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How do you take a snapshot of something so complex impacting so many areas of society and civilization? This Newsletter series (spun out into its own separate feed) is an attempt to curate the aggregators and links from rundowns plus my own daily reading to the best news about A.I. on an ongoing basis. It’s a free Newsletter, you can subscribe here. It’s for people who actively want to keep up and learn about A.I.
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📢Top News 📺
Alphabet: Google DeepMind generative AI to develop at least 21 different tools for life advice, planning and tutoring, The New York Times reported
Meta releases multilingual speech translation model
OpenAI: Using GPT-4 for content moderation (Official)
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt to launch AI-science moonshot (Semafor) My coverage here (Paid).
Allen Institute for AI (AI2) : DOLMA 3T is larger than Meta’s Llama 2’s 2T token dataset
ElevenLabs Comes Out of Beta and Releases Eleven Multilingual v2 – a Foundational AI Speech Model for Nearly 30 Languages
A16z-Backed AI Biotech Startup Genesis Therapeutics Raises $200M (CrunchBase)
Snapchat is expanding further into generative AI with ‘Dreams’ (TechCrunch)
AI bots are so good at mimicking the human brain and vision that CAPTCHAs are useless – (related paper)
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📊Infographics 📏
Source (The Strategy Deck)
Google’s “Transformers”
Source Bloomberg.
🔗Partnership & Announcements🏭
Meta will release soon. Code Llama will be a free open-source code-generating AI model. (Scoop, The Information)
OpenAI GPT-3.5 Turbo finetuning API
Microsoft Plans AI Service With Databricks That Could Hurt OpenAI (Scoop, The Information)
McKinsey: Meet Lilli, our generative AI tool that’s a researcher, a time saver, and an inspiration
Youtube is partnering with Universal Music Group
OpenAI acquired a Minecraft clone company: OpenAI acquires Global Illumination
Alphabet, Changes at Google highlight 2023 as a pivotal year (CNBC)
📰Noted Newsletters📬
Meet the $4 Billion AI Superstars That Google Lost (Bloomberg)
Some Intuition on Attention and the Transformer (Eugene Yan)
Exactly the Wrong AI Copyrightability Case (Kyle E. Mitchell)
Open challenges in LLM research
A Definitive Guide to Using Midjourney (Every.to)
It isn’t data that will unlock AI, it is human expertise (Mollick)
📝 Papers 🗏
Platypus: Quick, Cheap, and Powerful Refinement of LLMs (August 14th)
CoDeF: Content Deformation Fields for Temporally Consistent Video Processing (August 15th)
Solving Challenging Math Word Problems Using GPT-4 Code Interpreter with Code-based Self-Verification (August 15th)
StableVideo: Text-driven Consistency-aware Diffusion Video Editing (August 18th, MSRA)
Self-Alignment with Instruction Backtranslation (August 11th)
3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering (August 8th)
Graph of Thoughts: Solving Elaborate Problems with Large Language Models (August 21st)
A Survey on Model Compression for Large Language Models (August 15th)
Reinforced Self-Training (ReST) for Language Modeling
Building transformers from neurons and astrocytes
Emergent Analogical Reasoning in Large Language Models (Revised, August 3rd)
Introducing IDEFICS: An Open Reproduction of State-of-the-Art Visual Language Model (HF blog)
Composable Function-preserving Expansions for Transformer Architectures
Tool Documentation Enables Zero-Shot Tool-Usage with Large Language Models
See More Papers. Browse August Papers.
Research Highlights
🚀 Startups 🧠
Two Tech Luminaries Quit Their Jobs to Build AI Inspired by Fish and Bees (Bloomberg, My Take)
Wayve (PR) – 29-year-old’s self-driving car startup was born in a garage—now it has Bill Gates’ attention and a $1 billion valuation (CNBC)
Milo is an AI assistant to help busy working parents manage their kids’ schedules (Insider, Futurism)
Voiceflow raises $15M to enable the future of collaborative AI agent building
Arthur releases open source tool to help companies find the best LLM for a job
Caden Raises $15M Series A (around users consenting to share their data)
Meet Relume, the bootstrapped AI web builder that wants to supercharge Figma and Webflow
Meet Marqo, an open source vector search engine for AI applications
Arkifi raises over $9 million for AI-powered financial analyst tools (Reuters)
Unbabel unveils AI project to give us superhuman capabilities
Elemental: The scientist behind IBM Watson has raised $60 million for his AI startup in New York (CNBC)
💸Venture Capital🦄
Securing AI (Greylock)
Tiger Global Nears Deal to Sell Slice of Cohere Stake at $3 Billion Valuation (Scoop, The Information)
a16z – AI Town is a virtual town where AI characters live, chat and socialize.
How Index Ventures jumped to the front of the AI GPU line (TechCrunch)
Viome, a microbiome startup, raises $86.5M, inks distribution deal with CVS
Research on the Enterprise AI Stack (Google Doc)
A new generation of Silicon Valley designers is racing to build AI’s next big thing (FC Archives)
💬Opinion Editorial🙄
Why host your own LLM? (Andrew Marble)
Here’s a simple way to regulate powerful AI models (WP)
🐦Tweets 🐤
They are called X posts now (I think).
🎬Videos🎥
Guess Who talked to Bankless? [link YouTube Short]
Neuralink Update [link]
⚒️Novel Tools🔥
A.I. Tools are to Generative A.I. what altcoins are to Web3. I will rarely be covering them.
👾Hacker News📰
AI use rising in influence campaigns online, but impact limited – US cyber firm (Reuters)
🤖 Robotics 🦿
Researchers are helping robots teach themselves to open dishwashers and doors (TechCrunch)
Robots propel development of multiple industries in China
AeroVironment acquires Tomahawk Robotics for $120M (TRR)
🥼Healthcare🩺
Deep learning-based model can predict the need for intensive care in COVID-19 patients
MIT researchers combine deep learning and physics to fix motion-corrupted MRI scans
🧪 Science 🔬
AI is speeding up scientific discoveries and helping to spot new ideas (Axios)
Authors whose Pirated Books are Powering Generative A.I.
💰Stock Market 🛒
Nvidia Makes Nearly 1,000% Profit on H100 GPUs: Report
China’s Baidu reports 15% revenue growth, beating expectations
Jim Cramer says this stock is ‘sitting on a gold mine’ because of its AI potential
💀AGI and ASI 👽🌋
Researchers identify potential indicators of consciousness in AI systems (The Decoder)
🎓 Education & Learning📚
Midjourney finally rolls out “inpainting” – customizing AI images after generation
🎥Videos & Podcasts🎙️
Podcast: The Mathematics of Training LLMs — with Quentin Anthony of Eleuther AI
GH and EY Debate [link]
🎖️National Defense & Military🕊️
Pentagon urges US space companies to stay vigilant against foreign intelligence
🪐Space and Emerging Tech🛰️
Axiom Space raises $350 million from Saudi and Korean investors
Cruise and Waymo see a surge in robotaxi app downloads
🔮Future of Work & Automation🦾
Autonomous construction robots are coming to a site near you
Vast Majority of Americans Believe AI Will Steal Jobs: Survey
40% of workers will have to reskill in the next three years due to AI, says IBM study
A.I. Can’t Build a High-Rise, but It Can Speed Up the Job (NYT)
Singapore workers are the world’s fastest in adopting AI skills, LinkedIn report says
🐲 China A.I.🏯
China GPT? Tencent to Unleash Homegrown AI as Big Tech Races for Supremacy
Beijing Tries to Regulate China’s AI Sector Without Crushing It
China puts onus on computing power as US tech war shows no sign of abating
🦹🏻♂️Dystopian 🗽
How Musk, Thiel, Zuckerberg, and Andreessen—Four Billionaire Techno-Oligarchs—Are Creating an Alternate, Autocratic Reality (VF, Paid)
🏛Governance and Regulation⚖️
China’s AI Regulations and How They Get Made
White House science adviser says new safeguards against A.I. risks will be coming ‘fast’ (Fortune)
International Institutions for Advanced AI (Paper)
Meta confirms AI ‘off-switch’ incoming to Facebook, Instagram in Europe
These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI
AI Expert Max Tegmark Warns That Humanity Is Failing the New Technology’s Challenge (WSJ)
🎭Entertainment & the Arts🎨
Fooocus is Stable Diffusion for people who don’t like prompt engineering
🌏Manifestations of Utopia🏙️
Google AI predicts floods four days early in South America and Africa (NS)
🌌Quantum Computing⚗️
SandboxAQ Collaborates With More Than 30 Universities, Corporations & Educational Organizations To Expand AI & Quantum Training
📣Public Relations💞
How Google is Planning to Beat OpenAI (Scoop, Information)
McKinsey – Lilli – McKinsey launches a generative AI chatbot to bring its knowledge to clients
The World Isn’t Ready for the Next Decade of AI (Wired)
Replit CEO Amjad Masad on Empowering the Next Billion Software Creators (Nvidia blog)
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