Well gang, another week in tech & software with more AI news than can fit in my brain. Here’s the highlights:
- Early in the week we heard news of Apple foraying into the generative image game. Better late than never I suppose. A shame we’ll never see how a Steve Jobs would have utilized or integrated all of this stuff into iOS.
- JQuery released version 4 into Beta which is 4 more versions than I’ve ever released of anything.
- Google released Gemini Ultra and as per usual struggled with how to name things. I haven’t tried it myself but the response seemed to have been middle of the road. It comes with a 2 month free-trial so maybe worth a shot if you’ve been feeling let down by ChatGPT’s recent laziness. Speaking of…
- The GPT 4 System Prompt was leaked (pastebin here). I’ve definitely found GPT4’s ability to do more complex work has been diminished in the past few months, and I’m finding myself back to just regular coding with some help from GitHub Copilot half the time.
And finally…. SAM ALTMAN IS TRYING TO RAISE A 7 TRILLION (with a T) investment fund to build a new AI chip company (Source: WSJ.com) I literally can’t get anyone on the internet to give me $7 let alone $7T so maybe we’re just built different if you know what I mean. Not sure what this would mean for the likes of Nvidia, AMD, TSMC, Intel or others (like Taiwan), but this wasn’t quite the timeline I expected. But hats off to you Sam, go big or go home.
Mr Rob here summing it up better than I ever could. ![[Pasted image 20240209215943.png]]Anyway it’s getting quite late for me and I’ve still got some laundry to move and a dog to let out. In the future I’m hoping I’ll have a few more good finds from the week like cool GitHub repos, ProductHunt or HackerNews launches that are noteworthy, heaven forbid maybe something I’m building too, we’ll see.
First newsletter, be gentle.
Here’s some weekend inspiration for you courtesy of Mr. Rubin. ![[Pasted image 20240209221443.png]]Thanks for hanging out dear reader. Stay lazy.