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🚨 Week’s Update 🚨

Welcome back! There’s much to talk about this week.

Amazon has ‘acquihired’ Adept, an AI company focused on creating AI agents that interact seamlessly with computer interfaces and raised hundreds of millions.

Around 66% of the company’s staff will join Amazon, although Adept will remain an entity alone. The former will enjoy full access to its technology and IP, however.

This is an identical approach to Microsoft with Inflection, a de facto acquisition disguised as an internvention to avoid antitrust complaints.

Seeing how the shadow of big tech looms over larger portions of the market, I wouldn’t be surprised if Lina Khan, Chairperson of the Federal Trade Comission, takes matter into her own hands soon regarding this unconventional antitrust-proof acquisition methods.

Moving on but not leaving big tech, OpenAI has given Apple’s Executive Phil Schiller a new board seat. Thus, Apple will join Microsoft with non-voting seats on the board.

By the time of Queen Victoria’s death, the “grandmother of Europe” had descendants in the throne (or married to) in seven European countries, the quintessential exponent of the centuries-long incestuous tendencies of European royal families.

Well, AI is becoming much like a royal European family, with the “fab five” (Apple, Amazon, Google, NVIDIA, & Microsoft) owning a considerably portion of frontier AI labs and board seats.

In case you ever wondered why open-source is so important, bear this in mind.

Salesforce has announced, through its CEO founder Mark Benioff, XLAM, two powerful micromodels of just 1B and 7B parameters that compete with the best models around in function-calling.

These micromodels demonstrate how well an LLM can leverage external APIs as tools to perform actions.

Salesforce, a company that was punished (lost 20% market cap in one day) for falling back on growth (but more so due to their poor AI narrative), seems really committed to jump into the GenAI train no matter what.

While the announcement has not been shy of hyperbole and empty promises like Mark’s “The age of Agentic AI is here”, bear in mind that these models are state-of-the-art for one task only, function-calling.

You can feel the pressure on this company to deliver AI results soon.

Meta has presented 3D Gen, models that create 3D objects from text prompts. Similarly, BitMagic intends to create 3D games from text prompts.

With previous examples covered in this newsletter like WonderJourney, it’s clear that AI labs have a clear interest in creating models that generate 3D objects or scenes, with potential huge impact on the gaming industry and, although I hate to say it, the Metaverse.

Finally, I encourage you to try Moshi (it’s free), a new audio model by Kyutai Labs with the smallest latency I’ve ever seen. The model…

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