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Hugging Face launches open source AI assistant maker to rival OpenAI’s custom GPTs

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Ishaan Mahajan
February 07, 2024

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Tech and AI News for today

🤖 Google plans to launch ChatGPT Plus competitor next week

🧠 Hugging Face launches open source AI assistant maker to rival OpenAI’s custom GPTs

⏱️ Google's MobileDiffusion generates AI images on mobile devices in less than a second

💸 Deepfake costs company $25 million

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🤖 Google plans to launch ChatGPT Plus competitor next week LINK

  • Google is set to launch "Gemini Advanced," a ChatGPT Plus competitor, possibly on February 7th, signaling a name change from "Bard Advanced" announced last year.

  • The Gemini Advanced chatbot, powered by the Ultra 1.0 model, aims to excel in complex tasks such as coding, logical reasoning, and creative collaboration.

  • Gemini Advanced, likely a paid service, aims to outperform ChatGPT by integrating with Google services for task completion and information retrieval, while also incorporating an image generator similar to DALL-E 3 and reaching GPT-4 levels with the Gemini Pro model.

🧠 Hugging Face launches open source AI assistant maker to rival OpenAI’s custom GPTs LINK

  • Hugging Face has launched Hugging Chat Assistants, a free, customizable AI assistant maker that rivals OpenAI's subscription-based custom GPTs.

  • The new tool allows users to choose from a variety of open source large language models (LLMs) for their AI assistants, unlike OpenAI's reliance on proprietary models.

  • An aggregator page for third-party customized Hugging Chat Assistants mimics OpenAI's GPT Store, offering users various assistants to choose from and use.

One thing you should know

The Evolution of AI Development

Don’t blink. The landscape of AI development changes at the speed of light. But I will give you just a taste to whet your curiosity.

First, we’ll start with Quantum Computing and then explore Biomimetics and Ethics in AI.

  • Quantum Computing — Quantum Computing is an emerging field at the intersection of physics and computer science. What? Are these subjects way too complicated for you? Have no fear. I’ll keep the explanation down to earth.

    Imagine if you had a magical coin that could be both heads and tails simultaneously. Now, imagine having a whole bunch of these magical coins. You could solve many problems quickly because you don’t need to flip each coin individually, but you can look at all the possibilities at once. That’s sort of what Quantum Computing is like. It uses particular particles that can be in multiple states at once to solve complex problems much faster than regular computers. The following AI development is in the area of

  • Biomimetics — You know how sometimes you put on a superhero costume and pretend to have their powers? Biomimetics is similar but for scientists and engineers. They look at nature and its superheroes — like spiders, birds, plants, and even sea creatures — and try to mimic or copy their superpowers.

    Take, for example, the gecko. These little lizards have this unique ability to walk on walls and ceilings. Scientists studied their feet and created a special kind of tape that can stick to surfaces like a gecko’s feet. You might think I’m referring to Velcro, but I’m not. The gecko-inspired adhesive is based on the unique nano-scale foot hairs of geckos. These hairs create an intermolecular force known as the Van der Waals force, allowing geckos to stick to virtually any surface. Scientists mimic this to create a super adhesive that doesn’t leave any residue.

⏱️ Google's MobileDiffusion generates AI images on mobile devices in less than a second LINK

  • Google's MobileDiffusion enables the creation of high-quality images from text on smartphones in less than a second, leveraging a model that is significantly smaller than existing counterparts.

  • It achieves this rapid and efficient text-to-image conversion through a novel architecture including a text encoder, a diffusion network, and an image decoder, producing 512 x 512-pixel images swiftly on both Android and iOS devices.

  • While demonstrating a significant advance in mobile AI capabilities, Google has not yet released MobileDiffusion publicly, viewing this development as a step towards making text-to-image generation widely accessible on mobile platforms.

💸 Deepfake costs company $25 million LINK

  • Scammers utilized AI-generated deepfakes to impersonate a multinational company’s CFO in a video call, tricking an employee into transferring over $25 million.

  • The scam involved deepfake representations of the CFO and senior executives, leading the employee to believe the request for a large money transfer was legitimate.

  • Hong Kong police have encountered over 20 cases involving AI deepfakes to bypass facial recognition, emphasizing the increasing abuse of deepfake technology in fraud and identity theft.