If you just read one story today, read the second one.

It will send shockwaves through the industry.

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🚀 Google Cloud still exists and it scored a big AI deal with Replit

Google Cloud finally notched a W.

Microsoft and Amazon both have strategic AI partnerships. Both with private companies at the forefront of AI development.

Google Cloud, the third player in the public cloud, hadn’t yet announced anything big.

That changes today. They’ve partnered with Replit.

Why is this big?

Replit isn’t an AI-first company like OpenAI or HuggingFace. They’re a cloud-based development environment for software engineers.

They have a killer AI feature though: their AI pair programmer. It goes up against Github Codespaces, which has been a wild success. Replit is betting it will onboard the next generation of engineers to their platform.

Google is betting that too. Hence the partnership. It means Google Cloud services will be on Replit, Replit will be on Google Cloud, and Replit is the “preferred IDE” of GCP.

It’s hard to gauge how much this deal is worth, or who’s getting the better end of the deal.

But if Replit’s plan pans out, then Google wins big too.

😬 Elon Musk says halt AI development, now

It’s hard to understate what happened in AI yesterday.

Elon Musk and other top AI researchers signed a petition titled “Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter.' It begs AI labs to stop developing AI more powerful than GPT-4.

For six months.

They cite a large risk to humanity if the pace of AI development continues.

Others who signed include Steve Wozniak and Andrew Yang.

So it’s this letter versus billions of dollars in corporate funding. Funding that demands innovation at the fastest pace possible.

We doubt it’ll impact anything.

We’re also terrified of the future they’re trying to prevent.

🤯 Dalle for video is here

Text to video AI is now accessible to everyone.

Want proof? Watch this bizarre video of Will Smith demolishing some spaghetti.

We’ve got to admit, it’s a little…odd.

You can try it for yourself on Hugging Face.

It’s memey now, and poor quality. We’ve seen quite a few of these with shutterstock image watermarks. Big giveaway that its training set is public images.

But when Dalle for generative AI images came out, something changed.

Everyone started making silly stuff with it. That led to its explosion in popularity.

We’d expect to see something similar here.

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