🚨Scoop from me and Brody Ford: Adobe has touted Firefly as a safe and ethical alternative to competitors like Midjourney… but it also quietly trained Firefly on Midjourney images.

Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

'In its first report, Vals.ai showed leading models struggle on tax questions. The most capable model, OpenAI’s GPT-4, had a 54.5% accuracy rate. Google’s Gemini Pro was only accurate 31.3% of the time. In other words: Don’t fire your accountant yet.'…

Fun fact that shows how small the AI world is: Sam Altman studied under Andrew Ng at Stanford

If you want to become an AI superpower, you gotta build data centres - even in the desert. A deep dive by Marissa Newman, Mark Bergen, Olivia Solon into the economics and practicality of Saudi and the UAE’s construction race. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Excited to see Vals.ai comes out of stealth! Pear VC vals.ai Shirin Ghaffary

This Startup Is Trying to Test How Well AI Models Actually Work

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Thanks Rayan Krishnan and team for talking to me!

Feels like every week a new AI model comes out that's advertised as being better than GPT4.

But we don't really have a good way to measure that.

I wrote about a new startup, vals.ai that's trying to solve the problem around evaluating AI.

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Sam Altman, who just left the Middle East, is meeting w/ lawmakers in Capitol Hill today, as we be broke in our scoop yesterday.

The talks come as he's working to build a 'global coalition' among investors + world gov'ts to build out AI infrastructure.

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Talking about Sam Altman Global AI Coalition with Shirin Ghaffary

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Where in the World Is Sam Altman

A group of Facebook employees invested millions with a co-worker. Then, they lost everything.
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Scoop: Adobe is paying around $3/minute for videos to build a new generative AI model. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

NEW: Sam Altman pitched investors + gov't officials in UAE this week about a global coalition to support production of AI infrastructure like chips, energy, and data center capacity.

Later this week he'll head to DC for more mtgs. Details w/ Ed Ludlow:

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Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian is trying to show generative AI is ready for enterprise, despite recent embarrassments in the consumer market. Ahead of #GoogleCloudNext in Vegas today, he gave me & Davey Alba an exclusive rundown of how he plans to do it: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Another baller newsletter from Shirin Ghaffary … would you pay $700 for wearable AI?

NEW: I talked to the founders of one of the buzziest hardware startups in recent memory, Humane, about their laser-beaming Ai Pin.

We chatted about moving beyond the iPhone, why Sam Altman invested, and lessons learned from their time working at Apple.

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Cohere releases Command R+, a new business-focused model the startup says performs competitively against OpenAI and others on 'business-critical' tasks (Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg)

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Tidbit from last night:

OpenAI is opening a new office in Tokyo later this month. It will be their first office in Asia, and third int'l office after London and Dublin.

w/Akemi Terukina | 照喜納明美
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There are so many things Evan should have been able to do over the past year, so many trips he should’ve taken, so many stories he should’ve covered.

A beautiful piece by ⁦Eliot Brown⁩ about the year we’ve all had — and Evan hasn’t. 365 days today. wsj.com/world/russia/e…