Happy Wednesday!

In Today’s Email:

• ChatGPT goes undercover 🗃️

• Russia’s ChatGPT competitor 🇷🇺

• Hugging Face launches AI chatbot 🫂

ChatGPT goes undercover 🗃️

OpenAI just rolled out some new features for ChatGPT.

Users will now have the ability to turn off chat history. Conversations that occur while chat history is disabled won’t be used to train the LLM. These conversations won’t appear in the history sidebar either. OpenAI will retain new conversations for 30 days and monitor them for abuse before permanently deleting them.

Italy recently banned ChatGPT due to privacy concerns, however, Italian authorities said OpenAI could resume its service if it gave users options to process their data. Mira Murati, OpenAI’s CTO, told Reuters the new features did not occur from Italy’s ChatGPT ban, but rather from an effort to put users “in the driver’s seat” regarding data collection.

OpenAI also announced a new ChatGPT Business subscription designed for “professionals who need more control over their data,” and enterprises wanting to manage end users. The new service will follow OpenAI’s API data usage policies, meaning end users’ data won’t be used to train OpenAI’s models. ChatGPT Business will be available in the coming months.

Check out the full post here.

Russia’s ChatGPT competitor 🇷🇺

A new ChatGPT competitor has entered the arena, GigaChat.

Russian lender, Sberbank, recently announced it has launched a rival to ChatGPT called GigaChat. The alternative AI chatbot is currently in an initial invite-only testing mode. Sberbank said its chatbot will be able to compete with the ultra-popular ChatGPT. According to reports, Sberbank has invested heavily in technology over recent years.

According to the Russian lender, GigaChat’s ability to communicate intelligently in Russian is what set’s it apart from other foreign neural networks. We’re not surprised to see competition out of Moscow, especially as Western nations continue to slash exports and impose sanctions on Russia due to the war in Ukraine.

China has also launched its own versions of ChatGPT. Alibaba’s Tongyi Qianwen and Baidu’s Ernie are both gaining popularity. Similar to GigaChat, both of these chatbots have the ability to communicate in the country’s native language. We expect to see more ChatGPT competitors from countries like Russia and China.

Hugging Face launches AI chatbot 🫂

We’re on a ChatGPT kick today.

Hugging Face, an AI startup partnered with Amazon and backed by millions in venture funding, recently released its open-source alternative to ChatGPT. The AI chatbot is dubbed HuggingChat, it’s currently available through a web interface and it can be integrated into existing apps and services.

HuggingChat can handle many tasks similar to ChatGPT, like drafting emails and writing code. The model was developed by Open Assistant, a project created by LAION, a German nonprofit that created the dataset used to train Stable Diffusion.

“We want to build the assistant of the future, able to not only write email and cover letters, but do meaningful work, use APIs, dynamically research information and much more, with the ability to be personalized and extended by anyone,” Open Assistant stated on their GitHub page.

Do you think HuggingChat can compete with ChatGPT?

Try it out here.

That’s it for today! We’ll see you back here tomorrow!