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š¤ Why Googleās rival AI divisions are merging to take on OpenAI
PLUS: New York Fashion Week goes AI
Jameson Zaballos
April 24, 2023
We just love how Google Brain + DeepMind merging becomesā¦
Google DeepMind.
Really pulled out all the stops with that naming.
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š Alphabet merging AI groups to take on OpenAI
The phenomenal teams from Google Researchās Brain and @DeepMind have made many of the seminal research advances that underpin modern AI, from Deep RL to Transformers. Now weāre joining forces as a single unit, Google DeepMind, which Iām thrilled to lead!
ā Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis)
5:07 PM ā¢ Apr 20, 2023
The enemy of my enemy isā¦restructuring under my division?
Google has two split AI efforts. Google Brain, which it developed internally, and DeepMind, which it acquired in 2014.
They havenāt always been the best of friends. In fact, they allegedly view each other as rivals.
Itās time to put those differences aside. Google announced theyāre merging the two groups.
āBy creating Google DeepMind, I believe we can get to that future faster. Building ever more capable and general AI, safely and responsibly, demands that we solve some of the hardest scientific and engineering challenges of our time.ā
In what can only be an olive branch, the DeepMind CEO will be head of the new division.
Itās clear why this is happening. AI is an existential threat to Googleās business if they donāt get it right.
They have to get it right.
š§£New York Fashion Week goes artificial
Source: New York Post
Fashion is the latest industry to embrace AI.
Maison Meta, an AI fashion studio, produced the first ever AI fashion week in New York.
Designers will create their garments in generative AI apps like Midjourney. Theyāll let virtual models wear them, walking runways from around the world.
Hereās the wildest part. They'll make the top three pieces into physical items you can buy.
āAI fashion week hopes to pave the way for a new realm of creation,ā he said. āWe really think the AIFW platform will make big waves in the fashion industry and showcase what you can do and how creative you can be when it comes to AI and fashion.ā
One of the hardest parts of fashion design is working with the materials when creating a product.
Does this cut out the grunt work, and provide a lower barrier to entry into the fashion world?
Or is this an affront to the industry?
š¬ Webflow ends a ton of AI startups with this new feature
Source: Webflow
All those AI tools for generating a website in seconds have a big competitor.
Webflow. The well-funded startup forā¦designing websites without coding experience.
They, of course, announced a grab bag of AI features. And if I were one of those AI tools, Iād be scared.
In-app tutorials based on questions āHow do I do x?ā
GPT-like instructions āAdd three columns here with this contentā
Transform your text with AI āTranslate to Spanish, make it shorterā
Generate an entire website from a prompt. āBuild me a website based on this template with this custom contentā
You can even say āmake this website look like xā and itāll handle it, no problem.
This is the danger of building an existing companyās product with an AI twist.
That company can also build their product with an AI twist.
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ā Peter Wildeford (@peterwildeford)
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