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š TABLE OF CONTENTS: Hereās the index of everything Iāve written so far.
Hey Everyone,
Welcome to my Newsletter, itās actually Newsletters plural. I love what I do, I wouldnāt want to be doing anything but this. I wanted to touch base with all of you šØāš©āš§āš¦. I wanted to re-introduce you to my work.
Iām 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? š¤·š½āāļø
Can I actually making a living wage doing this? All passions and pursuits are filled with uncertainty. So letās begin the guide.
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The What?
I write so much itās 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?)
šÆ 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. Iām primarily concerned with startups, business and venture capital trends as well as implications on society, science and humanity.
Life Circumstances / Future of Media
If you value articles like these, consider supporting an indie writer, curator, researchers and analyst.
Iām self-employed and donāt 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 Appleās Vision Pro the next AI mediated consumer device? Instead of a Poll this time, Iāll 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 donāt expect many of my readers through their own volition to explore the hundreds of articles in the archives. This āarticle mapā might help in this issue.
This represents thousands of hours of my laborā¦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 āAI Newslettersā.
Do you know someone who might enjoy these topics?
I enjoy emerging tech š® even more than I did today in 2024 than when I started this endeavor in 2021. Financially Iāve managed to somehow make ends meet.
Appleās Vision Pro is out, Iām going to have to write a deep dive on that! Forty years of computing in this picture, but it feels like thereās 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.
Iām obsessed with multiple business aspects from emerging industries like Quantum computing to the hype narrative of Generative AI.
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ARTICLE MAP OF MY WORK
Letās 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 š¦
Artificial Intelligence š¤
Robotics š¦¾
Quantum computing š
Innovation, emerging tech and technological China šØš»āš¬
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 whatās new and trending with major BigTech āmagnificent sevenā 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.
Iām 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. š Hopefully dear reader, you find something of interest. What in unique about this table of contents, is it spans across my Newsletters on Substack. Iāve 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, Iām 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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š Community
I am known for my meta lists of Newsletters, across topics and featuring guest contributors.
ā” Top Software Engineering Newsletters in 2024
ā”Ā š„ Top AI Newsletters of 2024 on Substack
ā” Who to Follow on LinkedIn and X for A.I. Knowledge & News
ā” China's Role in A.I. Supremacy šļø Top Newsletters on Substack about China Insights
ā” What is BigTech and AI Newsletter?
ā” Top Unlisted A.I. Newsletters of Mid 2023
ā” Summary of the State of AI Report 2023
ā” Summary of the State of AI Report Part II
ā” š Good Reads in A.I. Issue #1
ā” š Good Reads in A.I. Issue #2
ā” š Good Reads in A.I. Issue #3
ā” š Good Reads in A.I. Issue #4
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)Ā
ā” Why You Should be Skeptical of AGI
ā” GPT-4's Sparking Intelligence
š OpenAI
I am also known for my coverage (and criticism) of OpenAI.
āŖ OpenAI for Military Use? š£ Game on
āŖ OpenAI's GPT Store, ChatGPT Teams and GPT-5
āŖ What OpenAI can do to Make ChatGPT Hype Real and Sustainable
āŖ OpenAI's GPT-4 Fails Turing Test Simulation By Researchers
āŖ OpenAI's Illegal Activities Clouds Success
āŖ OpenAI Moves Fast and Breaks Things
āŖ OpenAI Says it can Augment Media
āŖ OpenAI GPT Technology will lead to Thousands of Lost jobs in 2024
āŖ OpenAI Claims Artificial Super Intelligence will manifest before 2033
āŖ OpenAI's 2024 Round of Funding
āŖ Schmisms Continue at OpenAI
āŖ OpenAI's GPT Store set to Launch AI Creator Economy
āŖ OpenAI and Character.AI Race for More Funding
š¤ BigTech
I cover breaking news on BigTechās investment in Generative AI and AI products.
āŖ Amazon Rufus AI Assistant Launches in Beta
āŖ Meta is serious about the Metaverse, AI and AI Chips
āŖApple Smart Car Delayed to 2028
āŖ Google Gemini is Finally Here
āŖ Nvidia Earnings: The Era of A.I. Chips And Generative A.I. Demand
āŖ 2024: Silicon Valley Tries to "Open-Source" AGI
āŖ Is Big Tech monopolizing the AI boom?
āŖ Microsoft is Eating OpenAI
āŖ Apple's Breakthrough Diabetes Monitoring Future on its AppleWatch Shows BigTech's Healthcare Prowess
āŖ Microsoft Copilot 365 Cannot Really Fail, Here's Why
āŖ Amazon will Release its new Huge LLM Soon
āŖ Can Apple Catch up in Generative A.I.?
āŖ Microsoft Copilot 365 Cannot Really Fail, Here's Why
šØ Generative AIĀ
I look for macro perspectives on the evolution of Generative AI and AI innovation.
ā” The most impactful AI events of 2023
ā” Most Impactful Generative AI Papers of 2023
ā” What We Learned About AI and Education in 2023
ā” AI in 2023
ā” Hereās what to know about EUās AI Act
ā” Debunking Myths and Realities of LLMs
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Innovation
Healthcare
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ā” Will 2024 be the Year of Small Language Models (SLMs)?
ā” Will AI Safety Summits Make for a Safer Generative A.I. Industry in 2024?
ā” AI for Good: How European Climate Tech Startups Are Tackling Climate Change with AI
ā” How Generative A.I. Is Transforming Ed-Tech
š” Innovation
š Interlune, the Secretive Splinter Startup from Blue OriginĀ
š Allen Institute for AI - What is OLMo?
š Can A.I. Automate Vertical Farming?
š Can Perplexity Improve Search Experience with LLMs?
š Top Ted Talks on AI in 2023
š The Advent of "HustleGPT"
š A.I. is Starting to Build the Healthcare of the Future
š š Why A.I. is Increasingly a Game Changer in Astronomy and Cosmology
š Summary of the State of AI Report Part II
šĀ š§¬ The Age of A.I., Longevity and Biotech
š A.I. is Automating Astronomical Discoveries
š How AI is Going to Change Drug Screening Forever
š©ŗ HealthcareĀ
š How AI is Going to Change Drug Screening Forever
š What Clinicians Really Think About AI
š We'll Catch Alzheimer's with AI in Speech Patterns
š AI in mammography screening is safe and dramatically reduces Radiologist workloads
š An A.I. from Harvard predicts who is most at risk of pancreatic cancer
š A.I. Discovers Four Distinct Types of Autism
š Machine Learning's Role in Healthcare is Increasing at a Frantic Pace
š Google's A.I. in Identifying novel features for Colorectal Cancer
š Artificial Intelligence will Augment Alzheimer and Dementia Detection & Early Risks Analysis
š A.I. in the Opioid Crisis
š š¤Æ A.I. Can Help Detect Brain Tumor Boundaries
š Google AI and Breast Cancer Making Progress
š Artificial Intelligence will enable Early Autism Detection
š AI and the Future of Sepsis
š A.I. in Alzheimerās disease in 2022
š Are A.I. Eye Checks the New Heart Disease Warning Test?
š StartupsĀ
ā” Anthropic Collaboration with Robin AI in Legal AI
ā”Ā ElevenLabs now valued at $1.1 Billion
ā” Sakana AI Scores $30 Million in Seed Funding
ā” Anthropic Confirmed to get up to $2 Billion from Google
ā” Essential AI Comes out of Stealth
ā” š Pika Labs Could Transform Video Prompting in 2024
ā” Is this the OpenAI of Europe?
ā” Together Open Source Generative AI Cloud Player Raises $102.5 Million
ā” Poe gets a $75 Million Boost from a16z as part of Quora's AI Strategy
ā” Why Israel's AI21 Labs Will be a Success Story
ā” Paris Based Nabla Nabs $24 million Series B funding
ā” What is Pika Labs?Ā
ā” OpenAI Backed Harvey AI Takes Another Step
ā” Writer Lands $100m in Series B
ā” Imbue raises $200 Million for AI systems that can reason and code
ā” The GitHub of machine learning Comes of Age
ā” Elon Musk startup xAI will debut its Artificial Intelligence Chatbot
ā” Anthropic AI, a Light in Silicon Valley Darkness?
ā” Six of the Best Funded AI Startups
SemiconductorĀ
āŖ AMD's MI300 chips will Power Faster AI Training
āŖ Nvidia Earnings: The Era of A.I. Chips And Generative A.I. Demand
āŖ AMD's A.I. Chips want to Take on Nvidia
š® Future of WorkĀ
āŖ MIT Paper: AIās Labor Market Impacts Are Slower Than Expected
āŖ The Robots are Coming for your Job
āŖ Big Claims by IMF on AI and the Future of Work
š„ Venture CapitalĀ
ā” Ā How BigTech Invested in AI Companies in 2023
ā” Week in Review: AI stealth startup Holistic, Musk, Altman and Paris France
ā” Venture Capital's Race for AI Supremacy in 2023 Explained
ā” Anthropic Confirmed to get up to $2 Billion from Google
ā” Air Street Capital just Got Upgraded
ā” What is Kyuntai?Ā
ā” OpenAI and Character.AI Race for More Funding
š Op-Eds
š Why GPT-5 Could Hurt OpenAI's Future
š AI is reshaping how we Study and Interact with the Universe
š A.I. Is Translating History and Extending Human Senses Across Space and Time
š Generative AI is Breaking Society
š The Cultural, Psychological and Collective Impacts of Generative AI
š How AI Might help us Survive on Mars
š š¤ Advent of the BigTech Backlash
š Can Generative A.I. Make us all Polymaths and Company Founders?
š What is Artificial Imagination?
š« Quantum Computing
āŖ Infleqtion acquires silicon Photonics companies SiNoptiq Inc. and Morton Photonics Inc.
āŖ Alice & Bob Making Strides in Error Correction
āŖ Quantinuum Breaks Through Ceiling with $300 Million in Added Funding
āŖ IBM Unveils 133 Qubit Heron Plus First Modular Quantum Computer
āŖ Ā SandboxAQ acquires Good Chemistry š§Ŗš¬š§¬šØš»āš¬
āŖ On "Quantum Breakthroughs"Ā
āŖ Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) Raises $100M for Quantum compute-as-a-service
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National Defense
Ā ā” Eric Schmidt Drone Startup White Stork
Ā ā” DARPA's Quantum Ambitions go Higher in 2024
Ā ā” Anduril Shows the Weaponization of Silicon Valley
Ā ā” Military AI Startups Get Alarming Boost to Funding in 2023
š¤ RoboticsĀ
āŖ What is Nvidia's Foundation Agent?
āŖ Figure's BMW General Purpose Robot Pilot
āŖ Robotics will Evolve with Generative AI
āŖ 1X Backed by OpenAI gets Significant Series B $100 Million Raise
āŖ GDM's Robotics Papers of January 2024
āŖ Serve Robotics is Going Public
āŖ Robots at Amazon
āŖ Who will Mass Produce Humanoid General Purpose Robots First?
āŖ What Disney's Cutest Robot Means for the Future
āŖ Google DeepMind's Robotics Breakthrough
š§ AI Gadgets and AI ToolsĀ
š Will AI ever find its āiPhone Momentā?Ā
š Top Highlights of CES 2024
š Top A.I. Powered Tools Not Named ChatGPT (Part II)
š Top A.I. Powered Tools Not Named ChatGPT (Part I)Ā
š OpenAI Making an A.I. Device with Jony Ive
</> ProgrammingĀ
āŖ What is Googleās AlphaCode?Ā
āŖ Recent Layoffs Suggest Coders are being Replaced by AIĀ
āŖ Why Microsoftās GitHub Copilot is Deeply UnprofitableĀ
China and World
ā” Middle East's G42 and Ties to China
ā” AI for Good: How European Climate Tech Startups Are Tackling Climate Change with AI
ā” China's pursuit of AGI and General Purpose Robots should not be Underestimated
ā” AI for Good: How European Climate Tech Startups Are Tackling Climate Change with AI
ā” Can China build its own ChatGPT?
AI Rundowns of News
āŖ The Generative A.I. Brief #24, see archives of these.Ā These were very time consuming and my CTR didnāt justify the Friday overtime hours.
This summary of archives only goes back a few months, in reality itās two years, and a decade of blogging before that.
Most Popular Tags & Topics
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HEALTHCARE AND AI FOR GOOD š©ŗ
Benefactor - Healthcare and AI for Good
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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.
Thereās 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. Letās 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, itās 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 itās grown in many months.
A Stack of Multiple Platforms
As an analyst, curator and writer therefore I recognize that my āstackā 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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