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• Together unveils OpenChatKit

• Midjourney launched an alpha of v5

• March 16th, 8 AM PT: Microsoft’s holding an AI event (could be GPT-4, y’all)

• Semafor asks if we all should be polite to chatbots

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TOGETHER DOESN’T WANT TO DO THIS ALONE

The AI researchers announced a new tool called OpenChatKit. The new foundational model is open-source, so everyone can use it to develop ChatGPT competitors.

Now—the term “open-source” gets tossed around a lot in this space.

OpenAI literally got its name from the mission to be open to everyone. But in reality, many of these large research teams are as open as that jar of pickles in the back of my fridge (I swear I’ll get it open one day). 

OpenChatKit is 100% replicable and customizable. Everything is accessible from the source code to the dataset and even the weights.

Together is creating an entire open source project with the help of LAION and Ontocord.

Their first punch at that effort is creating a massive ripple effect.

Basic chat AI products flooded my product research this last day and a half. Of course, they were already starting to come in hot and heavy thanks to the OpenAI API release and LLaMA, but the floodgates are open.

Which feels ironic.

OpenAI released ChatGPT because no one was creating the tool from their API. Sure, they updated it with GPT-3.5 before anyone else had it. Still, a company could’ve made the same interface months before OpenAI.

Suddenly, tons of slightly altered versions crowd app stores and ad space. It never pays to be late to the party.

The best move a builder can make here is to use something like OpenChatKit and create a unique experience that doesn’t feel anything like all the chatbots out there.

The tool is out there. Someone needs to seize the opportunity.

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MIDJOURNEY V5 RELEASE IS COMING SOON

Midjourney is one of the best-known generative AI companies for a reason. They launched their Discord less than a year ago and are already profitable, according to the founder of the research lab, David Holz. 

Early test images from the rating party show a massive increase in image quality, but don’t pop the champagne yet.

The images people are showing are different from what version 5 will be. You can see that in the image above. 

Instead, it’s a way to help tune and teach the new version before release.

During the Midjourney v4 rating party, you’d see images entirely different from what the model is capable of today. So you should expect that to hold true.

But—I mean—the images are pretty cool.

The realism in the released test images is unbelievable. The AI seems to be handling human subjects a lot better too, and it wasn’t too shoddy to begin with.

I didn’t think the hype for generative AI could climb much higher this week with the news about GPT-4 sweeping up everyone’s attention. Yet, Midjourney dropped a dime. 

The finger anatomy will improve massively with this version, and the standard for AI art will rise to another level.

Generative AI continues to showcase the fact it’s a comet of disruption hurdling towards our preconceived notions of what computers can do.

Get in their Discord already if you haven’t tried it out. Even version 4 is fun to play with.

Quick Nuggets

🥹 Be nice to your chat AI. It doesn’t cost you anything

🚔 Police integrate AI with their body cameras to stay ahead in smart software

📌 AI cheat sheet for all the buzzwords and what they mean in this space

🔨 Hammer time: the FTC wants to reel in outsized claims about generative AI

🙀 FOMO is a big problem in Silicon Valley and generative AI is the latest trend

🫗 Data spills are a growing issue with the increase in AI in our daily life

💾 Ezra Klein wrote an Op-Ed about why AI changes everything

✅ Tell the truth: journalists might help AI accomplish that task

🤔 Steven Levy points out the start of an AI panic being created by familiar faces

📽️ Vid2Avatar reconstructs figures in a scene as full-fledged 3D avatars

👀 March 16th at 8 AM PT: Microsoft hosts an event called, “Reinventing Productivity with AI”—could be GPT-4 unveiling

👩‍⚖️ DoNotPay is being sued since their robot lawyer does not have a law degree

🏛️ Greek myths: they can teach us something about our current moment in time

🌐 Semiautomated Social Network is a new term from James Vincent to describe AI’s effect on social media

🚗 GM is thinking of bringing a chat AI into your car

🔥 Fresh Products

• Smarter than ChatGPT? - play the game and find out (link)

• PromptLab - quickly adjusts your prompts to perform better (link)

• IMI Prompt - helps create a full-body prompt for Midjourney (link)

• The Dream - trains an AI on your face to instantly create new photos of you (link)

• TypingMind - in case you hate the UI for ChatGPT (link)

• GetBotz - helps set your blog on autopilot (link)

• Sparkz - helps create bios for dating profiles (link)

• Trellis - a tutor and textbook companion to help you study (link)

• Rework - a new AI tool to assist in recruiting (link)

• Conch - AI meant to help you write better college essays (link)

• RhetorAI - helps builders get the most from user interviews (link)

• Deciphr AI - new updates to their podcast summary tools (link)

• Syllaby - helps flesh out a realistic content strategy for socials (link)

• VenturusAI - get instant feedback on your business idea (link)

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