Read time: 4 minutes

Hey there, AI adventurers! It's Mr. Byte, ready to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence with you. As we gear up for another edition of The AI Crunch, let's dive into the latest and greatest in AI innovation!

• 😁 Amazon developing ‘Olympus’

• 🍴 10 AI news bites

• 👗 Humane pin updates

• ⚙️ 5 crunch-certified AI tools

• 💰 9 recent AI investments

• 🔍 1 key AI reports

• 📸 1 AI-Generated video

• 📝 1 prompt engineering insight

News

Amazon Developing ‘Olympus’ AI

Hold onto your hats because Amazon's cooking up something colossal in the AI kitchen. Dubbed "Olympus," this behemoth of a language model boasts a staggering 2 trillion parameters. That's double the size of OpenAI's GPT-4, which, let's face it, is already pretty brainy.

Spearheaded by Rohit Prasad, the former Alexa boss turned AI bigwig, Amazon's uniting its best AI brains for this project. But here's the kicker: they're keeping the details under the radar. This giant leap in AI might just make Amazon Web Services the go-to cloud for AI aficionados.

But remember, training this AI titan isn't just a brain exercise; it's a budget buster, too. Amazon's shifting its spending gears from trucks to terabytes, betting big on AI's future.

Read the full article here —>

News

🍴Quick Bites

YouTube Testing Video Chatbots: New chatbot that’s designed to give you more information about a video you’re watching

Google Announces Expanded Partnership with Anthropic: Partnership with AI safety startup Anthropic expanded with advanced chip program

Samsung Teases Live AI Translation: Recently they showed off a live AI translation feature for phone calls - the feature is expected to launch in 2024

Samsung Announces ChatGPT Rival: Samsung Gauss—aiming to rival ChatGPT by enhancing smartphones, tablets, and laptops with AI capabilities

Mozilla Releases AI Chatbot: Fakespot Chat, Mozilla’s first LLM, lets online shoppers research products via an AI chatbot

Cohere Launches New Embed Model: Upgraded for search applications that engage with real-world, noisy data and for retrieval-augmentation

Github Releases Copilot X: Transformative upgrade to the developer experience, deeply integrating AI into every stage of the development lifecycle

Visa Launches AI Consulting: Visa's new AI Advisory Practice aims to help payments industry clients implement AI for business needs

120+ Countries Get Google’s AI Search: including Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, after receiving positive feedback from recent launches in India & Japan

Microsoft Offers Politicians Protection Against Deepfakes: Microsoft is offering its services, including a digital watermark identifying AI content

News

AI Pin Revolution by Humane

For a cool $699, you can clip this screenless gadget to your shirt and talk to it all day. Need a battery boost? No sweat, it comes with two. Want to project stuff onto your hand with a green laser? You got it. But wait, there's more: for $24 a month, you get your very own phone number, data plan, and AI galore on this T-Mobile-backed gizmo.

This isn't just any gadget; it's like a smartphone that decided screens are so 2022. Humane's calling it the future, but let's be real, it's a high-tech walkie-talkie with AI flair. And this Cosmos OS? It's not just apps; it's a whole AI ecosystem in your pocket (or rather, on your lapel). Get ready to talk to your pin about everything from your emails to what music you should listen to. Just remember, this bad boy isn't listening unless you tell it to. Sneaky, right?

Humane's staying tight-lipped, but we've got the scoop. Now, let's see if ditching the screen is really as revolutionary as they think. Stay tuned for more!

Read the full article here —>

AI Tools

⚙️ Crunch-Certified AI Tools

Leena: Employee experience platform for enterprises

LivePerson: Helps brands embrace automation-first customer experiences

Amazon Comprehend: Uncover information in unstructured data

Haptik: Best Conversational CRM Powered by Generative AI

AiryChat: Learn how to use AI, learn new skills, or scale your business

Sponsor

Funding

💰 AI Investments

Elucid: Platform providing physicians with AI-powered imaging raised $80M

Evolv AI: Optimization and personalization platform raised $13M

Aigen: An AI-driven robotics company raised $12M

Black Ore: An AI platform for financial services raised $60M

Eleos Health: AI behavioral health startup raised $40M

Tabnine: Code-generating AI platform raised $25M

Ozone: An AI-powered collaborative video editor raised $25M

EarnBetter: A startup applying generative AI to writing resumes raised $5M

Polimorphic: A provider of AI-enabled ‘GovGPT’ software raised $6M

Ritual: AI infrastructure startup to fill gaps in crypto raised $25M

Rainbow Weather: Raised $2M to provide instant weather forecasts using AI

Research

🔍 AI Reports, Presentations, and Papers

Better Data Improves LLM Training: This study introduces a better way to clean up the data used to train LLMs, ensuring they work more reliably

Visuals

📸 AI-Generated Art / Videos of the Week

Prompts

📝 Prompt Engineering Insights

Stable Diffusion Prompting: A definitive guide