Amazon and Elon entered the ring

Welcome to another edition of what we’re determined to make the best damn newsletter in AI. Here we’ll break down AI topics that matter, open your mind to use cases, and keep you ahead of the curve.

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Here's what we're covering today:

• The AI Wars continue to heat up. How does that impact ChatGPT?

• AI-generated content and its impact on SEO

• Other notable launches and announcements

Let’s get to it! 👇

TODAY'S PERSPECTIVE

Amazon and Elon entered the ring

The AI Wars are heating up and might quickly commoditize OpenAI’s lead.

Last week, Amazon announced Bedrock, it’s platform service that lets any company using AWS access a range of foundation model providers like Anthropic and Stability AI. Amazon also announced Titan Foundation Models, its own play to offer the generative AI models that will power the next wave of AI features and applications.

To add to the mix, Elon recently incorporated his own OpenAI competitor, X.ai, which will apparently work on a TruthGPT, "a truth-seeking AI" and has been buying GPUs (the compute required to do heavy AI development).

If you’re doing the math like we are… (Stability AI, Anthropic, Google, Nvidia, AI21, Amazon, X.ai, Inflection, Meta, Cohere, Alibaba)… not to mention open source AI models…

That’s a lot of competition for OpenAI.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT was special for two reasons: the viral chat app itself, and the AI models behind it.

But those AI models are quickly looking like they will be commoditized, if they aren’t already. And when products are commoditized, the providers with the broadest distribution and who can offer the lowest costs, tend to win.

And that list of competitors above has some pretty good distribution.

As AI models become a commodity, might we see OpenAI invest in different directions that are more defensible?

And it will be interesting to see what differentiators other high profile AI companies tackle.

For anyone investing in building or implementing AI, these are important trends to watch.

USE CASE DEEP DIVE

AI for SEO

Despite the misconception, Google doesn't penalize AI generated content.

We’ve covered it before, but the search giant has explicitly stated that they do not care whether a human wrote content or whether AI did; they just care that it’s high quality and helpful to the reader.

AI-generated content can be extremely useful. We’re seeing it grow in popularity in e-commerce to write product descriptions. Technical domains to create reference materials. And niche industries to create glossaries for customers.

Many teams are also experimenting with programmatic SEO - the creation of a large volume of highly targeted websites to serve specific customer needs.

For premium subscribers: Read the full debrief on AI use cases for SEO, including a marketplace founder’s case study.

LINKS

For your reading list 📚

Some other notable AI launches...

• Amazon also launched Code Whisperer, their competitor to Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot that uses AI to help developers write code faster

• Stability AI releases SDXL, an AI image model purpose-built to be great at photorealism - you can use it directly in Dream Studio.

And if you're really nerdy...

• Researchers uncovered serious bias and toxicity issues in ChatGPT by asking it to act as different personas; acting as the boxer Muhammad Ali, for example, significantly increases toxicity of responses

• Meta released an open source AI animation model that can bring your drawings to life

• OpenAI open sources their code for consistency models, their latest research pushing the envelope on AI image generation models that is targeting making generating images faster and more efficient (potentially real time?)

That's all!

We'll see you again on Thursday. Thoughts, feedback and questions are much appreciated - respond here or shoot us a note at [email protected]. 

Cheers,

🪄 The AI Exchange Team