This is the 4th state of artificial intelligence nation. You can read the previous editions here:
- State of the AI Nation 1: Google I/O 2023 Recap
- State of the AI Nation 2: Deep Unlearning
- State of the AI Nation 3: Finally, the Microsoft Office We All Deserve, multi-modal, and CEO swaps at OpenAI
AI in the last few months has been all about the Benjamins. Cash is invading AI faster than ever, except where it isn’t, and that place will surprise you.
Open AI Update
Since the last SOTAIN, Open AI is back with a new CEO and he looks a lot like the previous one.
Now that Open AI has reconfigured its Board to align more closely with Microsoft and making profits, it can concentrate on the next version of its GPT model, GPT-5.
GPT-4 took Open AI’s previous flagship LLM (GPT-3) and added image processing and speech – although it emerged that this was a trick played on the user in the presentation layer to compete with Google’s multi-modal model, and – in fact – behind the scenes there was limited interaction between GPT-4 (the large language model), Whisper (the audio processing model) and DALL-E (the image processing model).
GPT-5, which is alleged to be released any minute now as I type this – on Sam Altman’s 39th birthday, will correct the wrongs of its parent, becoming a truly multi-modal model and adding in video processing.
As a preview of what might be coming in GPT-5, Open AI melted everybody’s brain in March with a technology demo of Sora, a new high resolution video generator.
When not blowing our socks off with incredible AI movies, Sam Altman has been busy asking OPEC nations for their spare change. And by spare change I mean seven trillion dollars – $7tn. That’s nearly 3 times the gross domestic product of the United Kingdom. He says he wants to buy chips.
As the revenue of the entire, global silicon industry is around $1tn per year, it’s uncertain who he plans to buy these chips from. My money would be on fabricating chips, not buying!