Gm. I know I talked about football on Monday, but damn, if you’re a Jets fan, I am so, so, sorry. Even as a Patriots fan I can’t help but feel bad for Rodgers and the fanbase. If anyone needs to vent, my DMs are always open 🫡

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Meta’s Open-Source GPT-4

We’ve spent a lot of time in recent weeks talking about Meta’s AI exploits. And that’s for a good reason. They just keep releasing banger after banger:

• Llama 2 is the best open-source model on God’s green Earth.

• SeamlessM4T is a very impressive translator.

• Code Llama might already be as good at coding as GPT-4.

• CM3Leon is a ‘state-of-the-art’ art-generating model.

That’s a lot of heat in a short amount of time.

But none of that compares to what Meta has cooking in the lab:

A new open-source model that is several times stronger than Llama 2. This would make it as powerful as GPT-4, the current gold standard for AI models (at least until Google’s Gemini model comes out).

Naturally, details are hard to come by, but we do know that:

• Meta will start training the model in early 2024.

• They are acquiring the infrastructure necessary to make the models a reality (read: many more Nvidia chips).

• Zuck wants the model to be open-source.

Besides being extremely cool, this whole shindig is savvy on Meta’s part for several reasons:

• Open-sourcing the model will likely lead to developers improving it. Meta can then use the improved model in their own products. It’s basically free R&D.

• If the model is used to create good products, fewer people will use Meta’s competitors. This is obviously ideal for Team Zuck.

Sign us up for this party.

The Big Picture: Meta may have been a bit late to the AI party, but they are definitely making noise now.

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Let’s Go (TikTok) Shopping

I love TikTok. Basically everyone I know loves TikTok. We can easily spend the afternoon swiping and swiping and swiping.

Does it take up a good amount of my time? Yeah. But hey, at least it doesn’t take my money.

Oh wait, now it will.

That’s because TikTok has officially launched its in-app shopping feature.

Dubbed TikTok Shop, the new feature will add in-feed live shopping, product reviews, and marketing opportunities to the For You Page (FYP).

This is a big move for a lot of different demographics:

• If you’re a TikTok addict, then you might now be spending money on this damn app.

• If you’re a lover of pure social media, you have to just hope TikTok doesn’t go the way of Instagram. A FYP full of ads would just be…ugh.

• If you’re in the e-commerce business, congrats; another big revenue stream might have just opened up.

• If you’re a regulator, then you can’t love that TikTok will now be collecting people’s payment information.

In any case, as if you needed a reminder:

• There’s never been a better time to be a creator.

• TikTok wears the crown.

The Bottom Line: The world’s most addicting app might have just become a bit more so.

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What else is going on?

• The iPhone 15 is here.

• Don’t try searching for COVID on Threads.

• X is throttling the New York Times.

• Is the room-temperature superconductor so back?

Stat: 11,196 Years: How long Faruk Fatih Özer, the founder of the collapsed Turkish crypto exchange Thodex, was sentenced to prison.

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