SVB, Zuck vs Musk, GPT-4 and more...
Fun Fact 🤯
Did you know that the first computer programmer was a woman named Ada Lovelace? In the mid-1800s, Ada worked with Charles Babbage on the Analytical Engine, a mechanical general-purpose computer. Ada's notes on the engine are considered the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine, making her the world's first computer programmer!
Hot Tech News 🔥
HSBC gets a whole bank for less than the cost of a cup of coffee
In just 48 hours the Silicon Valley Bank which was known as the 1st largest bank and it also plays its part for lending money to the biggest technology startups collapsed last Friday after defrauding all its investors and depositors. This morning HSBC said it will acquire British unit of SVB for 1 pound.
Zuckerberg’s P92 vs Musk’s Twitter?
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is working on a text-based social network app that could rival Twitter and Mastodon. The decentralised app is codenamed P92 and will allow users to log in through their existing Instagram credentials.
GPT-4 is coming soon. Will it generate videos through AI?
OpenAI is set to release the fourth generation of its large language model (LLM), GPT-4, which is expected to include new features such as multimodality, video processing, and the ability to generate AI-powered videos from text prompts. The current version of ChatGPT and other GPT-3.5-powered technologies can only provide text-based responses, but GPT-4 is said to be more powerful and versatile, offering the ability to function in multiple modes, including text, images, and sounds.
Reads and Resources 📚
Web3 Gaming Projects of 2023
Web3 gaming with NFTs and player ownership: Axie Infinity, DigiToads, and CryptoKitties lead the way in decentralized gaming.
Dalai
Dead simple way to run LLaMA on your computer.
TikTok launches Project Clover to allay China security fears
TikTok introduces Project Clover to enhance security by adding a separate monitoring company and improving data access control.
Trending GitHub repositories 📈
High-performance inference of OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) model
The OpenAI Cookbook shares example code for accomplishing common tasks with the OpenAI API
LlamaIndex (GPT Index) is a project that provides a central interface to connect your LLM's with external data
Get Hooked: Podcast of the Week!
Welcome to "Get Hooked," where we share our top pick for the podcast of the week.
A brief introduction of the guest:
Christopher Arthur Lattner (born 1978) is an American software engineer, former Google and Tesla employee and co-founder of LLVM, Clang compiler, MLIR compiler infrastructure and the Swift programming language. As of 2022, he is the co-founder and CEO at Modular AI, an artificial intelligence platform for developers. Before founding Modular AI, he worked as the President of Platform Engineering, SiFive after two years at Google Brain. Prior to that, he briefly served as Vice President of Autopilot Software at Tesla, Inc. and worked at Apple Inc. as Senior Director of the Developer Tools department, leading the Xcode, Instruments, and compiler teams.
Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages
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