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MCP, Agents and What AI Engineers Are Thinking About Right Now feat. Swyx

Thu, 17 Apr 2025

What's at the top of AI engineers' minds? Swyx, organizer of the AI Engineer Summit and host...

The 7 Biggest Mistakes Companies Are Making with AI and Agent Adoption

Wed, 16 Apr 2025

Companies keep repeating these costly mistakes when adopting AI and agents. Nufar Gaspar, an AI adop...

How Vibecoding Unlocks AI feat. Riley Brown

Tue, 15 Apr 2025

Riley Brown joins AI Daily Brief to explain Vibecoding, an accessible way to build software with AI....

Andrej Karpathy on How AI Empowers

Mon, 14 Apr 2025

OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy makes an argument that the normal patterns of technology diffusion ...

The 2025 AI Index

Sat, 12 Apr 2025

Stanford's 2025 AI Index reviews 2024's artificial intelligence trends. Performance benchmarks impro...

Google Cloud Next is All About Agents [Shocker!]

Fri, 11 Apr 2025

Google Cloud Next was all about one thing: agents. Google officially backed the Model Context Protoc...

How Will Tariffs Impact the AI Industry?

Thu, 10 Apr 2025

The new explosion of US tariffs (alongside the broader trade tensions between the U.S. and China) co...

Shopify's AI Memo Shows the Future of AI at Work

Wed, 09 Apr 2025

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke generated some serious buzz with a leaked internal memo where he laid out 6 m...

How Big a Deal is Llama 4's 10M Token Context Window?

Tue, 08 Apr 2025

Meta’s new Llama 4 models have a massive 10 million token context window and a fresh architecture ...

Why AI Will Take Over the $20T Professional Services Industry

Sun, 06 Apr 2025

AI and agents aren't just competing for software budgets. In today's episode, NLW reads and ...

OpenAI Says Next Reasoning Model Coming in a "Couple of Weeks"

Sat, 05 Apr 2025

OpenAI confirms it will release new reasoning models, O3 and O4 Mini, in the next few weeks, with GP...

5 New Startups That Explain AI's Most Important Trends

Fri, 04 Apr 2025

Five new startups mark a sharp shift in how people use and build with AI. General Agents debuts ACE,...

5 Fast-Changing AI Transformations To Keep You Up At Night

Thu, 03 Apr 2025

AI is changing faster than anyone imagined, and these five transformations could rewrite how we work...

Is OpenAI Actually Going to Be Open Again?

Wed, 02 Apr 2025

OpenAI just raised the largest private funding round in history at a whopping $40 billion valuation....

Grok's xAI Acquires X.com

Tue, 01 Apr 2025

Elon Musk merged xAI and X.com (formerly Twitter), reshaping the battle for AI dominance. Valued at ...

10 Things Transformed by ChatGPT's New Image Generation Model

Sun, 30 Mar 2025

New aesthetic filters on movies and websites. A new era of books. An absolutely bulldozer to the ad ...

Should Anyone Learn to Code Anymore?

Fri, 28 Mar 2025

Is learning to code still valuable when AI can write most code better and faster? The old paradigm i...

Why MCP Won the Agent Tooling Wars (And How It Will Speed Up Agents)

Fri, 28 Mar 2025

OpenAI's latest announcement confirms that MCP (Model Context Protocol) has become the universal...

ChatGPT's New Image Model Brings Magic Back to AI

Thu, 27 Mar 2025

OpenAI's latest GPT-4.0 update integrates native image generation directly into ChatGPT, transfo...

Is China Outcompeting the US on AI?

Wed, 26 Mar 2025

Is China pulling ahead of the US in AI? With new breakthroughs from DeepSeek, cutting-edge Huawei ch...

Where AI is Driving Revenue Growth Today

Mon, 24 Mar 2025

McKinsey has released their latest State of AI report. NLW breaks down the most interesting findings...

Why AGI is a Useless Term for Businesses

Sun, 23 Mar 2025

All of the frontier labs are racing for AGI, but in this episode, NLW argues that the concept of AGI...

6 Hail Mary's to Get Apple Back in the AI Game

Sat, 22 Mar 2025

Apple’s AI strategy is struggling, and drastic changes are needed fast. Here are six bold moves li...

AI Agent Capabilities Are Doubling Every Three Months

Fri, 21 Mar 2025

New research reveals AI agent capabilities are doubling every three months, faster than Moore's ...

The "AI Super Bowl" Previews the Future

Thu, 20 Mar 2025

NVIDIA's annual developer conference, GTC, known as the AI Super Bowl, brought major announcemen...

The Big Challenge with Agents Today

Wed, 19 Mar 2025

AI agents are hyped as the next big thing, but companies like Salesforce are hitting roadblocks. Sal...

How the AI Price Wars Will Impact You

Tue, 18 Mar 2025

China’s Baidu dropped new AI models at prices far below competitors like OpenAI and DeepSeek. Baid...

The Rise of Vibecoding

Sun, 16 Mar 2025

Vibecoding -- i.e. speaking to text-to-code tools and programming with your words -- has exploded as...

What the AI Action Plan for the USA Should Be

Sat, 15 Mar 2025

The White House asked Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI to weigh in on America's AI policy, and thei...

The State of AI for Robotics

Fri, 14 Mar 2025

Google just released Gemini Robotics, a powerful new AI built for humanoid robots, taking robotics b...

AI to Write 90% of All Code Soon?

Thu, 13 Mar 2025

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicts AI will write 90% of all code within 3-6 months, sparking debate...

How the OpenAI-Microsoft Frenemy-Ship is Shaping AI Development

Wed, 12 Mar 2025

Microsoft and OpenAI's complex relationship is heating up, shaping the future of AI in unexpecte...

Is the Manus AI Agent Another DeepSeek Moment?

Tue, 11 Mar 2025

Manus, a new AI agent from China, is creating excitement similar to DeepSeek by showcasing advanced ...

Is AI Weird Enough to Actually Make Scientific Discoveries?

Sun, 09 Mar 2025

A reading and discussion inspired by https://thomwolf.io/blog/scientific-ai.htmlBrought to you by:KP...

The Top GenAI Apps Right Now

Sat, 08 Mar 2025

AI powered apps are growing fast, with ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and coding assistants leading. Reports fro...

Can OpenAI Really Charge $20k/Month for Agents?

Fri, 07 Mar 2025

A leaked investor deck suggests OpenAI plans to charge up to $20,000 monthly for its most advanced A...

The US Government Knows AGI Is Near

Thu, 06 Mar 2025

A recent New York Times interview arguing that the US Gov't knows AGI is coming (and coming soon...

Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?

Wed, 05 Mar 2025

A new AI voice model, Sesame, is turning heads with its natural conversations, leaving many wonderin...

The AI Cold War Heats Up

Tue, 04 Mar 2025

China is restricting AI leaders from traveling to the U.S., signaling a new level of national securi...

The Dr. Strange Theory of AI Agent Work

Sun, 02 Mar 2025

In today's alt-long-reads episode, NLW explores the future of agentic work. He argues agents won...

What GPT-4.5 Should Be Used For

Sat, 01 Mar 2025

OpenAI has officially launched GPT-4.5, but it’s not the model most people expected. While it lags...

Why AI Compute Consumption Isn't Slowing Down

Fri, 28 Feb 2025

Despite reports of Microsoft canceling data center leases, AI compute demand is still accelerating. ...

Faster/Slower: Where AI Is Moving Ahead of Expectations and Where its Lagging

Thu, 27 Feb 2025

To many, it feels like a moment of significant acceleration. We're getting a new model every few...

First Reactions: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

Wed, 26 Feb 2025

Claude 3.7 Sonnet has launched to much fanfare. Along with it comes Claude Code, reinforcing just ho...

NLW on the Future of AI Agents

Mon, 24 Feb 2025

A discussion originally from the Tool Use podcast. See full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Agentic AI as a Tool of US Diplomacy?

Sun, 23 Feb 2025

NLW reads two pieces that both discuss how agentic AI changes AI's place in the geopolitical dis...

Google's AI Co Scientist and the True Power of Multi-Agent Systems

Sat, 22 Feb 2025

Google’s AI Co-Scientist is changing how research gets done, using a system of multiple agents wor...

Why Microsoft's CEO Doesn't Believe in AGI

Fri, 21 Feb 2025

At least...not in the same way others think of it. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella just sat down for a r...

What AI Coding Agents Can Do Right Now

Thu, 20 Feb 2025

AI coding tools are advancing rapidly, but how effective are they for freelance jobs? OpenAI's n...

Just How Good is Grok-3?

Tue, 18 Feb 2025

XAI’s Grok-3 has arrived, but does it meet expectations? Elon Musk’s AI venture asserts that its...

The Push for America to Open Source AI

Mon, 17 Feb 2025

With China’s DeepSeek making waves in AI, pressure is mounting for the U.S. to rethink its stance ...

Which Jobs Will AI Disrupt Most?

Sat, 15 Feb 2025

AI is reshaping work, but which jobs are most affected? Anthropic’s new Economic Index tracks how ...

OpenAI Just Told Us All About GPT-5

Fri, 14 Feb 2025

OpenAI has laid out its roadmap for GPT-5, confirming the release of GPT-4.5 (Orion) as the final mo...

The Accelerationist Age of American AI

Thu, 13 Feb 2025

At the AI Action Summit in Paris, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance made it clear: the U.S. is doubling...

Is Elon's Bid to Buy OpenAI Serious?

Wed, 12 Feb 2025

Elon Musk and a group of investors have reportedly offered $97.4 billion to buy OpenAI’s nonprofit...

Sam Altman's Wild 2035 Prediction

Tue, 11 Feb 2025

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman just dropped a new blog post outlining his vision for AGI, AI economics, and t...

Why Open Source AI is the New Soft Power

Sun, 09 Feb 2025

Deepseek continues to have the whole world talking and debating. In this long reads episode, NLW dis...

How Google's Latest Gemini Model Stacks Up

Sat, 08 Feb 2025

Google has released Gemini 2.0 Pro, and the inevitable comparisons to DeepSeek and OpenAI's late...

How AGI Will Impact The Economy

Fri, 07 Feb 2025

A special episodes produced with OpenAI Deep Research and Google NotebookLM due to a lost voice! Re...

Jevons Intelligence: Why Agent Coders Will Turn Everyone Into Software Developers

Thu, 06 Feb 2025

Replit’s new AI agent can turn a simple prompt into a working app straight from your phone. Is thi...

What Comes Next In AI & Agents (According to Y Combinator)

Wed, 05 Feb 2025

Y Combinator has just released its latest Request for Startups, which covers nearly every theme rela...

Can OpenAI's Deep Research Really Do 1% of All Work?

Tue, 04 Feb 2025

OpenAI’s new Deep Research agent claims it can take on a measurable percentage of all economically...

Which AI Models You Should Be Using Right Now

Sun, 02 Feb 2025

DeepSeek R1 dominated the conversation this week, but should it be the model you're using? NLW r...

The Week Where AI Changed (Or Did It?)

Sat, 01 Feb 2025

DeepSeek dominated headlines, but did this week actually change the AI landscape, or was it overstat...

A Blueprint for Enterprise Agent Adoption

Fri, 31 Jan 2025

AI agents are one of the biggest enterprise topics 2025, but where does adoption stand? In this conv...

A Conversation with NotebookLM's Founding Engineer

Thu, 30 Jan 2025

Google's NotebookLM has become one of the most compelling AI tools for working with text. In thi...

Separating DeepSeek Hype and Hyperbole

Wed, 29 Jan 2025

Markets reacted sharply to DeepSeek's R1 model announcement, sparking debates about its impact on AI...

Yes, DeepSeek IS Actually a Massive Deal for AI

Mon, 27 Jan 2025

DeekSeek has released R1, their answer to OpenAI's O1, and it has Silicon Valley chattering and ...

Just How Fast is AI Evolving?

Sun, 26 Jan 2025

Between reasoning models and agents, things feel like they're heating up. But just how fast are ...

7 Ways to Use OpenAI's Operator

Sat, 25 Jan 2025

OpenAI's new Operator agent is making waves. In this episode, explore seven real-world ways user...

Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence in 2 Years?

Fri, 24 Jan 2025

At Davos, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei shared bold predictions about AGI arriving by 2027. Discussions...

Stargate: A $500B US AI Initiative Announced by Altman, Ellison and Trump

Thu, 23 Jan 2025

On President Trump’s first day back in office, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Oracle’s Larry Ellison, an...

The o3-to-AGI-Hype Pipeline

Wed, 22 Jan 2025

OpenAI's upcoming O3 model has sparked widespread speculation about its capabilities and potenti...

AI and Jobs Disruption

Sun, 19 Jan 2025

A reading and discussion inspired by: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/opinion/artificial-intelli...

Is the TikTok Ban Actually About AI?

Sat, 18 Jan 2025

The US ban on TikTok might be less about data privacy and more about the app’s cutting-edge AI rec...

8 Ways Agents Will Improve This Year

Fri, 17 Jan 2025

AI agents are poised to make significant progress this year. They will improve tool usage, context u...

The Battle Over AI Diffusion

Thu, 16 Jan 2025

As President Biden’s term winds down, new policies to bolster U.S. AI leadership are making waves....

What Companies Should Be Doing With AI and Agents Right Now

Wed, 15 Jan 2025

A conversation with Stephen (Steve) Chase, Vice Chair of AI and Digital Innovation at KPMG. Steve sh...

OpenAI's Economic Blueprint for America

Tue, 14 Jan 2025

OpenAI has unveiled its "Economic Blueprint for America," outlining how AI can drive U.S. competitiv...

Anthropic CEO Urges Trump to Win AI vs. China

Sun, 12 Jan 2025

A reading and discussion inspired by: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-can-keep-americas-ai-advanta...

Was CES Really Just a Parade of AI Slop?

Fri, 10 Jan 2025

CES 2025 showcased a mix of AI-powered products, from smart fridges and health mirrors to robotic va...

2025 Is the Year of Scaling AI

Thu, 09 Jan 2025

NLW presents a special episode recapping some of the most interesting findings from KPMG's Q4 AI...

"The Age of AI Agentics Is Here" - Nvidia CEO

Thu, 09 Jan 2025

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang declares the arrival of the AI agents era during an expansive CES keynote. A...

5 Ways Companies Are Using AI Agents Today

Wed, 08 Jan 2025

Businesses are turning to AI agents in innovative ways this year. From refining drug discovery at Jo...

Is AGI Coming Sooner Than We Think?

Tue, 07 Jan 2025

Recent discussions from OpenAI leaders, including Sam Altman, have reignited debates about the proxi...

OpenAI Reveals Controversial For-Profit Conversion Plans

Sat, 04 Jan 2025

OpenAI has announced plans to transition into a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC). This si...

The Most Important AI Story From Each Month of 2024

Tue, 31 Dec 2024

From custom GPTs to NotebookLM to SB-1047, NLW reviews the AI year of 2024 through the lens of each ...

The 15 Most Important AI Products of 2024

Mon, 30 Dec 2024

It was a year of incredible AI innovations and beloved products. In this episode, NLW counts down th...

The Most Important AI Essays of 2024

Sun, 29 Dec 2024

In a defining year for GenAI, three essays helped explain the state of the industry. https://www.w...

25 Agent Predictions for 2025 - Part 2

Fri, 27 Dec 2024

PART 2: Agents are the most important trend in AI heading into the new year. NLW is joined by Nufar ...

25 Agent Predictions for 2025 - Part 1

Thu, 26 Dec 2024

Agents are the most important trend in AI heading into the new year. NLW is joined by Nufar Gaspar t...

17 Reflections on Enterprise AI in 2024

Tue, 24 Dec 2024

2024 was the year where GenAI moved from exciting experiment to enterprise imperative. NLW reflects ...

AGI for Christmas

Tue, 24 Dec 2024

Explore OpenAI's latest achievements with O3, the reasoning model that sparked conversations about i...

AI's Future is Here Now

Sun, 22 Dec 2024

A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-present-future-ais-impact-...

2025 AI Battlelines: Agents, Reasoning, and World Models

Sat, 21 Dec 2024

Brought to you by: Vanta - Simplify compliance - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://vanta.com/nlw The AI ...

Does Databricks' $10B Raise Point to an AI IPO Boom?

Fri, 20 Dec 2024

Databricks raises a record-breaking $10 billion in its latest funding round, pushing its valuation t...

5 Use Cases for Veo 2

Wed, 18 Dec 2024

Google has responded to Sora with their own updated video model Veo 2, and it's getting rave reviews...

Ilya Sutskever Calls Peak Data and the End of Pretraining

Tue, 17 Dec 2024

At a recent conference appearance, SSI founder (and former OpenAI leader) Ilya Sutskever claimed tha...

20 Uses (or Not) for AI

Sun, 15 Dec 2024

How to actually get value out of AI at work right now. A reading and discussion inspired by https://...

Vision and Voice Are Now LLM Table Stakes

Sat, 14 Dec 2024

Between Gemini 2.0 and the latest announcement from OpenAI's 12 Days of Shipmas, LLMs with vision an...

With Gemini 2.0, is Google So Back Baby?

Fri, 13 Dec 2024

NLW explores the latest announcements from Google, including Gemini 2.0, a set of new agents, and wh...

AI Agents and the Transforming Software Business Model

Thu, 12 Dec 2024

AI agents are reshaping the software business model, challenging traditional SaaS pricing with appro...

How Just Released Sora Stacks Up to Other AI Video Generators

Wed, 11 Dec 2024

Sora, OpenAI's video generator, has finally launched, promising new tools for creative expression. T...

How AI Job Replacement Will Actually Play Out

Tue, 10 Dec 2024

AI's impact on jobs is a hot topic, with companies like Microsoft, Finastra, and Klarna using AI to ...

What World Models Could Mean for AGI

Sun, 08 Dec 2024

World Labs and Google Genie 2 showed demos of so-called "World Models" this past week. In this episo...

The White House Gets an AI Czar

Sat, 07 Dec 2024

The White House officially appoints its first-ever AI and Crypto Czar: David Sacks. Announced by Pre...

Altman Says AGI Coming Faster Than We Think

Fri, 06 Dec 2024

Sam Altman shares bold predictions about AGI during the DealBook Summit, claiming it's coming sooner...

Amazon Gets In On AI Foundation Model Game with Nova

Thu, 05 Dec 2024

Amazon makes a major leap into the AI foundation model competition with the launch of Nova. Announce...

Amazon Hedging Anthropic Reliance?

Wed, 04 Dec 2024

Amazon is reportedly developing its foundation model, codenamed Olympus, which could significantly s...

OpenAI Debates Advertising

Wed, 04 Dec 2024

OpenAI's monetization approach may shift as discussions about introducing advertising gain traction....

Predictions on How AI Agents Will Actually Be Used

Mon, 02 Dec 2024

A reading and discussion inspired by https://time.com/7178872/agents-unlimited-age/ With prediction...

Who's Winning the AI Race

Fri, 29 Nov 2024

A year on from OpenAI's board debacle, a look at the state of the AI race -- from OpenAI to xAI to G...

Anthropic Has (Maybe) Solved a Holy Grail of Business AI

Thu, 28 Nov 2024

Anthropic’s latest update introduces customizable writing styles for Claude AI, offering the poten...

OpenAI Sora Has Leaked

Wed, 27 Nov 2024

OpenAI's long-awaited video generation model, Sora, has reportedly leaked, sparking debates across t...

With New Deal, Anthropic Becomes Even More Key to Amazon's AI Strategy

Tue, 26 Nov 2024

Amazon has doubled its AI strategy with another $4 billion investment in Anthropic, solidifying its ...

The Enterprise Opportunity in the "AI Slowdown"

Sun, 24 Nov 2024

There is a fair amount of discussion (and even some hand-wringing) around the idea of an LLM perform...

The 2024 State of Enterprise AI Report

Sat, 23 Nov 2024

Menlo Ventures' 2024 State of Enterprise AI Report reveals key insights into AI's transformative imp...

Self-Evolving LLMs

Fri, 22 Nov 2024

Could large language models (LLMs) continue improving after training? New innovations like test-time...

Study Finds 370% ROI for Enterprise Generative AI

Thu, 21 Nov 2024

A new study by IDC, commissioned by Microsoft, reveals generative AI delivers an average ROI of 370%...

The Best Take on AI and Hollywood is from Ben Affleck

Wed, 20 Nov 2024

Ben Affleck’s perspective on AI and Hollywood sparks a thoughtful discussion on creativity and ind...

How Close Are We to Self-Improving AI?

Tue, 19 Nov 2024

Anthropic’s AI outperforms OpenAI in a new AI research competition, sparking discussions about sel...

Why AI Agents Will Do for the Enterprise What RPA Never Could

Sun, 17 Nov 2024

A reading and discussion inspired by https://a16z.com/rip-to-rpa-the-rise-of-intelligent-automation/...

A Promising Alternative Way to Improve LLM Performance

Sat, 16 Nov 2024

Researchers at MIT share encouraging results around test-time training. NLW is joined by Google's No...

OpenAI Agent "Operator" Coming In January?

Fri, 15 Nov 2024

OpenAI is set to release its autonomous agent "Operator" in January, a tool that aims to execute tas...

DOGE and How AI Could Infiltrate the US Government

Thu, 14 Nov 2024

Explore the newly proposed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and its potential to transform...

Is AI Slowing Down?

Wed, 13 Nov 2024

Is AI development hitting a wall? Today’s episode explores reports that OpenAI’s Orion model, ex...

3 Takes On What Trump Means for AI

Mon, 11 Nov 2024

A reading and discussion inspired by: https://time.com/7174210/what-donald-trump-win-means-for-ai/ h...

AI Artwork Sells for $1M

Sun, 10 Nov 2024

An AI artwork by a humanoid robot has sold for $1M, plus Anthropic's Claude AI has entered the defen...

Meta's National Security Play and ChatGPT's 8-Figure Domain Acquisition

Sat, 09 Nov 2024

Meta's latest move positions its Llama AI models for national security applications, lifting restric...

The Implications of Trump's Win for AI

Thu, 07 Nov 2024

A reading and discussion inspired by https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/06/what-trumps-victory-could-mea...

Why AI Didn't Impact the 2024 Elections

Wed, 06 Nov 2024

The anticipated influence of AI on the 2024 elections turned out to be minimal, with few cases of AI...

OpenAI's o1 Accidentally Released

Tue, 05 Nov 2024

OpenAI’s O1 model accidentally becomes available, sparking insights into its advanced capabilities...

Who is the Better Candidate for AI?

Mon, 04 Nov 2024

A point-counterpoint of opeds about presidential candidates and AI. https://www.newsweek.com/donald...

ChatGPT Search and the AI Search Arms Race

Sun, 03 Nov 2024

The search industry is in the midst of a transformative period as OpenAI releases ChatGPT search. Th...

The 9 Most Important AI Stories from October

Fri, 01 Nov 2024

October saw major developments across the AI industry, from the White House prioritizing AI for nati...

More Than 1/4 of Google's Code Now Generated by AI

Thu, 31 Oct 2024

More than a quarter of Google’s new code is now generated by AI, signaling a major shift in softwa...

Apple Intelligence is Here, But Is It Any Good?

Wed, 30 Oct 2024

Apple Intelligence has officially launched with iOS 18, bringing features like system-wide writing t...

No GPT-5 This Year, But Maybe Gemini 2.0

Tue, 29 Oct 2024

OpenAI has clarified that no model codenamed "Orion" or GPT-5 will arrive this year, though Google i...

Hands on with Our Agentic Future

Mon, 28 Oct 2024

A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/when-you-give-a-claude-a-mouse...

GPT-5 Coming In December

Sat, 26 Oct 2024

Reports suggest OpenAI’s newest model, potentially named GPT-5 or "Orion," is expected by December...

xAI Releases AI API

Fri, 25 Oct 2024

xAI has officially launched an API, allowing developers to build on top of Grok models. With access ...

The Next Step in Our Journey to AI Agents: Anthropic's Computer Use

Thu, 24 Oct 2024

Anthropic unveils a new feature enabling AI to use computers like humans, marking a significant adva...

The AGI-Sized Hole in the Microsoft-OpenAI Partnership

Wed, 23 Oct 2024

Tensions rise between Microsoft and OpenAI as financial pressure and disagreements strain their part...

AI and the Looming Economic Challenge

Mon, 21 Oct 2024

A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/opinion/economy-us-aging-wor...

5 Business Uses for NotebookLM

Sat, 19 Oct 2024

NotebookLM gets a major upgrade with customizable audio overviews, unlocking a range of business use...

Amazon Joins Google and Microsoft in AI Nuclear Buildout

Fri, 18 Oct 2024

Amazon joins Google and Microsoft in a major push toward nuclear energy to meet AI’s growing power...

How AI Is Fundamentally Reshaping the Web

Thu, 17 Oct 2024

The New York Times issues a cease and desist to Perplexity AI, spotlighting how AI is fundamentally ...

Is AI Optimism In the Air?

Wed, 16 Oct 2024

Today's episode explores the growing shift toward AI optimism, highlighted by Anthropics CEO Dario A...

The AI Agent Era Begins

Sun, 13 Oct 2024

A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/generative-ais-act-o1/ Conce...

AI Wins Not One But Two Different Nobel Prizes

Fri, 11 Oct 2024

This week, Geoffrey Hinton and Dennis Hassabis won Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry for their g...

What Most Companies Will Get Wrong About AI At First

Thu, 10 Oct 2024

NLW joined Nationwide at their TechX event in Columbus, Ohio yesterday. On this episode, he gives po...

The Challenge of Enterprise AI Adoption

Wed, 09 Oct 2024

Enterprise AI adoption faces significant obstacles, from employees using AI without sharing discover...

Meta's New Movie Gen Model Could Change AI Video

Wed, 09 Oct 2024

Meta has unveiled its latest breakthrough in AI with MovieGen, a powerful new video generation model...

The AI Automation Blues [Featuring NotebookLM]

Mon, 07 Oct 2024

NLW does a Long Reads episode featuring a cameo from Google's NotebookLM. Discussion inspired by and...

GenAI is Being Adopted Faster than PCs or the Internet

Sat, 05 Oct 2024

Generative AI is being adopted faster than both PCs and the internet! A new study from the Harvard K...

OpenAI Closes Largest Venture Round of All Time

Fri, 04 Oct 2024

OpenAI closes the largest venture capital deal in history, raising $6.6 billion at a $157 billion va...

OpenAI's DevDay And A Preview Of Our Agentic Future

Thu, 03 Oct 2024

OpenAI’s second annual DevDay showcased a glimpse into the agentic future with powerful new tools ...

How AI Fits Into the Longshoreman Strike

Wed, 02 Oct 2024

The international longshoreman strike is set to disrupt the U.S. economy, and one of the central con...

Newsom Vetoes SB-1047, Sending Controversial AI Regulation Fight National

Tue, 01 Oct 2024

Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed SB-1047, a major bill that aimed to regulate AI development in Cali...

What’s Really Going on at OpenAI?

Sat, 28 Sep 2024

A series of executive exits at OpenAI has sparked questions about what’s happening within the comp...

Is Zuckerberg the New Jobs?

Fri, 27 Sep 2024

Meta’s Connect Developer Conference showcased the latest advancements in AI and AR, with a special...

A Manhattan Project for AI Infrastructure

Thu, 26 Sep 2024

Sam Altman and OpenAI have pitched the White House on an ambitious AI infrastructure plan, aiming to...

Prosperity and Promise in "The Intelligence Age”

Wed, 25 Sep 2024

Sam Altman’s latest essay, The Intelligence Age, has sparked widespread discussion with bold predi...

iPhone Designer Jony Ive and Sam Altman Working on AI iPhone Alternative

Tue, 24 Sep 2024

Jony Ive, the iconic designer behind Apple's iPhone, has teamed up with OpenAI's Sam Altman ...

Is the EU Doomed to Miss Out on AI?

Mon, 23 Sep 2024

A reading and discussion inspired by https://euneedsai.com/ Learn how to use AI with the world'...

OpenAI Raising $6.5B at $150B Valuation with $250M Minimum

Sat, 21 Sep 2024

OpenAI's latest funding round is set to raise $6.5 billion, with a valuation reaching $150 billi...

AI Video Comes to Hollywood and Youtube; Controversy Ensues

Fri, 20 Sep 2024

AI video is making waves in both Hollywood and YouTube, sparking excitement and controversy. Lionsga...

AI Agents -- The Latest Push from Microsoft and Salesforce

Thu, 19 Sep 2024

Microsoft and Salesforce are leading the charge with their latest AI agent offerings. Microsoft rece...

What Freedom Means In the Age of AI [feat. Venice.ai Founder Erik Voorhees]

Wed, 18 Sep 2024

In this episode, Venice AI co-founder Erik Voorhees joins the AI Daily Brief to discuss pressing iss...

From Cointelligence to Agent

Mon, 16 Sep 2024

A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/something-new-on-openais-straw...

How to Get The Most Out of ChatGPT's New o1 Model

Sat, 14 Sep 2024

OpenAI has just released its latest model, the o1, ushering in a new era for LLMs focused on advance...

Is AI Going to Eat SaaS?

Thu, 12 Sep 2024

Is generative AI about to disrupt the SaaS industry? Klarna’s recent decision to phase out Salesfo...

Apple Intelligence - Everything You Need to Know

Wed, 11 Sep 2024

Apple has officially unveiled “Apple Intelligence,” bringing generative AI capabilities to the i...

Why OpenAI's $2000/Month Model Isn't Crazy

Tue, 10 Sep 2024

...or at least not as crazy as it might seem. Rumors suggest OpenAI may introduce a $2,000/month su...

Dealing with AI's Sycophancy Problem

Mon, 09 Sep 2024

A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.cio.com/article/3499245/so-you-agree-ai-has-a-sycop...

What TIME's AI100 List Says About the State of AI

Sat, 07 Sep 2024

Breaking down TIME’s AI100 list, which highlights the most influential people shaping AI today. Fr...

Multibillion Dollar AI Infrastructure Build Out Coming to the US

Fri, 06 Sep 2024

Sam Altman’s ambitious AI infrastructure buildout is taking shape, starting in the U.S. This episo...

Ilya Sutskever Raises $1B for Safe Superintelligence

Thu, 05 Sep 2024

Former OpenAI founder Ilya Sutskever recently announced his new company Safe Superintelligence. Now ...

67% of Enterprises Scaling Generative AI Pilots

Wed, 04 Sep 2024

Deloitte has released its latest “State of AI in the Enterprise” report, highlighting that 67% o...

What Happens After the Homework Apocalypse?

Mon, 02 Sep 2024

A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/post-apocalyptic-education Co...

US Gov't to Get Advanced Access to OpenAI, Anthropic Models

Sat, 31 Aug 2024

OpenAI and Anthropic have reached agreements with the US government to share their advanced AI model...

What Nvidia's Stock Says About the State of AI

Fri, 30 Aug 2024

Nvidia beats Wall Street expectations yet sees its stock drop—what does this say about the state o...

5 Questions Shaping the Near Future of GenAI

Thu, 29 Aug 2024

Exploring the five critical questions that are shaping the near-term future of generative AI. From t...

OpenAI's Next Big Model is Called Orion

Wed, 28 Aug 2024

In this episode, explore the latest developments at OpenAI, including the upcoming AI model codename...

10 Observations About the Top 100 AI Apps

Tue, 27 Aug 2024

Explore the latest trends in consumer AI apps with an in-depth analysis of the top 100 AI apps, base...

The Debate About and Consequences of AI Regulation

Sun, 25 Aug 2024

A reading and discussion inspired by: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/08/22/regulators-are-fo...

The 5 Most Important Stories in AI This Week

Sat, 24 Aug 2024

Covering the five most significant stories in AI this week. Major product releases like MidJourney’...

For the Hyperscalers, There's No Such Thing as "Spending Too Much on AI"

Fri, 23 Aug 2024

NLW discusses the commoditization of LLMs and reflects on a new essay from VC Sarah Tavel about the ...

473.5% Increase in Fortune 500's Citing AI as a Business Risk

Wed, 21 Aug 2024

A recent report reveals a 473.5% increase in Fortune 500 companies citing AI as a business risk in t...

The Next Phase of Generative AI Adoption

Wed, 21 Aug 2024

Generative AI is entering a new phase of adoption, with companies shifting from employee experimenta...

Nancy Pelosi Urges SB1047 Veto

Tue, 20 Aug 2024

Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has voiced opposition to California’s controversial AI Bi...

Why We Shouldn't Fear AI

Sun, 18 Aug 2024

A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/07/31/opinion/ai-fears...

The Controversy Surrounding Elon Musk's New Image Generation AI

Fri, 16 Aug 2024

Elon Musk’s latest AI model, Grok 2, has stirred up significant controversy, especially around its...

Google Beats OpenAI to Full Voice Mode Release

Thu, 15 Aug 2024

Google has taken a significant step ahead of OpenAI with the full release of Gemini Live, a cutting-...

Financial Data Shows Business AI Usage is Way Up

Wed, 14 Aug 2024

NLW covers a recent study from Ramp that uses proprietary card spend data to show how usage of AI is...

A New OpenAI Model Coming?

Tue, 13 Aug 2024

Rumors are swirling around OpenAI’s potential release of a new advanced reasoning model, codenamed...

AI and How To Plan for Unknowable Futures

Mon, 12 Aug 2024

A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/confronting-impossible-futures...

The Most Important Events in Open vs. Closed AI

Sat, 10 Aug 2024

NLW is joined by Venice Co-Founder Teana Baker-Taylor to discuss the most important recent events re...

SB1047: The World's Most Important and Problematic AI Policy Debate

Fri, 09 Aug 2024

Join the conversation on California’s controversial AI legislation, SB 1047. Explore the heated de...

The Latest in AI + Humanoid Robots

Thu, 08 Aug 2024

NLW looks at the Figure 02 launch and the latest competition in humanoid robots. Plus rumors of a ne...

OpenAI Has More High Profile Executive Departures

Wed, 07 Aug 2024

OpenAI faces a series of high-profile executive departures, raising questions about the company’s ...

Point-Counterpoint on Open Source AI

Tue, 06 Aug 2024

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: Friday August 2nd On today's episode, NLW reads a point counterpoint on op...

Another AI Sorta Acquisition as Character AI Founders Head (Back) to Google"

Mon, 05 Aug 2024

Inflection, Adept and now Character. All have been sorta-but-not-exactly acquired. NLW explores the ...

The Picks and Shovels Businesses Quietly Driving the AI Build Out

Thu, 01 Aug 2024

Explore the unsung heroes behind the AI revolution: the businesses providing essential infrastructur...

ChatGPT Launches Voice, Midjourney Launches 6.1

Thu, 01 Aug 2024

Explore the latest in AI advancements as OpenAI rolls out voice mode for ChatGPT, and MidJourney rel...

Canva Acquires Leonardo - Is a Wave of AI M&A Coming?

Wed, 31 Jul 2024

Canva has acquired AI image generation company Leonardo, marking its second major acquisition this y...

Report: Apple Delays Release of AI Features

Tue, 30 Jul 2024

Bloomberg is reporting that Apple Intelligence will roll out in October, weeks after the launch of i...

Zuckerberg on Why Open Source AI is the Path Forward

Sat, 27 Jul 2024

Mark Zuckerberg shares why open source AI is the future. Explore Meta’s recent release of the LLAM...

OpenAI's Potential $5B Hole

Fri, 26 Jul 2024

Examine the recent report from The Information on OpenAI’s capital expenditures, suggesting it cou...

What the Senate Wants to Know About OpenAI

Thu, 25 Jul 2024

A group of 5 Senators sent a letter to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman asking for more information about a sla...

Llama 3.1 405B Eliminates Gap Between Open and Closed Source AI

Wed, 24 Jul 2024

According to the earliest benchmarks, the newly released Llama 3.1 405B has almost entirely (if not ...

GPT-4o Mini and the Rise of Smaller, Low Cost AI Models

Mon, 22 Jul 2024

OpenAI released GPT-4o Mini this week. It's both more powerful and 60% cheaper than GPT-3.5. In ...

Elon Turns On "Most Powerful AI Training Cluster In the World"

Mon, 22 Jul 2024

At 4:20am, Elon Musk turned on the Memphis Supercluster to begin training what he claims will be the...

AI and the Necessary Transformation of Education

Sun, 21 Jul 2024

A reading and discussion inspired by https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-what-teachers-call-ai-cheat...

A Draft Republican Exec Order Calls for AI "Manhattan Projects"

Thu, 18 Jul 2024

NLW covers reporting about a draft Republican AI executive order. Also, Menlo Ventures and Anthropic...

Why Republican VP Nominee JD Vance is Loudly For Open Source AI

Wed, 17 Jul 2024

NLW covers the pro-open source AI statements of JD Vance and situates his previous VC career. Before...

OpenAI's Q* Reasoning AI is Now Code-Named "Strawberry"

Tue, 16 Jul 2024

Discover OpenAI’s latest breakthrough with the newly announced reasoning AI, code-named “Strawbe...

AI Is The Fastest Adopted Work Tech Ever, But Still Not Fast Enough for Some

Sat, 13 Jul 2024

Explore why AI is the fastest adopted work tech ever, yet still not fast enough for some. A nuanced ...

OpenAI's New System for Determining How Close AGI Is

Fri, 12 Jul 2024

OpenAI introduces a new leveling system to track the progress towards AGI. Learn about the five stag...

Marc Andreessen Gives a Meme-Obsessed AI Agent $50k in BTC

Thu, 11 Jul 2024

In one of the wilder stories we've had here at The AI Daily Brief for some time, NLW covers the ...

Goldman Sachs Is Wrong About AI (Why AI Isn't A Bubble)

Wed, 10 Jul 2024

Recently, Goldman Sachs made waves in the AI space with their report "Gen AI: too much spend, t...

What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About Sequoia's $600B AI Gap Argument

Wed, 10 Jul 2024

Sequoia recently published a blog post about AI's $600B problem. The piece has been used as evid...

Can AI Keep Propping Up the Stock Market?

Mon, 08 Jul 2024

NLW covers recent comments by Fed Chair Jerome Powell on AI; a shifting narrative around AI and stoc...

How AI Could Accelerate Digital Nations

Sun, 07 Jul 2024

A reading of Balaji's 2013 ""How Software is Reorganizing the World" with a discu...

Privacy, Censorship and AI: A Conversation with Venice.ai

Fri, 05 Jul 2024

On this holiday weekend bonus episode, NLW is joined by Erik Voorhees and Teana Baker-Taylor of Veni...

Apple is Getting an OpenAI Board Observer Seat

Thu, 04 Jul 2024

Plus, Figma pulls its AI after claims it produces results too close to existing apps. NLW covers all...

Will AI Acqui-hires Avoid Antitrust Scrutiny?

Tue, 02 Jul 2024

Amazon bought Adept...sort of. Just like Microsoft soft of bought Inflect. NLW explores the new big ...

AI and Autonomous Weapons

Mon, 01 Jul 2024

A reading and discussion inspired by: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/25/ai-weapon-u...

The Most Important AI Product Launches This Week

Fri, 28 Jun 2024

The productization era of AI is in full effect as companies compete not only for the most innovative...

7 Observations From the AI Engineer World's Fair

Fri, 28 Jun 2024

Dive into the latest insights from the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco. This event, tout...

What OpenAI's RecentAcquisitions Tell Us About Their Strategy

Wed, 26 Jun 2024

OpenAI has made significant moves with their recent acquisitions of Rockset and Multi, signaling the...

The Record Labels Are Coming for Suno and Udio

Tue, 25 Jun 2024

In a major lawsuit, the record industry sued AI music generators SUNO and Udio for copyright infring...

Apple Intelligence Powered by…Meta?

Tue, 25 Jun 2024

Apple is in talks with Meta for a potential AI partnership, which could significantly shift their co...

Early Uses for Anthropic's Claude 3.5 and Artifacts

Fri, 21 Jun 2024

Anthropic has launched the latest model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and a new feature called artifacts. Clau...

Ilya Sutskever is Back Building Safe Superintelligence

Thu, 20 Jun 2024

After months of speculation, Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI, has launched Safe Superintelligen...

Nvidia Becomes World's Biggest Company: Bubble or Destiny?

Wed, 19 Jun 2024

Nvidia has ridden the AI wave all the way to the top of the public markets, exceeding the market cap...

What Runway Gen-3 and Luma Say About the State of AI

Tue, 18 Jun 2024

Explore the latest in AI video technology with Runway Gen-3 and Luma Labs Dream Machine. From the ad...

Just How Different is Apple's AI Strategy?

Mon, 17 Jun 2024

A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-apples-ai-tells-us-experi...

The Top 5 AI Stories This Week

Fri, 14 Jun 2024

Counting down the top 5 AI stories of the week, from AI candidates running for political office to A...

Meet the AI Avatars Running for Elected Office

Fri, 14 Jun 2024

In Wyoming, an AI avatar is running for mayor. In the UK, one is running for Parliament. Are imparti...

AI Makes Apple World's Most Valuable Company Again

Thu, 13 Jun 2024

Apple’s recent AI strategy announcement has catapulted them back to being the world’s most valua...

Can Apple Intelligence Actually Protect Your Privacy?

Tue, 11 Jun 2024

Apple’s recent AI strategy announcement at WWDC 2024 has sparked discussions about the balance bet...

7 Takeaways from Apple's AI Announcement at WWDC

Tue, 11 Jun 2024

Apple made its much-awaited announcement about AI today. NLW covers everything that was said, and ho...

The Danger of an AI Counterreaction

Sat, 08 Jun 2024

A reading and discussion inspired by https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1797635177973158182 ** Join Su...

How US Antitrust Investigations Into Nvidia, OpenAI and MSFT Could Make Things Worse Not Better

Fri, 07 Jun 2024

The U.S. government is investigating Nvidia, OpenAI, and Microsoft for potential antitrust violation...

Do AI Lab Employees Have a "Right to Warn" The Public About AGI Risk?

Thu, 06 Jun 2024

Dive into the latest controversy in the AI world as current and former employees of AI labs call for...

Is the AI Revolution Losing Steam?

Mon, 03 Jun 2024

That's the argument in a new WSJ piece: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-ai-revolution-is-already-los...

Dueling Letters from the OpenAI Board

Sun, 02 Jun 2024

This week, the Economist posted two letters from current and former members of the OpenAI board. Whi...

How Disinformation Agents Are Using ChatGPT

Fri, 31 May 2024

Dive into today’s AI Daily Brief Headlines Edition to explore how disinformation agents are using ...

The "Most Influential" AI Companies

Fri, 31 May 2024

Explore the AI companies featured on Time’s 100 Most Influential Companies list. This video review...

What Actually Matters with the Latest OpenAI Controversy

Wed, 29 May 2024

The OpenAI controversy continues to dominate headlines, with recent comments from former board membe...

AI Competition Heats Up as xAI Closes Biggest Series B of All Time

Wed, 29 May 2024

Today’s extended headlines edition covers the massive Series B round completed by Elon Musk’s xA...

The Big Shift in AI Safety Discourse

Fri, 24 May 2024

A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-05-21/ai-safety...

Anthropic Begins to Unlock the Mystery of LLMs

Fri, 24 May 2024

Anthropic’s new research brings us closer to understanding the inner workings of LLMs. By identify...

After Rough Launch, is Humane AI Pin Looking to Sell?

Thu, 23 May 2024

AI wearables are facing scrutiny as reports suggest that Humane, the company behind the AI Pin, is n...

Scarlett Johansson vs. OpenAI

Wed, 22 May 2024

OpenAI is facing controversy after Scarlett Johansson claimed they used a voice eerily similar to he...

5 Things to Watch at Microsoft Build

Mon, 20 May 2024

Will OpenAI and Google's events in the books, NLW looks at what he's watching for with Microsoft's B...

95 Theses on AI Safety

Sun, 19 May 2024

A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.secondbest.ca/p/ninety-five-theses-on-ai ** Join Su...

The Significance of Ilya Sutskever Leaving OpenAI

Sat, 18 May 2024

OpenAI’s chief scientist and co-founder Ilya Sutskever has left the company, sparking widespread s...

Senators Debut a New US AI Roadmap

Fri, 17 May 2024

...and lots of people -- particularly on the AI safety side of things -- aren't happy about it. NLW ...

Who Won the Week: Google or OpenAI?

Wed, 15 May 2024

Explore the recent AI announcements from OpenAI and Google, comparing their new products and innovat...

7 Use Cases for GPT-4o

Tue, 14 May 2024

Explore seven innovative uses for OpenAI’s new GPT-4o model, a natively multimodal model capable o...

Why OpenAI's Announcement Was A Bigger Deal Than People Think

Tue, 14 May 2024

This episode dives into OpenAI's recent product event, unpacking the key takeaways and why it might ...

We're Thinking About AI Adoption Completely Wrong

Sat, 11 May 2024

This episode challenges the traditional top-down view of enterprise AI adoption. The show highlights...

Microsoft's Top Secret AI for Spy Agencies

Thu, 09 May 2024

Microsoft unveils a new top-secret AI system designed for US intelligence agencies. This video explo...

The gpt2 Chatbot is Back as OpenAI Talks Data

Thu, 09 May 2024

Today on The AI Daily Brief, NLW looks at expanded restrictions the White House is considering to de...

With MAI-1, Is Microsoft Trying to Compete with OpenAI?

Wed, 08 May 2024

Microsoft is training a 500B parameter model. It's caused huge speculation that the company is tryin...

How Worried About AI Should Professionals Be?

Sat, 04 May 2024

A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/29/ai-professio...

RUMOR: Is ChatGPT About to Launch Search?

Fri, 03 May 2024

Plus Nick Bostrom on what if AI fixes everything? ** ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps ...

Anthropic Launches iOS App and Teams as Altman Says He'd Burn $50B a Year to Get to AGI

Thu, 02 May 2024

Busy day in the world of leading LLM labs. Anthropic announced a much anticipated iOS app, as well a...

Biden's AI Executive Order, 6 Months Later

Thu, 02 May 2024

Six months after the Biden administration issued a historic executive order on artificial intelligen...

Is Mysterious GPT2-Chatbot Actually GPT5?

Wed, 01 May 2024

Explore the buzz surrounding a mysterious AI model dubbed "GPT-2 Chatbot" recently spotted on a benc...

Why Everyone is Angry About the AI Safety Board

Tue, 30 Apr 2024

Explore the widespread backlash against the newly established Artificial Intelligence Safety and Sec...

AI Doesn't Have to Automate Away All the Jobs

Sat, 27 Apr 2024

A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/19/artificial-i...

Does xAI's $6B Raise for Grok Make Sense?

Fri, 26 Apr 2024

Explore the strategic reasoning behind X AI's massive $6 billion fundraising effort in this episode ...

How Moderna's ChatGPT Use Shows the Future of Corporate AI

Fri, 26 Apr 2024

Moderna's integration of ChatGPT across its entire organization marks a significant shift in corpora...

What Perplexity's Raise Says About the State of AI Hype

Thu, 25 Apr 2024

Explore the implications of Perplexity's recent valuation surge in today's episode of AI Breakdown. ...

A Preview of the AI Agent Future

Tue, 23 Apr 2024

Explore the rapidly evolving world of AI agents in this episode of AI Breakdown. Discover how Micros...

Tucker Carlson Says We Should Bomb the Data Centers and Kill AI Before It's Too Late

Mon, 22 Apr 2024

Some dramatic discourse from the former Fox journalist, plus Drake uses AI Snoop and Tupac in a diss...

Will Big Tech's AI Needs Solve Energy Issues?

Sat, 20 Apr 2024

A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.ft.com/content/8af1f467-2953-4cbc-a336-4c92c92e6792...

Boston Dynamics Shows Next Frontier in Robotics

Fri, 19 Apr 2024

Boston Dynamics has unveiled a new version of their Atlas robot, showcasing advanced mobility with u...

Llama 3 Is Here (And Seemingly Better Than Expected)

Thu, 18 Apr 2024

Meta has released the first of its Llama 3 models, enhancing the landscape of open-source large lang...

The State of AI In 13 Stats

Wed, 17 Apr 2024

Today's episode explores the state of artificial intelligence through Stanford University's AI Index...

Microsoft's $1.5B AI Geopolitical Gambit in the UAE

Tue, 16 Apr 2024

Microsoft's $1.5 billion investment in UAE-based AI company G42 represents a strategic geopolitical ...

AI Wearables: Is There a There There?

Mon, 15 Apr 2024

Critiques of Humane, a new launch from Limitless (i.e. Rewind), plus Meta is (supposedly) sharing tw...

What AI Is Capable Of Today

Sat, 13 Apr 2024

A discussion inspired by https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-just-happened-what-is-happening ** CH...

Game of Thrones, but for AI Chips

Fri, 12 Apr 2024

Apple's unveiling of the M4 chip aims to rejuvenate its Mac lineup with enhanced AI capabilities, fo...

The 5 Important AI Models Released This Week

Thu, 11 Apr 2024

This week witnessed the introduction of five notable AI models, highlighting the field's swift advan...

Al Is The Biggest Work Disruption Of Our Lifetimes

Thu, 11 Apr 2024

AI's impact on the workforce is substantial, with executives predicting that up to 60% of jobs could...

8 Questions on the Future of AI

Tue, 09 Apr 2024

Inspired by a recent essay by Niall Ferguson, NLW discusses 8 questions on the future of AI. https:...

The Ethical Gray Area of AI Labs and Data

Mon, 08 Apr 2024

The New York Times alleges AI companies, including OpenAI and Google, may bypass their own policies ...

Can AI Help Restore the Middle Class?

Sat, 06 Apr 2024

A reading and discussion inspired by: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2024/04/04/call-a...

Debating GPT-4 Reduced Conspiracy Theories

Fri, 05 Apr 2024

A study by MIT and Cornell showed that debating with GPT-4 reduced believers' confidence in conspira...

30% of Young Americans Have Used ChatGPT at Work

Wed, 03 Apr 2024

A new survey shows that genAI is being adopted in a work context faster than for entertainment or le...

The Most Important AI Stories Last Week

Tue, 02 Apr 2024

On today's episode, NLW catches up on the big stories over the last week, including Grok 1.5, OpenAI...

How to Redesign Organizations for the AI Era

Sat, 30 Mar 2024

A reading and discussion based on https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/reshaping-the-tree-rebuilding-org...

What AI Developers Are Building Next, with Swyx and Alessio of Latent Space

Fri, 29 Mar 2024

NLW is back with Part 2 of his conversation with the hosts of Latent Space. In this segment they hon...

The Four Wars of the AI Stack - An Update with Swyx and Alessio of Latent Space

Thu, 28 Mar 2024

NLW is joined today by the hosts of the Latent Space podcast for part one of a wide-ranging conversa...

A Report from the AI Frontlines with The Neuron's Pete Huang

Wed, 27 Mar 2024

In this conversation, NLW talks with The Neuron co-founder Pete Huang. They discuss Pete's recent ti...

How Businesses Are Using AI Right Now with Greg Kamradt

Tue, 26 Mar 2024

There is a huge amount of discussion about AI, but is it actually translating to new behaviors insid...

How AI Is Shifting with Nathan Labenz

Mon, 25 Mar 2024

A wide-ranging conversation with host of The Cognitive Revolution and AI multi-threat Nathan Labenz....

Why Boring AI is Driving Adoption

Sun, 24 Mar 2024

NLW builds off an essay by Ethan Mollick https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/in-praise-of-boring-ai He ...

The 5 Most Important Stories in AI This Week

Fri, 22 Mar 2024

Top 5 AI Stories This Week: Open Interpreter's new device, Reddit's AI-driven IPO, Apple's AI shifts...

U.S. Gov't Grants Intel $8.5B for AI Chip Production

Thu, 21 Mar 2024

Intel secures a preliminary deal with the U.S. government for up to $8.5 billion in Chips Act fundin...

Bye Bye Pi? Inflection CEO and Team Head to Microsoft

Thu, 21 Mar 2024

Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Inflection AI, moves to Microsoft as the new CEO of Microsoft AI, le...

Nvidia’s Blackwell is Radically More Powerful AI Compute

Tue, 19 Mar 2024

Nvidia's new Blackwell GPU announced at the GTC conference revolutionizes AI computing with unmatche...

Wait, Apple is Putting Google Gemini AI on iPhones?!

Mon, 18 Mar 2024

Apple is negotiating with Google to integrate Gemini AI into iPhone features, signaling a major stra...

The AI Revolution Through an Economic Lens

Sun, 17 Mar 2024

A reading and discussion based on Per Bylund's "The Economics of the AI Revolution" https://mises.or...

Should AI Gains Mean a 32-Hour Workweek?

Fri, 15 Mar 2024

According to new legislation from Bernie Sanders, the answer is yes. Also on this episode, Apple buy...

ChatGPT Gets a Body with the Figure 01 Robot

Thu, 14 Mar 2024

A wild demo has the world talking about AI and robotics. Plus, Google has a new AI agent called SIMA...

GPT-4.5 - Does a Cached Announcement Blog Prove It’s Coming?

Thu, 14 Mar 2024

NLW gives the update on the EU AI Act, and why multiple parties don't love where it landed. Also, do...

A New AI Safety Report (and Why the Media Loves the AI Extinction Narrative)

Wed, 13 Mar 2024

US-funded report sparks media frenzy, advocating for drastic AI measures. Unpacking the actual conte...

The Questions That Remain Around OpenAI's Board

Mon, 11 Mar 2024

Elon Musk's latest attempt to differentiate from OpenAI is that he's promised to open source Grok th...

Does AI Have a Capital Concentration Problem?

Sun, 10 Mar 2024

A reading and discussion based off of this essay by Tim O'Reilly https://www.theinformation.com/arti...

Inflection-2.5 Is a "Personal" AI at Near GPT-4 Levels

Fri, 08 Mar 2024

Plus President Joe Biden talks AI at the State of the Union. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdow...

Google Engineer Arrested for Selling AI Secrets to Chinese Companies

Thu, 07 Mar 2024

A former Google engineer has been arrested for allegedly sharing AI secrets with Chinese companies. ...

OpenAI Publishes Emails Showing Elon Pushed For-Profit Conversion

Wed, 06 Mar 2024

OpenAI has clapped back after Elon Musk sued them, publishing a set of emails that make it appear li...

Elon Musk Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman

Tue, 05 Mar 2024

Elon Musk has initiated legal action against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, alleging deviation from...

5 Things To Know About Claude 3 - Anthropic’s Would-Be GPT-4 Killer

Tue, 05 Mar 2024

Anthropic has just released Claude 3, and according to the benchmarks, it's GPT-4 level and then som...

AI's Threat to History

Mon, 04 Mar 2024

A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/opinion/ai-history-deepfake-...

AI Is Transforming How We Interact With Computers

Sat, 02 Mar 2024

A reading and discussion of the changing nature of the relationship between humans and computers, in...

The 10 Biggest AI News Stories of the Past Month

Fri, 01 Mar 2024

From Sora to Nvidia's stock surge to Mistral and Microsoft to controversy around Gemini and beyond, ...

REPORT: Llama 3 Coming in July (with Fewer Guardrails)

Thu, 29 Feb 2024

The Information reports that Meta's most advanced model Llama 3 will be arriving in July, and will s...

Work Disruption? Klarna's AI Assistant Does Work of 700 Full Time Agents

Wed, 28 Feb 2024

Klarna's new AI chatbot, powered by OpenAI, has showcased impressive capabilities in its first month...

Bing’s Sydney is Back, Unhinged and Very Unaligned

Tue, 27 Feb 2024

While everyone has been watching the Gemini controversy (which wiped about $70B off of Alphabet/Goog...

Mistral Launches Close-to-GPT-4-Level Model with Microsoft Partnership

Mon, 26 Feb 2024

The model is proprietary rather than the open source Mistral has become known for. Also, a monster f...

Google Gemini Anti-Woke Backlash: Culture War or AI Fear?

Sun, 25 Feb 2024

Dive into the recent controversy surrounding Google Gemini's image generation. This discussion unrav...

The Next Phase of Generative AI

Sat, 24 Feb 2024

NLW argues that another phase of expectation in genAI has begun thanks to Groq, Sora, and Gemini Pro...

After Seeing OpenAI’s Sora, Tyler Perry Cancelled Building an $800m Studio

Sat, 24 Feb 2024

Discover how OpenAI's groundbreaking Sora video model impacted Hollywood, leading Tyler Perry to rec...

Why Nvidia's Earnings Show AI is Still Just Beginning

Thu, 22 Feb 2024

After smashing earnings once again, Nvidia rocketed up 15% and now has a bigger market cap than Meta...

Is Elon Musk Bringing Midjourney to X?

Wed, 21 Feb 2024

Elon says they're having discussions with the Midjourney team. Meanwhile, Google introduces its firs...

Groq is 10x Faster than ChatGPT and Gemini

Tue, 20 Feb 2024

Alongside Gemini 1.5's massive new context window, and Sora's mindblowing video generation, Groq has...

Why Are People So Scared of Sora?

Mon, 19 Feb 2024

NLW discusses the rise in anti-AI sentiment that seems to have followed the public announcement of O...

The Science Behind Sora, OpenAI's Game Changing Video Model

Sun, 18 Feb 2024

On today's episode NLW digs into the recently published research on OpenAI's Sora. Read more: https...

The Surprising Way AI Will Make Us Value "Soft Skills"

Sat, 17 Feb 2024

A reading and discussion of https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/14/opinion/ai-economy-jobs-colleges.html...

OpenAI's Stunning New Video Model SORA Shocks the AI World

Fri, 16 Feb 2024

Welp, they've done it again. On a day when it was supposed to be all about Google's million+ token l...

Google Launches Gemini 1.5 with ONE MILLION Token Context Window

Thu, 15 Feb 2024

Google surprises everyone with a massive context window on their new Gemini 1.5 model. Speaking of h...

Karpathy Leaves OpenAI as OpenAI Launches Memory for ChatGPT

Wed, 14 Feb 2024

OpenAI makes headlines with Andrej Karpathy's departure and the launch of a groundbreaking memory fe...

OpenAI Hits $2B Revenue Run Rate

Tue, 13 Feb 2024

OpenAI is growing even faster than we knew, according to new numbers shared with the Financial Times...

Nvidia Surges Past Amazon's Market Cap and is Creeping on Google

Mon, 12 Feb 2024

AI hype continues to drive results in the market. Also on this episode, Google is investing $25m int...

Is Ukraine the First "AI War"?

Sun, 11 Feb 2024

Ukraine has become a testing lab for advanced AI integrations into combat operations. ABOUT THE AI ...

Why the Impact of AI Will Be Even Weirder Than We Think

Sat, 10 Feb 2024

A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/on-holding-back-the-strange-ai...

Sam Altman Wants to Raise $5-$7 TRILLION for AI Chip Plants

Sat, 10 Feb 2024

WSJ writes about an incredibly ambitious plan to transform the landscape for compute. Additionally, ...

OpenAI Building AI Agents as Google Launches Gemini Advanced

Thu, 08 Feb 2024

Bard is no more! Bard has become Gemini and Gemini now features Gemini Advanced, which uses Gemini U...

AI is Personal: On Microsoft's Copilot Super Bowl Ad

Wed, 07 Feb 2024

Microsoft has released a 60-second Super Bowl commercial focused on their AI Copilot. NLW explores h...

AI Unlocks Ancient Greek Scrolls Destroyed by Mt Vesuvius

Tue, 06 Feb 2024

The Vesuvius Challenge is a $1m prize to use AI to decipher text seemingly lost on ancient Greek pap...

LEAK: Google Gemini Ultra Coming This Week?

Mon, 05 Feb 2024

According to a changelog found by an Android developer, Google Ultra is coming out on Wednesday, and...

How AI Will Change Organized Labor

Sat, 03 Feb 2024

A reading and discussion of an essay by one of Biden's most senior economic advisors. https://financ...

Tim Cook Is FINALLY Hyping Apple AI

Fri, 02 Feb 2024

Apple AI is coming this fall! At least according to a recent earnings call with CEO Tim Cook. Also, ...

The FCC Wants AI Robocalls to Be Illegal

Thu, 01 Feb 2024

On this extended brief, NLW covers: the FCC's new push to make AI robocalls illegal; VW's new AI lab...

These Are the Most Used AI Applications

Wed, 31 Jan 2024

A new study has some surprising results for which AI applications are being the most used. Plus, is ...

OpenAI Launches Education and Safety Initiative

Tue, 30 Jan 2024

OpenAI has launched an education and safety initiative with Common Sense Media. Also, Biden's Execut...

US Gov't Says AI Labs Need to Notify Them Around LLM Training

Tue, 30 Jan 2024

NLW looks at recent comments from Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo about an LLM disclosure regime...

Train Humans, Not AI

Sat, 27 Jan 2024

A discussion prompted by Esther Dyson's new essay "Don’t Fuss About Training AIs. Train Our Kids" ...

Google and HuggingFace Partner in Boost to Open Source AI

Fri, 26 Jan 2024

A new partnership between Google Cloud and the 'Github for AI/ML models' team up to make open source...

Can Viral NSFW Taylor Swift AI Images Make Deepfake Issues Go Mainstream?

Thu, 25 Jan 2024

If anyone can make AI deepfakes a mainstream issue it's Taylor Swift. Plus geopolitical competition ...

Google’s Announcements Show 2 Key 2024 AI Trends

Wed, 24 Jan 2024

Google Chrome announces 3 AI features for Chrome as well as an innovative new Video generation tool ...

The Surprising Reason AI Won't Steal Your Job

Tue, 23 Jan 2024

A recent MIT study explored how cost effective automation really was and found that only 23% of jobs...

Sam Altman's Secret Quest to Build AI Chip Plants

Mon, 22 Jan 2024

Bloomberg and FT report on Sam Altman's latest efforts to raise billions to build more AI chip manuf...

An Optimistic Take on AI and Inequality

Sat, 20 Jan 2024

A reading and discussion based on "For all our fear of AI dystopia, it may help to level up society"...

Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Make Open Source AGI

Fri, 19 Jan 2024

Other revelations from an Instagram reel include that Meta will have around $20B worth of compute by...

Google's AlphaGeometry Breakthrough

Fri, 19 Jan 2024

A massive improvement in how AI can reason around geometry plus Samsung releases the AI-est AI phone...

Altman Says AGI Soon, But Will Change the World Less Than We Think

Wed, 17 Jan 2024

Sam Altman is among the business and political leaders descending upon Davos for the World Economic ...

60% of US Jobs Could Be Impacted by AI

Tue, 16 Jan 2024

That's according to new research from the IMF. NLW also covers Elon wanting more control before buil...

The Four Wars of the AI Stack: The Battles Shaping the Development of AI

Sun, 14 Jan 2024

The wars include the Quality Data Wars, the War of the GPU Rich/Poor, the Multimodality War, the RAG...

The Things We Know About AI So Far

Sat, 13 Jan 2024

A reading and exploration of: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/signs-and-portents ABOUT THE AI BREAK...

The AI Assistant and Agent Battle Heats Up

Sat, 13 Jan 2024

Note: This episode was produced on Wednesday January 10th, but due to an ice storm never came out! A...

What an OpenAI AMA Tells Us About the Future of GPTs and the GPT Store

Fri, 12 Jan 2024

Plus a new Congressional working group focused on AI. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps...

The GPT Store is LIVE! (But Does Anyone Care?)

Thu, 11 Jan 2024

After a couple months of anticipation and more than 3 million user created GPTs, the GPT store has o...

Duolingo Replaces 10% of Contractors With AI

Wed, 10 Jan 2024

Plus OpenAI claps back at the New York Times copyright lawsuit. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Break...

Andrej Karpathy Tries to Rebrand AI

Mon, 08 Jan 2024

Is "Intelligence Amplification" a better term? Plus, Nvidia prepares to manufacture new chips for th...

What Roles Should Government Play in AI?

Sat, 06 Jan 2024

A reading of two essays that explore this question with very different answers. https://www.newswee...

5 Predictions for the GPT Store Coming Next Week

Fri, 05 Jan 2024

OpenAI announced the GPT Store is finally launching next week. NLW gives 5 predictions on how it wil...

AI Researchers Put Risk of Human Extinction from AI at 5%

Thu, 04 Jan 2024

A new survey asked 2,700+ AI/ML researchers about their fears concerning AI. This is how they respon...

Is AI Headed for a Trough of Disillusionment?

Wed, 03 Jan 2024

After the peak of inflated expectations comes the trough of disillusionment. After a dismal outing o...

The State of AI in 2024

Tue, 02 Jan 2024

NLW breaks down the industry as 2024 begins, from policy to AI safety to the state of the art in tec...

How AI Will Impact Jobs in 2024

Fri, 29 Dec 2023

NLW looks across a range of studies, surveys and predictions to try to parse out what the real impac...

New York Times Sues OpenAI In What Could Be A Landmark Lawsuit

Thu, 28 Dec 2023

The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft. While it's not the first copyright suit of its typ...

Testing Suno.ai: The Viral AI Music Generator

Sun, 24 Dec 2023

NLW looks at the state of AI music generators and gives the new Suno.ai a test run for the holidays....

8 Predictions for AI in 2024

Sat, 23 Dec 2023

NLW reviews one set of predictions as a way of discussing what's coming next in AI. Built off of ht...

The 10 Biggest AI Events of 2023

Fri, 22 Dec 2023

NLW builds off of this list of the 10 biggest events of AI of 2023 to do a yearly recap! Interested...

Anthropic Raising Another $750M at $15B-$20B Valuation

Fri, 22 Dec 2023

Anthropic is raising money again. Also on this episode, a new poll suggests Americans want more gove...

GPT-Engineer Launches App as Text-to-Code Platforms On the Rise

Wed, 20 Dec 2023

Between GPT-Engineer App and v0 by Vercel, there are a growing number of text to code platforms that...

The More Workers Use AI, The More They Fear for Their Jobs

Tue, 19 Dec 2023

A new study from CNBC shows that the American workers who use AI the most are the most scared of it ...

Will AI Girlfriends Destroy the Fabric of Society?

Mon, 18 Dec 2023

Digi's new AI girlfriend announcement went viral over the weekend, supercharging a conversation abou...

2024 Generative AI Trend: Moving Beyond Chat Interfaces

Sun, 17 Dec 2023

In today's episode, NLW explores how companies are increasingly combining natural language chat inte...

Can AI Be Regulated In A Way That Preserves Freedom?

Sat, 16 Dec 2023

A reading and discussion of a new piece by Zvi Mowshowitz https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2399849...

The Latest Developments in Superalignment

Fri, 15 Dec 2023

OpenAI's Superalignment team, launched this summer, has just published their first paper about weak-...

Is the GPT-4.5 "Leak" Real?

Thu, 14 Dec 2023

A pricing page for GPT-4.5 is flying around and everyone is trying to figure out if it's real. Also,...

Is ChatGPT Acting Lazy Because of the Holidays?

Wed, 13 Dec 2023

Believe it or not, there is some fairly good evidence that ChatGPT is acting lazy (i.e. returning sh...

AI Startups Are Having More Trouble Fundraising. Here's What It Means.

Tue, 12 Dec 2023

AI startups have run counter to the trend of decreased VC all year, but even they're now feeling the...

RUMOR: GPT-4.5 Coming Before EOY (Maybe Even This Week?)

Mon, 11 Dec 2023

NLW looks at rumors from some sources that have previously had OpenAI insider leaks that GPT-4.5 cou...

The Significance of Sam Altman as TIME CEO of the Year

Sun, 10 Dec 2023

When Taylor Swift was named TIME's Person of the Year, many in the AI space had questions. Apparentl...

China Drives D.C. to Be More AI Ambitious

Sat, 09 Dec 2023

A reading of https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/11/30/china-global-ai-plans-00129160 vs htt...

Meta Launches Midjourney, Dall-E-3 Competitor

Fri, 08 Dec 2023

How does the new tool stand up to other image generators? And what else did Meta AI announce. The da...

OpenAI's COO Says AI for Business is Overhyped. Is He Right?

Thu, 07 Dec 2023

OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap recently got a big conversation going when he suggested that AI for busines...

BREAKING: Google Launches Gemini

Wed, 06 Dec 2023

GPT-4 finally has a credible competitor as Google launches Gemini! NLW covers the three-size model, ...

Meta, IBM Form AI Alliance to Counter OpenAI with More Open AI

Tue, 05 Dec 2023

OpenAI is not open enough; at least not according to the new AI Alliance - a group led by Meta, IBM,...

How Clashing Egos and Disagreements Shaped the AI Field

Mon, 04 Dec 2023

From Elon Musk's fallout with Larry Page to...well...Elon Musk's fallout with Sam Altman...to Sam Al...

Predictions for Generative AI Year 2

Sun, 03 Dec 2023

Thursday was the one-year anniversary of ChatGPT. NLW reads (with the help of ElevenLabs) a group of...

The Fight for AI's Soul Following OpenAI's Leadership Battle

Sat, 02 Dec 2023

NLW reads excerpts from a set of pieces opining about AI after OpenAI's leadership battle and on the...

Did Google DeepMind Just Revolutionize Materials Science?

Fri, 01 Dec 2023

Deepmind's GNoME AI has 10x'd the number of known stable materials, and more than 736 of them have a...

ChatGPT Launched 1 Year Ago Today: A Retrospective

Thu, 30 Nov 2023

Happy Birthday ChatGPT! The incredibly influential software was launched on November 30, 2022. Five ...

Amazon Launches Q Chatbot: Is It A Disappointment or AI On Trend?

Wed, 29 Nov 2023

We didn't get Amazon's rumored "Olympus" model, but we did get an enterprise focused chatbot called ...

Is Pika 1.0 AI Video's Breakout Moment?

Tue, 28 Nov 2023

Pika Labs officially launched 1.0 and many think it might be representative of a coming breakout mom...

Q*: Was This New Advance the Reason for Sam Altman's Firing?

Mon, 27 Nov 2023

More information came out late last week about a model that showed signs of more advanced reasoning ...

How Close Are We To True AI Agents?

Sun, 26 Nov 2023

An exploration of one of the hottest topics in AI. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you...

Self-Regulation vs. More Regulation: The Right Approach for AI

Sat, 25 Nov 2023

A reading of "Why self-regulation is best for artificial intelligence" https://thehill.com/opinion/4...

The Winners and Losers Following the OpenAI Power Struggle

Fri, 24 Nov 2023

As the dust settles, NLW looks at who has benefitted and who has lost out after Sam Altman's removal...

Stability AI Releases Stunning Stable Video Diffusion Model

Thu, 23 Nov 2023

The company claims the video generator out performs Pika and Runway. Note: this is the Brief that wa...

IT'S OVER! Sam Altman BACK as CEO of OpenAI

Wed, 22 Nov 2023

After 5 days of tense negotiations, Sam Altman has returned as CEO of OpenAI, bringing Greg Brockman...

OpenAI Board Asked Anthropic For Merger

Tue, 21 Nov 2023

Apparently in addition to asking half of Silicon Valley to be the new CEO, over the weekend the Open...

Latest OpenAI Drama: Altman/Brockman to Microsoft, Board Hires Former Twitch CEO; Employees Rebel

Mon, 20 Nov 2023

WTAF is going on? First the board announced former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear as new CEO. Then Microsof...

Sam Altman and Greg Brockman COMING BACK to OpenAI?!

Sun, 19 Nov 2023

Act 3 of the Dumbest Palace Coup Ever, as employees and investors revolt and the board appears force...

What REALLY Happened at OpenAI?

Sat, 18 Nov 2023

Backstabbing. Ambition. Betrayal. After Sam Altman was fired and Greg Brockman quit, NLW digs in to ...

BREAKING: Sam Altman FIRED from OpenAI

Fri, 17 Nov 2023

OpenAI has announced that Sam Altman has been removed over failures of communication with the board....

Gemini Delayed: Is Google In the Innovator's Dilemma?

Fri, 17 Nov 2023

The Information reports that much-anticipated Gemini has been officially delayed. NLW explores inter...

The Biggest AI Announcements from Microsoft Ignite

Thu, 16 Nov 2023

Microsoft confirms long speculated Project Athena with the announcement of its first custom chips fo...

OpenAI's AGI Committee

Wed, 15 Nov 2023

OpenAI has a 6-person committee that will decide when AGI is achieved, with major implications for t...

Which LLMs Hallucinate Least?

Tue, 14 Nov 2023

On today's episode, NLW looks at new research about LLM hallucination; Google suing AI scammers; and...

OpenAI Is Officially Training GPT-5

Mon, 13 Nov 2023

Today on the AI Breakdown NLW looks at what GPTs are (and what they're not) and why many people are ...

How Close to Agents Are GPTs?

Sun, 12 Nov 2023

A reading of Ethan Mollick's "Almost an Agent: What GPTs Can Do" https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/al...

Humane Ai Pin: The Future of Computing or Solution in Search of a Problem?

Sat, 11 Nov 2023

Humane has officially launched its Ai Pin and, if nothing else, it has stirred some serious controve...

The Significance of OpenAI's New Data Partnerships Program

Fri, 10 Nov 2023

OpenAI closed the week with yet another announcement -- this time about a new data partnerships prog...

2X Bigger than GPT-4!? Amazon Is Training "Olympus"

Thu, 09 Nov 2023

Sources are suggesting that Amazon is training a 2 trillion parameter model called Olympus. NLW look...

Samsung Gauss and the AI Phone Wars

Wed, 08 Nov 2023

Samsung announced a set of AI models they're calling Gauss as well as plans to put parts of the mode...

OpenAI DevDay: Everything You Need To Know

Tue, 07 Nov 2023

Yesterday OpenAI announces 128k GPT-4 Turbo at 1/3rd the price; a new Text-to-Speech model; Whisper ...

The AI Stack for Content Creators (aka the AI Tools I Actually Use)

Mon, 06 Nov 2023

The best AI tools for content creators -- or at least the ones I use regularly, including Descript, ...

ChatGPT All Tools and What OpenAI Is Really Building

Sun, 05 Nov 2023

In the lead up to November 6th's OpenAI DevDay, NLW looks at their recent launch of PDF reading and ...

BREAKING: Elon Announces xAI ChatGPT Competitor Grok

Sat, 04 Nov 2023

A special, all-AI created bonus episode about Elon Musk's announcement of xAI's ChatGPT competitor G...

An OpenAI Researcher on "Techno-Humanism"

Sat, 04 Nov 2023

A reading of OpenAI research scientist Richard Ngo's essay "Techno-humanism is techno-optimism for t...

Regulatory Capture? Meta AI Chief Accuses OpenAI, Anthropic of Stoking Fears

Fri, 03 Nov 2023

The war of words between the AI safety advocates on the one side and the AI open source advocates on...

Judge Delivers Blow to Artists AI Copyright Lawsuit

Thu, 02 Nov 2023

A judge has dismissed many of the charges in a class action lawsuit brought against Stability AI, De...

Apple is FINALLY Talking About AI

Wed, 01 Nov 2023

With the M3 Max chip, Apple is finally pitching how they're going to compete in AI. Also on this epi...

AI Proxy War: Google Invests $2B in Anthropic

Tue, 31 Oct 2023

Google joins Amazon in investing in OpenAI rival Anthropic. Also a look at the reactions, debates an...

Biden's AI Executive Order: Everything You Need to Know

Mon, 30 Oct 2023

The Biden White House has released its expected Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence. NLW runs...

The State of AI Regulation in the USA

Mon, 30 Oct 2023

On the eve of the Biden Administration's anticipated executive order on artificial intelligence, NLW...

Hinton and Bengio on Managing AI Risks

Sat, 28 Oct 2023

A group of scientists, academics and researchers has released a new framework on managing AI risks. ...

OpenAI Forms Catastrophic Risk Preparedness Team

Fri, 27 Oct 2023

OpenAI forms a team to focus on how to prepare for the biggest most catastrophic risks around AI. NL...

White House AI Executive Order Coming Monday

Thu, 26 Oct 2023

The Biden Admin's long promised AI executive order is coming Monday and it seems like it will use th...

Midjourney vs. DALL-E-3: Can Midjourney's New Website Compete with ChatGPT Integration?

Wed, 25 Oct 2023

Midjourney has made a number of moves recently after DALL-E-3 was integrated into ChatGPT. Those inc...

LEAKED: First Look at Gemini Multimodal?

Tue, 24 Oct 2023

A Medium user has posted a set of screenshots that purport to show Google's forthcoming Gemini model...

Can We Have AI Progress and AI Safety at the Same Time?

Mon, 23 Oct 2023

NLW explores a new policy proposal from some extremely notable AI leaders around how we can continue...

The AI Competitive Landscape One Year After ChatGPT

Sun, 22 Oct 2023

NLW looks at where companies fit in the competitive matrix of artificial intelligence - from OpenAI ...

AI Leaders Call for International Panel on AI Safety

Sat, 21 Oct 2023

In this weekend's long read, two very different takes on the future than those we heard about in the...

OpenAI Quietly Abandoned Arrakis Model Earlier This Year

Fri, 20 Oct 2023

In a rare miss, OpenAI had to shutter their Arrakis model earlier this year. They had hoped that the...

Which AI Model is the Most Transparent?

Thu, 19 Oct 2023

A group of researchers from Stanford, MIT and Princeton have come up with a new system for determini...

China-US AI Tensions and AI Safety Summit Controversy

Wed, 18 Oct 2023

The US has once again tightened restrictions on chip exports and other AI engagements with China. NL...

AI Agents Coming to OpenAI Dev Event?

Tue, 17 Oct 2023

NLW digs into rumors and reports around what we can expect from the OpenAI developer event coming in...

The Techno-Optimist Manifesto

Mon, 16 Oct 2023

Marc Andreessen has just published The Techno-Optimist Manifesto. NLW reads the piece and provides c...

The 7 Use Case Categories of ChatGPT-4 Vision

Sun, 15 Oct 2023

ChatGPT-4 Vision is one of the biggest AI product updates of the last few months and people are stil...

Can AI Detect AI? And Other Frequently Asked Questions

Sat, 14 Oct 2023

NLW excerpts Professor Ethan Mollick's recent essay "What people ask me most." https://www.oneuseful...

The US Wants To Block China's Access to Advanced AI Models

Fri, 13 Oct 2023

The US-China AI battle heats up as the Biden Administration looks into ways to deny China access to ...

The State of AI Report: Research, Industry, Politics and Safety

Thu, 12 Oct 2023

On today's episode, NLW reviews Air Street's epic 6th annual State of AI report - https://www.stateo...

AI Chip Wars: Tesla Building "Bunkerlike" Home for Dojo Supercomputer

Wed, 11 Oct 2023

Tesla is building a massive facility for their Dojo supercomputer. NLW explores how it could impact ...

The Latest AutoGPT and AI Agent Developments

Tue, 10 Oct 2023

AutoGPT held a hackathon last weekend and is in the midst of a global virtual hackathon. Also the la...

AI Operations and AI Engineer: The New Careers AI Is Creating

Mon, 09 Oct 2023

On today's episode, NLW explores the ways AI is changing people's career paths. In particular, he ex...

What's Next in Phase Two of Generative AI?

Sun, 08 Oct 2023

In today's episode, NLW picks up where yesterday leaves off with a discussion of what's coming down ...

The End of the First Phase of Generative AI

Sat, 07 Oct 2023

A reading and exploration of Prof. Ethan Mollick's The shape of the shadow of The Thing https://www....

The Epik AI Yearbook Trend Taking Over Social Media

Fri, 06 Oct 2023

Epik's AI Yearbook photos are everywhere you look. In this video, NLW explores why AI avatar apps ke...

AI's Integration Phase: Canva Launches Slate of AI Features

Thu, 05 Oct 2023

AI is moving to a phase of integration where companies are figuring out how to bring AI tools into e...

Anthropic Raising at a $20B-$30B Valuation

Wed, 04 Oct 2023

Just a couple weeks after announcing their big Amazon deal, Anthropic is out fundraising again with ...

The AI Wearable Wars

Tue, 03 Oct 2023

Tab and Rewind Pendant both announced AI wearables this week, while Humane premiered on a fashion ru...

Mobile LLMs? The Battle to Get AI on Our Phones

Mon, 02 Oct 2023

Stability AI has released a new 3b model that outperforms some 7b and 20b models, and previews the f...

Warriors, Doomsayers, Reformers: Understanding the Factions in AI

Sun, 01 Oct 2023

NLW explores an argument from a recent essay around the three factions that drive discourse in artif...

Are Copyright Battles Against AI Destined to Fail?

Sat, 30 Sep 2023

NLW looks at three arguments around AI and copyright and why the current contentious approach being ...

ChatGPT Vision: 8 Ways People Are Using It Already

Sat, 30 Sep 2023

ChatGPT Vision hasn't even been broadly rolled out yet and already people who do have access are sho...

The 5 Most Important AI Announcements from Meta Connect

Thu, 28 Sep 2023

Yesterday at Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg announces that AI was going everywhere across the Meta su...

OpenAI Raising at $90B and Trolls Everyone, Saying AGI Has Been Achieved

Wed, 27 Sep 2023

OpenAI man. The company is reportedly offering employees a chance to sell shares between an $80b-$90...

Automated AI Translations Come to Spotify, Undermining Numerous AI Startups

Tue, 26 Sep 2023

Last week Youtube announced automated dubbing features and now Spotify has unveiled AI translation f...

ChatGPT Can Now See and Hear

Mon, 25 Sep 2023

The race towards multimodal LLMs is heating up! With rumors of a big impending launch of Google Gemi...

Americans Are Getting Less Trustful of Artificial Intelligence

Sun, 24 Sep 2023

On today's episode, NLW looks at a set of recent survey results surrounding attitudes towards AI. Th...

6 Months After the "6-Month Pause" Letter, Has the AI Safety Conversation Changed?

Sat, 23 Sep 2023

Six months ago, a group of scientists and other leaders signed a letter asking for a six month pause...

Is This The First AI-Powered Operating System?

Fri, 22 Sep 2023

Microsoft announced that the complete Windows 11 operating system was going to have access to their ...

5 Reasons DALL-E 3 in ChatGPT is a Huge Deal

Thu, 21 Sep 2023

OpenAI has announced that DALL-E 3 image generation is coming natively to ChatGPT. NLW explores 5 re...

Will Intel's New Chip Usher in the 'Age of the AI PC'?

Wed, 20 Sep 2023

Intel has announced a new AI focused chip that they say will allow generative AI applications to run...

Google Bard Gets Major Update While OpenAI Races to Multimodal

Tue, 19 Sep 2023

Google Bard announced a big update including a deep integration with Google Workspace apps. At the s...

Knowledge Workers Produce 40% Better Results When Using AI - Study

Mon, 18 Sep 2023

A new study undertaken by Boston Consulting Group and prominent AI researchers shows that consultant...

GPT-4 More Creative Than the Average Person According to Recent Study

Sun, 17 Sep 2023

On this research recap, NLW looks at AI creativity https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-4085...

Should OpenAI Have Been A Government Program?

Sat, 16 Sep 2023

That's what Sam Altman argued, but the state of America's civic life brings up many questions of whe...

SCOOP: Google Testing Gemini With Partners -- Launch Soon?

Fri, 15 Sep 2023

The Information has another Google AI scoop with reports that Google has pushed Gemini to testing wi...

$550B In Net Worth Met In D.C. To Talk AI: Did Anything Get Done?

Thu, 14 Sep 2023

Senator Chuck Schumer hosted an AI Summit with the CEOs of most of the world's biggest tech companie...

Apple's AI Strategy Revealed?

Wed, 13 Sep 2023

At the iPhone/Apple Watch event yesterday we learned about Apple's new, more powerful chip and neura...

Open Interpreter: How People Are Using Github's Hottest AI Project

Tue, 12 Sep 2023

Open Interpreter is a local, private version of GPT4 Code Interpreter. It was released last week and...

Meta is Working on a ChatGPT Killer

Mon, 11 Sep 2023

Today NLW looks at a WSJ report that Meta is pushing for a GPT-4 powered Llama 4 to be released open...

How Elon Musk Became Consumed with AI Safety

Sun, 10 Sep 2023

A new TIME Magazine cover story excerpts Walter Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk to tell the story ...

Don't Believe the Lull: AI Is Screaming Forward

Sat, 09 Sep 2023

An exploration of an essay from Tyler Cowen "The AI Hype Has Subsided But The Revolution Continues" ...

AI's 100 Most Influential (According to TIME)

Sat, 09 Sep 2023

Today NLW looks at TIME's first ever list of the 100 most influential people in AI, including some o...

Apple Spending Millions Each Day Training AI

Thu, 07 Sep 2023

According to new reporting from The Information, Apple is spending millions each day training AI. Th...

An Open GPT-4 Level Model? Meet Falcon 180B

Wed, 06 Sep 2023

Falcon 180B is a new open access foundation model that reportedly performs between GPT3.5 and GPT-4 ...

Study: Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback Performs As Well As Human Feedback

Tue, 05 Sep 2023

Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW looks at new research from Google that shows that reinforcement learn...

Is OpenAI Secretly Training GPT-5?

Mon, 04 Sep 2023

Inflection's Mustafa Suleyman indicates that he is skeptical of claims that OpenAI isn't training GP...

Who Will Create and Capture the Most Value in AI?

Sun, 03 Sep 2023

An exploration of defensibility, value capture and economic structure in artificial intelligence. Wi...

Should AI Make Us Want A National Privacy Law?

Sat, 02 Sep 2023

NLW explores questions of privacy prompted by the essay "Want Protection from AI? The First Step is ...

Are Educators Ready for a ChatGPT School Year?

Fri, 01 Sep 2023

As September and the Fall begins, NLW checks in on the conversation about ChatGPT among educators as...

The Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence

Thu, 31 Aug 2023

On today's episode, NLW looks at news that the US has pushed Nvidia and AMD to stop AI chip exports ...

OpenAI Is Now On A Billion Dollar Revenue Pace

Wed, 30 Aug 2023

On the Brief, NLW looks at new reports that OpenAI is clearing $80,000,000 a month, even before the ...

ChatGPT Enterprise Is Here - How It Shapes the AI Competitive Landscape

Tue, 29 Aug 2023

OpenAI yesterday announced the much anticipated ChatGPT Enterprise. The service comes with the most ...

Was Elon's Tesla FSD Demo the ChatGPT Moment For Self-Driving Cars?

Mon, 28 Aug 2023

On Friday, Elon Musk did a live video on X to show off Tesla's Full Self Driving v12. The interestin...

How Will We Know When AI Becomes Conscious?

Sun, 27 Aug 2023

Exploring a new paper attempting to begin creating a systematic approach to answering that question....

The Peril and Potential of AutoGPT

Sat, 26 Aug 2023

Reading excerpts from Zvi Moshowitz' "On AutoGPT" from his blog/newsletter "Don't Worry About the Va...

Code Llama Kicks LLM for Code Battle Into Overdrive

Fri, 25 Aug 2023

Meta has released LLM-for-coding Code Llama in numerous versions. NLW explores the community discuss...

Was Nvidia's Earnings Call A '1995 Internet Moment'?

Thu, 24 Aug 2023

One Wall Street analyst thinks that Nvidia's earnings will be seen in the future as a 1995 Internet ...

How Big A Deal Is GPT-3.5 Fine-Tuning From OpenAI?

Thu, 24 Aug 2023

OpenAI has released finetuning for GPT-3.5 Turbo. It's expensive, and for some comes with privacy co...

The Future of AI Music: YouTube and Universal Partner

Tue, 22 Aug 2023

Universal and YouTube are partnering on an AI music incubator and other approaches to AI music that ...

Should the US Nationalize the Artificial Intelligence Industry?

Mon, 21 Aug 2023

That's the argument of one Politico columnist. NLW examines the argument in depth. Before that on th...

Could Google's Gemini Be A ChatGPT Killer?

Sun, 20 Aug 2023

AI Twitter is buzzing with cryptic posts about how the LLM world is set to change in the next few mo...

Could AI End Up Being Good for Democracy?

Sat, 19 Aug 2023

The standard discourse around AI and politics is one of fear. Deepfakes. Election tampering. Misinfo...

Meta to Launch Open Source Coding AI as Latest Assault on OpenAI

Fri, 18 Aug 2023

Meta is launching a new open source AI specifically for code generation which could undercut paid to...

Snapchat Users Freaked Out as My AI Goes Rogue

Thu, 17 Aug 2023

Users were not stoked when Snapchat's My AI chatbot posted a story yesterday -- something it wasn't ...

Why AI Hype Has Peaked (And Why That's A Good Thing)

Wed, 16 Aug 2023

In today's episode, NLW explores the factors that have driven AI past its peak of hype, and what's a...

AGI By 2032? The Most Interesting AI Predictions

Tue, 15 Aug 2023

On today's episode, NLW looks at Metaculus prediction markets around various AI events. Before that ...

How The AI Backlash Killed This Literary Startup

Mon, 14 Aug 2023

Prosecraft is the first casualty of the AI backlash. Was it justified, or simply inevitable? Before ...

As WormGPT Goes White Hat, Evil-GPT Emerges

Sun, 13 Aug 2023

WormGPT was initially advertised as an LLM for doing bad things. According to a recent interview wit...

AI and the Turning Point Moment in Human History

Sat, 12 Aug 2023

A reading of and discussion around Tyler Cowen's "Existential risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in h...

The Alignment Problem: How To Tell If An LLM Is Trustworthy

Fri, 11 Aug 2023

New research attempts to put together a complete taxonomy for trustworthiness in LLMs. Before that o...

76% of Americans Think AI Might Kill Us

Thu, 10 Aug 2023

A new survey from the AI Policy Institute shows that Americans are extremely concerns about AI and s...

The LLM for Coding Competition Heats Up!

Wed, 09 Aug 2023

On the Brief: Stability AI releases StableCode as Google opens the waitlist for its in-browser AI-po...

GPTBot AI Data Controversy and the Remaining Challenges of LLMs

Tue, 08 Aug 2023

NLW reviews a recent research paper which provides a comprehensive overview of the state of LLM deve...

Apple Reveals It Spent Billions on AI R&D

Mon, 07 Aug 2023

During last week's earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Apple anticipated putting generative ...

Why We're Radically Underestimating the Political Implications of AI Job Displacement

Sun, 06 Aug 2023

NLW opines on the increasingly popular canard "AI won't take your job; someone using AI will" and fi...

Why Do People Who Think AI Could Kill Us All Still Work on AI?

Sat, 05 Aug 2023

A reading of "Given Extinction Worries, Why Don’t AI Researchers Quit? Well, Several Reasons" by D...

Code Interpreter is GPT-4.5: A Summer AI Technical Roundup [feat. Swyx and Alessio of Latent Space]

Fri, 04 Aug 2023

Today NLW is joined by Swyx and Alessio, the hosts of the Latent Space podcast to discuss the key te...

The Frontier of AI-Generated Music Models

Thu, 03 Aug 2023

On today's episode NLW explores Meta's newly launched AudioCraft compared to Google MusicLM. Before ...

Has Open Source Screwed a Whole Generation of AI Startups?

Wed, 02 Aug 2023

NLW explores some of the unexpected developments in the AI space, with a focus on how open source ha...

Is GPT-5 On the Way? OpenAI Files Trademark

Tue, 01 Aug 2023

A look at a recent trademark filing; Facebook launching AI Personas; a leaked Instagram feature iden...

The AI-Robotics Revolution: Robots That Think Like LLMs

Mon, 31 Jul 2023

Google recently shared its RT-2 model which can translate generalized instructions into robotic cont...

The 5 Most Important AI News Stories Last Month

Sun, 30 Jul 2023

OpenAI Superalignment? Claude 2? White House? Find out what NLW thinks were the most important AI ne...

AI for War? Debating the Military Use of AI

Sat, 29 Jul 2023

A reading of Palantir CEO Alex Karp's recent essay for the New York Times and discussing the militar...

A Mysterious GPU Startup Sets Up In The Middle East

Fri, 28 Jul 2023

On today's episode: The Information reports on a mysterious startup with ex-Meta, AWS and Azure team...

Better Than Midjourney? Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 Can Generate Words

Thu, 27 Jul 2023

Text-to-image but with non-gibberish words! The dream is now real thanks to Stable Diffusion XL whic...

Can OpenAI and Anthropic's Frontier Model Forum Improve AI Safety?

Wed, 26 Jul 2023

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft have teamed up to create the Frontier Model Forum. Will it i...

Does This Research Prove That ChatGPT Has Gotten Worse?

Tue, 25 Jul 2023

A new research paper from Stanford and Berkeley says that yes, indeed ChatGPT has gotten worse. Howe...

Can Worldcoin Help Solve AI's Big Economic Problems?

Mon, 24 Jul 2023

Dystopia or solution? That's the debate that rages around Worldcoin, one of the most ambitious and c...

Is Open Source AI Dangerous?

Sun, 23 Jul 2023

Last week, Meta announced its Llama 2 model, one of the most powerful open source LLMs yet. Today on...

5 Ways People Are Using ChatGPT's Powerful New Custom Instructions Feature

Sat, 22 Jul 2023

This week ChatGPT released a new "Custom Instruction" feature that allows users to customize informa...

White House Secures Responsible AI Commitment from OpenAI, Meta, Google, Anthropic and Others

Fri, 21 Jul 2023

The White House continues its engagement with the artificial intelligence space today releasing a se...

AppleGPT? Apple Has Been Secretly Working on a ChatGPT Competitor

Thu, 20 Jul 2023

Bloomberg reports that Apple has developed an LLM platform called Ajax upon which they've built a ch...

Meta Llama 2 Is Here! Everything You Need to Know About OpenAI's Biggest Open Source Competitor

Wed, 19 Jul 2023

The much anticipated Meta Llama 2 model has been released, and as hoped it is available for commerci...

Where Are All the Aliens: Does AI Explain the Fermi Paradox?

Tue, 18 Jul 2023

The Fermi Paradox refers to the discrepancy between what seems like the high chance of other intelli...

AI Bubble? Layoffs Hit AI Companies

Mon, 17 Jul 2023

Jasper and Mutiny have both laid off part of their teams in recent weeks, leading some to question w...

Bard vs. Bing vs. Claude vs. ChatGPT: The Right LLM For Every Task

Sun, 16 Jul 2023

LLM competition ratchets up seemingly every week. At this point, the different design choices that m...

Bill Gates on Why Humans Can Handle AI Risks

Sat, 15 Jul 2023

Bill Gates has penned another letter about AI, this time arguing that humans are more prepared than ...

OpenAI Investigated by FTC for ChatGPT Harms

Fri, 14 Jul 2023

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is looking into whether OpenAI's ChatGPT has caused consumer harm...

Elon Musk Announces xAI: Here's Everything We Know So Far

Thu, 13 Jul 2023

Elon Musk is launching xAI, a new AI company to explore the big questions of the universe. NLW looks...

ChatGPT's First True Competitor? Anthropic Releases Claude 2

Wed, 12 Jul 2023

Anthropic has released Claude 2. The model preforms comparably to GPT-4 but offers a 100k context wi...

Why Google Is Intentionally Limiting the Power of Bard AI

Tue, 11 Jul 2023

Google CEO Sunday Pichai told 60 Minutes that the company is purposefully limiting the power and cap...

5 Ways AI Could Improve Humanity

Mon, 10 Jul 2023

Today NLW reads the companion piece to yesterday's episode -- 5 Ways AI Could Improve the World htt...

5 Ways AI Could Destroy Humanity

Sun, 09 Jul 2023

A reading of "Five ways AI might destroy the world: ‘Everyone on Earth could fall over dead in the...

Forget Alignment, Here's Why Every AI Needs an Individual "Soul"

Sat, 08 Jul 2023

A reading of David Brin's "Give Every AI a Soul - or Else" https://www.wired.com/story/give-every-ai...

ChatGPT Code Interpreter Is Finally Coming Next Week!

Fri, 07 Jul 2023

After months of waiting, ChatGPT Code Interpreter plugin is coming to all ChatGPT plus users next we...

OpenAI Sets Moonshot Goal of AI Superalignment in 4 Years

Thu, 06 Jul 2023

Yesterday OpenAI announced a major effort for what they call 'Superalignment' to align superintellig...

Will AI Replace All Coders Within 5 Years?

Wed, 05 Jul 2023

Stability AI's CEO Emad Mostaque has predicted that there will be no human coders within 5 years. On...

Will AI Increase Freedom or Help Authoritarians?

Tue, 04 Jul 2023

AI could be a tool for the promotion of freedom, or it could aid in surveillance, control, and an ex...

The AI Data Wars: Why Elon Musk's Rate Limits Are About More Than Twitter

Mon, 03 Jul 2023

The AI Data Wars come to Twitter as Elon Musk rate limits users in an attempt to block AI data scrap...

Translating Brainwaves to Images and Other Cutting Edge AI Research

Sun, 02 Jul 2023

Today on The AI Breakdown, a research recap of the most interesting recent AI research, including: ...

60 Possible AGI Futures

Sat, 01 Jul 2023

The debate around AI safety is often presented as a binary, but in reality there are a huge array of...

Inflection Raises Monster $1.3 Billion Round to Build One of World's Biggest AI Clusters

Fri, 30 Jun 2023

Inflection has raised $1.3B for its "personal intelligence" and to build one of the world's largest ...

The AI Arms Race Heats Up: US Considers Blocking AI Chip Exports

Thu, 29 Jun 2023

The Commerce Department is considering blocking AI chip exports from companies like Nvidia to China....

AI M&A: Billion Dollar Acquisitions Reshape AI Landscape

Wed, 28 Jun 2023

Today on The AI Breakdown Brief: Databricks acquires Mosaic for $1.3B Ramp acquires Cohere.io ...

DragGAN's Amazing Drag-to-Edit Photo AI Releases Source Code

Tue, 27 Jun 2023

Today on The AI Breakdown Brief: DragGAN the much hyped AI image editing tool that allows massive ...

Is AI "Alien Intelligence?" Emerson Spartz on Mental Models for AI

Mon, 26 Jun 2023

Emerson Spartz has been building internet and media companies since starting MuggleNet, the world's ...

What the Head of the New UK AI Foundation Model Taskforce Thinks of AI

Sun, 25 Jun 2023

Entrepreneur and investor Ian Hogarth was recently named Chair of the UK's AI Foundation Model Taskf...

"AI Will Modify Our Interface For Information" A Conversation with Maven CEO Gagan Biyani

Sat, 24 Jun 2023

For more than a decade, across numerous startups Gagan Biyani has helped lead the online education r...

Multi-On is What You Wanted AutoGPT to Be - Interview with Founder Div Garg

Fri, 23 Jun 2023

Today NLW is joined by Div Garg, the founder of Multi-On which is an AI personal agent that uses the...

AI is the First UI Paradigm Shift in 60 Years

Thu, 22 Jun 2023

AI represents the third major UI paradigm shift in computing. From batch processing to command-based...

Biden Meets AI Safety Experts As White House Promises Decisive Action

Wed, 21 Jun 2023

President Biden yesterday met with AI safety experts in San Francisco as the White House promises "d...

The Faux Outrage Around OpenAI's EU Lobbying

Tue, 20 Jun 2023

Today TIME published a "scoop" about OpenAI's lobbying efforts in 2022 around the EU AI Act. NLW arg...

GPT Engineer Generates An Entire Codebase Based On A Prompt

Mon, 19 Jun 2023

GPT-Engineer is the latest AI project to have Github developers going nuts. The project promises to ...

The Most Interesting AI Research This Week

Sun, 18 Jun 2023

A Research Roundup including: -AssistGPT -LLaMA multimodal adapter -Meta Voicebox -Text-to-Video -LL...

A Critique of Marc Andreessen's "Why AI Will Save The World"

Sat, 17 Jun 2023

Last week's Long Reads was Marc Andreessen's "Why AI Will Save the World." This week we read Dwarkes...

How Worried About China AI Should We Be?

Fri, 16 Jun 2023

Senators Mark Warner and Ted Cruz discus China's AI advances while Bill Gates meets with Chinese Pre...

EU Passes AI Act, But Generative AI Provisions Remain Controversial

Thu, 15 Jun 2023

The EU has passed its AI Act. The risk-based approach has banned some things (like live facial recog...

Why OpenAI's API Updates Will Change How We Use ChatGPT

Wed, 14 Jun 2023

OpenAI has announced a set of API updates including lower prices, a larger 16k context window, and s...

AI at Work: Is Enterprise AI the Next Big Trend?

Tue, 13 Jun 2023

Enterprise AI is a major theme for investors and corporations alike. Salesforce just announced their...

New ChatGPT Features Leaked?

Mon, 12 Jun 2023

Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW looks at how the real estate industry is thinking about the impact of...

Will AI Save The World?

Sun, 11 Jun 2023

That's the claim in Marc Andreessen's massive new 7000 word missive "Why AI Will Save The World." ...

Creating Worlds From Words: The Most Essential AI News This Week

Sat, 10 Jun 2023

Today on the Weekly Recap, NLW looks at the most essential AI news stories across new tools, importa...

The 5 Most Exciting AI Tools Launched This Week

Fri, 09 Jun 2023

From text-to-3D avatar to text-to-video to music you create with gestures, these are the most intere...

Are We In An AI Bubble?

Thu, 08 Jun 2023

Is AI in bubble territory yet? Ever since Nvidia's massive move up recently, people have been asking...

OpenAI's 6 Strategies For Better ChatGPT Prompting

Wed, 07 Jun 2023

OpenAI has published a new guide with 6 recommendations for better ChatGPT prompting. The recommenda...

Can SuperAGI Be What People Wanted from AutoGPT?

Tue, 06 Jun 2023

AutoGPT was all the AI hotness a few months ago, with its promise of autonomous AI agents. Now, a ne...

Apple AI? Apple Didn't Say "Artificial Intelligence" Once at WWDC

Mon, 05 Jun 2023

Those expecting a big AI announcement at Apple's WWDC were disappointed today, however those waiting...

AI Gaming Lights Up: The Biggest AI News This Week

Sun, 04 Jun 2023

AI news continues to come fast and furious. On today's weekly recap, NLW covers the biggest stories ...

TIME Asks: Is AI the End of Humanity?

Sat, 03 Jun 2023

TIME Magazine's current cover story is titled "The End of Humanity: How Real Is The Risk?" It's a ma...

BONUS: Riley Goodside on The Art of Prompting ChatGPT [The Cognitive Revolution preview]

Sat, 03 Jun 2023

This is a special preview episode of The Cognitive Revolution: How AI Changes Everything. Hosted by ...

An AI Drone Killed Its Operator In A USAF Simulation -- Except That's Not Actually What Happened

Fri, 02 Jun 2023

A bogus story about an AI simulation gone wrong made headlines around the world, until the progentio...

Can OpenAI's New GPT Training Model Solve Math and AI Alignment At the Same Time?

Thu, 01 Jun 2023

A look at the latest developments from OpenAI, including new features, a cybersecurity grant program...

Are ChatGPT Plugins Overhyped?

Wed, 31 May 2023

ChatGPT Plugins are one of the most hyped things in AI -- but are they overhyped? In this episode, N...

Nvidia Is Building an AI Supercomputer and Gaming Platform

Tue, 30 May 2023

Nvidia made a huge number of AI related announcements at Computex, including new chips, a new AI sup...

AI Alignment and AGI - How Worried Should We Actually Be?

Sun, 28 May 2023

A reading of Max Tegmark's essay "The 'Don't Look Up' Thinking That Could Doom Us With AI" The AI B...

The 5 Biggest AI News Stories This Week

Sat, 27 May 2023

AI news this week - here are the 5 most important stories!  AI regulation and safety - OpenAI, Mi...

The 9 AI Tools I Actually Use Every Day As A Content Creator

Fri, 26 May 2023

Lists of 1000s of AI tools abound, but here are the 9 I actually use every day (with a watchlist wit...

NVIDIA Sets Off An AI Stock Frenzy While Elon Warns of the Terminator Scenario

Thu, 25 May 2023

Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW reviews comments from Elon Musk and Eric Schmidt at yesterday's WSJ C...

Mind-Reading AI Generates Videos from Brainwaves

Wed, 24 May 2023

Researchers have developed a new method called Mind-Video for generating semantically accurate video...

This Massive New AI Model is 5.7x Bigger than ChatGPT's Dataset

Tue, 23 May 2023

On today's episode, NLW looks at global regulatory proposals from OpenAI and Google, as well as a nu...

Can ChatGPT Outperform Wall Street?

Mon, 22 May 2023

Last month, a University of Florida study showed ChatGPT with 500% returns using news and sentiment ...

How Bad Will AI Jobs Loss Be?

Sun, 21 May 2023

On Tuesday, there was a strange exchange between Senator Richard Blumenthal and OpenAI CEO Sam Altma...

Are OpenAI Trying for Regulatory Capture?

Sat, 20 May 2023

On this edition of The AI Breakdown weekly recap, NLW looks at all the AI news, including Mind-blo...

The Official ChatGPT Mobile App Will Change How We Use AI

Fri, 19 May 2023

Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW goes over the news of OpenAI's release of an official ChatGPT app, an...

Yuval Noah Harari on the Challenge of AI and the Future of Humanity

Thu, 18 May 2023

Find the complete presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWiM-LuRe6w&t=2005s 0:00 Int...

The 10 Most Interesting and Useful ChatGPT Plugins So Far

Wed, 17 May 2023

From Youtube video summarizers to Spotify playlist generators to tools to chat with your PDFs, some ...

7 Takeaways from the Senate's AI Hearing

Tue, 16 May 2023

From a surprising lack of skepticism to clear echoes of social media regulatory failures, NLW covers...

Is Google's New Bard Really the ChatGPT Killer?

Mon, 15 May 2023

NLW tests ChatGPT and the newly updated and opened Bard across 5 categories including creative, trav...

Can Blockchains Solve Deep Fakes and Other AI Challenges?

Sun, 14 May 2023

This is an excerpt from a discussion that originally happened on The Breakdown crypto/macro podcast....

The Most Important AI News From A Week Where We Glimpsed The Future

Sat, 13 May 2023

On this week's Weekly Recap: OpenAI Shap-E text-to-3D Anthropic 100k context window Meta ImageBi...

"How I Went from Non-Technical to Building an Andrew Tate LLM Chatbot in 3 Months"

Fri, 12 May 2023

Today in the first of a series on AI learning journeys, NLW is joined by Emmet Halm. At the beginnin...

The Top 5 AI Announcements from Google I/O

Thu, 11 May 2023

Google tries to reclaim a leadership position in generative AI  Honorable Mention - Adobe Firefly...

What Comes After ChatGPT? A Preview of the Future of LLMs

Wed, 10 May 2023

Today on The AI Breakdown, NLW describes three bits of news from this week that together help us get...

How to Get AutoGPT on Your Phone (And What People Are Actually Finding it Useful For)

Tue, 09 May 2023

A check-in on AutoGPT as well as the headline news: Updates from the US copyright office Pitchboo...

Warren Buffett Compares AI to the Invention of the Atom Bomb

Mon, 08 May 2023

On today's episode, we discuss Warren Buffett's recent comments on AI as well as cover a primer of t...

AI Just Quietly Had One of It's Most Important Weeks in Recent History

Sat, 06 May 2023

NLW argues Geoffrey Hinton's defection from Google and his progress mainstreaming the AI safety conv...

Google Losing to Open Source AI? "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"

Fri, 05 May 2023

This week, a Google researcher had a note leaked that argued that Google (and OpenAI) were going to ...

6 Ways ChatGPT Code Interpreter Is Already Being Used

Thu, 04 May 2023

Code Interpreter is a new plugin for ChatGPT that is allowing for amazing data analysis and visualiz...

The First Anti-AI Strike: The Writers Guild of America Protests AI Writing

Wed, 03 May 2023

The Writers Guild of America is striking after not being able to come to an agreement with TV and fi...

Mind-Reading AI? Scientists Use GPT-Like AI to Accurately Translate Thoughts into Text

Tue, 02 May 2023

Our main discussion is focused on new research out of the University of Texas Austin on GPT-like AI ...

Text-to-Image AI That Can Actually Spell!? Meet DeepFloyd IF

Mon, 01 May 2023

If you've ever used Midjourney, Dall-E, Stable Diffusion or another text-to-image generator, you'll ...

Raoul Pal: AI is the Most Disinflationary Force in Our Lifetimes

Mon, 01 May 2023

On this episode of The AI Breakdown, NLW is joined by Real Vision CEO Raoul Pal to discuss AI as a d...

Real Life "Her"? A Chat with AI Avatar Call Annie About AI Alignment and More

Sat, 29 Apr 2023

On Wednesday night I had a "FaceTime" with Call Annie. It's a new app that matches AI language model...

The Most Important AI News This Week: ChatGPT Browse, Apple Quartz, GPT Robot Dogs

Fri, 28 Apr 2023

Discussed on the show: ChatGPT Privacy - https://twitter.com/DataChaz/status/1650961357913616402 ...

The Latest on AutoGPT and BabyAGI: Semi-Autonomous Specialized Agents (SASAs)

Thu, 27 Apr 2023

Meet semi-autonomous specialized agents (SASAs), more descreet, focused implementations of AutoGPT a...

ChatGPT Adds Private Mode as HuggingFace Launches Open Source Competitor

Wed, 26 Apr 2023

Yesterday ChatGPT announced a number of important updates, including a privacy preserving mode that ...

Profit or Piracy? How AI Disrupts Industries

Tue, 25 Apr 2023

A case study in the disruptive force of AI to traditional industries. Will they respond as have prev...

Why GPT-4-32k Will Totally Transform What We Can Do With AI

Mon, 24 Apr 2023

GPT-4 as most people use it has an 8K token limit. Some already have access to a version with a 32K ...

The Problems with AutoGPT and BabyAGI: How Useful Are They Really?

Sat, 22 Apr 2023

For the last 3 weeks, AutoGPT has massively captured the attention of the AI community. But how usef...

I Asked ChatGPT and Its New Open Source Competitor StableLM if AI Should Be Open Source. Here's What They Said.

Fri, 21 Apr 2023

Stability AI announced StableLM this week and open source AI advocates are over the moon. On this ep...

The AI Data Wars: Elon Threatens to Sue Microsoft While Viral AI Drake Track Stuns Music Industry

Thu, 20 Apr 2023

We're seeing more and more instances of industries, companies and individuals fighting back against ...

AI that Can See the World? Meet MiniGPT-4 an Open Source Image-to-Text Model

Wed, 19 Apr 2023

We've had many examples of text-to-image but fewer AI models that can interpret images. MiniGPT-4 is...

Can Open Source AI Compete with Big Tech? A Look at TruthGPT, RedPajama and MiniGPT

Tue, 18 Apr 2023

Some argue that open source AI is the key to making AI's benefits to the entire world, as well as ma...

The AI Arms Race: Where the World's Biggest Companies Stand

Mon, 17 Apr 2023

Google is working on a top secret search update called "Magi." Amazon announced Bedrock last week. T...

Is AutoGPT Dangerous?

Sat, 15 Apr 2023

There's no denying AutoGPT represents an incredible advance in AI, but does it create new risk we sh...

5 Ways AutoGPT is Already Being Used

Thu, 13 Apr 2023

AutoGPT is lighting up the developer and AI community. Here are five uses happening right now: Sta...

What is AutoGPT and Why is Everyone Talking About It?

Wed, 12 Apr 2023

Less than a week old, AutoGPT has exploded onto the scene. AutoGPTs are AIs that, once assigned a ta...

Should the US Gov't Have to Review and License AI Tools?

Wed, 12 Apr 2023

That's the question the Biden Administration is asking American citizens to comment on. WSJ and othe...

Introducing The AI Breakdown

Tue, 04 Apr 2023

Meet The AI Breakdown - a semiweekly news analysis show on all things artificial intelligence, aka A...