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imlaggingsobad t1_j9vmlwb wrote

Meta's AI research is very good, people are sleeping on them. It's definitely a 3 way race between Google, Microsoft and Meta.

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Johnny_WakeUp t1_j9yk9v4 wrote

I'm more of an interested outsider, but are any of these smaller companies, like Open AI, on that list?

I was talking with a friend about how ChatGPT could replace Google for search. Are they just keeping research close to the vest?

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WarAndGeese t1_j9zi7ft wrote

Yes there are but I don't know all of them. Note though that Stable Diffusion blew Dall-E2 and Imagen out of the water. Because it was free and open source, it was much more widely used. Now Dall-E is probably still going to be used heavily in industry, but the closed tools and expensive tools tend to lose out to the free and open source ones. That's one thing that has happened so far with generative adversarial networks and that's one thing that would likely happen with large language models and other models as well.

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imlaggingsobad t1_ja0oygq wrote

imo there are only a few companies that have a real shot at making AGI.

Google / DeepMind / Anthropic

Microsoft / OpenAI

Meta / FAIR

There are smaller companies like Adept, Cohere and Inflection that are doing interesting work.

Others like Amazon, Nvidia, Apple, Tesla, Salesforce, Intel, IBM are capable, but they haven't fully committed to AGI.

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94746382926 t1_ja5px6h wrote

The difference seems to be that the other companies are investing in AI to boost their main business (Nvidia for hardware sales, Tesla for Self driving, etc.)

For the big 3 AGI is the business.

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94746382926 t1_ja5pvgg wrote

The difference seems to be that the other companies are investing in AI as a supplement to their main business (Nvidia for hardware sales, Tesla for Self driving, etc.)

For the big 3 AGI is the business.

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