Sunday Signal #24

NVIDIA Breaks $1T Market Cap, AI NPCs and GPT-4 Plays Minecraft

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💎 5 News Nuggets

Jensen Huang and Ronald Humphrey / Nvidia’s Twitter

  • 🔗 Link: Nvidia is the world's first trillion-dollar chipmaker. Its high-end chips power data centres for AI products like ChatGPT. Nvidia’s ascent came after its revenue exceeded analysts' expectations by over 50%.

  • 🔗 Link: National Eating Disorders Association’s (NEDA) chatbot 'Tessa' was pulled offline after recommending unhealthy weight loss strategies. This followed NEDA's controversial decision to replace human workers with the bot.

  • 🔗 Link: Top AI experts push back against 'doomer' narratives of AI-induced extinction risk. The CEOs of OpenAI, DeepMind and Anthropic argue that the focus should be on measurable, immediate AI risks like bias, misinformation and cybersecurity.

  • 🔗 Link: Chinese tech giant Baidu, launches a $145M fund to back generative AI startups. This comes in response to the divided tech landscape between the U.S. and China. The fund targets early-stage AI projects to leverage the use of Baidu's language model, Ernie Bot.

  • 🔗 Link: Japan is not enforcing copyrights on data used for AI training. This bold stance aims to boost Japan's leadership in AI technology—not everyone in Japan is on board with this decision.

🎨 4 Cool Creations

Nvidia’s ACE / Nvidia

  • 🔗 Link: Nvidia's Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) allows video game developers to create intelligent non-playable characters (NPCs) with evolving personalities, accurate facial expressions, and language interactions.

  • 🔗 Link: Snapchat launches generative AI features for Snapchat Plus subscribers. The newest update means AI can hold a conversation, send photos of its own and be summoned within group chats.

  • 🔗 Link: Teams Premium now includes an 'Intelligent Recap' feature. It provides automatically generated meeting notes, task suggestions, and personalised highlights.

  • 🔗 Link: MyHeritage unveils Reimagine which can restore and animate old photos. It enhances resolution, fixes damage, and colourises black and white pictures. It also animates faces using "Deep Nostalgia" technology.

💡 3 Startup Spotlights

Character.AI / TechCrunch

  • 🔗 Link: Character.AI registered 1.7M installs in its first week of launch. The a16z-backed chatbot startup raised a $150M Series A round at a $1B valuation earlier this year.

  • 🔗 Link: Lightmatters raised $154M in Series C funding through SIP Global and Fidelity. They aim to address the AI industry's energy concerns by leveraging optical flow for complex computations.

  • 🔗 Link: BenchSci raised $95M in Series D funding. Their ASCEND platform is currently used by 16 of the top 20 pharma companies, deciphering biomedical research data to create an unbiased map of disease biology, saving scientists time and accelerating discoveries.

🐥 2 Top Tweets

VOYAGER / MineDojo

  • 🔗 Link: What happens when you let GPT-4 play Minecraft? Researchers from Nvidia built VOYAGER, an AI agent that explores the game without human intervention.

  • 🔗 Link: The 1st flight ever to be fully booked by AI. Welcome to the next generation of AI.

🍿 1 Media Marvel

Mo Gawdat / Diary of a CEO

  • 🔗 Link: Ex-Google officer Mo Gawdat speaks out on the dangers of AI. Steven Bartlett sits down with the Egyptian entrepreneur and writer after leaving Google.

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