Undersea mining and the broader trends

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Hey – David here. In this edition of DRIFFT you’ll get:

💡What’s New: Undersea mining is part of a broader trend.

🤔 Opinion: Opensource or OpenAI?

🛠️ Tools: Speed up your work and discover something new.

🎓 Tutorial: LangChain for building AI apps.

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💡What’s new

🤔 Opinion

Should we use OpenAI or opensource?

It depends. Though most are opting for opensource.

The big tech companies know they have no mote. A leaked memo from Google describes how they’d lose to opensource. META has announced their desire to release foundational models. (This answers a question I’ve been asking for several weeks–why hasn’t Apple rushed in like the others to release a chat product?)

So if you’re thinking of integrating chat assistants into your company or your products, you probably want to keep the AI startups at arm’s length while you build in-house competency.

I’m guessing most are going to trial OpenAI’s API. But as skills build, you can bet they’ll move to open solutions, especailly if they turn out to be as useful as the incumbents.

That also means that AI skills are here to stay, and ALL companies will inevitably end up having AI business units. First movers win again.

🛠️ Tools and Data

Opensource to speed your daily tasks

  1. HuggingChat - opensource ChatGPT from Hugging Face https://huggingface.co/chat

  2. ExplainPaper - A tool that helps you understand research papers, https://www.explainpaper.com/

  3. ChatPDF - upload PDFs and chat with them, https://pdf.chat/

  4. SegmentGeospatial - use Meta’s SAM model on your geospatial data, https://6452ae31057d2610e3302e55--opengeos.netlify.app/examples/automatic_mask_generator/

🎓 See What’s Possible

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My favorite graphic for the week year.

A reminder of how not so long ago a deep sea project owned by Nautulis Minerals was in default.

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