MKBHD reviews rabbit inc. R1, barely

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this Tuesday in AI:

1/ There’s a new secret model, gpt2 chatbot, with a GPT-4-Turbo-esque performance. It’s on lmsys.org, the community platform for rating LLMs. Speculations are going wild from it being GPT-4.5, or GPT-2 with Q* or a fine-tune for agentic reasoning. And no,…

How Ethan Mollick became the go-to authority on AI?

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WSJ has done a profile of professor Ethan Mollick who consults the White House, JP Morgan, Google etc. on AI

We love Ethan’s writeups and often include them on Ben's Bites

this weekend in AI:

1/ ChatGPT’s memory feature is getting released widely to more users. It means ChatGPT will pick up facts and preferences from your texts to remember (eg: I am vegetarian, or I prefer reading bullet points). The key part is that you don’t have to specify…

Interesting story we found this weekend:

Lenovo’s survey says most global tech leaders see their companies as unprepared for AI

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New tutorial is up on Ben’s Bites: Build a marketing analyst GPT

This one is beginner-friendly and helps you to make smart marketing recommendations from consumer data

Check it out: bensbites.com/tutorial/build…

Elon Musk is raising $6B for xAI

Elon Musk's AI startup, xAI, is finalizing a $6B investment round that values the company at $18B.

Sequoia Capital is a confirmed investor, and the round is likely to close within a couple of weeks.

Our summary: bensbites.beehiiv.com/p/elon-musks-x…

Zuckerberg says it will take Meta years to make money from generative AI

theverge.com/2024/4/24/2413…

today in AI:

1/ Moderna has partnered with OpenAI. It has created over 400 GPTs just for research-related tasks. Other Fortune 1000 companies are also experimenting heavily with GPTs internally.

2/ Cognition Labs, the startup behind Devin is now valued at $2B. The startup is…

The UK's first No Code and AI conference is taking place on 21st May 🔥

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today in AI:

1/ Apple continues to work silently researching LLMs. This time, they have also released the weights of a new model family OpenELM. It can run on iPhones smoothly. Rumours say Apple is also working on custom chips for AI.

2/ Perplexity, the hot AI search company,…

this Tuesday in AI:

1/ Microsoft announces phi-3 models. Microsoft released the technical report for 3 models in the Phi series - mini, small and medium. Phi 3 mini is a 3.8B model that beats GPT-3.5 on benchmarks. Weights will be released soon. Is this the real deal or will it…

Webflow acquired Intellimize to add AI-powered webpage personalization

techcrunch.com/2024/04/19/web…