The Four Wars of the AI Stack (Dec 2023 Recap)

This Latent Space newsletter recaps AI engineering topics from December 2023, including data, multimodality, and RAG operations.

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About The Four Wars of the AI Stack (Dec 2023 Recap)

This is a monthly AI engineering news recap from the Latent Space newsletter, covering December 2023. It is organized around four areas of the AI stack: data, GPU and inference, multimodality, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and LLM operations. Each section summarizes company deals, funding rounds, product launches, and tooling debates from that month.

The source reports specific items such as partnerships and a lawsuit over training data, and a drop in the price of Mixtral output tokens from about $2 to $0.27 within a week. The full post is paid. Non-subscribers can read the first part and must start a 7-day free trial or subscribe to read the rest. The source also mentions an audio podcast discussion of the recap.

Key features

  • Covers AI data partnerships, licensing deals, and a lawsuit over training data
  • Tracks GPU and inference price changes, including Mixtral output token prices
  • Reviews multimodal AI product launches and funding rounds from image, audio, and API companies
  • Compares vector database and RAG tooling debates and LLMOps tools
  • Lists funding news for enterprise search, consumer search, and legal AI startups
  • Includes an accompanying audio podcast discussion of the recap
Best for: AI engineers and technical readers who follow AI infrastructure, tooling, and the business of AI companies.
Good for
  • Groups news into four named topic areas, which makes the month's developments easy to scan
  • Includes specific figures, such as funding amounts, valuations, and token prices, as reported in the source
  • Part of a numbered monthly series with an archive list linked from the post
Watch out for
  • The full post is behind a paid subscription, with a 7-day free trial offered
  • Covers only December 2023, so it does not reflect later developments
  • Several figures are reported claims rather than independently verified data, and some commentary is the author's opinion

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