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The consumer genAI market is still completely dominated by ChatGPT. Summer’s biggest rumor about the product losing users is now confirmed to have been caused by vacations. Now that students are back to school, interest in ChatGPT is growing again - and it’s about to grow even more thanks to DALL·E 3.

• DeepMind’s AlphaMissense model, without being trained on such data, achieves SOTA results in evaluating the pathogenicity of missense gene variants (=built from varying amino acids), generating a database of predictions for all possible variants. - Science
  
  
• ChatGPT just crushes every other genAI product on the market in terms of consumer usage – two categories growing in popularity are AI companionship and creative tools, and most product categories still don’t have a definitive winner. - a16z
  
  
• It’s about to crush even more with the upcoming image generation model, DALL·E 3 – built natively on ChatGPT, it has no problems with generating text in images, achieves SOTA quality, with no need for prompt hacking because GPT does it for you. - OpenAI
  
  
• Physics + AI = <3 – SOTA image generation models are based on the physical process of diffusion, the next generation could be based on the Poisson flow, which yields the same quality images as diffusion but 10 to 20 times faster. - Quanta
  
  
• LLM compression beats domain-specific compressors like PNG or FLAC – predictive models can be transformed into lossless compressors, and likewise you can build a conditional generative model from any compressor, for example gzip. - Hugging Face
  
  
• Neuralink is recruiting patients with spinal cord injuries and ALS for the first in-human clinical trials for PRIME (Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface), aiming to enable them to control devices with their thoughts. - Neuralink
  
  
• Google’s Bard can now connect with different Google services, for example grab info from Gmail, search for additional information on YouTube, plan a route on Google Maps, and more. - Google
  
  
• Regulation VS development – as long as they operate within the “responsible” guidelines of the EU, European startups will be able to get access to the EUs supercomputers to train AI models. - TechCrunch
 
• Perhaps the first official AI-powered art genre, AI illusions are all the rage now – you can create high-quality ones yourself with Illusion Diffusion, a great tool that generates really cool visuals. - Hugging Face, X (Twitter)
  
  
• The data is in, and it’s confirmed that ChatGPT usage numbers rely a lot on students using it in school – over the summer, interest in ChatGPT fell and Minecraft grew, and now that school is back the trend has reversed. - X (Twitter)

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