FTC Begins Deep-Dive Into OpenAI

Welcome to this week's edition of The AI Breakdown.

Here’s the big three stories of the week:

• FTC Begins Deep-Dive Into OpenAI

• The Unveiling of Claude 2

• Musk on the Move: Launches xAI

FTC reportedly looking into OpenAI

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is reportedly investigating OpenAI to determine if its AI model, ChatGPT, made "false, misleading, disparaging, or harmful" statements about individuals.

The investigation, still in its exploratory phase, is part of the FTC's broader effort to regulate the AI industry and ensure that companies are not making false claims about their AI technologies.

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, recently testified before Congress about A.I., stating that he welcomed their help in figuring out how to safely regulate this technology.

I guess he's getting his wish.

Claude 2

Anthropic has announced the release of Claude 2, an improved model that offers longer responses, better performance, and can be accessed via API or through a new public-facing beta website, claude.ai.

The new model has enhanced capabilities in coding, math, and reasoning, with notable improvements including a score of 76.5% on the Bar exam’s multiple-choice section, above the 90th percentile on GRE reading and writing exams, and a 71.2% score on a Python coding test.

These are impressive improvements, but we're still pretty far from it taking over the world.

Elon Musk launches AI firm xAI

Musk has launched his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, with a team of engineers from major U.S. tech firms, aiming to build an alternative to ChatGPT.

Musk, who has previously expressed concerns about AI's potential for "civilizational destruction," plans to create a "maximally curious" AI that seeks to understand the nature of the universe, predicting that superintelligence will arrive in five or six years.

This is also on the eve of Meta releasing its Twitter clone and reportedly releasing their open-source large language model, LLaMA for commercial use.

It kind of feels like Elon is trying to not be left in the dust by Zuckerberg.

🌎 Around the Web

Here are some interesting stories and tools that caught our attention this week:

• Netlify Drop ChatGPT Plugin: This is a new plugin that allows developers to integrate ChatGPT into their Netlify applications. (link)

• Vercel AI Accelerator Participants: Announcing the participants of Vercel's AI Accelerator program. (Link)

• Poe App: Added Claude 2 with its 100k-token window length to the app. (Link)

• PhantomBuster: Extraction software designed to help businesses automate sales and marketing processes by scraping data. (Link)

• Stable Doodle by Clipdrop: A sketch-to-image tool that converts a simple drawing into a dynamic image. (Link)

• Nekton: Automate daily tasks. Users can describe their workflow in plain language, and Nekton AI will automate it and run it in the cloud. (Link)

• NotebookLM by Google: A virtual research assistant that can summarize facts, explain complex ideas, and brainstorm new connections based on the sources selected by the user. (Link)

🛠️ The Best Open Source Tools

Another aspect of the AI ecosystem that doesn’t seem to get much mainstream press is the concept of AI companions. The user base for this type of implementation is enormous.

🖼️ AI image of the week

Ridiculous AI images and memes from around the web.

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