OpenAI Releases ChatGPT on Steroids, Heating Up AI Wars 🖥️

Bigger. Better. Beefier. That's probably the best way to categorize the latest (and greatest!) version of ChatGPT: GPT-4.

Microsoft-backed OpenAI — the creator of ChatGPT — can do no wrong, and that was the sentiment with the release of an even more powerful AI bot that its inventors say "exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks."

For context, ChatGPT, aka the ChatGPT, is trained on a model called GPT version 3.5 (GPT-3.5). By comparison, GPT-4 is better in every single way: it can accept both images and text inputs to generate responses, and apparently, understands jokes that its younger sibling could not.

More importantly, however, Microsoft and Google are now competing to gain dominance in AI. As we reported previously, Google is up in arms because the success of ChatGPT threatens its existence. While Google's Bard, the chatbot that was seemingly expected to counter rival Microsoft's ChatGPT has failed spectacularly, Google isn't out of the AI game — releasing AI enhancements across some of its products this past week to whet consumers' appetite.

Meanwhile, Microsoft has already upgraded ChatGPT to the latest version in products that rely on it and is and is expected to roll out even more AI enhancements into its products in the future.

Google ranked #7 this week while Microsoft was trending on the #35 spot.

More Governments Kiss TikTok Good Bye 🌏

China's TikTok is having a bad year. What began as a security concern has now snowballed into a wider effort to keep the video hosting platform out of lawmakers' phones, with more and more governments barring their parliaments, senates, and whathaveyous from installing the app.

The latest to do so were New Zealand and the UK, citing the same reasons as others in keeping the app out.

TikTok continues to claim that its app poses no risk to privacy and security, though experts believe otherwise.

In Other News.. 📰

• Meta rolled out its subscription service in the U.S.
• Humane Inc, a start-up founded by former Apple employees, raised another $100 million — yet, no one knows what it's building.
• Uh.. China's entered the AI space with its own chatbot: Ernie.
• Microsoft isn't the only company baking AI into its products. Digital payment processing company Stripe said it would start doing the same.

And that's a wrap! Don't forget to share this newsletter with your family and friends!

See y'all next week. PEACE! ☮️

— Sheharyar Khan, Editor, Business Tech @ HackerNoon