The Ultimate AI Weekend

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THE WEEKLY NEWSLETTER OF AIM. Monday, Nov 20, 2023 | Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here By Amit Naik This has got to be the ultimate weekend of all time where most of us are torn between an unprecedented tech drama and the Cricket World Cup match. From Sam Altman getting fired from OpenAI (that too on Google Meet), to top researchers leaving the company, and Microsoft being stuck in limbo, to investors pressuring the board to Altman’s return, the drama is just getting started. With people mostly aghast with the turn of events around the world’s hottest AI company, tech investors and founders have come forward to express their disdain, and praise Altman’s outstanding competence. Interestingly, amidst this chaos, Indian businessman and investor Ashneer Grover came forward to express his solidarity to Altman by not only pulling parallels to his case, where he too was ousted by his board members, but comparing himself to some of the greatest founders in tech history. The result was miserable. (PS: He has deleted all of his older tweets).  On a sad note, India lost the World Cup finals. But, Google Bard is still optimistic, where it predicted (or rather hallucinated) the victory of the Indian cricket team by ten wickets, led by Rohit Sharma (101) and KL Rahul (97).  OpenAI Drama Continues  Altman and his other board member, Greg Brockman, are unlikely to rejoin OpenAI. Interestingly, Altman already knew he was going to get fired from the very beginning if things took a turn for the worse.  It is also interesting to note that Mira Murati is no longer the interim CEO, as she has been replaced by Emmett Shear.  Looks like Murati is on Altman’s side. Coincidentally, yesterday when Altman posted on X, saying: “i love the openai team so much.”  Murati replied it with a blue heart.  It all began on a Friday night when Altman got a text from Sutskever asking to talk. Altman joined the Google Meet call alongside the whole board, except Brockman. Altman was fired on the call and told that the news would be out soon.  Soon, Brockman too received a Google Meet link from Sutskever. He was asked to step down from the board and also made aware of Altman's ghastly firing. To his surprise, around the same time, OpenAI published a blog post about the leadership update. Brockman, in a post on X, said that the management was made aware of this shortly after, however, Murati got to know about this the night before.  Looks like there is no end to the OpenAI soap opera.  (Check out AIM for all the latest updates)  AI Forum for India. Our Discord Community for AI Ecosystem, In collaboration with NVIDIA. Join Today >> TOP STORIES OF THE WEEK >> Microsoft is Making Employees Super Lazy Earlier this year, when AIM wrote about Microsoft making employees lazy, little did we know that eight months later at Ignite 2023, the company would announce over 100 new updates, including advanced AI features to their office suite. These new features promise to boost employee productivity and, well, make them even more dependable and perhaps super lazy, in the process. Enjoy the full story here. Amazon’s PartyRock Jams Past OpenAI While OpenAI is going through a massive leadership churn, AWS is busy making GPTs a thing of the past. Recently, the tech giant launched a new invention called PartyRock, an approachable Amazon Bedrock Playground for developers to build applications without any hassle, enabling anybody to create a generative AI program. Read the full story here. Microsoft 💔 OpenAI Microsoft is stuck in limbo amid the OpenAI drama. Before all of this happened, the tech giant showered unlimited affection and heaping praises on OpenAI and how it is grateful to have OpenAI in its life, besides showcasing the readiness to give up everything it has built so far. This includes rebranding its search engine, revamping its Azure cloud infrastructure and much more.  Get to know about Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI here. AIM EVENTS >> DevPalooza  AIM is hosting a closed-door developers’ meetup for the first time in Bengaluru on December 2, 2023. Explore the journey into the LLM World.  Register now! MLDS 2024 We are excited to announce MLDS 2024, to be held next year (February 1-2, 2023) at the NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bengaluru. This marks the 6th iteration of the summit, with over 1,500 attendees, more than 50 speakers, and 400+ organisations expected to participate, reflecting the enormous scale and impact the event has on the ML community. Early Bird Passes to expire on Friday. Click here to reserve your spot now. AIM VIDEOS >> In our latest reaction video, AIM journalist Vandana Nair scrutinises Lex Fridman’s latest podcast, where Elon Musk says OpenAI going closed door was bad karma, and reveals more about his relationship with Ilya Sutskever. AIM SHOTS >> In a groundbreaking partnership with YouTube, Google DeepMind unveiled Lyria, the most sophisticated AI music generation model yet, alongside two experimental projects.  Amazon’s Project Kuiper has achieved a 100% success rate in its Protoflight mission, validating all systems and subsystems on board its prototype satellites.  Amazon, in close collaboration with Hyundai, recently announced that starting next year, its customers can buy cars online in the US. Micron Technology’s latest breakthroughs in memory technology have hit the spotlight with its announcement of the 32Gb monolithic die-based 128GB DDR5 RDIMM memory. 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