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- Apple in talks with Google, OpenAI over building iPhone’s AI features
- xAI open sources Grok-1, 314B-parameter LLM
- TikTok Shop sees growth in 2023, nearing Amazon, Shopify
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1. Apple in talks with Google, OpenAI over building iPhone’s AI features
Potential partnership with Google is more likely.
WWDC in June: when a deal and the new features are likely to be announced.
This suggests that Apple may be lagging behind in generative AI development if it needs to partner with Google.
2. xAI open sources Grok-1, 314B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts LLM
Still, Grok-1 is not the top-performing open-source LLM, behind Smaug, the #1 model in Hugging Face’s leaderboard, and slightly ahead of GPT-3.5:
Base model, not fine-tuned for chatting or for filtering out unwanted words or ideas.
Commercial uses allowed, given Apache License 2.0.
It is unclear whether there is a current use case for a model of Grok’s size, which likely consumes more compute and energy (and thus costs more) than its comparables.
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4. TikTok Shop sees exponential growth in 2023, nearing Amazon, Shopify
According to the number of visits to the seller portals of these platforms:
