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🚨 Week’s Update 🚨

From war to healthcare, there’s a lot to unpack this week.

To start, the US Government has announced a world’s first in the aerospace industry: autonomous AI-controlled F-16 fighter aircraft. The fighter was capable of engaging in visual-range combat scenarios, known as ‘dogfighting’, against a human.

🏝️ This is just another step toward AI-driven wars, after Iran’s attack on Israel was purely based on drones. AI should minimize human casualties in open war, but opens the pandora box of how dangerous can AI be.

This has reminded me of Palantir’s amazing demo on AI-assisted warfare.

Moving on, OpenAI has launched a new set of enterprise features, like project-based control, the famous Batch API for asynchronous inference (use cases where you don’t need an immediate response but a 24-hour margin with a much desirable economic discount), or streaming-based responses.

🏝️ OpenAI’s move comes in handy as their technological offering is not the best anymore, with Claude 3 pushing frontier models forward, and Meta’s Llama 3 or Microsoft Phi-3 (more on the latter below) pushing the boundaries of what Small Language Models (SLMs) can do, cost-effective alternatives to the big guys.

In same fashion, Perplexity has just extended its enterprise offering to revamp enterprise search with AI. They presented this announcement with a stacked set of enterprise customers ranging from Stripe to the fricking Cleveland Cavaliers. Read the CEO’s post for more details.

At the product level, few products in Generative AI history have looked as promising as Adobe’s Premier Pro (video included).

Excitingly, it’s the first successful embedding of OpenAI’s text-to-video model Sora into a fully-fledged product, to extend videos with AI-generated frames, but also includes other impressive features like image inpainting (object add/removal). It will offer other models like Pika.

They also announced their newest image generator model Adobe Firefly. The company seems to be on a complete tear lately!

In market land, Chinese investors are going crazy for SenseTime share, growing upwards of 30%, as they have presented the SenseNova 5.0 model after the CEO claimed ‘it was better than GPT-4’.

This is a stark reminder for the US that China is dead serious about their AI efforts. In fact, as the New York Times recently published, they are actually beating the US in the most critical metric: talent.

The US has one critical advantage though, capital.

Moving on, in parallel to their release of Q1 2024 results, Tesla has teased how the future autonomous ride-hailing app they are working on will look like.

As the EV market seems to be on a race to the bottom price-wise, Tesla seems to be betting its future on AI, with the Robotaxi announcement and their more than obvious merge between…

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