The Biggest Week in AI Announcements in 2024, no Ever!

Nvidia's Earnings 💲 signal a new era of accelerationism in AI

Hey Everyone,

I’ve been covering AI news fanatically for around 26 months, or in the area of 104 weeks. Mid February, 2024 is the biggest week of A.I. announcement I’ve ever seen.

• Nvidia’s Earnings beat

• OpenAI’s text-to-video Sora

• Groq’s LPU Chip increases speed (latency) of responses substantially

• Google Gemma

• China’s Moonshot AI raises US $1 Billion

• SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son wants $100 billion for a new AI chip venture

• Mistral Next

• Amazon BASE TTS makers claim “Emergent Abilities”

• Foundational Model for Biology, Bioptimus Startup

• OpenAI building its own Search Engine

• India announces Reliance’s BharatGPT ‘Hanooman’

• Intel launches Systems Foundry for AI Era

• Stability AI releases Stable Cascade

• Intel signs Microsoft as major Foundry Partner

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🥇 Top AI Rundowns 🏆

These sources are good to skim for seconds per day, when you just want a glance of major headlines.

There are a great many ways to keep in touch with A.I. News on a daily basis. Here are some of the top ones in Newsletter rundown formats:

1. Ben’s Bites

2. AI Valley

3. The Deep View

4. OpenTool’s

5. TLDR AI

6. AI Breakfast

7. The Rundown

8. Semafor Tech

9. The Neuron

10. AlphaSignal

Even if you just hit one of these a day randomly, you should be alright. I don’t recommend Rundowns on Substack, since they are not optimized for skimming. You don’t want to be spending more than 10-20 seconds in these flash reads. I see Substack as more for deep dives, essays, education and curation compilations.

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New Sora videos just dropped on TikTok by OpenAI team and people are going crazy 🐶. Nothing in this video is real.

Nvidia’s rise in terms of market cap reminds many of Cisco in the dot.com bubble. There’s no other valid comparison really. It’s nearly difficult to put into context what we are witnessing.

Given Nvidia’s earnings there’s no reason to believe they don’t hit that $2 Trillion market cap soon. Let’s try and break all of this down.