Briefing startups on the most important news in AI this week
In the first major challenges in forever to Chrome and Amazon's monopolies, OpenAI is looking to fund all of those data contracts with ads and shopping.
Talent Shuffle: Meta axed 600 engineers from its AI division while simultaneously hiring for its super-intelligence lab; next day Smallest AI offered them jobs, but only if they're "fkin smart and hungry".
Possum, ergo debeo: AI was supposed to free us and allow us to work less, but instead "every moment I don't spend prompting, I'm falling behind" guilt has ushered 996 culture back in.
"They just keep stubbing their toe": Cohere's former VP of AI Research is sure that brute force scaling of LLMs will never produce intelligence that can interact with the world- hence Adaption Labs.
It’s not inadequate computing power, talent or algorithms that are killing Enterprise AI projects, it's data quality this author claims.
