Happy Friday!

In Today’s Email:

• ChatGPT app drops 📲

• PaLM 2 impresses 👌

• Apple restricts ChatGPT 👩‍💻

ChatGPT app drops 📲

Say goodbye to every ChatGPT-powered app.

OpenAI just launched their iOS app for ChatGPT. The app syncs chat history with the web, has voice input, and is free to use. The app is available for both iPhones and iPads. OpenAI assured an Android version of the app is “coming soon,” and the app will expand to countries outside of the US in the coming weeks.

The AI chatbot launched last November and quickly set the record for the fastest-growing user base. In January the AI chatbot reached 100 million monthly active users, just two months after its release. Although OpenAI didn’t hint at a mobile app release, it makes perfect sense.

Over the previous months, the iOS app store has been flooded by unofficial ChatGPT apps. These apps have made a killing off of their “pro versions” of the chatbot. The Google Play store is no different, being filled by fake ChatGPT apps. The release of OpenAI’s official app should kill off the fraudulent competition.

PaLM 2 impresses 👌

Google’s newest large language model (LLM) Is more advanced than ever.

PaLM 2, Google’s new general-use LLM was recently unveiled at Google I/O. The model is trained on 3.6 trillion tokens, nearly five times as much training data as its predecessor. The previous model of PaLM, which stands for Pathways Language Model, was trained on 780 billion tokens.

The new model is trained on 100 languages and it’s already being used to power 25 features and products within Google such as Bard. It’s also been pre-trained on a large quantity of publicly available source code datasets, which allows the model to excel at languages such as Python and Javascript.

Other new products powered by PaLM 2 include Med-PaLM 2 and Sec-PaLM. Med-PaLM 2 is trained by health research teams with medical knowledge and it’s already achieved an “expert” level performance on the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam. Sec-PaLM is a specialized version of PaLM 2, trained in cybersecurity analysis.

We’re excited to see what Google builds using PaLM 2.

Apple restricts ChatGPT 👩‍💻

Employees at the tech giant are restricted from using ChatGPT.

According to a recent Wall Street Journal report, Apple employees have been barred from using ChatGPT and other AI-powered services like Github’s CoPilot. The tension between adopting the new technology and worrying about privacy concerns is on full display.

Concerns about the way data is handled by these AI platforms are the main culprit. ChatGPT and CoPilot are either owned or financially backed by Apple’s rival Microsoft. Apple’s proprietary code and other sensitive data could be leaked via the chatbot.

Apple isn’t the first company to restrict ChatGPT usage among employees. Samsung recently banned ChatGPT and other AI tools earlier this month, after a leak of sensitive code by an engineer using the chatbot. Amazon banned employees from sharing code with ChatGPT after conflicts with internal data were discovered. Banks including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Wells Fargo, and Goldman Sachs have all followed suit to avoid potentially sharing sensitive financial information with the chatbot.

That’s it for today, we’ll see you back here next week!