Good morning.

This week is MASSIVE for AI. I don’t know if we can handle three more days of this.

Just kidding. Of course we can.

🤖 Top Stories

😭 Struggling Elon Musk seeks part-time AI job to make ends meet

We've almost hit our quota of one new Musk company a year.

Last year we had Twitter. This year? Possibly a new AI company.

Yup. Elon Musk has had it with OpenAI, a company he founded.

He’s approached a few AI titans in recent weeks to start a rival. Namely, he’s recruiting Igor Babuschkin from Google’s Deepmind AI.

But wait.

Why leave OpenAI?

OpenAI has a scaling problem.

As their popularity grows, they have to smooth out the edges. ChatGPT, for example, has become heavily censored since it launched. You can't ask it to make meth anymore. Truly, 1894.

There are prompts that give controversial results too. And controversial isn't always great when you're trying to make money.

Musk laments the censorship, calling it “training AI to be woke.”

So, all that is to say Musk isn't too happy with the closeness of OpenAI.

For Musk, there’s room for a company that doesn’t censor. No matter the business fallout.

Meme hype fuels whatever this man touches. We’ll see how far that takes him.

👀 Microsoft adds Bing AI in a surprising place

This is allllll part of Microsoft’s plot to bring ChatGPT into everything.

Next they’ll add it to Notepad.

Microsoft announced today they’re adding Bing search to the search bar in Windows 11. And yes, that includes their new AI search with ChatGPT.

It’s not like you can have an entire conversation within it, though. It just launches the search and conversation in your browser.

This isn’t too surprising and there isn’t much to say. When you own the distribution it’s easy to add new users.

How many people actually do internet searches from the search bar, though?

🤫 Secretive AI startup reveals key customers

The next ChatGPT is gathering new customers in secret.

Also, can we say. Ex-Open AI is the new ex-Stripe.

Anthropic is a generative AI startup that’s light on the details and HEAVY on the funding.

To the tune of over $1bn. Including $300mm from Google.

What do they do?

Well, that’s the thing. They’re pretty secretive. In fact, there are only two companies that we know of using their tech.

One is Robin AI, as a paying customer. They’re an AI legal tech startup and secured a $13mm contract for Anthropic’s services.

We don't know much about what the tech is doing at Robin.

The other is Quora, which integrated Anthropic into their service, dubbed Claude. They are using Anthropic for free.

Early reviews of Claude, which is their ChatGPT, are good. Same problems as OpenAI’s - problematic answers, wrong answers, etc.

Now Anthropic started, in part, for academic research (and not for profit). Problem: it’s EXPENSIVE to run AI models. Like, $580mm funding round level of expensive.

What’s likely happened is they raised a ton of money, then realized that providing AI for free doesn't pay the bills.

Won't somebody help the poor generative AI startup?

😎 Cool links

1. Fine, we’ll make MetaGPT ourselves.

2. ML terms for beginners.

3. Interior shots on Midjourney.

4. UI design via AI.