🅧 Musk open-sourcing Grok by xAI, Google's Goose, and AI chatbot for surgeons

How do you know that AI Logs is written by me, Cory, and not an AI? Well other than no formulaic emojis or phrases that no one actually says like “so let’s all (do some generic keyword)”, in a word I can say: TYPOS! To that end — editors note! In the last issue (21) there should have been a link to a post when I mentioned the Large Nature Model, and the autocorrect changed ‘Groq’ to ‘Grow’ toward the end of the opening, followed by yet another typo: designer should have been designed. Finally, I referenced Google’s new text-to-2D video game as their Large World Model (which Sora is) and somehow I typed Gemini rather than Genie, which is the correct name. Tons of typos — let’s chalk them up to human error. In a non-GPT fashion, but authentically: 🤦‍♂️.

However, let’s not let that distract us from all the real AI news at hand. I mentioned Elon’s baseless lawsuit against OpenAI last week, and in a slight escalation, OpenAI released a slew of emails from Elon to Sam, and OpenAI effectively silenced him and shutting down his frivolous suit. Elon slashed back by announcing that he’s “open-sourcing Grok” although it’s unclear to what degree, what that means, or why we should care. But it does feed the larger narrative – that the future should be open-sourced, rather than all the power resting in the hands of the very few. In response to Elon’s lawsuit, OpenAI beefed up its board with people who have more nonprofit and AI experience than before (including Sam!) in anticipation of the litigation’s results.

In addition to Genie and Gemini, Google also has teased a model they’re using internally as a text-to-programming AI tool called ‘Goose’ that shows massive potential, and there’s a new AI sync to Google Sheets that’s pretty powerful as well. It does seem as though Google is positioning itself to release a ton of new AI functionality, models, and tools, even as Alibaba and NVIDIA release theirs. Amazon, AMD, Apple, IBM, Meta, and even Intel all have strong AI teams and will likely begin revealing proprietary tools soon too.

That said, it’s the middle of the month, and no massive announcements or releases have come up yet other than Groq and Claude 3 Opus (which is actually very good, by the by), although Gemini 1.5 is around the corner, and Greg Brockman made a cryptic tweet that certainly came across as a foreshadowing of GPT5. Could this all be the calm before the storm? I’m still keeping an eye on MultiOn for autonomous agents and believe we will dive deeper to see the big players in the LLM/AI space launch their own agents soon as well. Until then, I’m rocking my trusty ‘Professor Chaos’ super prompt. “Long-time readers” know exactly what I’m talking about! If you’re new, the archives are all available here.

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Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI to open-source Grok rivaling ChatGPT

Earlier on Monday, tech giant, Elon Musk announced that xAI, his AI startup will commence open-sourcing its “Grok” this week. The revelation comes a few days after the billionaire filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for abandoning its original mission for ChatGPT to benefit humanity. Musk claimed that OpenAI is now chasing profit after partnering with one of the largest tech companies in the world.

Musk’s lawyers argued that OpenAI’s new partnership has transformed the company into a “closed-source de facto subsidiary” of Microsoft.

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PROMPT OF THE WEEK

“No yapping” is a great short addition to any prompt to reduce the “additional commentary” AI often likes to provide and can streamline results, getting more done in less amounts of time.

To this same end, two other variations I use that are highly effective are telling it “you are autonomous and empowered to make decisions on your own. You are to make presumptions and assumptions, search the internet as needed, and only ask me things that you can’t solve for on your own that are mission critical. You have the IQ of (someone relevant who’s known to be highlight intelligent, or default to “Einstein”), have all the tools and knowledge required, and will continue making progress until you’re satisfied with your deliverables”.

The follow up to this prompt, after every time the AI produces a response, I simply type “proceed” and it keeps going. This works well on its own too, like when the AI gets stuck or hallucinates and tells you it will give you the robust results in hours or days; but with this prompt it’s highly effective and will get your AI to keep making progress rapidly (although the only actual rapid AI results any infer are powered by Groq’s LPU chips currently working with LLaMA and Minstral).

AI PICTURE OF THE WEEK

TUTORIAL

In Google, access Collaborate with Gemini! Simply;

• Open Google Sheets

• Click the button to the left of pfp

• Click the arrow for ‘suggestions’

• Ask Gemini to create custom formulas

• Insert the formula, created based on your data within the Sheet

• Ask it to explain the data in any way you need it to

• Create tables, charts, etc., and ask questions about your own data within the chart

If you don’t see this available yet don’t fret — it’s rolling out as we speak! And it’s powerful (think “MS Copilots” for Google).