Elon 🤝 Open source

🍎 Gemini coming to iPhone? Maybe, according to this report by Bloomberg.

💾 Nvidia launched its most powerful AI chip yet, the Blackwell B200 GPU.

🕹️ Mr Beast and Prime Video have announced a new game show.

🤖 After raising $1.3 billion, the Inflection founders are joining Microsoft to lead its AI efforts.

🧠 Neuralink, Elon’s brain chip startup, has shown a patient using it to play chess. 

🧑‍⚖️ The US Department of Justice is suing Apple, alleging an iPhone monopoly.

💰 Reddit stock is up a solid 48% from its original price during its IPO.

Remember Grok? Elon’s more sassy, Hitchhiker’s Guide-inspired alternative to OpenAI. Launched back in 2023 by xAI, Grok stood out from the AI crowd with features like access to real-time information via X (formerly Twitter) and a distinct lack of political correctness. 

It was all quiet on the xAI front until March 11th, when Elon Musk announced the team will open source Grok. Fast forward to this week, and the company has fulfilled that promise by posting an open release of Grok-1 on GitHub, allowing researchers and developers more freedom to build on the platform and influence its direction. 

According to a company blog post, the open release includes the “base model weights and network architecture” of the “314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model, Grok-1.” It continues on to say that Grok-1 hasn’t undergone any fine-tuning training for any specific applications like conversational assistants. 

Grok joins a growing number of AI models that have made the leap to open-source, including Meta’s LLaMa and Mistral. Google has even launched a suite of open-source sister models to Gemini.

Of course, makers are going to do what makers do best, and since the announcement, a number have taken the opportunity to dive into Grok and see what they can build, including Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas, who announced his company will fine-tune Grok for conversational search and make it available for their pro users. 

All this is happening in the shadow of a battle going on between OpenAI and Elon Musk, who helped found OpenAI all those years ago alongside Sam Altman. The latter is suing the former over a supposed “betrayal” of its original not-for-profit mission statement. Of course, OpenAI has fired back.

🤖 Transformer or monstrosity?Dyson just dropped its new robot vacuum in the US and Canada and the PH team is internally split on whether it’s beautiful or an eyesore.

🧠 Nvidia is the “it” company of AI: It surpassed the market value of Alphabet and Amazon and announced new superchips that supposedly reduce cost and energy consumption by up to 25x. The talking point that we suggest you start your next conversation off with, though, is that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang thinks we’re just five years away from AGI, or full AI that outperforms humans.

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