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💰OpenAI closes in on $1B revenue
Plus DeepMind wants to help you spot AI images
AllThingsAI
August 31, 2023
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AI companies are printing money. Welcome to the AllThingsAI newsletter. Let’s get into it.
Source: Stable Diffusion. Prompt: A pair of hands holding a bag of money.
I want to be OpenAI rich
OpenAI, the company that put generative AI on the map, is making bank.
First came the very spurious (and click-baity) headlines suggesting OpenAI was burning money at a wild rate. Now come the stories that the company is going to surpass $1 billion over the next year.
The Information (paywall) says OpenAI is earning more than $80 million a month, which is a significant bump from the $28 million it made for the whole of fiscal 2022.
Of course, revenue is not profit, so it’s possible that OpenAI is not serving champagne and caviar at staff lunches quite yet. But still, it does show just how mainstream AI has become in a very short space of time.
Why it matters:
Many have spoken about AI as the next great revolution in computing. So considering Meta (back when it was Facebook) took five years to become profitable, OpenAI’s fast rise should give all the Big Tech companies something to be twitchy about.
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Finding the fakes
In a world of Balenciaga Pope and Ghandi’s selfie, spotting an AI-generated image is getting harder and harder. Fortunately Google DeepMind could have the solution.
SynthID is an AI-powered tool designed to watermark images. It does this by replicating the original photo, and then making minor adjustments to some of the pixels. The resulting pattern is purportedly imperceptible to mere humans, but SynthID can supposedly still identify the watermark - even if the image is cropped.
SynthID will initially be available via Imagen, Google’s AI generation platform. So perhaps keep this in mind when using AI for your next headshot.
Why it matters:
We’re quickly moving from a place where AI-generated images are no longer created just for fun or bragging rights, but also for use in advertising and politics. Therefore, identifying manipulated images is only going to become more important.
Poll I Should we worry about being fooled by AI-generated photos?Take the poll and tell us what you think. We’ll share the results in our next newsletter. |
Results from our last poll | Is the use of AI in military scenarios a good or bad thing?
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 It’s a good thing, as long as there are stringent human backstops with proper accountability 🛫
🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️ It’s a bad thing, especially as humans can be terrible at recognizing ethical boundaries when it comes to technology 🛬
In the wild | Stories worth reading
Google has announced pricing for its enterprise AI tools, and they don’t come cheap. The company’s Duet AI service will cost $30 per user for those paying for Google Workspace. For the price of a dozen lattes, users will be able to leverage the company’s AI in Docs, Slides, Sheets and more. The announcement follows the launch of Microsoft’s own AI enterprise tool, Copilot, which also cost $30 a month. Your move, ChatGPT Enterprise.
AI chatbot app Poe (available here) ****has added the ability to use multiple LLMs via one interface. The service, which costs $200 a year or $20 a month, lets you plug into Claude from Anthropic, ChatGPT-4 from OpenAI, Meta’s LLaMA 2, and more. Poe has also added a native Mac app.
The brand mark “Samsung Food” makes me think Samsung has decided to bring its chip technology to produce, you know, actual chips. But apparently that’s not what’s happening at all. The Korean technology giant has instead acquired and reworked the food-planning app Whisk, lathering it in some AI sauce. The company says Samsung Food will learn from what users are eating, and then suggests meals for them to make. You can try it out for yourself via Android and iOS.
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