Tesla joins AI race

Welcome back to The Daily Update — Google just made a ton of moves in AI and I’ve got them all for you here. Tesla is also positioned to compete for a share of the AI market. Here’s the full lineup:

🗞️ The Latest in AI: Relatively few Americans actually use or fear AI

🤖 AI Tool of the Day: ClipDrop — AI-powered image improvement

📸 Business Spotlight: Tesla’s $300 million AI cluster goes live

🚨 Google Roundup: Everything the company did with AI yesterday

Read time: 2.5 minutes

🗞️ The Latest in AI: Relatively few Americans actually use or fear AI

An ongoing survey by Pew Research shows that ChatGPT isn’t as popular or threatening as many have been led to believe.

Key points:

• Only 18% of U.S. adults have used ChatGPT.

• Under a quarter of Americans (24%) have heard of ChatGPT.

• Men, those aged 18-29 and college-educated Americans are more likely to have used the LLM. Even among those groups it’s just 30-40%.

• Only 19% of employed adults think chatbots will have a major impact on their job.

The bottom line: Think back to the recent IBM study that predicted 40% of workers will have to reskill due to AI. This study demonstrates that public sentiment in the U.S. has not caught up with the reality of the ‘AI Revolution.’

🤖 AI Tool of the Day: ClipDrop — AI-powered image improvement

ClipDrop is an AI-powered ecosystem of apps, plugins and resources designed to help creators create stunning visuals in seconds. Here are the platform’s top features:

• Uncrop: Extend photos beyond their original bounds.

• Cleanup: Remove objects, people, text and defects from pictures.

• Relight images with beautiful lights.

• Remove backgrounds and replace backgrounds.

• Text-to-image: Generate high-resolution images with Stable Diffusion XL.

• Upscale images by 2x or 4x.

I use ClipDrop pretty frequently to enhance some of the images I use in this newsletter, and definitely recommend checking it out. You can try ClipDrop for free here, and if you like it paid plans start at $7 a month.

📸 Business Spotlight: Tesla’s $300 million AI cluster goes live

Tesla just launched its highly-anticipated supercomputer that will be used for various AI applications. The Nvidia H100-based supercomputer is one of the most powerful machines in the world.

Key points:

• Tesla’s new cluster employs 10,000 Nvidia H100 compute GPUs.

• The company’s new machine is the world’s fourth-highest performing supercomputer.

• Tesla is also investing over $1 billion to develop its own supercomputer, Dojo, which is built on custom-designed, highly optimized system-on-chips.

• Elon Musk revealed that Tesla plans to spend over $2 billion on AI training in 2023 and another $2 billion on full self-driving technology in 2024.

The bottom line: Tesla will be a big winner of the AI revolution. The company’s full self-driving technology could be here within a few years.

🚨 Google Roundup: Everything the company did with AI yesterday

• Launched AlloyDB AI to support developers in building generative AI models using their own data.

• Announced updates to Vertex AI, its cloud-based platform that provides workflows for building, training and deploying machine learning models. Vertex AI now features updated AI models for generating text, image and code.

• Announced that its A3 GPU supercomputer will be generally available next month. The A3 combines Nvidia’s H100 GPUs with Google’s custom-designed 200 Gpbs IPUs.

• Duet AI becomes a meeting assistant, doc summarizer and chat companion. Google is also expanding Duet’s AI assistant suite across Google Cloud.

• Announced several new generative AI enhancements to its security product line.

• Introduced GKE Enterprise to help companies manage complex Kubernetes environments, including security and governance tools, service mesh management and a dashboard to get an overview of all the workloads running across a company.

• Announced the launch of the fifth generation of its tensor processing units (TPUs) for AI training and inferencing.

• Added an enterprise tier to Google Colaboratory, its service designed to allow anyone to write Python code through a browser (including code to run AI apps).

• Launched BigQuery Studio, a new service that provides a single experience to edit programming languages to run analytics and machine learning workloads at “petabytye scale.”

(I know it’s a mouthful, but I did promise to bring you all of the latest news in AI.)

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Jack

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