A New AI Alliance

Plus, Midjourney releases Patchwork

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Jelani Abdus-Salaam
December 12, 2024

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Welcome back, AI’ers!

Here’s What’s On The Menu For Today

  • 🧠 AI On My Mind

  • 🤖 AI Alliance

  • ✨ Midjourney Releases Patchwork

  • 📰 News Hot Off The Press

  • 💰️ Newly Added AI Tools

AI ON MY MIND

Happy Thursday!

If you noticed some disturbances yesterday when using ChatGPT, you weren’t the only one.

ChatGPT’s servers went down. Which means every AI wrapper who uses ChatGPT was also down.

There is risk when you’re platform dependent. But luckily there are other AI tools on the market like Claude, Gemini, Llama 3, Mistral and Grok.

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TODAY’S TOP STORIES

💻 Apple Partners with Broadcom to Develop First AI Server Chips, Launch Set for 2026

Apple is developing its first AI-focused server chip codenamed Baltra in collaboration with Broadcom, while simultaneously expanding its AI capabilities through Apple Intelligence and custom silicon solutions across its device lineup.

  • The Baltra chip, expected for mass production in 2026, focuses on networking technology crucial for AI processing and aims to reduce Apple's reliance on Nvidia.

  • Apple Intelligence leverages both on-device processing and cloud computing through Private Cloud Compute, running on dedicated Apple silicon servers while maintaining privacy.

  • The M2 chip already demonstrates Apple's AI capabilities with a 40% faster Neural Engine than M1, processing up to 15.8 trillion operations per second.

👀 Gemini's new Deep Research feature searches the web for you - like an assistant

Google has unveiled Deep Research, a groundbreaking feature for Gemini Advanced that conducts comprehensive web research autonomously, creating detailed reports with source links that users can export to Google Docs.

The feature creates a multi-step research plan that mimics human research behavior, browsing and searching iteratively until it gathers sufficient information to answer user queries.

Available now for Gemini Advanced desktop and mobile web users as part of the $20/month Google One AI Premium plan, with app rollout planned for early 2025.

  • • Deep Research allows users to approve or disapprove the AI's research plan before it begins its web search process.

  • The feature is part of Gemini Advanced, which includes 2TB storage, Google Photos editing, and other premium features.

  • Google simultaneously announced Gemini 2.0, its most advanced model, available to all users through an experimental chat-optimized version.

📢 Russia teams up with BRICS to create AI alliance, Putin says

Russia is spearheading an AI alliance with BRICS nations, aiming to create alternatives to Western AI systems, with Putin announcing plans for joint AI development projects and ethical guidelines.

The initiative comes as Russia seeks to strengthen technological cooperation with non-Western partners amid ongoing sanctions and international isolation.

This alliance represents a significant shift in global AI development dynamics, potentially creating a parallel ecosystem of AI technologies.

  • The alliance will focus on developing AI solutions while establishing standards for "ethical and safe" development of artificial intelligence technologies.

  • BRICS members (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) are positioning themselves as an alternative to Western-dominated technological frameworks.

  • Putin emphasized Russia's commitment to becoming a sovereign technological power, particularly in AI development, despite Western restrictions.

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QUICK HEADLINES

ChatGPT and Sora Outage: There was a significant outage affecting ChatGPT and Sora, highlighting potential reliability issues with AI services (link)

Sora's Training Data: There are reports suggesting that OpenAI's Sora might be trained using game content, raising questions about data sources for AI training (link).

Siri's Update: Apple has introduced new AI features with the iOS 18.2 update, potentially enhancing Siri's capabilities (link).

Character.AI Legal Issues: Character.AI appears to be facing some legal challenges, though specifics from the mentioned source are not detailed. (link)

AI and Quantum Computing: Google's quantum chip was highlighted as part of this week's AI revolution, demonstrating the intersection of AI with quantum computing (link)

AI In College: UTSA today announced plans to launch the College of AI, Cyber and Computing, advancing the university’s strategic vision to integrate emerging technologies with interdisciplinary approaches. (link)

AI On Social

✨ Midjourney Releases Patchwork

✨ Google Launches Computer Agent

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Gemini v2.0 Flash - a high-end Artificial Intelligence model developed by Google. It represents Google's most advanced general AI model to date and is built with multimodal capabilities.

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