Fri. 05/05 – Can Open Source Win Out Over Open AI? (Corrected)

Apple earnings recap. A new, free code generating AI tool. Which, actually, lots of people are starting to ask the question: will open source AI actually come out on top in the AI revolution? And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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Links:

• Apple CEO Tim Cook says AI is "huge," but care is needed (Axios)
• Hugging Face and ServiceNow release a free code-generating model (TechCrunch)
• Google Is Falling Behind in AI Arms Race, Senior Engineer Warns (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI’s Losses Doubled to $540 Million as It Developed ChatGPT (The Information)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions

• AI Singers Are Unnervingly Good and Already Ubiquitous (Vulture)
• Is the Federal Government Trying to Kill Off Crypto? (Intelligencer/NYMag)
• Why Chatbots Are Not the Future (Amelia Wattenberger)
• ESPN’s Jimmy Pitaro Will Decide the Fate of Cable Television (Bloomberg)