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Google ships Bard (finally) 🔥

+ NVIDIA & Adobe ship new AI models

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Anita Kirkovska
March 22, 2023

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FEATURED

Google opens up access to Bard, their ChatGPT competitor 👀

Google finally launched early access for their AI chatbot Bard yesterday.

I played with it for a while, and here are my first impressions:

  • Bard doesn’t have a knowledge cut off

  • It understands recent events

  • It can pull data from Google’s search engine

  • It’s a big NO for creative writing and coding

  • It makes a lot of mistakes for things that are very easy for ChatGPT

  • It is very confident in the answers when it makes those mistakes 😄

All and all, very low quality when compared to ChatGPT, but useful if you need to access the latest data.

To be fair, this is expected for a new app, and GPT in its early days was a whole big mess as well... But it’s really interesting that OpenAI, a new startup, is now leading the way while Google plays catch up.

NEW TECH

NVIDIA announces AI Foundation

NVIDIA just dropped a bomb in the AI space 💣 They are shifting from a pure hardware provider to a focus on being an enterprise-first AI provider.

They announced three AI cloud services:

  • NeMo for text generation;

  • Picasso for text-to-image, text-to-video, and text-to-3D objects;

  • BioNeMo is a unique Biology LLM they support, that will power drug discovery and research pipelines.

But, this is even more interesting👇🏻 

They partnered with some of the biggest no-sayers when it came to text-to-image generation: Adobe, Getty images (currently in a legal battle with Stable Diffusion), and ShutterStock - to work together on exactly that: generating images and 3D models from text.

Sometimes, inviting skeptics to the party can be the best way to win them over - just ask NVIDIA.😅

WHAT ELSE IS GOING ON

👀 Adobe launched a new family of AI models called Firefly. It has text-to-image, AI 3D modeling & AI Video editing.

😢 OpenAI will discontinue support for their Codex API. All customers will need to transition to the newest models. But, they will continue to support it for researchers!

👀 DALL-E is coming to Bing. Microsoft just announced that the image generation tool would begin rolling out (slowly) to Bing users.

RESOURCES

The best resources we came across lately that will help you become better at writing prompts & building AI apps.

📚 The Age of AI has begun, by Bill Gates [Extraordinary article]

👋🏻 Why AI Won't Replace Software Engineers [ Short article ]

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