AI gets a memory boost

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One of the biggest debates in the AI industry: Can LLMs keep improving, or will they eventually reach a plateau? The research organization Epoch AI put that age-old question to the test and found some unexpected results.

Today’s Insights

• Startup aims to help LLMs remember

• Tutorial: How to change AI data settings on LinkedIn

• Frontier: Can AI keep scaling up?

• Everything else you should know today

• 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

• AI-Generated Images: Spooky season

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Berkeley startup wants to give LLMs long-term memory

All of us forget things from time to time, but we can at least keep track of basic facts, like our names, addresses, and birthdays. AI models aren’t so lucky: Nearly all of them suffer from a bad case of amnesia. No matter how many times you give them context about your life, they’re bound to forget it by your next session.

Letta, the brainchild of Berkeley PhD students Sarah Wooders and Charles Packer, is tackling a major headache in the AI world: Helping AI models actually remember things, including your past conversations and preferences. Several major investors, including Alphabet’s Jeff Dean and Hugging Face’s Clem Delangue, have contributed $10M to the project, resulting in a $70M valuation.

Why it’s important: Long-term memory opens up a world of possibilities, from more personalized customer support bots to sophisticated healthcare symptom-tracking apps that learn and adapt to individual patients. By solving the memory problem, Letta could help unlock the next level of personalized, intelligent applications capable of interacting with the physical world.

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FROM THE FRONTIER

Can AI scaling models continue through 2030?

AI models are scaling at a rate of about 4x per year — representing one of the fastest growth trajectories of any technology in modern history. That’s led to a major debate: Can LLMs keep progressing at that pace, or is their scale destined to level off? 

A new analysis from Epoch AI hints at an answer. The research organization considered factors like power constraints, chip capabilities, and data scarcity. It ultimately found that there aren’t any barriers big enough to slow progress through 2030, as long as AI companies are willing to up their investments proportionally. 

“If this continues, we could expect to see training runs 10,000x larger than GPT-4’s by the end of the decade,” the organization wrote. To put that into perspective, that’s the equivalent of the jump we saw between GPT-2 and GPT-4.

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Everything else you need to know today

• Even the Odds: OpenAI is providing $1M in API credits to developers in lower-income countries, who often have limited access to state-of-the-art AI models.

• Digital Billboard: The AI search engine Perplexity could soon introduce ads in a bid to compete with Alphabet.

• Pivot to Video: Black Forest Labs, the startup behind Grok’s popular image generator, is raising $100M to release its first text-to-video model.

• Meta Narrative: Sources told The Information that WhatsApp is the most popular venue for Meta’s new AI features, followed closely by Facebook.

💍 One Fun Thing: A new startup called Arcade wants to help you turn your ideas and design concepts into actual products with the help of AI. You’ll be able to enter in a text prompt — for example, “a gold charm of an ice cream cone” — then get paired up with an independent artisan who will hand-make the piece of jewelry for you.

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Spooky Season

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