AI is going after all the Low Hanging Fruit

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1. AI powered assistants are becoming commonplace for Enterprise Software

2. Google's AI arsenal keeps growing

3. Meta's LLaMA model leaked soon after public announcement

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AI powered assistants are becoming commonplace for Enterprise Software

There is plenty of low hanging fruit that Microsoft is going after in their product suite to integrate with GPT models. Their latest update is to the Dynamics 365 platform, its ecosystem of business applications that are designed for marketing and sales users.

The product (called Copilot) not only gives users advice on tasks but is also able to synthesise information from the Customer’s CRM, case history and other transactions to craft specific responses for each. The next major announcement from Microsoft is on 16th March which will be for “workplace productivity”, we’ll let you guess what that could be.

In other enterprise product news, Hubspot’s CTO apparently built ChatSpot (their AI Assistant) as a side project. This is now integrated with Hubspot’s product. Chatspot is able to perform tasks like followup emails, lead management , automate data entries etc.

Google's AI arsenal keeps growing

While we have businesses (big and small) building on top of OpenAI’s APIs, Google is taking the novelty approach by publishing their SOTA research before officially announcing any product updates with these new models. We might see a few at this year's Google I/O.

Their stance from the very beginning has been to “responsibly” deploy their models and minimise the harm that they might cause. Yesterday was no different with the announcement of PALM-E, a general-purpose vision language model with 562 billion parameters.

The model uses the visual question and answer ability of language models and integrates it with robotic systems to do actions in the physical world. The demo is impressive, but users don’t exactly know which products Google plans to deploy the model on.

We know that Google’s arsenal of AI models is second to none so we can expect that attempts will be made to commercialise them. Until then folks will continue guessing on what strategy the company will use to achieve commercialisation.

Meta's LLaMA model leaked soon after public announcement

Long story short, Meta released LLaMA (as an open sourced model) , their GPT competitor. The announcement created quite a buzz but people were bummed when they did not release the weights in order to "maintain integrity and prevent misuse".

A lot of researchers did end up getting access to the entire model through a request form.

Not long after, someone on 4Chan leaked the model’s weights on torrent. Murphy’s law prevailed and Meta had to send a takedown notice to Hugging Face (ML Platform). No official statement has been issued so far though.

Those who got to play around with the model did mention that they preferred ChatGPT for the simple reason that LLaMA has not been taught how to converse in Natural language.

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