There are so many reasons to love this: it's a startup that solves a real problem affecting many people globally, it's based outside of the stereotypical tech hubs, and it basically opens up for moisture farming, so it makes me feel like we're living in a Star Wars origin story: Jordanian inventors create water from thin air. https://www.fastcompany.com/90880048/this-jordanian-startup-is-creating-water-out-of-thin-air-and-training-a-new-generation-of-entrepreneurs?partner=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss

Here's a bit of #techoptimism for your hump day: AI detected breast cancer in scans 4 years (!) before it developed. This can help doctors identify areas that are high risk, but might otherwise go unnoticed. #healthtech

This week's #techoptimism: a new mRNA based virus for the plague (yes, *that* plague) proves to be 100 % effective. https://interestingengineering.com/health/mrna-vaccine-plague-bacteria-effective?utm_source=tldrnewsletter

Have we gone from AI winter to AI bubble in a flash? AI assistant startup Inflection is seeking USD 675 million in funding, for a product that hasn't launched yet. The world of AI is moving fast right now, and we'll see many hopeful startups launch, and a lot of seed money get thrown around. In time, most of these initiatives will fail, but like .com before it, the viable products and companies will survive. https://www.ft.com/content/96acf988-8b05-451c-93f3-06cc56f5194d

While it can seem like everyone's playing catch-up, I do see slight changes to how each solution approaches it, which can be a big part of driving AI further towards more useful and usable products.

Quite obviously, very few people in the Silicon Valley tech sector saw #ChatGPT coming, and now they're reeling from it, trying to stake their claim in the new agenda. Most recent to this is Meta, who announced they will launch a large language model (same as GPT) called LLaMA-13B (and you thought GPT-3 was hard to say!). https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/chatgpt-on-your-pc-meta-unveils-new-ai-model-that-can-run-on-a-single-gpu/?utm_source=tldrnewsletter