Multimodal AI models: The empires strike back 🔴 AINTS 017

This week, Tristan and Tasia discuss recent AI announcements from Apple, Meta and Microsoft along with promising updates from xAI and Mistral, before digging into Google's groundbreaking Gemini model — and its controversial demo video. Join us for a galaxy-sized episode about the battle for multimodal AI supremacy.

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APPLE MLX

• Apple joins AI fray with release of model framework

XAI GROK

• Musk says his AI firm xAI is rolling out chatbot Grok
• Elon Musk’s Grok Represents a Serious Threat to ChatGPT
• My Surprisingly Unbiased Week With Elon Musk’s ‘Politically Biased’ Chatbot

THE OTHER GROK

• Grimes has a new line of AI plush toys, including one named Grok
• It looks like Grimes may have come up with Grok before Elon Musk gave his AI the same name
• Elon Musk's Grok says it 'absolutely' wants to befriend Grimes' Grok and 'exchange ideas' with it

META AI

• Meta Adds More Generative AI Elements, Including Post Prompts and Image Creation In-Stream
• Meta rolls out its AI-powered image generator as a dedicated website
• See also: The best AI art generators: DALL-E 2 and fun alternatives to try
• Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses Added AI That Can See What You're Seeing

GOOGLE GEMINI

• Google launches Gemini, the AI model it hopes will take down GPT-4
• Google's new Gemini, Beats ChatGPT in 30 of 32 test categories
• Google’s Gemini Looks Remarkable, But It’s Still Behind OpenAI
• Google launches an easy-to-use tool for developing apps and chatbots

MICROSOFT AI NEWS

• Microsoft's Copilot Is Getting a GPT-4 Turbo Boost
• Microsoft releases Phi-2, a small language model AI that outperforms Llama 2, Mistral 7B

MISTRAL AI NEWS

• Mistral shocks AI community as latest open source model eclipses GPT-3.5 performance
• Mixtral-8x7B: 4 Ways To Try The New Model From Mistral AI

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