AI Top-of-Mind for 6.28.24 — Going Native
Top-of-mind is OpenAI’s continued success with enterprise customers. ‘The Information’ reports on the company’s revenue growth and how it impacts Microsoft’s equivalent offers. In any case, OpenAI runs its services on Azure, so Microsoft still profits.
· As of March, OpenAI was generating around $1 billion in annualized revenue from selling access to its models, according to someone who viewed internal figures related to the business. The annualized revenue rate refers to the prior month’s revenue multiplied by 12. In contrast, Microsoft’s comparable offering, Azure OpenAI Service, only recently hit $1 billion in ARR, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told his staff this month.
· That implies OpenAI’s model-selling business, which started in 2020, took the lead this year. Microsoft made Azure OpenAI Service broadly available i
· “There’s a profound shift underway where enterprises…are now choosing the AI-native companies” like OpenAI, rather than cloud providers, to access models, said Igor Jablokov, founder and CEO of Pryon, which sells software tools for AI app developers.
A good earlier diagram by Brooks Hamilton on the nuts-and-bolts of the agreement.
Also, from ‘The Information,’ and a good follow-up to yesterday’s note on Huawei. The reporting goes deeper into the impact of the US ban on companies including Moonshot AI and Kuaishou. As an example, they are having to limit availability of new models due to capacity. Alibaba, Baidu, and ByteDance are in the same boat.
On the not so positive side, if you are hiring or wish to be hired, watch out for AI job scamming! ‘CBS News’ reports on this disturbing trend, so if pay looks too good to be true, the remote location seems to perfect, or if you are asked for more personal information than expected, beware. The scammers are also leveraging platforms like Linkedin.
Continuing on the corporate front, more focus on AI-generated bias, especially when part of customer experience and how to eliminate it. ‘TechRadar’ details four pillars of a bias prevention strategy:
· Identifying and measuring bias
· Awareness of hidden variables and hasty conclusions
· Designing rigorous training methods
· Adapting the solution to the use case
Now onto creative, with another image enhancement tool. Jim Clyde Monge in ‘Generative AI’ describes ‘AIarty’ for upscaling and deblurring that also supports GPUs.
Lastly, some AI for the Paris Olympics. NBC/Peacock plans to offer daily updates with an AI-generated version of Al Michaels’ voice, as reported by ‘The Verge.’ Link to the demo video. From the article:
· Here’s how it works. To set up what NBC is calling “Your Daily Olympic Recap” in the Peacock app, you’ll provide your name (the AI voice can welcome the “majority” of people by their first name, NBC says in a press release) and pick up to three types of sports that are interesting to you and up to two types of highlights (for example, “Top Competition” or “Viral & Trending Moments”). Then, each morning, you’ll get your Michaels-led rundown.
· Peacock’s recaps led by the AI Al Michaels will be available starting July 27th in supported browsers and the iOS and iPadOS Peacock apps. NBC declined to comment if the recaps will be available on Android.
