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🤖 Amazon teases ChatGPT competitor

PLUS: Anthropic's plan to take on OpenAI

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Jameson Zaballos
April 08, 2023

Happy generative AI weekend.

We hope you’re spending it exploring everything AI has to offer.

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🤓 Microsoft brings AI chat to SwiftKey

Get ready for BingGPT at your literal fingertips.

Microsoft added two new AI features to its Android keyboard, SwiftKey.

SwiftKey was a popular keyboard in the early Android days. It almost got shut down by Microsoft, but then they resurrected it. Presumably because they realized it was the perfect endpoint for AI.

So what does it do?

You can highlight text you’ve written and let Bing AI rewrite it to be more clear. You can also access Bing AI right through the keyboard, instead of going to Bing.

Your move, iPhone.

👀 Anthropic’s plan to dethrone OpenAI

Anthropic will take on OpenAI with a model ten times more powerful than GPT-4.

They promise.

A leaked pitch deck reveals Anthropic has big ambitions. They’ll create a model called “Claude Next” that is 10x more powerful than AI today. It needs “tens of thousands of GPUs” to operate.

The cost? A cool $5 billion over two years. Good thing Google owns 10% of the startup.

Now, “throwing money at an AI” is a bold strategy, but they’ve got the brains to back it up. Ex-OpenAI team members founded the startup.

Their secret weapon is what they call “Constitutional AI”. That’s AI that aligns with human intentions thanks to a set of principles.

Translated: they want to make sure it doesn’t do the wrong thing.

Their current model, Claude, is passable. It’s overshadowed by ChatGPT. And also oddly Bard, which investor Google maintains.

Bottom line: more competition is the best thing that can happen to this industry.

🤯 Amazon hints at their own ChatGPT

It’s about damn time.

Generative AI is taking over the tech world. Amazon has been absent from capitalizing on it with their own.

They’ve announced partnerships with HuggingFace and Stability AI. But they don’t have their own generative AI chatbot a la ChatGPT or Bard.

That’ll change soon.

“We have a lot happening in the space,” Swami Sivasubramanian, Amazon’s vice president of database, analytics and machine learning, said at the March meeting, according to a recording obtained by The Washington Post. “We have a lot coming, and I’m very excited to share some of our plans in the future.”

It makes total sense for Amazon to capitalize on it.

They invested billions of dollars into the network for their AI assistants. One in four US households have an Alexa device. That’s prime real estate for a ChatGPT-like experience.

Still not convinced? Perhaps they can use the same generative chat for their call centers.

We don’t know what else they could be referring to, but AWS is in the best position to profit from the explosion of AI.

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