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šŸ¤– Anthropic’s Claude 3 Surpasses OpenAI’s GPT-4

PLUS: Microsoft Poaches More Talent, Novel Method Generates Images 30X Faster

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In today’s AI Report:

  • šŸ‘‘Anthropic’s Claude 3 Surpasses OpenAI’s GPT-4

  • šŸ‘©ā€šŸ’»Microsoft Poaches More Talent

  • šŸ’ØNovel Method Generates Images 30X Faster

  • šŸ› 5 Trending Tools

  • šŸ’°Venture Capital Updates

  • šŸ’¼Who’s Hiring?

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šŸ—žRECENT NEWS

HUGGING FACE

šŸ‘‘Anthropic’s Claude 3 Surpasses OpenAI’s GPT-4

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Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus model surpassed OpenAI’s GPT-4 on the Hugging Face LMSYS Chatbot Arena Leaderboard.

Key Details:
  • Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus model is the startup’s most intelligent conversational chatbot, with the best-in-market performance on highly complex tasks. It can navigate open-ended prompts and analyze user queries with human-like intelligence.

  • The Hugging Face LMSYS Chatbot Arena Leaderboard collects over 400,000 votes that measure usability, compatibility, and computing power across models to crowdsource ranking.

  • OpenAI’s GPT-4 has consistently topped the Chatbot Arena Leaderboard since May 2023.

Why It’s Important:
  • This event highlights the significant advancements being made in Large Language Models (LLMs), including factual accuracy, enhanced reasoning, and creative formatting (e.g., poems, code, or charts).

  • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed the startup will release ā€œan amazing modelā€ this year, emphasizing that GPT-4 ā€œsucksā€ on Lex Fridman’s podcast. Everyone expects OpenAI to release a successor to GPT-4 Turbo, like GPT-4.5 or GPT-5.

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MICROSOFT

šŸ‘©ā€šŸ’»Microsoft Poaches More Talent

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Microsoft is restructuring the Windows and Surface teams with new leadership roles to create an efficient company structure for building and deploying AI products.

Key Details:
  • Microsoft veteran Pavan Davuluri, who was deeply involved in the company’s work with Qualcomm and AMD to develop custom Surface processors, will now lead the re-combined Windows and Surface teams.

  • The Verge obtained an internal email to employees from Rajesh Jha, Microsoft’s head of experiences and devices, outlining the new teams: ā€œThis will enable us to take a holistic approach to building systems, experiences, and devices that span across Windows client and cloud for this AI era.ā€

  • Mikhail Parakhin, who previously oversaw Windows engineering and Bing Chat, plans to explore new roles likely ā€œoutside the company.ā€

  • Parakhin was set to report to Mustafa Suleyman, who recently joined Microsoft as the CEO of Microsoft AI.

Why It’s Important:
  • Microsoft is signaling a significant shift toward AI development by combining the Windows and Surface teams under a leader with experience in developing customer processors for devices.

  • Suleyman joining Microsoft to form a new division as the CEO of Microsoft AI seems to be creating a power struggle within the company. Current employees aren’t fully onboard with the new hires.

AI RESEARCH

šŸ’ØNovel Method Generates Images 30X Faster

The MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) introduced a new framework that simplifies the multi-step process of traditional diffusion models, enabling image generation models to process user queries faster.

This framework is done through Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD), a procedure that transforms a diffusion model into a one-step image generator with minimal impact on image quality.

In benchmark tests, DMD generated images 30X faster than Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion model while maintaining or surpassing the quality level of outputs.

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šŸ’°VENTURE CAPITAL UPDATES

  • Century Health raises $2M to give pharmaceutical companies access to accurate patient data.

  • Borderless AI launches from stealth with a $27M investment to build the world’s first AI agent for the HR space.

  • Viam announces a $45M Series B for a revolutionary software platform accelerating AI, data, and innovation in robotics.

šŸ’¼WHO’S HIRING?

  • Syska Hennessy Group (San Diego, CA): Sustainability Summer Intern, Summer 2024

  • Tesla (Palo Alto, CA): Data Science/Data Analytics Intern, Energy Engineering, Fall 2024

  • Samsung (Mountain View, CA): Software Engineer Intern, Summer 2024

  • Gulfstream Aerospace (Savannah, GA): Software, Automation, Applications/Data Systems Intern, Fall 2024

  • Anthropic (San Francisco, CA): Growth Marketing Manager

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