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💎 5 News Nuggets

• 🔗 Link: The Beatles to make a one-song comeback with AI. Paul McCartney has used AI to incorporate vocals from a 1980s demo of John Lennon discovered after his death. McCartney says the AI is both "scary" and "exciting".

• 🔗 Link: AI algorithms find drugs that could combat ageing. These drugs can selectively eliminate age-related, defective cells without harming healthy ones. This is significantly more affordable and quicker than conventional methods.

• 🔗 Link: The European Union heads toward passing the first significant laws to regulate artificial intelligence. I’m concerned this could lead to the EU lagging further behind in the tech arena. Perhaps a move to the US might be timely?

• 🔗 Link: Germany saw its first AI-led church service. Over 300 parishioners engaged with sermons, prayers, and hymns delivered by ChatGPT-controlled avatars.

• 🔗 Link: Walmart, LinkedIn, and Meta are testing internal generative AI for employees. Interestingly this counters the stance of Goldman Sachs, Amazon, and Verizon, who've prohibited public AI tools like ChatGPT.

🎨 4 Cool Creations

• 🔗 Link: Google releases TryOn Diffusion. This AI tool can digitally model clothes on your body before purchase. Clueless was ahead of its time.

• 🔗 Link: Meta's MusicGen is changing the game for soundtrack creation. You simply describe the desired music, hit generate, and out comes a custom 12-second track from this 'ChatGPT for music'.

• 🔗 Link: Google Lens now offers a new feature to identify potential skin conditions. By uploading a photo, users search for similar skin issues, helping with self-diagnosis.

• 🔗 Link: Microsoft AI has launched Orca, a 13 billion parameter model that learns to imitate the reasoning process of Large Foundation Models. This is a serious breakthrough in advancing instruction-tuned models.

💡 3 Startup Spotlights

• 🔗 Link: Mistral AI has secured a historic seed round of $113M at a $260M valuation to take on OpenAI. Just four weeks old with roots in Google's DeepMind and Meta, they're preparing to debut their inaugural text-generating AI models in 2024.

• 🔗 Link: Synthesia secures $90M in funding for its custom avatar-creating AI. The Series C round, led by Accel with participation from Nvidia brings Synthesia's valuation to $1 billion.

• 🔗 Link: Accenture invests $3 billion in AI to develop AI-centered solutions for its clients. They will double the size of their Data & AI team from 40,000 to 80,000 employees 🤯.

🐥 2 Top Tweets

• 🔗 Link: My favourite podcast on AI to date. This interview with Emad Mostaque, the CEO and Co-Founder of Stability AI, alongside Peter Diamandis is a must-listen.

• 🔗 Link: OpenAI is rolling out a 16k context version of gpt-3.5-turbo (vs the standard 4k version). This could allow for more complex and long-form conversations or documents to be processed without losing context.

🍿 1 Media Marvel

🔗 Link: AI-generated QR codes have taken the world by storm. It uses something called a ‘ControlNet’ to make sure the QR code remains intact when the image is generated around it.

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