The Generative A.I. Brief #18

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Marc Andreessen thinks he’s a techno-optimist shark with an enemy-list. He’s also a man of many AI generated ‘manifestos.’

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This week my phone broke, hence the short edition, but I noticed A.I. news is noticeably slower of late. Peak hype is definately several weeks behind us.

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📢Top News 📺

The Techno-Optimist Manifesto, this wouldn’t be news except Generative A.I. funding might take a huge dive sometime in the next eighteen months (a16z)

OpenAI thinks it’s worth $86 Billion with Thrive Capital to lead purchase

OpenAI, which counts Microsoft Corp. as a 49% owner, is led by Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman. At $86 billion, it would leapfrog the likes of Stripe and Chinese online retailer Shein to become one of the world’s most valuable closely held companies, behind Elon Musk’s SpaceX and TikTok parent ByteDance. 

AI Chatbots Can Guess Your Personal Information From What You Type (Wired) - Paper

Inflection’s Chatbot Pi, get’s real-time web access as well

Anthropic reaches 95 more countries - see the list

Google: New ways to get inspired with generative AI in Search

Amazon begins testing humanoid robots in warehouses to ‘free up workers’

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