Guide to A.I. Supremacy: I'm analyzing & tracking a more exponential future 🔮
📌 TABLE OF CONTENTS: Here’s the index of everything I’ve written so far.
Hey Everyone,
Welcome to my Newsletter, it’s actually Newsletters plural. I love what I do, I wouldn’t want to be doing anything but this. I wanted to touch base with all of you 👨👩👧👦. I wanted to re-introduce you to my work.
I’m grateful to have readers interested in similar things as to what I think about all day long. This is a Tour of my Newsletters I have compiled for my welcome Email as well as an index with links to the scope of my work. I was hoping to apply to this Grant, and thinking whether I really deserve this. What is an emerging technology analyst anyways? Did I just create my own job? 🤷🏽♂️
Can I actually making a living wage doing this? All passions and pursuits are filled with uncertainty. So let’s begin the guide.
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The What?
I write so much it’s difficult to index it all, but in the spirit of an index, something like a table of contents for new readers, let me give this a shot.
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The Why (do I even Care?)
🎯 Mission Statement
At A.I. Supremacy my goal is to track emerging and exponential technology and especially with regards to the evolution of artificial intelligence. I’m primarily concerned with startups, business and venture capital trends as well as implications on society, science and humanity.
Life Circumstances / Future of Media
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I’m self-employed and don’t have the means to have any additional staff, nor do I have the privilege of having other sources of income.
The visual theme of this post is begging the question, is Apple’s Vision Pro the next AI mediated consumer device? Instead of a Poll this time, I’ll let the market decide. I grapple with questions like these, nearly constantly.
This article embodies the sum total of my work here on Substack. To get access to my deep dives on A.I. Supremacy, do the following:
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So when you subscribe to A.I. Supremacy and my other Newsletters on here, you are getting access to these huge archives. Naturally I don’t expect many of my readers through their own volition to explore the hundreds of articles in the archives. This “article map” might help in this issue.
This represents thousands of hours of my labor…yet the survival of these publications remains in doubt in 2024. I have found modest growth in free subscribers in 2022 and 2023 at least, which is encouraging.
Growth and Feedback
After 25 months writing in the Newsletter economy, I have some amount of product-market fit, even as just one among thousands of “AI Newsletters”.
Do you know someone who might enjoy these topics?
I enjoy emerging tech 🔮 even more than I did today in 2024 than when I started this endeavor in 2021. Financially I’ve managed to somehow make ends meet.
Apple’s Vision Pro is out, I’m going to have to write a deep dive on that! Forty years of computing in this picture, but it feels like there’s been five years of AI developments packed into the past 18 months.
This makes emerging tech, innovation and startup trends really enjoyable to cover during this period.
I’m obsessed with multiple business aspects from emerging industries like Quantum computing to the hype narrative of Generative AI.
Show me the Goods 👌
ARTICLE MAP OF MY WORK
Let’s get into the big picture of my writing of 2022 to 2024.
Available Publications
As an analyst about emerging tech and the future, I have cover and curate a great deal of content around a few core topics. Currently these are:
Startups 🦄
Artificial Intelligence 🤖
Robotics 🦾
Quantum computing 🌌
Innovation, emerging tech and technological China 👨🏻🔬
Main Newsletters
As a full-time Newsletter publication manager, these are some of the Newsletters I currently manage.
AI Supremacy - Posts in chronological order.
Artificial Intelligence Survey - Posts in chronological order.
Quantum Foundry - Posts in chronological order.
Among 10 other publications.
Newly Launched Publications in 2024
This is about what’s new and trending with major BigTech ‘magnificent seven’ companies and their pursuit of AI.
This is about progress in robotics, the teams that innovate and improvements in their capabilities.
Machine Economy Press - Learn more.
This is about automation and insights around how humans will adapt to this new world.
I’m trying to find a balance of curating the future of the emerging internet.
Index to All of my Work
This list includes guest authors, across publications and only scratches the surface of my work in my first two years on Substack.
Though my goal is to update it to include everything, I am beginning to think that is not realistic.
This then is the sample of what I am doing on a daily basis here. 👀 Hopefully dear reader, you find something of interest. What in unique about this table of contents, is it spans across my Newsletters on Substack. I’ve never really seen anything like that before.
Biography
My name is Michael Spencer, and I split my time between Montreal, Canada and Taichung, Taiwan. In late December, 2021 I started writing here. I need to make a breakthrough in 2024 to reach my full potential. I have had to lock more posts for paid subscribers and do more Native Sponsorships to make ends meet, I’m sorry of this is an inconvenience.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
This not just an index, but a map and a guide to a sample of my work here on Substack, across a few of my publications.
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💌 Community
I am known for my meta lists of Newsletters, across topics and featuring guest contributors.
➡ Top Software Engineering Newsletters in 2024
➡ 🔥 Top AI Newsletters of 2024 on Substack
➡ Who to Follow on LinkedIn and X for A.I. Knowledge & News
➡ China's Role in A.I. Supremacy 🀄️ Top Newsletters on Substack about China Insights
➡ What is BigTech and AI Newsletter?
➡ Top Unlisted A.I. Newsletters of Mid 2023
➡ Summary of the State of AI Report 2023
➡ Summary of the State of AI Report Part II
➡ 📖 Good Reads in A.I. Issue #1
➡ 📖 Good Reads in A.I. Issue #2
➡ 📖 Good Reads in A.I. Issue #3
➡ 📖 Good Reads in A.I. Issue #4
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
➡ Why You Should be Skeptical of AGI
➡ GPT-4's Sparking Intelligence
🔓 OpenAI
I am also known for my coverage (and criticism) of OpenAI.
▪ OpenAI for Military Use? 💣 Game on
▪ OpenAI's GPT Store, ChatGPT Teams and GPT-5
▪ What OpenAI can do to Make ChatGPT Hype Real and Sustainable
▪ OpenAI's GPT-4 Fails Turing Test Simulation By Researchers
▪ OpenAI's Illegal Activities Clouds Success
▪ OpenAI Moves Fast and Breaks Things
▪ OpenAI Says it can Augment Media
▪ OpenAI GPT Technology will lead to Thousands of Lost jobs in 2024
▪ OpenAI Claims Artificial Super Intelligence will manifest before 2033
▪ OpenAI's 2024 Round of Funding
▪ OpenAI's GPT Store set to Launch AI Creator Economy
▪ OpenAI and Character.AI Race for More Funding
🤓 BigTech
I cover breaking news on BigTech’s investment in Generative AI and AI products.
▪ Amazon Rufus AI Assistant Launches in Beta
▪ Meta is serious about the Metaverse, AI and AI Chips
▪Apple Smart Car Delayed to 2028
▪ Google Gemini is Finally Here
▪ Nvidia Earnings: The Era of A.I. Chips And Generative A.I. Demand
▪ 2024: Silicon Valley Tries to "Open-Source" AGI
▪ Is Big Tech monopolizing the AI boom?
▪ Apple's Breakthrough Diabetes Monitoring Future on its AppleWatch Shows BigTech's Healthcare Prowess
▪ Microsoft Copilot 365 Cannot Really Fail, Here's Why
▪ Amazon will Release its new Huge LLM Soon
▪ Can Apple Catch up in Generative A.I.?
▪ Microsoft Copilot 365 Cannot Really Fail, Here's Why
🎨 Generative AI
I look for macro perspectives on the evolution of Generative AI and AI innovation.
➡ The most impactful AI events of 2023
➡ Most Impactful Generative AI Papers of 2023
➡ What We Learned About AI and Education in 2023
➡ Here’s what to know about EU’s AI Act
➡ Debunking Myths and Realities of LLMs
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Healthcare
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➡ Will 2024 be the Year of Small Language Models (SLMs)?
➡ Will AI Safety Summits Make for a Safer Generative A.I. Industry in 2024?
➡ AI for Good: How European Climate Tech Startups Are Tackling Climate Change with AI
➡ How Generative A.I. Is Transforming Ed-Tech
💡 Innovation
📎 Interlune, the Secretive Splinter Startup from Blue Origin
📎 Allen Institute for AI - What is OLMo?
📎 Can A.I. Automate Vertical Farming?
📎 Can Perplexity Improve Search Experience with LLMs?
📎 A.I. is Starting to Build the Healthcare of the Future
📎 🌌 Why A.I. is Increasingly a Game Changer in Astronomy and Cosmology
📎 Summary of the State of AI Report Part II
📎 🧬 The Age of A.I., Longevity and Biotech
📎 A.I. is Automating Astronomical Discoveries
📎 How AI is Going to Change Drug Screening Forever
🩺 Healthcare
📎 How AI is Going to Change Drug Screening Forever
📎 What Clinicians Really Think About AI
📎 We'll Catch Alzheimer's with AI in Speech Patterns
📎 AI in mammography screening is safe and dramatically reduces Radiologist workloads
📎 An A.I. from Harvard predicts who is most at risk of pancreatic cancer
📎 A.I. Discovers Four Distinct Types of Autism
📎 Machine Learning's Role in Healthcare is Increasing at a Frantic Pace
📎 Google's A.I. in Identifying novel features for Colorectal Cancer
📎 Artificial Intelligence will Augment Alzheimer and Dementia Detection & Early Risks Analysis
📎 🤯 A.I. Can Help Detect Brain Tumor Boundaries
📎 Google AI and Breast Cancer Making Progress
📎 Artificial Intelligence will enable Early Autism Detection
📎 A.I. in Alzheimer’s disease in 2022
📎 Are A.I. Eye Checks the New Heart Disease Warning Test?
🚀 Startups
➡ Anthropic Collaboration with Robin AI in Legal AI
➡ ElevenLabs now valued at $1.1 Billion
➡ Sakana AI Scores $30 Million in Seed Funding
➡ Anthropic Confirmed to get up to $2 Billion from Google
➡ Essential AI Comes out of Stealth
➡ 🚀 Pika Labs Could Transform Video Prompting in 2024
➡ Is this the OpenAI of Europe?
➡ Together Open Source Generative AI Cloud Player Raises $102.5 Million
➡ Poe gets a $75 Million Boost from a16z as part of Quora's AI Strategy
➡ Why Israel's AI21 Labs Will be a Success Story
➡ Paris Based Nabla Nabs $24 million Series B funding
➡ OpenAI Backed Harvey AI Takes Another Step
➡ Writer Lands $100m in Series B
➡ Imbue raises $200 Million for AI systems that can reason and code
➡ The GitHub of machine learning Comes of Age
➡ Elon Musk startup xAI will debut its Artificial Intelligence Chatbot
➡ Anthropic AI, a Light in Silicon Valley Darkness?
➡ Six of the Best Funded AI Startups
Semiconductor
▪ AMD's MI300 chips will Power Faster AI Training
▪ Nvidia Earnings: The Era of A.I. Chips And Generative A.I. Demand
▪ AMD's A.I. Chips want to Take on Nvidia
🔮 Future of Work
▪ MIT Paper: AI’s Labor Market Impacts Are Slower Than Expected
▪ The Robots are Coming for your Job
▪ Big Claims by IMF on AI and the Future of Work
💥 Venture Capital
➡ How BigTech Invested in AI Companies in 2023
➡ Week in Review: AI stealth startup Holistic, Musk, Altman and Paris France
➡ Venture Capital's Race for AI Supremacy in 2023 Explained
➡ Anthropic Confirmed to get up to $2 Billion from Google
➡ Air Street Capital just Got Upgraded
➡ What is Kyuntai?
➡ OpenAI and Character.AI Race for More Funding
💭 Op-Eds
📎 Why GPT-5 Could Hurt OpenAI's Future
📎 AI is reshaping how we Study and Interact with the Universe
📎 A.I. Is Translating History and Extending Human Senses Across Space and Time
📎 Generative AI is Breaking Society
📎 The Cultural, Psychological and Collective Impacts of Generative AI
📎 How AI Might help us Survive on Mars
📎 🤖 Advent of the BigTech Backlash
📎 Can Generative A.I. Make us all Polymaths and Company Founders?
📎 What is Artificial Imagination?
💫 Quantum Computing
▪ Infleqtion acquires silicon Photonics companies SiNoptiq Inc. and Morton Photonics Inc.
▪ Alice & Bob Making Strides in Error Correction
▪ Quantinuum Breaks Through Ceiling with $300 Million in Added Funding
▪ IBM Unveils 133 Qubit Heron Plus First Modular Quantum Computer
▪ SandboxAQ acquires Good Chemistry 🧪🔬🧬👨🏻🔬
▪ Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) Raises $100M for Quantum compute-as-a-service
🦅 National Defense
➡ Eric Schmidt Drone Startup White Stork
➡ DARPA's Quantum Ambitions go Higher in 2024
➡ Anduril Shows the Weaponization of Silicon Valley
➡ Military AI Startups Get Alarming Boost to Funding in 2023
🤖 Robotics
▪ What is Nvidia's Foundation Agent?
▪ Figure's BMW General Purpose Robot Pilot
▪ Robotics will Evolve with Generative AI
▪ 1X Backed by OpenAI gets Significant Series B $100 Million Raise
▪ GDM's Robotics Papers of January 2024
▪ Serve Robotics is Going Public
▪ Who will Mass Produce Humanoid General Purpose Robots First?
▪ What Disney's Cutest Robot Means for the Future
▪ Google DeepMind's Robotics Breakthrough
🎧 AI Gadgets and AI Tools
📎 Will AI ever find its “iPhone Moment”?
📎 Top A.I. Powered Tools Not Named ChatGPT (Part II)
📎 Top A.I. Powered Tools Not Named ChatGPT (Part I)
📎 OpenAI Making an A.I. Device with Jony Ive
</> Programming
▪ Recent Layoffs Suggest Coders are being Replaced by AI
▪ Why Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot is Deeply Unprofitable
China and World
➡ Middle East's G42 and Ties to China
➡ AI for Good: How European Climate Tech Startups Are Tackling Climate Change with AI
➡ China's pursuit of AGI and General Purpose Robots should not be Underestimated
➡ AI for Good: How European Climate Tech Startups Are Tackling Climate Change with AI
➡ Can China build its own ChatGPT?
AI Rundowns of News
▪ The Generative A.I. Brief #24, see archives of these. These were very time consuming and my CTR didn’t justify the Friday overtime hours.
This summary of archives only goes back a few months, in reality it’s two years, and a decade of blogging before that.
Most Popular Tags & Topics
These are some of my most popular tags:
NVIDIA 🧩
OPENAI 🎉
MOST POPULAR POSTS
THE FUTURE OF WORK 🌏+🚶🏻♀️
ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE 💥
A.I. STARTUPS 🚀
GENERATIVE AI ✨
GUEST POSTS 🥳
This is just a very small selections of tags. Browse my sections instead.
HEALTHCARE AND AI FOR GOOD 🩺
Benefactor - Healthcare and AI for Good
GROWING INNOVATION 🌱
Prospectus - AI startups, R&D and innovation
I try to cater to a wide range of audiences and cover breaking news, business trends and macro trends in A.I.
There’s likely not a Substack or a collection of publications around that covers as many diverse topics related to our niche.
For the first couple of years on Substack I have bootstrapped my costs but this year, my third, I will need to become profitable to keep on with this coverage or I will have to find something else to do in life.
Many publications in AI and Technology charge over $10 or $15 a month for coverage, I charge typically $8.
Thanks for reading!
LinkedIn AI Report Newsletter
Before Substack and Medium, I was a two time LinkedIn Top Voice back before they were algorithmically generated. During my decade of blogging before Substack I gained followers from my Newsletter efforts in that ecosystem.
How many Active Readers really?
Total addressable audience on LinkedIn, 225,765.
Total addressable audience on Substack, according to my profile is 74,000.
On my LinkedIn I have another 214,000 followers.
I would estimate my total addressable market of readers is 175,000 unique readers in the above. Let’s be conservative and say my global open-rate is 30%, that means I have only roughly 52,000 active readers.
This is organic reach without paid acquisitions. Given my limited financial means to invest into the business, it’s interesting for me to see how my efforts stack up after 25 months on Substack.
Growth on the LinkedIn Newsletter
Around November, 2023 LinkedIn updated their algorithm to allow Newsletters on their platform to be found more easily. 4,000 new readers in the past 3 months there is the first time it’s grown in many months.
A Stack of Multiple Platforms
As an analyst, curator and writer therefore I recognize that my “stack” needs to include many platforms like LinkedIn, Substack, Substack Notes and Instagram Threads to reach a wider audience.
AI Report helps me survive financially with Native Sponsors to help me work on my Substack which is my main passion project.
AI Report is a featured Newsletter on Paved.
I use Passionfroot to work with AI startups to do collabs.
The Native Sponsorships and paid subscriptions from Substack helps me fund my work. In 2024, that is how I continue writing.
Thanks for all of your support.
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