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Good morning, Caffeinators!

Welcome back! We know it's been a while, and we've missed out on some juicy news. But that's the beauty of the AI space: it evolves FAST!

Tech/news from just a month ago can already be obsolete. That's why we should dive straight into this week's story!

Today’s Starting Sips:

• 👁️ GPT Now Has Eyes, Ears, and Mouth

• 💣 GPT Explosion Shocked Its Own CTO

• 🍪 OpenAI Taking Chip Matters Into Its Own Hands

👁️ GPT Now Has Eyes, Ears, and Mouth

Your favorite assistant can now see hear and speak! Now, GPT isn’t just about text - it's about voice conversations and seeing what you show it.

Highlight:

1. Snap and chat with GPT! Upload photos and GPT can help you cook, identify movie characters, or even fix a leaking pipe

2. Enable “Voice Conversation” and have the most natural conversation with a non-human entity

3. Choose up to 5 different voice personas (Our favorite is Sky)

What Matters:

As OpenAI adds more flair to GPT, we get a glimpse of the future. But remember, with new tech powers, comes the quest for balance and safety. It is good that OpenAI has been preaching about AI safety and regulations since the first day.

💣 GPT Explosion Shocked Its Own CTO

When OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT a year ago, they didn't anticipate the storm it would brew. The chatbot went instantly viral!

Specifics:

• ChatGPT gained 100 million users within 2 months after launch

• Google declared “code red” for GPT’s popularity and hastened the production of Bard

• Mira Murati warns against unhealthy competitions, hinting at potential risks with generative AI models

Key Takeaways:

GPT’s sky-rocket rise is proof that we are eager for AI technologies. But are we ready for it? As companies try to match and surpass GPT, they unintentionally create risks: model hallucination and deep fake images.

It is important to note that while competition can spur innovation, we shouldn’t blind companies to potential pitfalls.

🍪 OpenAI Taking Chip Matter into its Own Hands

Okay. Since the generative AI boom, it has seriously impacted GPU’s supply chain. Back then, only gamers and machine learning scientists demanded them. Now, every AI company wants more. This chip shortage is making AI advancements a tad bit challenging for OpenAI.

Details:

• GPU-based hardware, aka AI chips, are essential to run all of OpenAI services: ChatGPT, GPT-4, DALL-E 3

• Nvidia’s best-performing AI chips are sold out until 2024

• An estimated $50B investment is needed for OpenAI to develop and supply its own AI chips, according to Bernstein Analyst

Our thoughts:

OpenAI is in a strong position to start investing in R&D on chips (“I got your back“ - Microsoft). The payoff will be fruitful… if they succeed. AI hardware is an unforgiving business. Most recently, the chipmaker startup Graphcore just got slashed $1B in valuation, and Habana Labs also laid off 10% of its employees.

With OpenAI's nearly $1 billion in yearly revenue, it’s intriguing to see whether the company is ready to play this high-stakes game.

👀 Sneak Peek

In our next article, we will go over GPT’s new multimodal functionality, aka the ability to see images. Spoiler Alert: GPT also shares how it feels.

Here is a fluffy sneak peek:

Wonder how I got this response? I’ll share my prompt in the next article.

🥤 To-Go Cup

• 👄 Your favorite AI assistant gets a major voice and image upgrade

• 🤯 OpenAI CTO, Mira Murati, was shocked at GPT's explosion in popularity with 100M users in 2 months

• 💾 OpenAI is considering making custom GPUs because of the chip shortage

If you enjoyed this article, I think you will like this one too! It’s about 100,000 GPT accounts got hacked. Check if yours is safe!

Good to see you again! Until next time,

Your friendly barista and ☕️ GPT!