This newsletter provides a monthly recap of relevant news for AI Engineers. The August edition highlights the rise in VC markets with companies like Anthropic, Modular, HuggingFace, and W&B raising over $50m. It also discusses the trend of finetuning in AI, with OpenAI launching their finetuning API for GPT 3.5 and CodeLlama at Meta being actively finetuned. The concept of multiplayer agents is explored, with MetaGPT and the Generative Agents paper pushing the idea of autonomous agents collaborating. The newsletter also marks one year of Stable Diffusion, a model released in August 2022. Other topics include updates on ChatGPT, the launch of the GPT3.5 Finetuning API, and various new models and tools in the AI field.
Key takeaways:
The newsletter provides a recap of the latest developments in the AI engineering field, including major funding rounds, product launches, and research breakthroughs.
Several AI companies, including Anthropic, Modular, HuggingFace, and W&B, raised significant funding rounds, indicating a strong market interest in AI technologies.
There's a growing trend of finetuning everything in AI, with OpenAI launching their finetuning API for GPT 3.5 and other companies actively finetuning their AI models for better results.
There's also a focus on the development of multiplayer agents, with companies like MetaGPT and Generative Agents pushing forward the idea of autonomous agents collaborating with each other.
