Is this new company by Ilya Sutskever worth getting $1 billion?

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Get ready—today’s newsletter is loaded with mind-blowing news that will make your head spin.

We’re talking about Elon Musk’s latest AI breakthrough and super exciting news about superintelligence. Plus, we’ve got new AI tools that could transform your work.

So, grab a drink, get cosy, and dive into the hottest AI updates. You won’t want to miss a single byte of this!

What’s Inside Today’s Newsletter

🪰 Buzz Around AI

😀 AI Recap

🪄 AI Tools

🔹 AI Learning

♨️ What’s Hot In AI

📰 AI News

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🪰 Buzz Around AI

xAI, founded by Elon Musk, has just unveiled "Colossus," the world's most powerful AI system.

It took just 122 days for Elon Musk and his team at xAI to build the world’s most powerful AI system, called "Colossus."

Here’s why this matters:

• Colossus runs on 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, making it the most powerful AI system on the planet, according to Elon Musk.

• The xAI team didn’t just build this massive system quickly—they did it during a holiday weekend, showing incredible dedication and drive.

• And they’re not done yet. xAI plans to double Colossus’s power by expanding it to 200,000 GPUs soon.

In a recent podcast, Musk shared that Grok 2, an earlier AI system from xAI, was trained on just 15,000 GPUs. Even with that smaller setup, it managed to catch up to OpenAI’s GPT-4 quickly. With Colossus now online, xAI is poised to challenge the biggest names in AI, like OpenAI and Google.

OpenAI Co-founder Gets $1 Billion for New AI Company

When I read this news today, I felt like something was off. Looking deeper, I discovered that the AI world just got shaken up in a big way. Here's what's going on:

A new AI company just received substantial funding! This is surprising because the company is very new and small.

That's not something you see every day, especially for a company that's only been around for 3 months.

The person behind this is Ilya Sutskever, a big name from OpenAI. He left his old job and started SSI with a bold idea: to make super smart and safe AI.

Here's what makes this news so interesting:

1. SSI is tiny - just 10 people company.!

2. Big investors are betting on them, even though they won't sell anything for 2 years.

3. They're promising to do something different in AI, but we don't know exactly what yet.

What's important to know:

1. SSI wants to make AI that's smarter than humans but also safe.

2. The company is very new - only 3 months old - but people already determined that it is worth billions.

3. Big-name investors like Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital are investing in SSI.

Why this matters:

• It's unusual for such a new company to get this much amount.

• People are excited because Ilya Sutskever is very well-known in AI. He helped make OpenAI successful.

• This shows that even when some people are unsure about AI, others are willing to invest a lot in making it safer.

It will be interesting to see what SSI creates in the next few years.

😀AI Recap

1. Researchers at Profluent Bio used AI to develop OpenCRISPR-1. It’s a new gene-editing tool that is as good as, or even better than, existing CRISPR systems in terms of performance and safety.

2. The UK’s first "teacherless" classroom is set to open at David Game College in London. It will use AI platforms to provide personalized GCSE instruction to students.

3. Scientists Make ‘Cyborg Worms’ with a Brain Guided by AI

4. Researchers have discovered that by making AI systems 'reread' questions twice, mimicking human behaviour, their reasoning and problem-solving skills significantly improve.

🪄 AI Tools Of The Month

New Easy-to-Use Productivity Tools

1. Amploo

- What it does: Helps small businesses work better

- How: Makes teamwork easier and improves how things get done

2. Earth.fm App

- What it offers: Nature sounds on your phone

- How many: Over 900 different sounds

3. Choppity

- What it does: Lets you find specific parts in long videos

- Cool feature: You can turn these parts into short clips to share

4. Wisp CMS

- What it's for Making and managing blogs

- Where: On websites you already have

- Special thing: It's fun and easy to use

5. Me.bot for iOS

- What it is: A special kind of journal

- How it works: Saves pictures, notes, and other things about you

- Where: On iPhones and iPads

🔹AI Learning

How to Automate Your Calendar Using AI

You can follow these steps to use Reclaim AI to organize your schedule:

1. Sign in to Reclaim AI

   • Go to the Reclaim AI website

   • Log in using your Google account

   • Your calendar will automatically connect

2. Choose Your Regular Activities

   • Look through the list of habits

   • Select the ones that apply to you

3. Set Up Free Time Between Events

   • Decide how much buffer time you want between meetings

   • Enter this amount in the settings

4. Use the AI Planner

   • Find the 'Planner' button on the left side of the screen

   • Click on it

   • Let Reclaim AI create an optimized schedule for you

5. Explore Additional Features You can also:

   • Add more regular activities

   • Include specific tasks

   • Adjust your buffer time

   • Connect multiple calendars

   • Set up automatic meeting scheduling

By following these steps, you can let AI help you manage your time more effectively.

♨️ What’s Hot In AI

Groq just launched LLaVA v1.5 7B, a powerful, new multimodal AI model

Groq just made a new AI that's super fast and smart.

Here's what's cool about it:

1. This AI can understand both pictures and words. It's like having a smart friend who can look at a photo and talk about it.

2. It's called LLaVA v1.5 7B, which is a funny name, but it can do some amazing things:

   • It can answer questions about pictures

   • It can write captions for images

   • It can talk about text, voice, and pictures all together

3. The really exciting part? It's much faster than other famous AIs like GPT-4. It's about 4 times faster!

4. Right now, Groq is letting people try this AI for free.

This news is making a lot of people in the tech world very excited.

It's like we're seeing the start of a new race - who can make the smartest and fastest AI?

Does the idea of a super-fast AI that can understand pictures and words excite you? Or does it make you wonder what else AI might be able to do soon?

📰 AI News

1. OpenAI Japan's CEO says their new AI, 'GPT-Next', will be 100 times stronger than GPT-4. They're also making an even better AI called Orion for 2025.

2. Altera made 1,000 AI players work together in Minecraft. These AI players built their own society with money, traditions, beliefs, and rules.

3. The US government ordered Nvidia to share information about how it sells AI chips. They're checking if Nvidia is following fair business rules.

4. Google announced that Google AI Studio. That supports Function Calling, allowing users to test model capabilities directly from the interface.

5. OpenAI is reportedly planning to create its own AI chips using TSMC’s advanced 1.6mm A16 process. They might team up with companies like Broadcom, Marvell, or Apple to help design the chips.