The Four Wars of the AI Stack (Dec 2023 Recap)
The Data Wars, The War of the GPU Rich/Poor, The Multimodality War, The RAG/Ops War. Also: our usual highest-signal recap of top items for the AI Engineer from Dec 2023!
We’re putting the “news” back in “newsletter”: This is the fifth in our new monthly recaps for supporters - Nov 2023 is archived. See the full list here. ALSO: we have recorded an audio podcast discussion of this available now! thanks also to NLW of the AI Breakdown for featuring us, and then having us back on the AI Breakdown. As we turn the 2023rd page of human history1, the main theaters of conflict among AI startups and stakeholders have become apparent: We saw all elements of these in December 2023: The Data War - with OpenAI announcing a partnership with Axel Springer (see also its…
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