Meta is building AI Chips

and OpenAI launches ChatGPT mobile app

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The Alignment
May 21, 2023

Meta is dipping its feet in AI hardware, OpenAI has launched its mobile app and Apple is restricting its employees from using ChatGPT. Oh and Perplexity AI just launched a copilot for Search.

Lets dig in.

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Here’s what we have lined up for you today -

  1. Meta is Building its own AI Hardware

  2. ChatGPT now has a mobile app

  3. Apple bans ChatGPT use for some employees

  4. OpenAI asks DC upstart to remove “ChatGPT for Politics” pitch

  5. Copilot for Search

We knew Mark Zuckerbeg was serious about AI. But building custom AI chips was not on our bingo card.

The social network company needs custom hardware to handle its AI models at scale. Models that require massive compute resources that cannot be completely provided by general purpose GPUs.

Meta is also building out their next generation data center that will be purpose built for AI models. They’re also building a supercomputer, once again to train its latest AI models bulked up with 16000 GPUs.

With this announcement, Meta joins the rest of big tech including Amazon, Google and Microsoft in their pursuit of building custom AI hardware. These companies are still heavily dependent on NVIDIA but clearly they’re trying to build their own capabilities.

Goodbye to all the ChatGPT clone apps that were ripping off users and their personal data.

OpenAI’s ChatGpt app is everything you expect it to be. Ask the app questions and receive in depth conversational answers.

They’re also some other sweet features that OpenAI added to enhance the user experience

  • Speech to text, dictate questions directly to the app and OpenAI’s whisper speech model handles the rest.

  • Sync your history across devices.

  • Search your message history.

There is however no plugin access built into the app and the design of the app is still very minimalist. Nonetheless, these things will continue to improve and given OpenAI’s shipping speed, things will be updated pretty fast.

Should Siri and Google Assistant be wary of these developments ? Surely Google and Apple have something up their sleeves.

Around the industry -

This should barely come as a surprise. Apple is most likely building a competitor and building its own large language models. It makes complete sense for them to restrict work usage of ChatGPT to ensure that there are no privacy leaks of sensitive data. A whole host of prominent companies have already started doing the same, and many more will follow soon as well.

This is the first time we are seeing OpenAI policing how its technology is marketed by 3rd party clients. Political bias is something that previous versions of ChatGPT have been accused of. Let's see how much more policing OpenAI does.

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