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  • The Poe Chatbot Platform Offers Developers The Ability To Generate Revenue with Bots

    The Poe Chatbot Platform Offers Developers The Ability To Generate Revenue with Bots

    IBL News | New York

    Poe.com launched this week a revenue generation program for developers who create prompt and server bots on this chatbot platform. The service is currently available to US residents.

    Developers can write code and integrate it with Poe’s API to benefit from Poe’s monetization structure.

    When a bot causes a user to subscribe to Poe, the company shares a cut of the revenue they pay.

    In the near future, the user will be able to set a per-message fee.

    “With this latest launch, we believe we are fulfilling our goals for Poe to greatly reduce the amount of work needed for any AI developer to reach a large audience of users,” said the company.

    Since last February, Poe has delivered the ability to build on top of other bots without needing to pay for access. It has also offered a variety of features, such as threading, file uploading, and image generation.

    “With this, we hope Poe unlocks a thriving economy with a wide diversity of AI products. We expect all kinds of bots to do well, across areas like tutoring, knowledge, therapy, entertainment, assistants, analysis, storytelling, roleplay, and image, video, music, and other media generation. Since this is the beginning of a new market, there are lots of opportunities to provide a valuable service for the world and make money at the same time.”

    Poe will host a hackathon at AGI house on 11/4 for people in the San Francisco Bay Area “to experiment with creating bots that will be monetized.” 

    • Poe’s Discord.

  • Gradient Raised $10 Million to Compete in the Custom-Tailored LLMs Segment

    Gradient Raised $10 Million to Compete in the Custom-Tailored LLMs Segment

    IBL News | New York

    Gradient, a Burlingame, California – based start-up that allows developers to build and customize AI apps using LLMs, announced last month it raised $10 million in seed funding led by Wing VC, with participation from Mango Capital, Tokyo Black, The New Normal Fund, Secure Octane, and Global Founders Capital.

    The Gradient platform hosts a number of open-source LLMs — including Meta’s Llama 2, which users can scale and fine-tune to their needs — and tools, such as Hugging Face, LangChain, LlamaIndex, and Pinecone.

    Gradient also offers proprietary healthcare, finance, and law LLMs that customers can use to solve domain-specific problems, like data reconciliation, context-gathering, and paperwork processing.

    With a workforce of 20 employees, Gradient can host and serve models through an API à la Hugging Face, CoreWeave, and other AI infrastructure providers. Or it can deploy AI systems in an organization’s public cloud environment, whether Google Cloud Platform, Azure, or AWS.

    In either case, customers maintain full ownership and control over their data and trained models. Its solution is SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR compliant.

    “We’ve seen that the vast majority of businesses understand the value AI can bring to their business, but struggle to realize the value due to the complexity of adoption. Our platform radically simplifies harnessing AI for a business, which is a tremendous value-add,” said the company. 

    Other companies that have emerged in the space of building custom-tailored LLM-powered apps that benefit from the massive influx of capital are Reka, Writer, Contextual AI, Fixie, Cohere, and LlamaIndex.

    Nearly a fifth of total global VC funding this year has come from the AI sector alone. PitchBook expects the generative AI market to reach $42.6 billion in 2023.

    Beyond these start-ups, OpenAI offers a range of model fine-tuning tools, as do incumbents like Google (via Vertex AI), Amazon (via Bedrock), and Microsoft (via the Azure OpenAI Service).
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  • Biden Issued an Executive Order Directing Agencies to Develop AI Safety Guidelines

    Biden Issued an Executive Order Directing Agencies to Develop AI Safety Guidelines

    IBL News | New York

    U.S. President Joe Biden signed yesterday an Executive Order that establishes new standards for Generative AI safety, security, and privacy ahead of any legislation coming from lawmakers.

    Biden’s Executive Order responds to the global debate around the need for guardrails to counter the potential pitfalls of giving over too much control to AI systems.

    It builds on the work that led to voluntary commitments from 15 leading companies to reduce the risks of AI.

    The order will:

    • “Require that developers of the most powerful AI systems share their safety test results and other critical information with the U.S. government before companies make them public.
    • Develop standards, tools, and tests to help ensure that AI systems are safe, secure, and trustworthy. “The National Institute of Standards and Technology will set the rigorous standards for extensive red-team testing to ensure safety before public release. The Department of Homeland Security will apply those standards to critical infrastructure sectors and establish the AI Safety and Security Board. The Departments of Energy and Homeland Security will also address AI systems’ threats to critical infrastructure, as well as chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and cybersecurity risks. Together, these are the most significant actions ever taken by any government to advance the field of AI safety.”
    • Protect against the risks of using AI to engineer dangerous biological materials.
    • Protect Americans from AI-enabled fraud and deception by establishing standards and best practices for detecting AI-generated content and authenticating official content. “The Department of Commerce will develop guidance for content authentication and watermarking to clearly label AI-generated content. Federal agencies will use these tools to make it easy for Americans to know that the communications they receive from their government are authentic—and set an example for the private sector and governments around the world.”
    • Establish an advanced cybersecurity program to develop AI tools to find and fix vulnerabilities in critical software.
    • Order the development of a National Security Memorandum that directs further actions on AI and security, to be developed by the National Security Council and White House Chief of Staff.”

    “Without safeguards, AI can put Americans’ privacy further at risk. AI not only makes it easier to extract, identify, and exploit personal data, but it also heightens incentives to do so because companies use data to train AI systems. To better protect Americans’ privacy, including from the risks posed by AI, the President calls on Congress to pass bipartisan data privacy legislation to protect all Americans, especially kids,” said the White House.

    Now, the Biden-Harris Administration plans to pursue with Congress to pass bipartisan data privacy legislation by preserving AI development techniques.

    Meanwhile, Europe is on the cusp of passing the first extensive AI regulations.
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  • OpenAI Released Advanced Versions of DALL·E 3 and ChatGPT-4

    OpenAI Released Advanced Versions of DALL·E 3 and ChatGPT-4

    IBL News | New York

    OpenAI released and made it available its image model DALL-E 3 to ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise users. DALL-E 3 can create unique, crisper-in-detail images from a simple conversation, providing a selection of visuals for users to refine and iterate upon.

    This model can render intricate details, including text, hands, and faces. It also responds efficiently to extensive and detailed prompts, and it supports both landscape and portrait aspect ratios, as explained in this research paper.

    DALL·E 3 avoids any harmful imagery, including violent, sexual, or hateful content.

    This model is designed to decline requests that ask for an image in the style of a living artist.

    OpenAI offers the option for creators to opt their images out from training of their future image generation models.

    In addition, ahead of the upcoming OpenAI’s DevDay conference next week, where the company is expected to explore new tools with developers, the San Francisco–based research lab released a multimodal version of ChatGPT-4 that allows users to upload and analyze PDFs and various document types.

    The GPT-4 All Tools includes advanced data analysis, DALL·E 3, and built-in browsing capabilities without the need for plugins. These new features may make many third-party ChatGPT plugins obsolete.

    Microsoft’s Bing and Designer also added a more advanced version of DALL·E 3.

    This development pushes the boundaries of generative AI capabilities beyond text-based queries.

     

     


    In other news, OpenAI announced it built a new Preparedness team to evaluate, forecast, and protect against the risks of highly-capable AI—from today’s models to AGI.
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  • Class.com Expands Its Virtual Learning Platform to Microsoft Teams

    Class.com Expands Its Virtual Learning Platform to Microsoft Teams

    IBL News | New York

    Class.com, the learning platform exclusively built on Zoom since its release in late 2020, launched this month its virtual classroom solution on Microsoft Teams video conferencing platform.

    Class for Teams offers a similar experience to the existing Class for Zoom, with many of the same features and functionalities.

    “With the release of Class for Teams, we can bring Class to even more organizations who are already using Teams, expand the impact of Class, and improve teaching and learning for more individuals around the world,” said the company.

    Class worked together with Microsoft to build Class for Teams.
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  • “Open-Source AI Is Taking Over the World,” Says a Key Guide

    “Open-Source AI Is Taking Over the World,” Says a Key Guide

    IBL News | New York

    “Open-source AI represents the future of privacy and ownership of data.” This is the main conclusion of the 2023 State of Open Source AI Book.

    Another key finding is that “open-source AI is taking over the world.”

    In the last year, the open-source community has demonstrated its motivation by delivering quality products and creating different innovations in different fields.

    “This is just the beginning. Many improvements in multiple directions must be made in order to compare the results with centralized solutions,” says the report.

    Experts say that, as it happened with Linux, the world-class operating system, open source will dominate the future of LLMs and image models. Even Google acknowledged that they have no moat in this new world of open source AI.

    The consensus is that open source models are incredibly good at the most valuable tasks, as they can be fine-tuned to cover likely up to 99% of use cases when a product has collected enough labeled data.

  • The Video Editing App CapCut Introduced Its Tools for Business

    The Video Editing App CapCut Introduced Its Tools for Business

    IBL News | New York

    CapCut, the ByteDance-owned video editing app, introduced this month CapCut for Business targeting advertisers and marketers with features such as, AI ad scripts and AI-generated presenters, so they can be able to generate branded content.

    These tools — available across the CapCut app for desktop, mobile, and tablets — help advertisers to come up with script ideas based on their product or business description, as well as commercially licensed business templates, allowing to convert URLs of products or landing pages into videos.

    Tightly integrated with TikTok, CapCut has been a top consumer video editing app that regularly ranks in the top 20 in the iOS App Store.

    The company is positioning its editing app as a way for consumers to make compelling videos for social media, including TikTok, and for marketers to easily do so as well, without having to spend heavily on advanced video editing software.

    CapCut surpassed Splice to become the most profitable video editing app globally during the first half of 2023, pulling in a record high of $50 million, making it ByteDance’s second app to top $100 million globally.

     

     

     

     

     

  • A Majority of CEOs Prioritize Investments in Generative AI

    A Majority of CEOs Prioritize Investments in Generative AI

    IBL News | New York

    Nearly three in four global CEOs say that investing in generative AI is a top spending priority, despite uncertain economic conditions, according to a survey done by KPMG on 1,300 global managers, including 400 in the U.S.

    They expect to see a return on their investment in three to five years.

    They also look forward to increased profitability in new products, market growth opportunities, enhanced innovation, and aid cybersecurity efforts.

    Fewer CEOS — less than one-third — expect a faster ROI of one to three years.

    For CIOs, the focus is finding real value from implementation, as they have to find the proper foundational models and characteristics.

    “Increased disruption and structural changes to the economy are compounding risks, requiring CEOs to move forward with long-term growth strategies while remaining agile to take advantage of new opportunities and respond to unforeseen challenges,” said Paul Knopp, KPMG U.S. Chair and CEO.

  • American Federation of Teachers Partners with AI Identification Platform GPTZero

    American Federation of Teachers Partners with AI Identification Platform GPTZero

    IBL News | New York

    The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the second-largest teacher’s union in the U.S., signed a deal with the identification platform GTPZero to detect when students use artificial intelligence to do their homework.

    The teacher’s union will be paying for access to more tailored AI detection and certification tools and assistance.

    “If we don’t guard against its perils upfront, we’re going to repeat the terrible transitions that happened with the industrial revolution,” AFT President Randi Weingarten told CBS MoneyWatch. “ChatGPT can be a really important supplement and complement to educators if the guardrails are in place.”

    “You can’t stop technology and innovation. You need to ride it and harness, it and that’s what we are talking to our members about,” she said.

    Founded in January by Princeton graduate Edward Tian, GPTZero is a 15-person company that says “it’s working with teachers to figure out where AI fits into education and empower students to use AI responsibly.”

    • Wired: Kids Are Going Back to School. So Is ChatGPT

     

     

  • Nvidia Announced an AI Agent Powered by GPT-4 That Can Teach Robots Complex Skills

    Nvidia Announced an AI Agent Powered by GPT-4 That Can Teach Robots Complex Skills

    IBL News | New York

    NVIDIA Research announced yesterday that it developed an AI agent called Eureka powered by GPT-4 LLM and generative AI. Eureka can teach robots complex skills by writing code that rewards robots for reinforcement learning.

    One of the 30 tasks is a robotic hand to perform rapid pen-spinning tricks for the first time as well as a human can.

    Eureka has also taught robots to open drawers and cabinets, toss and catch balls, and manipulate scissors, among other tasks.

    The Eureka research includes a paper and the project’s AI algorithms, which developers can experiment with.

    “Eureka is a first step toward developing new algorithms that integrate generative and reinforcement learning methods to solve hard tasks,”     said Anima Anandkumar, Senior Director of AI Research at NVIDIA and an author of the Eureka paper.

    The results from nine Isaac Gym GPU-accelerated simulation environments are showcased in visualizations generated using NVIDIA Omniverse.

    “It’s breakthrough work bound to get developers’ minds spinning with possibilities, adding to recent NVIDIA Research advancements like Voyager, an AI agent built with GPT-4 that can autonomously play Minecraft.

    NVIDIA Research comprises hundreds of scientists and engineers worldwide, with teams focused on topics including AI, computer graphics, computer vision, self-driving cars, and robotics.