So who's getting the most from this relationship?

It’s unclear, but neither company wants to share too much or help in every way they can. You can see that dysfunction in the new report that OpenAI’s warnings about Bing Chat’s bizarre outputs went unheard. 

They’re holding each other back. 

Microsoft benefits from any profit OpenAI makes and stays atop the pyramid without overcommitting to a half-baked AI model.

But most of the workers at Microsoft don’t get full access to OpenAI’s models, and their own tools aren’t beating Google to the punch.

Meanwhile, OpenAI can access Microsoft’s cloud services to continue its research and push ChatGPT’s growth further. People see them as leaders in the space, thanks partly to their partnership with Microsoft.

But they won’t harvest the fruits of this labor, and the deal limits their ability to snag enterprise contracts and new partnerships.

Keep an eye out here. These troubles will come to a head. They always do.

Quick Nuggets

🙅 Google disagrees with OpenAI’s call for a government AI Czar

🚫 Nature, the science journal, will not accept AI-generated images for covers

✨ Adobe’s new AI Illustrator tool will recolor your designs automatically

👀 AI revolutionizes how governments surveil their citizens

🎰 Microsoft’s CEO is betting all his chips on AI

🌱 Some tips on using AI summarization to start a company

😧 I-JEPA: Yann LeCun’s new AI model that learns through an internal model of the outside world

⚠️ Cisco’s CEO worries about the danger of unethical AI

💰 OpenAI announces new function calling and lower API token pricing

📽️ Startup pitches generated by GPT-4 are more likely to receive funding than human pitches

🔥 Fresh Products

• Coda AI - AI follows up so you can get back to work (link)

• Taiga - a coding mentor built into your Slack (link)

• Kidgeni - AI generative art for kids (link)

• Monarch - get control of your money w/ their AI assistant (link)

• Octopulse AI - growth platform to help you scale (link)

• Arvin 2.0 - you’re companion for reading & writing (link)

• ReviewWriter - respond to reviews automatically (link)

• GPTFlix - name your favorite anything & get recs (link)

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