“things that confuse me about the current AI market. ” by DMMF

Paging Gwern or anyone else who can shed light on the current state of the AI market—I have several questions.Since the release of ChatGPT, at least 17 companies, according to the LMSYS Chatbot Arena Leaderboard, have developed AI models that outperform it. These companies include Anthropic, NexusFlow, Microsoft, Mistral, Alibaba, Hugging Face, Google, Reka AI, Cohere, Meta, 01 AI, AI21 Labs, Zhipu AI, Nvidia, DeepSeek, and xAI.Since GPT-4's launch, 15 different companies have reportedly created AI models that are smarter than GPT-4. Among them are Reka AI, Meta, AI21 Labs, DeepSeek AI, Anthropic, Alibaba, Zhipu, Google, Cohere, Nvidia, 01 AI, NexusFlow, Mistral, and xAI.Twitter AI (xAI), which seemingly had no prior history of strong AI engineering, with a small team and limited resources, has somehow built the third smartest AI in the world, apparently on par with the very best from OpenAI.The top AI image [...] --- First published: August 28th, 2024 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yRjLY3z3GQBJaDuoY/things-that-confuse-me-about-the-current-ai-market --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.