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Packed inside we have
- Microsoft 365 Copilot vs Google's Vertex AI: Accessing generative AI across office 365 and Google's product suite
- UK to invest £900m in supercomputer in bid to build own ‘BritGPT’
- and Adept Raises $350 Million To Build AI That Learns How To Use Software For You
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Marcel Hedman
Key Recent Developments
Microsoft 365 Copilot vs Google's Vertex AI
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Key Takeaway: Microsoft and Google have launched generative AI products across their product suites (PPT, Word vs Slides, Docs). This is hot off the back of OpenAI announcing the release of GPT-4 which bring multimodal (image and language) use cases to the general public
Companies have already begun implementing GPT-4 into their products
Stripe:
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Duolingo:
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UK to invest £900m in supercomputer in bid to build own ‘BritGPT’
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GPT-4 has been released
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AI Ethics
🚀 OpenAI's model card desribing the ethical challenges of GPT4
🚀 A ChatGPT-like dialogue language model that is fully open-sourced
🚀 ML accelerates data retrieval in huge databases
🚀 Microsoft lays off team that taught employees how to make AI tools responsibly
Other interesting reads
🚀 Fine-tuning 20B LLMs with RLHF on a 24GB consumer GPU
🚀 Visual ChatGPT: Talking, Drawing and Editing with Visual Foundation Models
- perhaps less valuable in a multimodal GPT-4 world but netherless the architecture is interesting
![](https://www.nural.cc/content/images/2023/03/image-4.png)
🚀 History of generative models
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🚀 Generative AI: Unlocking the future of fashion
Cool companies found this week
Generative AI
Adept - Building a machine learning model that can interact with everything on your computer. Adept Raises $350 Million To Build AI That Learns How To Use Software For You.
and finally...
After ChatGPT, the future belongs to multimodal LLMs. What’s even better? Open-sourcing.
— Jim Fan (@DrJimFan) March 7, 2023
Announcing Prismer, my team’s latest vision-language AI, empowered by domain-expert models in depth, surface normal, segmentation, etc.
No paywall. No forms. https://t.co/LV76hKH1PY… https://t.co/PYHEHzB5ZL pic.twitter.com/U4NeizwGX8
Best,
Marcel Hedman
Nural Research Founder
www.nural.cc
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