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😺 OpenAI: this isn't even my final form

😺 OpenAI: this isn't even my final form

PLUS: a new open-source leader

Noah Edelman & Pete Huang
June 01, 2023

Welcome, humans.

We’re hiding our cats indoors today, and we recommend you do the same. There’s a bird of prey on the loose…more below.

Here’s what’s going on in AI today:

The GPU shortage is holding OpenAI back from its true potential.
The top spot in open source is now a battle between Meta and the UAE.
Teenagers are turning on Snap’s AI.
Recraft makes awesome vector art using AI.

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Sam Altman: GPUs Are Limiting Us 💿

Uncle Sam Altman has been quite “open” about the future of OpenAI (not so much his models). He just dropped some important info on OpenAI’s roadmap.

Here are the deets:

1) GPT-4 is the priority, but GPUs are a huge issue. No GPUs means:

Slow rollout of the 32K context window and going beyond it to 100K-1 million (this lets you have longer convos with ChatGPT).
Limited availability of private models for enterprises.
Limited capacity for the fine-tuning API (which allows you to customize GPT-4 using your own data).
No image support for GPT-4 (which was teased during its launch) until 2024.

Hear that? The $NVDA rocket taking off for another trip around Saturn.

2) ChatGPT Plugins have been underwhelming.

The bet was that ChatGPT would be the new “home base” for people. But it’s turning out that they want ChatGPT-type functionality in all other apps instead.

This matches what we’re seeing: Plugins, while ripe with potential in concept, just aren’t a slam dunk yet.

3) OpenAI won’t build any more apps beyond ChatGPT.

This is an effort to court developers afraid that OpenAI will eventually eat their lunch.

This might be reassuring to some, but “just ChatGPT” is…still a lot.

Why it matters: AI is unpredictable, and that’s partially due to never knowing what world-bending move OpenAI is about to make next. This is perhaps the longest-term view we’ve had into OpenAI’s plans yet.

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The New King in Open Source 🦅

The list of competitors racing to make an open source language model to challenge GPT-4 is a smattering of relatively unknown names:

MosaicML
Stable Diffusion
Together
EleutherAI

….and Meta, which people do know.

But there’s a shakeup in the rankings, and the new top spot goes to *checks notes* the United Arab Emirates?

Last week, the UAE dropped Falcon, a fully open language model that’s now scoring at the top of the leaderboards, beating Meta.

Yesterday, they also dropped the original 10% royalty for any revenue over $1M generated by using Falcon.

Why it matters: Open source is all about having options to counteract companies like OpenAI. Now, there are two models (Meta’s LLaMA and the UAE’s Falcon) that are darn close to chasing down ChatGPT’s secret sauce.

And they’re completely free and open for others to build on. Expect lots of projects built on Falcon coming soon.

Around the Horn 🦄

Ask HN: What's the best self hosted/local alternative to GPT-4?
Character AI topped 1.7 million downloads in less than a week after launching. (It’s the chatbot people aren’t talking about nearly enough)
Instacart launched an AI search tool that helps users save time searching for food.
Google is showering hot AI video startup Runway with tens of millions in Google Cloud credits to keep it from sending business to Microsoft/Amazon.
Snapchat wants its AI to reply to you with Snaps; teens are bullying the AI.
A GTM leader at OpenAI recaps everything he’s seen startups building.

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