Hello, everyone! So here we go, with one final injection of AI news into the year 2023:
Before we get started, we want to thank you for following along with us and we do hope you will continue to stay tuned for more in the future.
Back in 2019, we asked dozens of entrepreneurs, scientists, academics, and artists, what we’d be obsessing over in the next 50 years Across their 550 answers, some clear trends emerged such as climate change dominating the conversation, the genetic revolution in full swing and AI as a transformative force.
For instance, how about these AI numbers from this year:
$10 billion: Microsoft’s eye-watering investment in OpenAI
$86 billion:
Valuation of OpenAI
5: Days Sam Altman was ousted from OpenAI before getting rehired
$4 billion: Amazon’s investment in Anthropic
49.5 million: Pageviews of the Wikipedia page for “ChatGPT,” the most recorded on the site for any page this year
100 million: Weekly active users of ChatGPT
With such figures, it comes as no surprise that some of Nvidia’s biggest customers are trying to cannibalize it:
Arguably the winner of the AI boom this year is Nvidia, which derives its name from the Latin word for envy. The semiconductor company manufactures the highly sought-after AI chips that tech companies need to power the ChatGPTs and Bards of the world.
But Big Tech is catching up.
Every tech giant—Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta—has revealed its own AI chip this year in part to depend less on Nvidia and to slash costs on developing AI models. With the release of the generative AI model Gemini, Google said it is offering the model, which runs on its own Nvidia-like chips called TPUs, at a competitive price. This will potentially bring down the cost of training AI models.
For OpenAI’s future language model GPT-5, one might end up using a lot less TPUs than GPUs, as Chirag Dekate, an analyst at Gartner, explained.
Another significant AI development in 2023 has been the rise of GPTs
OpenAI’s Sam Altman announced on DevDay that now everyone would have the ability to make their own GPTs, specialized digital brains that could perform complex tasks. Basically, AI you created without needing to know how to write a single line of code. Soon, he said, you could even sell these to others on a marketplace—a marketplace OpenAI would, of course, control.
Mere days later OpenAI itself was facing total collapse. Things have stabilized somewhat, but the company has announced that the GPT marketplace is delayed.
We were so thrilled about GPTs, we wrote all about it in one of our previous issues. Check it out to learn more and don’t forget to read the full article.
