Bigger. Better. Beefier. That's probably the best way to categorize the latest (and greatest!) version of ChatGPT: GPT-4. -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 "exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks." Microsoft say For context, ChatGPT, aka 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, that its younger sibling could not. the understands jokes More importantly, however, Microsoft and 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 , Google isn't out of the AI game — across some of its products this past week to whet consumers' appetite. Google failed spectacularly releasing AI enhancements 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 is having a bad year. What began as a security concern has now snowballed into a wider effort to keep the video hosting platform lawmakers' phones, with more and more governments barring their parliaments, senates, and whathaveyous from installing the app. TikTok out of The to do so were New Zealand and the UK, citing the same reasons as others in keeping the app out. latest TikTok continues to claim that its app poses no risk to privacy and security, though experts believe otherwise. 👋 You’re reading HackerNoon's Tech Company News Brief, a weekly collection of tech goodness that combines HackerNoon's proprietary data with internet trends to determine which companies are rising and falling in the public consciousness. Subscribe to receive the newsletter in your inbox every Tuesday! here In Other News.. 📰 Meta rolled out its subscription service in the U.S. Humane Inc, a start-up founded by former employees, raised another — yet, no one knows what it's building. Apple $100 million 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

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