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💬Introduction for Today🎯
Google Gemini launched and AMD announced their new A.I. chips. A lot of good startups got funding this week notably in countries like India and Australia as well in Generative A.I.
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📢Top News 📺
Google DeepMind Announces Gemini, its Ultra version is available in 2024
Microsoft’s Partnership With OpenAI Facing UK Scrutiny (Bloomberg)
New Open-Source AI Alliance launches with IBM, Meta and others
AMD unveils AI chip Instinct MI300X GPU and MI300A APU, claims up to 1.6X lead over Nvidia’s competing GPUs
Apple Offers Developers MLX Framework for Machine Learning – GitHub
Mistral raises $385 million EU and announces the release of Mixtral-8x7B.
Google (Gemini): Google admits the Gemini AI demo hands-on video was staged (Tom’s Hardware) [Regarding the better video rubber-ducky of those pesky demos]
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Stability AI announces & introducces StableLM Zephyr 3B: A New Addition to StableLM, Bringing Powerful LLM Assistants to Edge Devices
OpenAI Agreed to Buy $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman (Wired)
The EU finally agreed on a draft for The EU AI Act, the first major piece of AI legislation.
Liquid AI, a new MIT spinoff, wants to build an entirely new type of AI
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🔗Partnership & Announcements🏭
How you doing mate? Sydney-based generative AI art platform Leonardo.Ai raises $31M (Open-source is enabling new Gen AI startups a key trend for 2024)
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Runway AI partners with Getty Images (Official)
Inflection’s Pi launches on Android
Meta AI announced Purple Llama: Towards open trust and safety in the new world of generative AI
Anthropic has announced a new method to measure and reduce discrimination in language model decisions for areas like loans, jobs, insurance claims etc. – Evaluating and Mitigating Discrimination in Language Model Decisions
Intel and Stability AI are building a new supercomputer. Behind the Compute: Building the New AI Supercomputer
Meta’s AI tools are getting pretty wacky. Meta will let you ‘reimagine’ your friends’ AI-generated images (The Verge)
Image: What if The Buddha were female?
📰Noted Newsletters📬
: AI Roundup 044: Google Gemini
If you’re a software engineer looking to grow from anything from soft skills to technical skills, here are some newsletters
Two Titans on the Future of AI (with Reid Hoffman & Vinod Khosla)
An Opinionated Guide to Which AI to Use: ChatGPT Anniversary Edition (Ethan Mollick)
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📝 Papers 🗏
Pearl: A Production-ready Reinforcement Learning Agent (Dec 7)
An LLM Compiler for Parallel Function Calling
Self-conditioned Image Generation via Generating Representations (Dec 6)
Magicoder: Source Code Is All You Need (Dec 4)
MatterGen: a generative model for inorganic materials design (December 6, Microsoft AI4 Science)
Read about more ML Papers this week here.
📱Semiconductor Notes📝
Nvidia CEO says he will try to prioritize Japan for AI processors (Japan Times)
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🚀 Startups 🧠
Assembly AI Series C $50 Million (Official)
Five-month-old Indian AI startup Sarvam scores $41M funding
Sydney-based generative AI art platform Leonardo.Ai raises $31M
Elon Musk is looking to raise $1 billion for xAI (TechCrunch)
Open-source generative AI startup Mistral AI raises $415M in funding (SiliconAngle)
Replicate raises $40 million Series B (Official)
Liquid AI, a new MIT spinoff, wants to build an entirely new type of AI
Eric Schmidt was on top of his game in 2023. (see below re Pro-America)
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The possibility of regulation hangs on the horizon over generative AI (TechCrunch)
Eric Schmidt-Backed Pro-America Fund Has Started Placing Its Bets (Bloomberg)
‘Mega-deals’ could be inflating overall AI funding figures
Seattle biotech hub pursues ‘DNA typewriter’ tech with $75M from tech billionaires (Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology)
Microsoft to invest $3.2B in UK artificial intelligence infrastructure (CT)
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The Mysterious Disappearance of Clyde AI: What Happened to Discord’s AI Assistant?
Mistral AI bucks release trend by dropping torrent link to new open source LLM (Venture Beat)
🎬Videos🎥
The Transformative Potential of AGI — and When It Might Arrive | Shane Legg and Chris Anderson | TED – Link
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2024 will reach Copilot Saturation
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Nara: Digital sales associate for Shopify stores
Pika Labs: Prompt a Video with text : An idea-to-video platform that brings your creativity to motion
PlusDocs for Google Analytics – Create beautiful slides automatically from your Google Analytics data.
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👾Hacker News📰
The Sam Altman Chronicles continues….
We now have more info on what Sam Altman did that was so bad he got fired from OpenAI (Insider)
More details emerge about Helen Toner and Sam Altman at OpenAI
The Inside story of Microsoft’s Deal with OpenAI (NYP)
🤖 Robotics 🦿
Berkeley AI Research has recently trained a humanoid transformer with large-scale reinforcement learning – Read the Paper
The first humanoid robot factory is about to open (Axios)
Google AI and robots join forces to build new materials (Nature)
🥼Healthcare🩺
Generative AI could revolutionize health care — but not if control is ceded to big tech (Nature)
AI Powered Self-service CarePods touted as ‘first AI doctor’s office’ — for $99/month (New York Post) or TechCrunch
AI is driving Google’s health care business. Washington doesn’t know what to do about it (Politico)
Where is AI really for the common Good?
🧪 Science 🔬
How AI could lead to a better understanding of the brain
Millions of new materials discovered with deep learning
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💬 Open-Source LLMs 👐
French start-up Mistral AI emerges as leading force in European artificial intelligence (France 24)
New Open-Source AI Alliance launches with IBM, Meta and others
New Anyscale service enables fine-tuning of open source LLMs (it’s called Endpoints)
💰Stock Market 🛒
AstraZeneca Just Joined the AI Drug Development Craze (The Motley Fool)
💀AGI and ASI 👽🌋
Meta’s AI chief doesn’t think AI super intelligence is coming anytime soon (CNBC)
🎓 Education & Learning📚
AI in education: A guide to the safe and responsible use of AI in schools
Introduction to Generative AI (Google)
🎥Videos & Podcasts🎙️
OpenAI’s Approach: YouTube Shorts – Link Mira Murati
Blast from the Past
Ilya (humanity loving AGIs guy) and Jensen: (Two of the most important people in AI in 2024 in my mind)
Nvidia’s Entire Story in a Podcast [link]
🎖️National Defense & Military🕊️
Cheap drones can take out expensive military systems, warns former Air Force pilot pushing AI-enabled force
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TBA
🔮Future of Work & Automation🦾
There’s a ‘deep misunderstanding’ about AI and job losses that has the Department of Labor’s attention
Google teases AlphaCode 2 – a code-generating AI revamped with Gemini (The Register)
🐲 China A.I.🏯
Qwen-72B: Chinese LLMs are catching up
🦹🏻♂️Dystopian 🗽
AI can predict intimate partner femicide from variables extracted from legal documents
AI scores in the top percentile of creative thinking (PsyPost)
🏛Governance and Regulation⚖️
Statement by President von der Leyen on the political agreement on the EU AI Act
6 Ways Ethical AI Took Centre Stage in 2023 (AIM)
In Context: Europe reaches a deal on the world’s first comprehensive AI rules
💬Opinion Editorial🙄
China’s Short-Sighted AI Regulation (Project Syndicate)
Speaking to Congressional staffers about AI risk (LessWrong)
🌏Manifestations of Utopia🏙️
No signs of AI Utopia were found this week.
🌌Quantum Computing⚗️
‘Off to the races’: DARPA, Harvard breakthrough brings quantum computing years closer (Breaking Defense)
📣Public Relations💞
OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap talks about ChatGPT launch, DevDay and how Sam Altman thinks (CNBC)
Meta AI: Introducing a suite of AI language translation models that preserve expression and improve streaming
🙉Last Memes🎭
China as a threat is being used to open the flood gates.
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