Gm. If you spend any amount of time on TikTok, then you are probably familiar with the question sweeping the internet: how often do you think about the Roman Empire? Personally, I think about it at least once a week, which made my girlfriend stare at me in confusion for a solid 30 seconds. Make sure to respond to today’s poll so that I can show her I’m not alone here.
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Gemini Grows Closer
We’ve spent a lot of time in recent months covering Google’s Gemini AI model, and for good reason:
It could very well exceed GPT-4 in performance due to Google’s treasure trove of advanced GPUs.
It combines the text powers of a GPT-4 with the image powers of a Midjourney or Stable Diffusion.
It is the next shot fired in the increasingly entertaining and competitive AI wars.
Thankfully, some very exciting news is coming out of The Information: Gemini is close. So close that Google is now allowing a small number of companies to give it a spin.
And the early returns for Gemini appear to be positive, with one early tester saying that Gemini generates fewer incorrect answers than GPT-4 due to Google’s disgusting amounts of proprietary data (read: data from Search).
This is nothing but good news for Google, which has a lot riding on Gemini’s success:
They’ve poured a metric ton of resources into developing Gemini.
They are banking on it to power all of its AI products, including the chatbot Bard and a GitHub Copilot competitor.
They also want to use it to bring AI to “regular” products, like Google Cloud.
If you didn’t already know, now you do: the AI race is fully underway.
The Big Picture: Gemini is a big moment for Google, but competition is fierce with GPT-4, Claude, and Llama all lurking about.
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What else is going on?
An “inverse vaccine” shows potential to treat a range of autoimmune diseases.
The iPhone 15 Pro Max is battling some production issues.
Instacart has been emboldened by Arm’s successful IPO.
The first week of the dramatic US v Google lawsuit is in the books.
Stat: $240 Million: How much crypto the North Korean hacker team Lazarus Group has stolen in just the last 104 days.
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Get’s me every time.
🧠 POLL
It’s hard to argue with this result so far:
Now, for this week:
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