Sunday Rundown #49: Amazon Q and Gambling Monks

Sunday Showdown #9: GPT-4 Turbo vs. Llama 3: Who can code a better game?

Happy Sunday, friends!

Welcome back to the Sunday Rundown—a weekly look at generative AI that covers the following:

• Sunday Rundown + AI Fail (free): I share this week’s AI news and a fail for your entertainment.

• Sunday Showdown + AI Tip (paid): I pit AI tools against each other in solving a specific real-world task and share a hands-on tip for working with AI.

Let’s get to it.

🗞️ AI news

Here are this week’s AI developments.

👩‍💻 AI releases

New stuff you can try right now:

1. Amazon released Amazon Q, an AI assistant built for businesses and developers. (Get started here.)

2. Claude now has an iOS app and a team plan for professionals. (Download the iOS app.)

3. ChatGPT’s “memory” feature has finally rolled out to all ChatGPT Plus users (except those in Europe or Korea).

4. Yelp iOS app users can now get help from AI to find the right service professional. It’s coming to Android later this summer. (Download the iOS app.)

5. Midjourney’s Alpha site is now open to users who made at least 100 images. (It’s no longer just for maniacs with 10K+ images.) Bye-bye, Discord?

6. Udio added new editing features giving users more control over music tracks. (Try Udio for free.)

7. Meshy announced a new and improved model called Meshy-3 that generates 3D assets from text or images. (Try Meshy for free.)

8. Screen recorder Loom added a suite of AI features to make recording and sharing videos faster and better.

9. Google now lets you start chats with Gemini by typing "@gemini” in the Chrome address bar.

10. Shortlink manager Dub now uses AI to make shortlink creation easier. (Visit the Dub.co website)

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🔬 AI research

Cool stuff you might get to try one day:

1. Chinese startup Shengshu Technology teased a video model called Vidu that’s positioned as a rival to OpenAI’s Sora. (Watch the demo video.)

2. OpenAI is suspected to be working on an AI-powered search product that’s rumored to be released on May 9.

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📖 AI resources

Helpful stuff that teaches you about AI:

1. “How AI is unlocking the secrets of nature and the universe” - TED chat with Dennis Hassabis and Chris Anderson [VIDEO]

2. “The Possibilities of AI” - Sam Altman’s Q&A at Stanford [VIDEO]

3. “The Economic Impact of Generative AI” - Report [PDF]

4. “Amazon Q Business Getting Started” - Amazon’s free course for using Amazon Q

5. Prompt Library by Anthropic - dozens of preset prompts to use with LLMs

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🔀 AI random

Other notable AI stories of the week:

1. A mystery LLM called “gpt2-chatbot” popped up briefly on LMSYS Chatbot Arena and displayed abilities comparable (or better) to GPT-4 Turbo. Most observers suspect it’s a preview of a new OpenAI model.

2. Apple is apparently in talks with OpenAI to incorporate AI features into iOS 18.

🤦‍♂️ 10. AI fail of the week

What I asked for. I have no clue where the Buddhist monks came from.

Anything to share?

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⚔️ Sunday Showdown (Issue #9) - GPT-4 Turbo vs. Llama 3: Which one is better at coding a game?

The recently released Llama 3 is the first open-source LLM to approach GPT-4-class performance.

But can it code, though?

That’s what I’m about to find out. I’ll be asking both GPT-4 Turbo and Llama 3 to code a simple game.

We’ll even get to try their games out.

Let’s go!