The Weekly Brief for anyone looking to incorporate AI into their business.

Good morning and happy Sunday.

Today is Sunday and you know what that means. The weekly brief. Covering all of last week’s most important AI business related stories.

Here are some of the biggest stories:

• Claude the newest generative AI.
• Amazon to change up its search.
• AI leaders Testify.
• Meta Open sources its LLM.

Voice Actors Struggle

Growing AI innovations has led to a struggle for many voice actors. As AI powered voice technology is progressing everyday jobs are becoming more and more scarce. With many publishers already leaning towards replacing many of their voice actors for faster, cheaper, and more efficient AI voices.

Meet Claude

Anthropic, an AI company founded by ex-OpenAI employee released their generative AI called Claude. Some key aspects of their model is the ability to give more correct and less harmful answers, and perform similar tasks that many other generative AI’s can do. A keynote is that Google has invested 300milloion into the company, which is a direct competitor to their AI Bard. Interesting to see how that will play out.

Amazon Changes to Change up Search

A new job description at Amazon may have hinted towards their future plans for AI. The description under software developer read “reimagining Amazon Search with an interactive conversational experience”. This may hint towards a generative AI search experience in Amazon for customers.

ChatGPT User Get More Access

Premium ChatGPT users got access to Web browsing and plugins. This is a crucial step for OpenAI as they plan to pivot to a more assist type AI. While at the same time continuing to research and develop their AI models. This move puts a lot of pressure on Google to hopefully step up their game.

AI Leaders Testify

This Wednesday AI leaders (Sam Altman, Christina Montgomery and Gary Marcus) all testified before congress about AI regulation. They were asked many questions about AI regulation but came up with two solutions.

FDA-Like Approval Processing: AI developing companies are open to safety checks, audits, licensing and risk review.

Precision Approach: Develop risk rules, provide explanations and provide guidelines for risks, encourage transparency around AI companies, finally assess impact of AI technologies.

Meta Open Sourcing

Thursday Meta open sourced this coding for their LLM. As the company wants to see the use of its LLM to help drive innovation, inspire smaller companies, and overall develop better AI technologies. Comes as an interesting move as competitors try and keep their AI’s an insider secret.