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OpenAI has paused new signups for ChatGPT Plus due high demand

πŸ“° Quick News πŸ“°

🎫 Microsoft Ignite 2023: all the AI news from Microsoft’s IT pro event - Microsoft reveals speedy new CPUs for cloud computing and weaves AI features into its suite of software products. Upgrades include interactive Security Copilot for IT teams, Loop productivity app, and AI decorations in Teams video calls. The company also shares plans for its custom AI chips and a more personalized Copilot AI, and more.

🀯 New signups for ChatGPT Plus are on hold at OpenAI because of a demand surge, so they are maintaining service quality for current users, who get advanced tools, while others can join a waitlist to be notified of openings.

βš™οΈ Microsoft Infrastructure - AI & CPU Custom Silicon Maia 100, Athena, Cobalt 100 - finally, officially announced, Microsoft is investing over $50 billion annually in data center infrastructure to push forward artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, outpacing significant global projects in scale

πŸ₯ Forward Health introduces CarePods, autonomous health stations powered by AI, offering an array of medical tests and diagnoses without the need for in-person medical staffing. For a monthly fee, users get unlimited access to health scans, tests, and virtual consultations with doctors who prescribe treatments based on the AI's findings.

🦾 In December, AMD will release the MI300X GPU, aimed at enhancing AI and large language models for startups, creating competition for NVIDIA's AI products.

πŸ€– Nvidia launched an AI foundry service on Microsoft Azure, enabling businesses to easily build custom AI applications. The service provides an end-to-end suite of tools, including new Nemotron-3 models with 8 billion parameters, and is a one-stop-shop for developing generative AI applications.

πŸ“š Nerd section πŸ“š

πŸ–₯️ How Self-RAG could revolutionize Industrial LLMs: Self-RAG is a technique that improves on the traditional RAG architecture used in large language models. It addresses the issues of incomplete answers and irrelevant contexts that arise when using vanilla RAG. By appending special tokens to LM generations, Self-RAG helps determine the relevance, support, and utility of the generated text.

πŸ’ How to use AI to write Black Friday emails your customers will love, driven by automated data analysis and smart customization features.

πŸ“š LangChain Cheatsheet β€” All Secrets on a Single Page. It covers code examples and tutorials for AI models, data handling, and creating AI agents.

🌐 Web section 🌐 

πŸ•ΈοΈ What's this new section about?

On days when there's a lot of news, we aim to keep our newsletter short and sweet.

So here (but not in the email version) we're adding AI-related stories that may be slightly less attention-grabbing, but still could move the needle in specific sectors and fields.

πŸ“½οΈ Google and Deepmind have developed Mirasol, an AI model that sets new standards in video understanding, deciphering complex data from videos, audio, and text. Mirasol breaks videos into smaller segments and processes them efficiently using an innovative component known as a combiner.

πŸ›‚ IBM unveils watsonx.governance, a tool that helps organizations manage AI models to meet safety and transparency regulations. It can detect and mitigate risks such as bias and monitor AI models from various providers.

πŸ’²OfferFit, a marketing startup, received $25M funding to further develop its machine learning approach replacing A/B testing. Their technology customizes communications for enormous customer bases, evolves with user habits, and maintains privacy.

πŸ€– "Hallucinate" is Cambridge Dictionary's 2023 word of the year, reflecting AI's advancements and challenges, such as machines generating false info.

πŸ“ƒ Altair has upgraded its HPCWorks platform to include AI-based job prediction, better scheduling across clusters, and streamlined reporting, offering users more efficient computing and resource management.

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