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This post is a quick link tool to completely get up to date on what occured in A.I. during the last week to ten days. Week of November 6th, 2023.
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💬Introduction for Today🎯
The week was dominated by OpenAI’s first DevDay with various announcements including a GPT store, OpenAI getting attacks and other news. AI startup funding was generally down and AI papers didn’t keep up its streak of having incredible consecutive weeks.
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📢Top News 📺
AGI Misinformation: Google researchers deal a major blow to the theory AI is about to outsmart humans re Paper – Read Paper
OpenAI: New Developer Products announced at DevDay (Official) [Video w/ Sam Altman]
OpenAI’s 1st DevDay: Various Announcements (Blog)
Amazon dedicates team to train ambitious AI model codenamed ‘Olympus’ (Reuters)
Nvidia: Their Eos supercomputer just broke its own AI training benchmark record
Samsung unveils AI ‘Gauss,’ a ChatGPT-like Tool
Microsoft’s GitHub announces Copilot assistant that can learn about companies’ private code (CNBC)
OpenAI Store: Are GPTs Agents or just Niche ChatGPTs? (Official)
OpenAI: Whisper V3 Arrives (GitHub) (What is It)
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🔗Partnership & Announcements🏭
Humane – AI Pin Launches: Former Apple designers launch $700 Humane AI Pin as smartphone replacement
Adept: Introducing Adept Experiments
Figma: Introducing AI to FigJam
Zapier: Introduces AI Actions
Cohere: Introducing Embed v3
📰Noted Newsletters📬
AI in Drug Design: Talking with Chemicals 🧪
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📝 Papers 🗏
CogVLM: Visual Expert for Pretrained Language Models
GLM-130B: An Open Bilingual Pre-trained Model
PhoGPT: Generative Pre-training for Vietnamese
PPTC Benchmark: Evaluating Large Language Models for PowerPoint Task Completion (Nov 3rd)
Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems
A Survey of Large Language Models for Autonomous Driving
DynamiCrafter: Animating Open-domain Images with Video Diffusion Priors
📱Semiconductor Notes📝
Nvidia develops three new AI chips for China to comply with US export controls (The Decoder)
How Arm is gaining chip dominance with its architecture in Apple, Nvidia, AMD, Amazon, Qualcomm and more
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🚀 Startups 🧠
Stability AI: Stability AI Gets Intel Backing in New Financing (Bloomberg, Paywalled)
Scale AI: SEAL: Scale’s Safety, Evaluations and Analysis Lab
Tabnine: Code-generating AI platform Tabnine nabs $25M investment
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Exclusive: IBM debuts $500 million enterprise AI venture fund (Axios)
The Subtle Strategic Moat-Widening of OpenAI’s Dev Day (Newsletter)
CBInsights: Generative AI Bible: The ultimate guide to genAI disruption
Macro Outlook: The great startup cash crunch is underway — and it’s forcing late-stage companies to face their demise
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💼 Business to Business (B2B)📈
Microsoft: Universe 2023: Copilot transforms GitHub into the AI-powered developer platform
Meta taps Hugging Face for startup accelerator to spur adoption of open source AI models
Microsoft Azure: Come build with us: Microsoft and OpenAI partnership unveils new AI opportunities
🎬Videos🎥
Alexandr Wang: 26-Year-Old Billionaire Powering the AI Industry [link]
“The most arrogant kid in tech.”
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Are Small LMs coming? Microsoft pushes the boundaries of small AI models with big breakthrough (Semafor)
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👾Hacker News📰
The Physical Process That Powers a New Type of Generative AI (Quanta)
Google and Anthropic Are Gunning for AI Dominance with New Chips
🤖 Robotics 🦿
Ghost, now OpenAI-backed, claims LLMs will overcome self-driving setbacks — but experts are skeptical
🥼Healthcare🩺
Health AI startup Cercle debuts with backing from Sheryl Sandberg
🧪 Science 🔬
How AI could lead to a better understanding of the brain
💬 Open-Source LLMs 👐
Nous-Yarn-Mistral-7b-128k: an extension of Mistral-7B-v0.1 that supports a 128k token context window (see on GitHub)
Microsoft: GitHub Blog: Octoverse: The state of open source and rise of AI in 2023
New Anyscale service enables fine-tuning of open source LLMs (it’s called Endpoints)
💰Stock Market 🛒
Palantir Shares Surge After 3Q Results Beat Estimates, Driven by AI Demand
💀AGI and ASI 👽🌋
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is an emerging AGI according to Google Deepmind
➡️ Prompt Engineering 🧠
OpenAI’s Altman says today’s AI will be “quaint” by next year, talks GPT-5
🎥Videos & Podcasts🎙️
Podcast: AGI is Being Achieved Incrementally (OpenAI DevDay w/ Simon Willison, Alex Volkov, Jim Fan, Raza Habib, Shreya Rajpal, Rahul Ligma, et al) – Latent Space
🎖️National Defense & Military🕊️
OpenAI says ChatGPT downtime caused by targeted attack
🐲 China A.I.🏯
Nvidia will reportedly sell new chips to China that still meet U.S. rules
🦹🏻♂️Dystopian 🗽
Okay Grandmother: AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li: Give scientists more access to advanced AI models (Axios)
🏛Governance and Regulation⚖️
Rishi Sunak: Prime Minister’s speech at the AI Safety Summit: 2 November 2023
🌏Manifestations of Utopia🏙️
European Space Agency: AI maps icebergs 10,000 times faster than humans
🗳️ Weekly Poll 📊
Tutorial: How to make and share custom GPTs
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Favorite Sources & Credits:
To put together these links, I’m always reading online and in particular enjoy the following sources:
TechCrunch
Axios
Ben’s Bites
Papers with Code
The Verge
Artifact News (app)
YouTube
X (Formerly Twitter)
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