Multimodal AI models: The empires strike back

The adventure continues.

This week, Tristan and Tasia navigate the AI universe, where tech titans Apple, Meta, and Microsoft unveil their latest AI arsenals. Amidst the fray, freedom fighters xAI and Mistral emerge with promising updates, challenging the galactic order. We then zero in on Google's Gemini model, a groundbreaking force with its sights set on OpenAI — and a deflector shield to protect it from criticism of its controversial launch video. And in a surprising twist, Grimes debuts the next evolution of interactive toys, featuring a character with an intriguingly familiar moniker. Strap in for the voyage as we witness the epic saga of multimodal AI supremacy as it unfolds on our viewscreens.

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APPLE MLX

• Apple joins AI fray with release of model framework

XAI GROK

• Musk says his AI firm xAI is rolling out chatbot Grok to X Premium+ subscribers

• Elon Musk’s Grok Represents a Serious Threat to ChatGPT

• My Surprisingly Unbiased Week With Elon Musk’s ‘Politically Biased’ Chatbot

THE OTHER GROK

• Grimes has a new line of AI plush toys, including one named Grok

• It looks like Grimes may have come up with Grok before Elon Musk gave his AI the same name

• Elon Musk's Grok says it 'absolutely' wants to befriend Grimes' Grok and 'exchange ideas' with it

META AI

• Meta Adds More Generative AI Elements, Including Post Prompts and Image Creation In-Stream

• What’s New Across Our AI Experiences

• Meta rolls out its AI-powered image generator as a dedicated website

• See also: The best AI art generators: DALL-E 2 and fun alternatives to try

• Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses Added AI That Can See What You're Seeing

GOOGLE GEMINI

• Google launches Gemini, the AI model it hopes will take down GPT-4

• Google's new Gemini, Beats ChatGPT in 30 of 32 test categories

• Hands-on with Gemini: Interacting with multimodal AI

• Google’s Gemini Looks Remarkable, But It’s Still Behind OpenAI

• With AI Studio, Google launches an easy-to-use tool for developing apps and chatbots based on its Gemini model

MICROSOFT AI NEWS

• Microsoft's Copilot Is Getting a GPT-4 Turbo Boost

• Microsoft releases Phi-2, a small language model AI that outperforms Llama 2, Mistral 7B

MISTRAL AI NEWS

• Mistral shocks AI community as latest open source model eclipses GPT-3.5 performance

• Mixtral-8x7B: 4 Ways To Try The New Model From Mistral AI