OpenAI DevDay Livestream + 'Leaked' Announcements

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🎞️ Watch: (Youtube) OpenAI DevDay Livestream (6pm GMT)

🤖 Alleged OpenAI DevDay leak suggests connections to cloud drives, custom chatbot builder - OpenAI is expected to announce new interfaces, tools, and subscription plans at DevDay, including a feature allowing chatbots to access third-party cloud drives like Google Drive and Microsoft 365.

🦾 Elon Musk's xAI company introduced Grok, a new AI bot designed to outperform currently leading ChatGPT. The developed prototype demonstrated better performance across several metrics. It's now in the testing phase, ready to expand to more users after proving its effectiveness.

🧑🏻 Meet the person behind Biden’s AI Executive Order - White House deputy chief of staff, Bruce Reed, has serious concerns about the potential impact of generative AI on society. If not regulated appropriately and soon, it could manipulate users, exploit software vulnerabilities, and even impersonate human voices. Under his guidance, new guidelines are being established for AI safety and development.

🦿 Yi-34B, a new Chinese LLM on the Open Source scene - Kai-Fu Lee's latest venture, 01.AI, is making strides in the AI scene, launching their first model, Yi-34B, just seven months after being founded. The company is already valued at a staggering $1 billion.

👓 The new AI processing chip developed at Tsinghua University, China, ACCEL claims performance 3.7 times faster than Nvidia's A100 in computer vision tasks. Based on photonic and analog computing, it's explicitly designed for computer vision tasks.

💸 Aleph Alpha, the German AI start-up, has amassed $500 million in Series B funding from a consortium organized by Schwarz Group (owners of Lidl) and Bosch Ventures. Founded in 2019, Aleph Alpha emphasizes granting clients full sovereignty over AI incorporation into their business operations. The start-up deals with EU-regulated data protection, security and often collaborates with government bodies, underscoring the factual impact of AI in human lives.

📚 Nerd section 📚

📝 How Generative AI testing differs from traditional Apps - Lessons from 15K testers. While traditional app testing hinges on expected input-output relationships, generative AI applications accommodate a variant range. This introduces a greater testing complexity requiring extensive human testing and strategic risk assessments, potentially impacting users' experiences

📝 How to build your own Chrome Extension using ChatGPT - the author explores how to use ChatGPT to build a functional Chrome extension, TABSNAPSHOT. It simplifies web browsing and also clearly demonstrates every step of the development process, making it accessible for aspiring non-tech enthusiasts.

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