🧠 Grok-1 Goes Public, Musk and AI's Open Future, Apple's CarPlay Gamble
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Open Release of Grok-1. We are releasing the base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1, our large language model. Grok-1 is a 314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model trained from scratch by xAI. This is the raw base model checkpoint from the Grok-1 pre-training phase, which concluded in October 2023. This means that the model is not fine-tuned for any specific application, such as dialogue. x.ai
𝕏: BREAKING NEWS: Apple and Google are in discussions for Gemini to power Generative AI features coming to the iPhone with iOS 18 this year. Apple also recently held talks with OpenAI on a deal. - Mark Gurman (@markgurman)
Musk's Grok AI goes open source. The move, which Musk had previously proclaimed would happen this week, now enables any other entrepreneur, programmer, company, or individual to take Grok’s weights — the strength of connections between the model’s artificial “neurons,” or software modules that allow the model to make decisions and accept inputs and provide outputs in the form of text — and other associated documentation and use a copy of the model for whatever they’d like, including for commercial applications. By Carl Franzen via VentureBeat
𝕏: Grok-1 is out in the open. - Toby Pohlen (@TobyPhln)
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Apple's New CarPlay Becomes Last Hope to Crack the Auto Industry. Apple's new CarPlay interface was originally designed to fend off Android, but now it's Apple's last hope to conquer the automotive industry. Also: Suppliers gear up for a major AirPods launch ; the US Department of Justice prepares a lawsuit ; and Apple buys a Canadian AI startup. By Mark Gurman via Bloomberg
𝕏: Power On: The new CarPlay was designed to fend off Android in cars. Now it’s Apple’s only hope in the automotive market. - Mark Gurman (@markgurman)
Meet the Tech Company That Had a Better Year Than Nvidia. Nvidia NVDA 3.74%increase; green up pointing triangle has reigned as the investor darling of the artificial intelligence boom, more than quadrupling the value of its shares in the past year. But one of the chipmaker’s customers is performing even better. By Asa Fitch via WSJ
𝕏: Meet the Tech Company That Had a Better Year Than Nvidia Super Micro Computer has gone from an obscure server maker to a $60 billion company set to join the S&P 500 Monday - Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer (@EvanKirstel)
A ChatGPT for Music Is Here. Inside Suno, the Start-up Changing Everything. I’m just a soul trapped in this circuitry.” The voice singing those lyrics is raw and plaintive, dipping into blue notes. A lone acoustic guitar chugs behind it, punctuating the vocal phrases with tasteful runs. But there’s no human behind the voice, no hands on that guitar. By Brian Hiatt via Rolling Stone
𝕏: Rolling Stone is a music magazine. Why is the only line on Suno’s training data that they “decline to reveal” what they trained on, and why is this buried in the 9th paragraph? - Ed Newton-Rex (@ednewtonrex)
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