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Hey Edge Family, good morning! Elon Musk will open-source Grok this week taking more shots at OpenAI.
The Breakdown
🚨 Latest Developments
Source: Grok
Big Takeaway: Yesterday, Elon Musk announced that his AI startup xAI will open source Grok, a chatbot rivaling ChatGPT, addressing concerns over OpenAI's deviation from open-source practices.
xAI's transition to open source Grok is consistent with Musk's history of support for open source, which includes Tesla's patent open-sourcing and X's algorithm open-sourcing.
Grok launched last year and offers features such as access to real-time information and ad free viewing, it’s only available through X’s $16 monthly subscription.
The timing of this is no coincidence; last week he stated, “OpenAI is a lie,” further intensifying the beef between him and OpenAI on AI development and its accessibility.
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Big Takeaway: Midjourney's newest feature allows characters to be recreated across AI-generated images, solving a major issue in multimedia storytelling.
The feature utilizes a new tag, “--cref” (character reference), allowing users to reference a previously generated character image via URL to maintain consistency in new images. (Try Midjourney here)
The consistent character feature is designed to work best with characters generated within Midjourney and is not optimized for real-life photographs or images.
Despite being a new release, this is quickly becoming one of Midjourney’s most popular updates.
🔎 Extra Insights
Some Microsoft insiders are concerned that the company's AI strategy has become overly reliant on its partnership with OpenAI. To the point where Microsoft's AI Platform team is viewed as effectively providing IT support for OpenAI rather than driving internal innovation.
Covariant announced the launch of their RFM-1 (Robotics Foundation Model 1), a large language model designed specifically for robot control and understanding. RFM-1 is trained on a massive dataset collected from Covariant's Brain AI robotic systems, allowing it to interpret natural language commands and reason about physical tasks.
Mubadala Investment and AI company G42 are the founding partners of Abu Dhabi's new technology investment company, MGX. MGX aims to pursue deals in AI, semiconductors, and AI applications, with the goal to surpass $100 billion in assets under management in the coming years.
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