𓇲 Amazon turns up the AI chip wars

Hey folks,

The AI model releases are almost every day now. The competition is hot, the AI models just keep getting better, and AI video is the latest this week. Generative video is creating some amazing content, but you really have to question everything you see these days, so let’s dive in.

🐝 Buzz News

• Amazon is racing to develop its own processors to limit its reliance on costly Nvidia chips, the so-called Nvidia tax that power AI cloud services at AWS. The new chips are said to have a 50% improvement to speed at almost half the cost.

• AI Studio launched by Meta will now let you create AI characters for Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and the web by leveraging the Llama 3.1 AI model.

• Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has introduced more regulative measures to make sure its home-based tech companies adhere to ideological rules to ensure the AI will "embody core socialist values.

• Llama 3.1 vs GPT-4o vs Claude 3.5: A comprehensive comparison of leading AI models.

• Las Vegas transit system is nation’s first to plan a full deployment of AI surveillance system for weapons.

• Canva has acquired Leonardo.ai, a generative AI content startup so the company can continue to broaden the scope of AI tools.

• HuggingFace now offers inference-as-a-service to rapidly deploy leading LLMs like the Llama 3 family and Mistral AI models with optimisation from Nvidia NIM micro services.

AI Video
🎥 Meta unveils SAM-2 - a new video AI model.

The Buzz: Meta has announced SAM-2, a groundbreaking video model that's set to transform real-time object segmentation in images and videos. This tech can identify and track objects across video frames in real-time. Get ready to witness a new era of videos!

 🔑 Key Points

• Real-Time Processing: SAM-2 enables fast and accurate object segmentation, even in complex scenes, making it ideal for real-time applications. Check out this amazing demo

• Open Sourced: Meta is open-sourcing the AI model and releasing a large database of 50,000 videos for training purposes.

• Endless Applications: SAM-2's capabilities can be applied to fields like autonomous driving, robotics, healthcare and more, driving innovation and progress.

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AI Images
📷️ Bring still images to life with Runway Gen-3 Alpha.

The Buzz: Runway now allows you to transform still images into videos. Gen-3 Alpha makes video creation for artists, marketers, and storytellers possible. By using machine learning, Gen-3 Alpha shatters the barriers between stillness and motion, reimagining visual imagery.

The possibilities are endless. Social media platforms will be full of moving images, advertisers can create captivating commercials from a single photo, and filmmakers can experiment with innovative storytelling. Educators can create immersive learning experiences, and historians can bring the past to life. With Gen-3 Alpha, the art of video creation has been forever transformed, inviting us to create anything, but question everything!

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AI at work
💻️ Turn a Sales report into an interactive dashboard.

To visualise reports, it’s easy to use Claude to add your Sales report and ask for an interactive dashboard that you can analyse.

• Login to Claude - https://claude.ai/chat

• Upload your Sheet (be sure to remove sensitive data)

  or use a sample data set here

• Use the prompt

Create an interactive Sales dashboard to dynamically view the sales data attached in the spreadsheet. Make it look pretty and use $ and rounding in the dashboard to make it easier to read.

prompt: “drawing of American Red White and Blue armored halo Spartan Soldier, hulking armor and muscular strong frame, dark brown beard poking out of helmet, sitting on a throne with a sword, hunched over in prayer, space background, intimidating powerful majestic epic art perfect lighting high resolution high quality high definition 8k”

AI productivity
🔥 Tools to take your workflow to the next level.

1. AICareerCoach provides career development and readiness activities for everyone, from students to job-seekers.

2. Incogni helps you take back control of your data, reduce spam, and prevent scam attacks by opting you out of databases automatically.

3. PNGmaker is a small free utility that lets you imagine anything and turn it into an AI generated PNG.

4. MermaidChart is the next evolution in smart diagramming for enterprise teams. Easily create complex diagrams from markdown-style code and collaborate with team members in real-time.

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