# 040 Sunday Feature - AI-Powered Travel Planner Creates Personalized Trips In Minutes, Anthropic Challenges OpenAI with Claude Pro, Nvidia’s H100 GPUs Are Sold Out Until 2024,
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AI BYTE # 1 📢 - Nvidia’s H100 GPUs Are Sold Out Until 2024: What It Means for AI Development?
⭐ Nvidia’s H100 graphics processing units (GPUs) are the most powerful chips for training and deploying high-performance AI models. They are also in high demand and short supply, creating a bottleneck for AI companies large and small.
According to SemiAnalysis, a semiconductor market research firm, the H100 chips will remain sold out into 2024.
The reason is that TSMC, the manufacturer of Nvidia’s chips, has limited capacity for its high-end chip packaging technology, which is shared among Nvidia, AMD, and other chip designers. TSMC expects to double that capacity by the end of 2024.
The shortage of H100 GPUs has affected cloud providers, who have presold much of their H100 capacity, as well as AI startups, who need access to thousands of H100s to train large models and serve a sudden swell of users.
An individual H100 with memory and high-speed interface originally retailed for around $33,000. Second-hand units now cost between $40,000 and $51,000 on eBay.
Demand for H100 GPUs is hard to quantify, but it is estimated to be around 430,000 units, which amounts to roughly $15 billion in sales. This figure is based on projected purchases by major AI companies, AI startups, and cloud providers.
It omits Chinese companies and may double-count chips purchased by cloud providers and processing purchased by cloud customers.
Nvidia announced the H100 early last year and began full production in September. Compared to its predecessor, the A100, the H100 performs about 2.3 times faster in training and 3.5 times faster at inference.
Developers need these top-of-the-line chips to train high-performance models and deploy them in cutting-edge products. At a time when AI is white-hot, a dearth of chips could affect the pace of innovation.
Nvidia’s CUDA software, which undergirds many deep learning software packages, gives the company’s chips a significant advantage.
However, AMD’s open source ROCm is making great strides, and its MI250 and upcoming MI300-series chips appear to be promising alternatives. An open software infrastructure that made it easy to choose among GPU providers would benefit the AI community.
AI BYTE # 2 📢 - How Anthropic is challenging OpenAI with its new Claude Pro plan?
⭐ Are you looking for a reliable and versatile AI assistant that can help you with various tasks such as writing, research, and creativity?
If so, you might want to check out Claude Pro, the new premium subscription plan from Anthropic, the AI startup co-founded by ex-OpenAI employees.
Claude Pro gives you access to Claude 2, Anthropic’s latest AI model that can generate realistic text and images based on your input. Claude 2 has longer context windows, faster outputs, complex reasoning capabilities and more than its competitors.
With Claude Pro, you can send at least 100 messages to Claude 2 every eight hours, upload large attachments, and get priority access and early features.
Claude Pro is priced at $20 per month in the U.S., or £18 in the U.K., which is the same as OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plus plan.
However, Anthropic claims that Claude 2 is more capable and advanced than ChatGPT, which is also a text-generating AI model. Anthropic also offers Claude Instant, a less powerful but cheaper version of Claude 2, through its partner Quora.
Anthropic’s ultimate ambition is to create a next-gen algorithm for AI self-teaching, which could revolutionize the fields of electricity, electronics, and art.
To achieve this goal, Anthropic has raised $1.45 billion at a valuation in the single-digit billions, and plans to spend $5 billion over the next two years on compute capacity and infrastructure.
If you are interested in trying out Claude Pro, you can sign up for a free trial (only in the US and UK) on Anthropic’s website. You can also join their community of thousands of customers and partners who are using Claude 2 for various purposes.
Anthropic is one of the most promising and innovative AI startups in the world, and Claude Pro is a great way to experience their cutting-edge technology.
AI BYTE # 3 📢 - Mindtrip: The AI-Powered Travel Planner That Creates Personalized Trips In Minutes.
⭐ Travel planning can be a tedious and time-consuming task, especially if you want to explore new destinations and experiences.
But what if there was an AI assistant that could do all the work for you, based on your preferences and budget?
That’s the idea behind Mindtrip, a new startup that uses artificial intelligence to create personalized travel itineraries in seconds.
Mindtrip works by asking you a few simple questions, such as where you want to go, when you want to travel, and what kind of activities you enjoy.
Then, it uses natural language processing and computer vision to search through millions of data points, such as flights, hotels, attractions, reviews, and photos, to find the best options for you.
Mindtrip then presents you with a rich and detailed itinerary, complete with maps, directions, prices, and booking links.
You can easily customize your trip by adding or removing items, changing dates or durations, or adjusting your budget. You can also share your trip with your friends or family, and get their feedback or suggestions.
Mindtrip’s goal is to make travel planning fun and easy, while also helping you discover new places and experiences that match your interests.
Moss said that the company’s AI is constantly learning from user feedback and behavior, as well as from external sources, such as news articles and social media posts.
Mindtrip is currently in beta testing and plans to launch publicly later this year.
The company has raised $10 million in seed funding from prominent investors, such as Sequoia Capital and Y Combinator. Moss said that the company’s vision is to become the ultimate travel companion for anyone who loves to travel.
