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Smaug-72B outperforms giants like GPT-3.5, topping the Hugging Face leaderboard. But is open-source AI ready to take on the big leagues?

Also, OnlyFake's AI churns out realistic fake IDs for $15...a cybercriminal's dream tool?

Plus, AI’s first ever money heist to the tune of $25 MILLION highlights the darkside of AI.

Oh yeah, and Sam Altman only wants $7 TRILLION for AI computer chips!

So, grab your beverage of choice and enjoy your weekly dose of AI news.

Today’s newsletter includes:

• 📰 AI NEWS RECAP

• 🤿 AI DEEP DIVE

• 🛠️ AI TOOL OF THE WEEK

• ⚙️ GPT OF THE WEEK

• 📝 AI PROMPT OF THE WEEK

• 🎨 AI IMAGE OF THE WEEK

📰 AI NEWS RECAP

Introducing Smaug-72B: The New King of Open-Source AI

Developed by Abacus AI, Smaug-72B has outshone giants like GPT-3.5 and Mistral Medium,

Securing its spot as the top performer on the Hugging Face Open LLM leaderboard.

What sets Smaug-72B apart is not just its superior performance in natural language understanding,

But its remarkable achievement in reasoning and math skills.

This innovation challenges the dominance of proprietary models like ChatGPT and Gemini,

Signaling a shift towards more accessible and democratized AI.

My View:

Open-Source is good.

AI is one of the most powerful innovations from humankind.

Its access should not be taken lightly,

And should not be controlled by the hands of a few major companies.

It is a thrilling time for AI enthusiasts and developers alike,

As we witness the barriers to advanced AI technologies being dismantled.

Google Bard is now Gemini. Google rebrands its AI work to Gemini, launching a dedicated app for Android and integrating Duet AI features into Google Workspace, signaling a major shift towards AI-first services.

Smaug-72B: A New Benchmark in Open-Source AI. "Smaug-72B," released by Abacus AI, sets a new standard for open-source AI models, outperforming GPT-3.5 and showcasing remarkable capabilities in reasoning and math tasks.

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan's Vision for 2024. YouTube CEO Neal Mohan outlines four key areas for 2024, focusing on AI-driven creativity, recognizing creators as next-gen studios, expanding into the living room, and safeguarding the community.

AI Reads 2,000 Year Old Scroll. Using AI, researchers have deciphered text from a scroll buried during Vesuvius's eruption in AD 79, offering new insights into ancient Roman life and philosophy.

Deepfake $25MM Money Heist. A Hong Kong company was defrauded of $25 million in a groundbreaking heist using deepfake technology to mimic its CFO and other employees in a video call.

OpenAI's Ambitious AI Chip Project. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is reportedly seeking up to $7 TRILLION for a project to expand global AI chip production, aiming to address the supply-demand imbalance and enhance AI infrastructure.

Hugging Face Launches Open-Source GPT Store. Hugging Face introduces a customizable AI chatbot creator, offering a free, open-source alternative to OpenAI's custom GPTs, empowering users with a variety of open-source models for diverse applications.

OpenAI’s Agents to Control Computers. OpenAI is reportedly working on an AI assistant capable of controlling devices to perform tasks, potentially revolutionizing the concept of smart assistants with autonomous capabilities.

Midjourney Hires Former Apple Hardware Engineer. Known for image generation, Midjourney bolsters its hardware development by hiring former Apple Vision Pro engineer Ahmad Abbas, signaling ambitious plans for AI-driven hardware innovations.

DALL·E 3 Implements C2PA Watermarks. OpenAI introduces watermarks to DALL·E 3 images, embedding metadata for content authenticity, enabling users to verify the origin of AI-generated images through tools like Content Credentials Verify.

Meta Implements Labels for AI-Generated Images. Meta announces the introduction of "Imagined with AI" labels for AI-generated images on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, enhancing transparency for users about the origin of photorealistic content.

Microsoft Copilot AI Images with Deucalion. Microsoft updates Copilot with AI-driven image creation and editing, and introduces Deucalion, a new AI model, to provide richer and faster user experiences.

Stability AI Upgrades SVD for Enhanced AI Videos. Stability AI releases SVD 1.1, improving its video diffusion model to generate short AI videos with better motion and consistency, available for different subscription tiers.

Apple Unveils MGIE for AI-Powered Image Editing. Apple introduces the MGIE model, developed with the University of California, Santa Barbara, enabling users to edit images through simple text prompts for tasks like cropping, resizing, and applying filters.

🤿 AI DEEP DIVE

In honor of the Super Bowl today, we're showcasing our unique ad creation process using AI.

We've utilized ChatGPT and DALL-E to craft a captivating Mint Mobile commercial featuring Ryan Reynolds.

This guide demonstrates leveraging AI for scripting and visualizing ads, streamlining the creative process.

Perfect for marketers aiming to blend innovation with practicality.

Watch our video here and see AI's potential in transforming advertising ideas into reality

🛠️ AI TOOL OF THE WEEK

Lazy AI: Revolutionize app development with Lazy AI, the platform that empowers both developers and non-developers to create full-stack applications, including web apps, AI agents, automations, and chatbots, using simple prompts.

With its one-click deployment to scalable cloud infrastructure, Lazy AI simplifies the process of prototyping and producing software solutions, making sophisticated app creation accessible to all.

Send your tool here to be featured next week!

⚙️ GPT OF THE WEEK

CatGPT: Serving up your daily dose of feline fun. Create funny cat memes, jokes, and more with CatGPT😸

📝 AI PROMPT OF THE WEEK

Copy and paste this into your favorite chatbot.

You've discovered plant life on Venus. Explain how these plants survive the extreme conditions and their possible uses on Earth.

🎨 AI IMAGE OF THE WEEK

Copy and paste this into your favorite image generator.

Portrait | close up view of eye only ::10 Background | An overgrown vast and infinite flowerpunk bloomcore rococopunk forest outside of the beautiful hypermaximal Palace of Versailles in 1750 with coral bioluminescent fireflies, at night under moonlight, moonbeams, bioluminescent fruit on trees ::4 Photograph | Elegant members of the French nobility and Persons of Quality are shown in the gardens of Versailles in 1750 joyfully among a vast field of hypermaximal flowerpunk bloomcore gardens and vibrant rococo flowers of every size and shape in their maximalist surroundings standing in clever poses beyond a reflective pool looking into the camera while dressed in elaborate intricately handcrafted french rococo style haute-couture hypermaximalist π rococopunk boots with clamp-on microspikes, clothing, regalia, and elegant hypermaximal headpiece, eye mask, and hypermaximal rococopunk wig that perfectly matches the content and texture of their surroundings, hypermaximalism, hyperdetailed, bioluminescent flowerpunk bloomcore rococopunk, shown from the feet up, surrounded by a hypermaximal French garden at Versailles and numerous persons of quality ::5 Surroundings | A celestial murmuration of green and coral bioluminescent celestial objects and rococo floral patterns ::3 Effects | celestialpunk bokeh, chiaroscuro, moonbeams ::3 Parameters | tilt-shift, digital fashion photography ::3 --ar 2:3 --v 6

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