The Memo - 2/Feb/2023
100M ChatGPT users, Baidu's ChatGPT via ERNIE, Microsoft FLAME, GPT-4 + Bing, and much more!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 2/Feb/2023
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In the Toys to play with section, we look at the latest human-like text-to-speech generator including a free option to clone your own voice into AI, a new GPT to SQL tool, and a free, open-source ChatGPT clone using a distributed network…
The BIG Stuff
ChatGPT with >10M daily users (24/Jan/2023)
I’ve been running lots of expert calls with Fortune 500s throughout the beginning of 2023, and each time I do, I ‘guesstimate’ that ChatGPT has 10 million concurrent users.
According to ARK Invest, it turns out I was pretty close! (‘chatGPT at >10 million daily users in 40 days Instagram took 355 days to get to 10 million registered users‘…)
Further, the Swiss investment bank UBS yesterday reported that the number is actually 13 million daily users as of Jan/2023, and that ChatGPT had 100 million active users in Jan/2023.
ChatGPT is averaging more than 13 million visitors a day, more than double the level in December.
…venture-capital investors speculate that the market for generative AI applications could be as large as $1 trillion… the world has over one billion knowledge workers; OpenAI charges $42 a month for the professional version of ChatGPT. If you assume every one of those people gets two accounts—one general, and one specialized—you get close $1 trillion.
Walmsley notes: “This may seem like a crazy bullish scenario, and pricing could fall, but our core point is that the market has potential to be exceedingly large.”
Read the cleanest source via Barron’s with quotes: https://archive.is/XRl0R
Read more via CBS: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chatgpt-chatbot-tiktok-ai-artificial-intelligence/
Read more via Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-sets-record-fastest-growing-user-base-analyst-note-2023-02-01/
The Interesting Stuff
OpenAI are urgently looking to scale their models (31/Jan/2022)
13 million daily users drawing on that kind of heavy computing power is a big ask, and OpenAI are looking for the smartest engineers in San Francisco to help them out here! (‘Seeking software engineers across frontend/backend/infra to help us scale & improve ChatGPT who can join ASAP.’)
OpenAI advising the US government (30/Jan/2023)
Sam Altman, creator of ChatGPT and CEO of OpenAI, is making the rounds in D.C. this week, aiming to demystify the artificial intelligence tool that has captivated the world… In the meetings, Altman told policymakers that OpenAI is on the path to creating “artificial general intelligence,” a term used to describe an artificial intelligence that can think and understand on the level of the human brain.
Read the full article: https://www.semafor.com/article/01/26/2023/chatgpt-creator-sam-altman-visits-washington-to-meet-lawmakers
Baidu building ChatGPT into their search engine in Mar/2023 (30/Jan/2023)
China’s largest search engine company plans to debut a ChatGPT-style application in March, initially embedding it into its main search services… The tool, whose name hasn’t been decided, will allow users to get conversation-style search results much like OpenAI’s popular platform.
Baidu has spent billions of dollars researching AI in a years-long effort to transition from online marketing to deeper technology. Its Ernie system — a large-scale machine-learning model that’s been trained on data over several years — will be the foundation of its upcoming ChatGPT-like tool…
Read via Bloomberg: https://archive.is/jOrZJ
ChatGPT updated with better maths and facts (30/Jan/2023)
Read the change log: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6825453-chatgpt-release-notes
Microsoft integrating GPT into Teams (2/Feb/2023)
We’re bringing the power of large language models, including OpenAI’s GPT, to Teams Premium, as we make meetings more intelligent, personalized, and protected. - Microsoft CEO, 1/Feb/2023
Read the release: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2023/02/01/microsoft-teams-premium-cut-costs-and-add-ai-powered-productivity/
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-rolls-out-chatgpt-powered-teams-premium-2023-02-02/
GPT-4 and Bing (1/Feb/2023)
An OpenAI insider has noted (via Semafor):
Microsoft’s second-place search engine Bing is poised to incorporate a faster and richer version of ChatGPT, known as GPT-4, into its product in the coming weeks, marking rapid progress in the booming field of generative AI and a long-awaited challenge to Google’s dominance of search.
OpenAI’s latest software responds much faster than the current version, and the replies sound more human and are more detailed, according to people familiar with the product and rollout plans.
First LLM for 2023: Microsoft FLAME 60M (1/Feb/2023)