AI Roundup 071: How do you like them AIs - by Charlie Guo
This week's main event was Apple Intelligence. Rather than recap the features, I want to showcase some additional news and takes.
Some additional perspectives:
Wired: Apple proved that AI is a feature, not a product.
Bloomberg: Apple is "paying" OpenAI for ChatGPT in exposure, not cash.
TechCrunch: Apple Intelligence is boring and practical - that's why it works.
The Verge: The AI upgrade cycle is here.
And of course, check out this week's deep dive if you haven't already.
Elsewhere in the FAANG free-for-all:
A new report details Amazon's struggles to build an upgraded Alexa, including bureaucratic woes and privacy concerns.
Google is bringing Gemini Nano to the Pixel 8 and 8a, plus ChromeOS is migrating to parts of the Android stack to bring AI features to market faster.
And Microsoft is delaying its new Recall feature after a backlash over potential security issues.
Between the lines:
The prize is funded by Mike Knoop (cofounder of Zapier) and François Chollet (creator of Keras).
The two believe AGI progress has stalled (and that OpenAI has set the industry back a decade), LLMs are a dead end, and new approaches (which ARC tests for) will be required.
Elsewhere in AI anxiety:
Perplexity was accused of plagiarizing news stories via its Pages feature, though the company says it has revenue-sharing deals in the works.
Opus Clip and HeyGen, two US-based startups, are scrambling to relocate their China-based engineers as AI geopolitics gets more tense.
