By the end of this year, all 500+ Whole Foods Market locations in the U.S. will offer Amazon One for payment and Prime membership benefits. This means Whole Foods Market customers who choose to use Amazon One will no longer need their wallet or even a phone to pay—they can simply hover their palm over an Amazon One device. For Prime members who link their Amazon One profile with their Amazon account, savings will automatically be applied. Source - Amazon

Nolan compared the Manhattan Project, the World War II-era effort to develop the world’s first nuclear weapons, to the current race to develop intelligent algorithms and artificial intelligence. Oppenheimer is “coming at a time when there are a lot of new technologies that people start to worry about the unintended consequences,” Nolan said.

Source - Vanity Fair

Today, we’re showcasing CM3leon (pronounced like “chameleon”), a single foundation model that does both text-to-image and image-to-text generation.

CM3leon is the first multimodal model trained with a recipe adapted from text-only language models, including a large-scale retrieval-augmented pre-training stage and a second multitask supervised fine-tuning (SFT) stage. Source - Meta

Techcrunch added some further insights into this here. It’ll be interesting to see how Meta continues to compete in the AI space.

China has set up a new government body that will be responsible for implementing a national standard for large language models (LLMs) – representing the technology used to train artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots like ChatGPT – as Beijing seeks to minimise potential disruption from this field, while harnessing its power to help transform traditional industries.The China Electronic Standardisation Institute, which is under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), is currently in the process of enacting a local standard for LLMs to support the growing number of fresh AI development initiatives now under way across the mainland, the agency announced on Friday at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai.

Still, internet regulator the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has yet to issue a licence for any generative AI product in the country, even as Big Tech firms like Baidu, Alibaba and iFlytek have rolled out ChatGPT-like services on a trial basis. Source - SCMP

It’s still the wild west (or wild east?) out there, but it’s only a matter of time before regulation is finalised and implemented in all countries.

TheVerge has posted a good interview with the CEO of Google DeepMind - Demis Hassabis. The interview is also available on the podcast.

He also addresses the issue of the recently leaked memo about Google lacking a competitive moat in the AI space.

Starting today, all paying API customers have access to GPT-4. In March, we introduced the ChatGPT API, and earlier this month we released our first updates to the chat-based models. We envision a future where chat-based models can support any use case. Source - OpenAI

For those who have been waiting for it, OpenAI has finally made GPT-4 available to all paying API customers. If you’ve been looking to harness the power of GPT-4 into your business, this is welcome news.