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What's up? You're reading Inclined AI. It’s Wednesday, so you’re either finishing your week or barely getting started. It’s all about perspective.
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Microsoft is poised to start making AI chips
Reddit is sick of freebies
A photographer admits his award-winning photo is AI
The AI Drake Song is pulled from Spotify
MICROSOFT IS PAYING TOO MUCH TO NVIDIA
Prompt: Bill Gates hands over his last dollar Style: Tim Walker
The tech colossus decided years ago that leaning on its chipmaking pal was not fruitful.
In 2019, 300 employees began working on a secret project called Athena. It’s a special AI chip built for internal use.
The decision will make or break the future of Microsoft's AI research.
Right now, the company limits screen time for all their researchers, like the mom of an iPad-addicted eight-year-old. The cost to compute is too damn high.
For example, according to CNBC, Nvidia’s H100 GPUs sell for $40,000 on eBay. It costs them millions of dollars to partner with Nvidia, but the outcomes are fantastic.
You can see Microsoft wobbling on a tightrope high above the canyon. Athena goes one of two ways.
They make an affordable, high-performing alternative AI chip that replaces their money-drainer of a partner, or they fail to get this project to the finish line and sour a good relationship in the process.
Machine Learning costs are going to balloon for a while.
Many experts in the field suggest that it will be a bottleneck for the next couple of years since manufacturers didn’t forecast the increase in demand. So once again, the only thing limiting us from advancing is ourselves.
Microsoft’s chip plans are for a long-term strategy, and getting out from Nvidia’s stranglehold is a solid playbook that others will start to replicate.
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PROFITABLE AI MODELS CAN NO LONGER TRAIN FOR FREE ON REDDIT
Reddit is making things complicated. For some time, AI companies have accessed conversational data on Reddit to train their models.
Part of the dataset for GPT-4 is Reddit comments and posts.
That access is worth a lot. The new structure will change Reddit’s entire business model.
For perspective: Reddit made ~$350m from ads in 2021. Twitter, a hot mess for advertisers, made $7B in 2022. We’re talking apples to clementines here, people.
While their ad team scales up and finds footing, something must rake in the dough. Hence, the decision to stop allowing free rides on the API carousel.
Looming in the background is Reddit’s Initial Public Offering (IPO)…
…when the company offers stock to retail investors and gets listed on stock exchanges.
It’s a big moment for any startup.
They don’t want to show up to the banks with a giant pile of IOUs from AI researchers. So it’s fair that they bring in revenue from their contributions.
However, Reddit rose in popularity partly by becoming open to search engines and developers. They’re not shutting the door on that, but this is a step in that direction.
There’s no telling how these companies will respond.
Sam Hoffman, Reddit’s CEO, called out the companies profiting from free access since they didn’t consider that originally.
If the AI is free, then so is the API access. On the surface, that is what Reddit wants. They got the short end of the stick from OpenAI, but don’t want to cut off small research teams.
A swelling bank account may change their mind.
Quick Nuggets
🛑 Copyright claims from Drake’s record label stop Ghostwriter’s viral AI song
🐅 ChatGPT skills are a must-have for many employers now
📏 Measuring AGI is a conundrum that we still don’t have a concrete answer to
📺 “Mrs. Davis” is a show that features AI, but is it any good?
🔫 Spotting gun threats is another way AI can help today’s society
9️⃣ 9 resources to get the most out of generative AI
📸 Photographer turns down award after admitting he made his submission using AI
📹 Your creative workflow is getting the middle sucked up by AI tools
🌋 LLaVA is a new research project that focuses on Large Language Vision Assistants
🦖 Meta’s DINOv2 is launched for developers to segment video
✨ Claude v1.3 is the newest update to Anthropic’s LLM
🎹 Google’s music generator is getting slept on by creators
📝 Therapy with AI is not the intended use case, but people don’t seem to care
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