🚀 AI agent marketplaces

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Perplexity AI just made a bold move. They’ve stripped the Chinese censorship filters from DeepSeek’s open-weight model, DeepSeek R1. This means users now have access to a model that isn’t limited by China’s strict content restrictions, something that could make waves in the AI community. DeepSeek has been considered such an advanced model, however many countries have completely blocked the ability to use it due to political, censorship and trust issues, so it will be interesting to see if Perplexity’s new cheeky stripped down model get’s the use R1 deserves.

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🚀 The future centers around AI agent marketplaces

🐝 The Buzz: AI agents are ready to take over the world, or at least the business part of it, by creating a wave of marketplaces where these smart little helpers can be hired at affordable prices. SMBs, watch out - it’s about to get easier to get work done! 

• Nearly half of American economic output comes from SMBs, presenting a $750B IT spending opportunity, but many are under-served by traditional tech.  

• AI agents are changing the landscape by providing accessible, scalable, and cost-effective services to these businesses.  

• Marketplaces for AI agents can outperform standalone providers through economies of scale and ease of access.  

• Existing models indicate that those who adapt quickly to the AI agent marketplace will see tremendous success and likely monopolize market share.

💡 Takeaway: Understanding the new dynamics of AI agent marketplaces is crucial for anyone navigating the business world today. It offers immense potential for growth and efficiency, helping SMBs to finally access resources that used to be the exclusive territory of larger companies. With AI agents lending a hand, running a small business is becoming much simpler.

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🌏️ Grok-3 mega training cluster called Colossus

🐝 The Buzz: Elon Musk's new AI brainchild, Grok 3, is here and turning heads, but don’t ditch ChatGPT just yet! It’s competitive but still fighting some classic AI growing pains. Grok 3's advanced reasoning features lessens its hallucination issues compared to its predecessors but performed impressively in blind tests against established models like ChatGPT and DeepSeek.

• Grok 3 has been trained on 10 times more computing power than its predecessor, using 200,000 GPUs. Next, Elon Musk wants to scale up to 1M Nvidia chips, adding at least 100K per quarter.

• Experts suggest Grok 3 matches the best models but is yet to convince users to abandon their subscriptions to competitors.  

• While Grok 3 has improved speed and performance rapidly, skepticism remains about whether more computing power translates to better intelligence.

💡 Takeaway: It's always exciting to see new technology enter the scene, especially from someone as dynamic as Elon Musk. Grok 3's potential to challenge existing models raises the bar in AI development and keeps competitors on their toes for now.

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🐝 AI buzz bits

🌊 Meta's Project Waterworth aims to build the world's longest subsea cable network, enhancing global connectivity across five continents and driving AI innovation by opening new digital highways.

📱 Huawei just launched the Mate XT Ultimate, a phone that folds twice instead of once. It’s slim, stylish, and the first of its kind, giving you multiple form factors in a single device. The catch? It comes with a steep $3,660 price tag.

🕹️ Microsoft Research teamed up with game studio Ninja Theory to build Muse, an AI model that could help preserve older games that are no longer compatible with modern-day consoles.

🔬 Microsoft has unveiled the Majorana 1 quantum chip, utilizing groundbreaking Topological Core architecture for scalable qubits, promising to tackle complex industrial problems in years, not decades, and changing the future of quantum computing. For a simple explanation video, watch this

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