Weekly Top Picks #69

OpenAI's Voice Engine / xAI's Grok 1.5 and 2 / Stability's downfall / AI21 labs' Jamba / ChatGPT use is up / Stargate / Databricks' DBRX / Stolen women faces / Watermarking against AI pollution?

The week in AI at a glance

• OpenAI’s Voice Engine—too dangerous or panic marketing playbook?

• How Stability AI’s founder tanked his billion-dollar startup

• AI21 labs’ Jamba, the first production-grade SSM-Transformer model

• The use of ChatGPT is ticking up, but few trust its election information

• Microsoft and OpenAI plot $100 billion Stargate AI supercomputer

• Databricks’ DBRX 132B MoE model is the new open-source king

• AI hustlers stole women’s faces to put in ads. The law can’t help them

• AI-generated garbage is polluting our culture—can we stop it?

• Elon Musk’s xAI has announced Grok 1.5 and is training Grok 2

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