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MetaGPT lets you build a collaborative entity for complex tasks. It works best with commercial models, but you can use open-source AI too.
ChatDev uses several AI agents with different roles to build software. They collaborate by “attending” specialized seminars on design, coding, testing and more.
We’ll be able to build AI apps visually, without code. This will let non-technical users build complex apps for their workflows.
Flowise lets you build custom LLM flows and AI agents.
Langflow offers a visual interface for building AI-powered apps.
Obviously AI lets you build production-ready AI apps without code.
Lack of censorship will become a better selling point. Users will prefer unfiltered creativity over censored tools that refuse to do controversial, yet legal tasks.
Venice is a privacy-first chatbot that stores chats in your browser.
xAI is an AI lab led by Elon Musk. It released Grok-1, an open-source and uncensored alternative to OpenAI.
Perplexity made uncensored AI models that outperformed GPT-3.5 and Llama 2. Paired with browser access, they went too far. Since they weren’t open-source, they were taken down in 6 months.
🏔️ Risks
Hardware Requirements • If you’re serious about running AI models locally, you may need to buy a new computer. Depending on your needs and preferences, this may cost a few thousand dollars.
UX Issues • You may not be able to use multiple models simultaneously. You can open ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini in different tabs. But running more than one local AI model with billions of parameters can be impossible.
🔑 Key Lessons
The performance gap between local and cloud AI is closing.
Local AI is self-sufficient. You can ask for help anytime, anywhere, as long as you have your device with you. No internet connection required.
🔥 Hot Takes
Governments will regulate local AI on par with centralized models. They still pose risks similar to proprietary models.
Chinawill beatthe US in the AI race. Chinese open-source models already beat open-source models from the US. Eventually, Chinese proprietary models will catch up too. The US will try to limit the public access to AI research. Such concerns have already been stated.
😠 Haters
“I need more expensive and powerful hardware to run local AI models.” This is the main tradeoff for local AI at the moment. But it’s becoming more performant. See how llama.cpp lets you run them on consumer devices and how Apple is doing this on a grand scale. This may be an inflection point for hardware and local AI.
“Setup and onboarding is hard. I can’t just visit a URL.” User experience with local AI is a solvable problem. We’re getting there with open-source tools that make setting up local AI easier. Ollama lets you set up Llama 3 in 10 minutes.
“Local AI models perform worse than AI models made by tech giants.” Open-source AI models can be a little worse, but a lot more private and less censored. Depending on your use case, it can be wise to sacrifice quality without giving up your privacy.
“Providing support for models running locally sounds impossible.” This is another tradeoff of local LLMs. Unless the model becomes unusable, users can use an AI model to debug another AI model. This guy uses local AI models as copilots for coding copilots.
“Local AI models aren’t a panacea for AI-related data privacy issues.” This is the risk of storing data in digital form. “Private”, local AI may not protect your data if your computer is compromised.
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We all make mistakes. You can be a good person and still exercise poor judgment.
Mistakes are bad, but not learning from them is worse.
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Could do → Should do → Must do. Not everything is a priority.
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Tarpit ideas are the startup ideas that seem good, but have been triedwithout success.
They might seem so easy and good that it’s unbelievable that no one has done it — but when you look a bit deeper, you realize that they have been tried. Over, and over again.
If your idea has been tried before, do your research and understand why it didn’t work.
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Welcome to your MetaTrends Report, a guide to help you navigate the 5 forces shaping our world.
In each issue, we look at recent technology breakthroughs and emerging opportunities. We use the Five Forces Framework. Which was built on recurring themes discovered through 5,000+ hours of research and over 100+ Trends Reports.
Whether you’re a founder, investor or just curious about the future, the Five Forces Framework will help you understand the forces shaping our world.
The Five Forces:
🦾 Individual Leverage: Individuals are increasingly able to shape and impact the world. See our reports on AI Agents, No-Code and Million-Dollar, One-Person Businesses.
🔓 Permissionless Innovation: The erosion of barriers to entry. Which allows anyone to build and share ideas. See our reports on Paid Podcasts, The Creator Economy and Self-Publishing.
🔻 Specialization: The growing importance of expertise and niche solutions. See our reports on Micro-SaaS, Micro-Marketplaces and Audience-First Products.
🏛️ Centralization: The consolidation of power and control by platforms and institutions. See our reports on Programmatic SEO, YouTube Channels and Faceless Social Media Accounts.
🌐 Decentralization: The shift towards distributed systems and technologies that empower individuals. See our reports on Open-Source AI, DAOs and Decentralized Finance.
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Now let’s see the forces in action…
This free issue dives into recent technology breakthroughs and emerging opportunities. We use the MetaTrends framework to find opportunities and prepare for risks.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet beat all publicly-available AI models.
Its new “Artifacts” and “Projects” features turn chats into collaborative tools.
Opportunities:
Create a coding tutorial series using Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Teach creative people without a coding background how to code using AI. See YouTube channels such as Tiff in Tech and Thu Vu data analytics.
Build a web-based code generator. Help non-technical founders turn images, pseudocode or natural language descriptions into real products. See Fronty and TeleportHQ.
Add Claude 3.5 Sonnet to your AI wrapper. Upgrade your app with the best model on the market. See TypingMind and Thinkbuddy for examples of UIs.
Haters:
“AI-assisted coding will lead to a generation of developers who can’t solve complex problems on their own.” Jensen Huang says coding will become obsolete. Until then, AI coding tools can be used to learn best practices. Even if coding from scratch will become obsolete, businesses may still need humans for higher-level tasks.
“AI models can only write code that resembles its training data.” Researchers just made AI surpass the expert sources used to train it. AI that codes on its own is not far away.
MetaTrends Analysis:
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is an example of 🦾 IndividualLeverage, since it boosts developer productivity. The model is made by a closed-source company which points to 🏛️ Centralization. Since AI coding assistants will help non-technical people act as developers, this is a sign of 🔻 Specialization.
DeepMind’s V2A creates soundtracks for videos using visuals and text.
It works with motion graphics and real footage.
Opportunities:
Offer a service to indie game developers to create custom sound effects and background music for their games using V2A. This is an alternative to hiring freelance sound designers on Fiverr or using libraries such as BOOM.
A/B test your ads. Make multiple variations of audio for A/B testing to find which soundscape resonates best with viewers. The automatic nature of V2A is perfect for scaling experiments. See tools like AdCreative.ai.
Haters:
“AI audio is not as good as audio tailored to the video by sound professionals.” AI may struggle with subtle emotions, but it can already make emotive music. Sound designers can use V2A and similar tools to test ideas fast — then refine them using their expertise. With the current rate of AI improvement, the sound quality will not be a problem for long.
MetaTrends Analysis:
V2A fits with 🔓 PermissionlessInnovation by making audio easier for everyone without expensive equipment. It also gives creators more power which is an example of 🦾 IndividualLeverage.
Hedra’s Character-1 turns images into videos of people that can sing, rap and talk.
The model can make videos of any length but the public preview is limited to 30 seconds.
Opportunities:
Offer personalized video greetings for special occasions. Use AI characters to deliver custom messages. Think Cameo, but with AI.
Make a platform for creating virtual spokespersons. Help small businesses get virtual representatives for marketing and social media content. Cameo For Business does this, but with real people.
Build personalized video marketing campaigns. Generate hundreds of videos for specific audiences, cultures or individual customers. See how Mondelēz International made an avatar of Shah Rukh Khan for ads and personalized videos.
Haters:
“AI-generated characters will lead to more misinformation and deepfakes. It will be hard to trust video content.” The concern is valid. But technology is neutral — we are responsible for how we use it. Generative AI companies are also working on ways to detect AI-generated content. This is a mutual responsibility of developers and users.
“AI characters won’t replace real people.” True. But hiring real people may not fit your budget.
MetaTrends Analysis:
Character-1 helps creators make videos without recording themselves or hiring other people. This is a sign of 🦾 Individual Leverage and 🔓 Permissionless Innovation. Character-1 is closed tech by Hedra which is a sign of 🏛️ Centralization.
d accessibility. As an open-source platform, it’s an example of 🔓 Permissionless Innovation. Depending on how the data collected is used, wearable glasses can also be used to advance 🏛️ Centralization.
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