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More startups and more partner announcements. Nothing huge occurred although a steady stream of startups received funding yet again.

Anthropic is likely to get more funding from Google, which means it’s officially the most speculative AI startup in the world. Its valuation would put it at 200x forward revenue.

The way the “magnificent 7” (BigTech) are investing in A.I. startups, is likely causing a significant market bubble around A.I. The magnificent seven is a turn used for how unbalanced the stock market has become around a few BigTech names.

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📢Top News 📺

AI Startup Anthropic in Early Talks With Investors to Raise $2 Billion (Bloomberg) Valuation: 30 Billion at 200 x forward revenue.

OpenAI’s GPT-4V Trends on X

Google Assistant upgraded with Bard: Assistant with Bard: A step toward a more personal assistant

OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 Launches on Bing

Rewind Pendant is a wearable AI microphone that records and transcribes your conversations (Official deal)

Stability AI: Introducing Stable LM 3B: Bringing Sustainable, High-Performance Language Models to Smart Devices

Humane’s Fashion show form-factor Reveal: Humane reveals first AI device – the Ai Pin (Teaser, actual launch is November 9th, 2023)

Google Bard about to get more personalized: Google Bard readies ‘Memory’ to adapt to important details about you

Perplexity Introduces pplx-api: Perplexity Lab’s fast and efficient API for open-source LLMs (Official

Amazon Bedrock is generally available now (AWS)

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Microsoft’s LinkedIn Adds new AI tools for learning, recruitment, marketing and sales, powered by OpenAI

Runway AI Partners with Canva (October 4th, Runway Official)

Lensa’s AI selfie app is back with new “Magic Avatars 2.0” (The Decoder)

Stability AI: StableDiffusionXL is now on Quora’s Poe Chatbot Interface

Zapata AI and Mila Partner to Elevate Generative Modeling Research for Industrial Use Cases

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The Advent of “HustleGPT”

AI-Responsive Education

OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 has an incredible attention to detail (The Decoder)

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📝 Papers 🗏

The Dawn of LMMs: Preliminary Explorations with GPT-4V(ision) (Sept 29th, read System Card, OpenAI)

Efficient Streaming Language Models with Attention Sinks (Sept 29th – GitHub)

Language Modeling Is Compression (Sept 19th)

GPT-4V(ision) System Card (OpenAI, Sept 25th – GPT-4V)

DreamGaussian: Generative Gaussian Splatting for Efficient 3D Content Creation (Sept 28th) – GitHub

ToRA: A Tool-Integrated Reasoning Agent for Mathematical Problem Solving – see GitHub

Demystifying CLIP Data (September 28th)

LongLoRA: Efficient Fine-tuning of Long-Context Large Language Models( Sept 21st)

OpenBA: An Open-sourced 15B Bilingual Asymmetric seq2seq Model Pre-trained from Scratch (Sept 19th, Chinese) – Context

DualToken-ViT: Position-aware Efficient Vision Transformer with Dual Token Fusion (Sept 21st, Chinese)

📱Semiconductor Notes📝

LLM Startup Embraces AMD GPUs, Says ROCm Has ‘Parity’ With Nvidia’s CUDA Platform

US Commerce Secretary: Huawei’s Chip Advancements are ‘Incredibly Disturbing’ (Tom’s Hardware)

OpenAI examines producing AI chips in-house: Report

TSMC Continues Working Through US Staff Culture Clash (between Taiwan and the U.S. construction projects)

The AI Boom Props Up Datacenter Infrastructure Spending

The race for semiconductor supremacy | FT Film

The US is bidding to regain a leading role in advanced chip manufacturing, to de-risk critical supply chains, and to combat China’s rise as a technological superpower.

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02:28 – Chips Act

04:32 – Arizona

06:33 – Tomorrow’s workforce

08:59 – Intel

10:29 – Dawn of the silicon age

12:57 – De-risking

14:10 – The rise of TSMC

16:14 – The flashpoint

19:11 – China

21:40 – The consultant

25:07 – Artificial intelligence

🚀 Startups 🧠

Unitary raises $15M in Series A funding round for AI-driven content moderation (Tech.eu)

Machina Labs raises $32M to bring flexibility to manufacturing

Sam Altman backs teens’ AI startup automating browser-native workflows

AI-powered parking platform Metropolis raises $1.7B to acquire SP Plus

Lemurian Labs is building a new compute paradigm to reduce cost of running AI models

Vera wants to use AI to cull generative models’ worst behaviors

Rabbit is building an AI model that understands how software works

Opsera, a DevOps platform geared toward enterprises, raises $12M

Humata AI Raises $3.5 Million Led by Google’s Gradient Ventures

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Greylock secures $1B for its 17th fund amid launch of early-stage founders program (TechCrunch)

New data shows that without intervention, generative AI jobs will continue to cluster in the same big tech hubs (Brookings)

Section 32 closes on $525M fund, says there is ‘a zone of commoditization that you have to avoid while investing in AI’

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💼 Business to Business (B2B)📈

Third-party AI tools pose increasing risks for organizations (MIT)

Researchers Tested AI Watermarks—and Broke All of Them (Wired)

🎬Videos🎥

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Intently – Turn LinkedIn actions into sales opportunities

Canva Magic Studio with a lot of new AI-powered upgrades

Here are the highlights of launched features under the new Magic Studio:

Magic Design – Turn ideas into designs instantly with AI-generated templates.

Magic Switch – Transform content into different formats and languages with one click.

Magic Grab – Make images editable like Canva templates for easy editing.

Magic Expand – Use AI to expand images beyond the original frame.

Magic Morph – Transform text and shapes with creative effects and prompts.

Magic Edit – Make complex image edits using simple text prompts.

Magic Media – Generate professional photos, videos and artworks from text prompts.

Magic Animate – Add animated transitions and motion to designs instantly.