Texti Newsletter #33

If you're reading this, then you are not in Paris at the Olympic games. So let's dive into it then.

The highlights of the week:

1. Search GPT​
   Sam decided to take over the Search Engines. Now it's competing against it's brother Bing, and against the most efficient ad sales company Google.
2. Llama 3.1​
   Zuck is trying on the AI Crown 👑, because as it goes: I said so therefore, I am the King!

​Search GPT​

So remember this interview of Sam Altman and Lex Fridman? Within 2 hours of boring and monotone conversations, Sam explicitly mentioned that AI is so much bigger than search engines, and it so much more than these miserable search engines, he doesn't even care about search engines.

Well it seems Sam was bluffing and after he found out how much money google makes, he decided it could be a feasible future for his company 😉.

Another theory is that Bill Gates, is still sore after he lost the war between Google and Bing, so he tries pushing OpenAI to dig up the hatchet, and start a new war. Many have tried doing this before, but none succeeded. Let's see OpenAI's attempt.

Regardless of the cause, let's see what they will offer, and how is it different to their already existing product, which within the chat already searches stuff online.

Key differences are:

1. You can now directly type a search query in specific box, and the intention will always be as clear as day - search things.
2. The results won't be really limited to 1 or 2 results, but rather a more common approach, which returns a list of results.
3. You will be able to continue the conversation, based on the returned results, and ask questions and summarizations of it.

The accent is on authors and creators, it is sad that the AI will give credit to the authors.

In my opinion, one of the most crucial things behind the search gpt is that it is going to fine tune your searches and add most of relevant context to maximize the output of your search, which is going to be a really really quality of life improvement.

Overall I think it has heaps of potential, but we need to understand how this is going to be used, and how will the ads going to be manipulated and imposed.

Let's see, as I'll gets hands-on it, I'll share my thoughts.

​Llama 3.1​

The new king is back on top of his Llama riding into the sunset. 🌅

It is very hard to know if this is indeed the best model out there, the most performant or not, because OpenAI doesn't share any technical specs for their models. But we can compare the performance based on the benchmarks.

The new 405B Llama 3.1 Model is the king of opensource. It is highly competitive with the competition in benchmarks.

If checkout the provided benchmark results, we can see that the scores are pretty similar across the board, and the toughest competitor seems to be Claude 3.5, where as GPT-4o is falling behind in almost all the areas.

Anyways, I'm expecting to see a new model from OpenAI soon-ish, I don't expect it to come earlier than September.

Anyways Llama 🦙, is a keeper, regardless of how much of weirdo is Mark, he makes a this world a better place by offering AI models free of charge. As it opens an entire world of experiments and possibilities. Now since the model is highly competitive and ready to rock, we simply need to adopt it. Most importantly, open source allows people to access and remove the barrier of entering the world of developing AI powered apps. With a rather simple tutorial and a bunch of tinkering you can build an AI app yourself.

This is the magic of open source, and open communities.

That's it folks, see you next week ❤️️️️️️️

Happy Prompting!

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