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In today’s email:

• Meta’s AI: Meta is making moves 👀

• Quickfire News: Spotify, 3D from pics & AWS + Huggingface partnership

• Cool tools

• The MAD Landscape: Yearly ML/AI/Data Landscape overview

Meta, Meta, Meta…

We’ve covered how Big Tech is coming out with AI products at a crazy pace: from Bing & OpenAI, ChatGPT to Google’s Bard. One of the large players has been silent, until now.

Meta (parent company of Facebook) has revamped its AI team. It’s being unified into one, which is going to be led by VP Ahmad Al-Dahle, who spent 16 years at Apple before joining Meta in April 2020. Meta is hoping that by doing so, they can quickly integrate the latest tech into its products.

A few days ago, Meta LLaMA: A foundational, 65-billion-parameter large language model. This is Mark Zuckeberg’s answer to ChatGPT.

The tool right now isn't currently integrated into any of the company's public products, but will be available for researchers. Guillaume (Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research) explains more in detail in this tweet thread:

How hard Meta is doubling down on AI? Hard…They just announced that they are experimenting with AI-powered chat on WhatsApp and Messenger. I expect it will be similar to what we’ve seen in Gmail, or very recently in Twitter, where you are given “next best” responses to the text you just received.

I expect Meta to be a very big player in the AI world - not because of what they are doing is revolutionary, but because unlike others, they are sitting on a goldmine of locked data. As a “robot”, you can’t copy Facebook’s data easily (unlike most websites on the internet) and the same goes for WhatsApp messages.

Quickfire news:

• Snapchat’s My Ai (link) - Snapchat launches "My AI," its own ChatGPT-powered chatbot. My AI is a custom chatbot that for now is only available to Snapchat+ users, who pay $3.99 per month to access "exclusive, experimental, and pre-release features." Snapchat bills the new pseudo companion as a "fun and experimental sidekick."

• Photorealistic 3D Rendering in real time (link) - full volumetric photorealistic NeRF rendering on the web. All in realtime, using AI Graphics. Click on the link to the tweet with video examples…they are crazy! (click here to learn about NeRF from Nvidias blog post)

• AWS and HunggingFace expand partnership (link) - AWS and HuggingFace aim to accelerate the availability of next-generation machine learning models by making them more accessible to the machine learning community and helping developers achieve the highest performance at the lowest cost.

Cool Tools:

• Booth AI - generate high-quality lifestyle photos of your product by specifying your desired shot and uploading sample product images.(link)

• Test and Start - use AI to validate and score your startup idea (link)

• Audioshake - split music into individual stems using AI (link)

• InvoicesGPT - automate the handling of all incoming invoices (link)

• Fathom - upgrade your online meetings with an AI assistant (link)

• AI SEO Outlines - Generate Amazing SEO Content in Seconds (link)

• Feed AI - Generate AI photos from your IG feed turned model (link)

ML/AI/Data Landscape:

Since 2012, Matt Truck (VC @ First Mark) compiles a landscape overview of ML, AI and Data companies: the MAD Landscape.

2023 is no different. Since AI has seen a boom in the past 12 months, it’s a great way to see who the big players in each sector are. And who is coming up to eat their lunch.

The actual writeup is quite exhaustive and I highly recommend reading it (link)

Bonus: Here is a great and detailed writeup of the trends in ML and AI by Matt: (link)