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Hey everyone, this is Alex Volkov 👋

This week was an incredibly packed with news, started strong on Sunday with x.ai GrŌk announcement, Monday with all the releases during OpenAI Dev Day, then topped of with Github Universe Copilot announcements, and to top it all of, we postponed the live recording to see what hu.ma.ne has in store for us as AI devices go (Finally announced Pin with all the features)

In between we had a new AI Unicorn from HongKong called Yi from 01.ai which dropped a new SOTA 34B model with a whopping 200K context window and a commercial license by ex-Google China lead Kai Fu Lee.

Above all, this week was a monumental for me personally, ThursdAI has been a passion project for the longest time (240 days), and it led me to incredible places, like being invited to ai.engineer summit to do media, then getting invited to OpenAI Dev Day (to also do podcasting from there), interview and befriend folks from HuggingFace, Github, Adobe, Google, OpenAI and of course open source friends like Nous Research, Alignment Labs, and interview authors of papers, hackers of projects, and fine-tuners and of course all of you, who tune in from week to week 🙏 Thank you!

It's all been so humbling and fun, which makes me ever more excited to share the next chapter. Starting Monday I'm joining Weights & Biases as an AI Evangelist! 🎊

I couldn't be more excited to continue ThursdAI mission, of spreading knowledge about AI, connecting between the AI engineers and the fine-tuners, the Data Scientists and the GEN AI folks, the super advanced cutting edge stuff, and the folks who fear AI with the backing of such an incredible and important company in the AI space.

ThursdAI will continue as a X space, newsletter and podcast, as we'll gradually find a common voice, and continue bringing folks awareness of WandB incredible brand to newer developers, products and communities. Expect more on this very soon!

Ok now to the actual AI news 😅

TL;DR of all topics covered:

* OpenAI Dev Day

* GPT-4 Turbo with 128K context, 3x cheaper than GPT-4

* Assistant API - OpenAI's new Agent API, with retrieval memory, code interpreter, function calling, JSON mode

* GPTs - Shareable, configurable GPT agents with memory, code interpreter, DALL-E, Browsing, custom instructions and actions

* Privacy Shield - Open AI lawyers will protect you from copyright lawsuits

* Dev Day emergency pod with Latent Space with Swyx, Allesio, Simon and Me! (Listen)

* OpenSource LLMs

* 01 launches YI-34B, a 200K context window model commercially licensed and it tops all HuggingFace leaderboards across all sizes (Announcement)

* Vision

* GPT-4 Vision API finally announced, rejoice, it's as incredible as we've imagined it to be

* Voice

* Open AI TTS models with 6 very-realistic, multilingual voices, no cloning tho

* AI Art & Diffusion

* <2.5 seconds full SDXL inference with FAL (Announcement)

OpenAI Dev Day

So much to cover from OpenAI that this has it's own section today in the newsletter.

I was lucky enough to get invited, and attend the first ever OpenAI developer conference (AKA Dev Day) and it was an absolute blast to attend. It was also i