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| Title | Summary | Topics | Week |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-R1, a reasoning AI model to rival OpenAI’s o1 🟢 | DeepSeek introduced DeepSeek-R1, a reasoning AI model competing with OpenAI’s o1, highlighting its ability to fact-check and plan for complex problem solving. DeepSeek-R1 matches o1 on benchmarks AIME and MATH but struggles with certain logic issues. | Model release 🎉, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-11-25 |
| Mistral releases Pixtral Large, a 124B multimodal model 🟢 | Mistral AI unveils Pixtral Large, a 124B multimodal model excelling in image and text understanding. Built on Mistral Large 2, it surpasses models like GPT-4o on benchmarks such as MathVista and DocVQA. Available for both research and commercial use, it boasts a 128K context window and advanced capabilities. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Model release 🎉, Mistral 🌬️, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀 | 2024-11-25 |
| Anthropic raises another $4B from Amazon, makes AWS its “primary” training partner 🟢 | Anthropic raised $4 billion from Amazon, making AWS its main AI training partner. They collaborate on Trainium accelerator development and integrate Claude models on Amazon’s platform. Amazon’s investment totals $8 billion, creating regulatory interest. | Amazon 🌳, Funding 💰, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, Claude 🖋️, Anthropic 🌐, AI regulation 📜 | 2024-11-25 |
| Introducing FLUX.1 Tools 🟢 | BlackForestLabs has launched FLUX.1 Tools, enhancing control and steerability in their FLUX.1 text-to-image model. The tools include FLUX.1 Fill for inpainting, FLUX.1 Canny and Depth for structural guidance, and FLUX.1 Redux for image variation. | AI for images 🖼️, Model release 🎉 | 2024-11-25 |
| A Chrome-killing browser will be OpenAI’s next big shot at Google 🟢 | OpenAI plans to develop a browser integrated with ChatGPT, challenging Google’s Chrome. The company has recruited key Chrome developers and engaged with companies like Conde Nast and Samsung about AI-powered features. These efforts follow the launch of SearchGPT, highlighting OpenAI’s ambition to dominate AI technologies and compete directly with Google in various domains. | Google 🔍, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-11-25 |
| OpenAI’s tumultuous early years revealed in emails from Musk, Altman, and others 🔴 | Emails reveal OpenAI’s early tensions as Elon Musk sought control, clashing with Ilya Sutskever and others over governance concerns. Sam Altman’s business motives also faced scrutiny. Early ideas included acquiring Cerebras and collaboration with Tesla. | OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-11-25 |
| Title | Summary | Topics | Week |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI and rivals seek new path to smarter AI as current methods hit limitations 🟢 | AI companies like OpenAI are innovating training techniques to overcome limits of large language models. Techniques behind OpenAI’s o1 model focus on human-like reasoning, shifting away from “bigger is better.” This approach may reshape AI resources and impact Nvidia’s dominance in AI chips. Rivals are also pursuing similar advancements. | NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-11-18 |
| Anthropic delays next-gen AI model Opus 3.5 with no new timeline 🔴 | Anthropic delays the release of Opus 3.5, with no set timeline, reflecting industry-wide AI model development slowdowns. CEO Dario Amodei revealed the challenges in developing these models, emphasizing refinement over major leaps. The complexity involves extensive pre-training, fine-tuning, and safety testing, making progress more art than science. | Model release 🎉, Anthropic 🌐, AI safety 🔐 | 2024-11-18 |
| Qwen2.5-Coder Series: Powerful, Diverse, Practical 🟢 | Open-sourced Qwen2.5-Coder series launches, featuring models from 0.5B to 32B, rivaling GPT-4o in coding performance. Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct excels in code generation, repair, and reasoning across 40+ languages. It aligns with human preferences through Code Arena benchmarks, providing a robust, scalable tool for developers. | AI for coding 👨💻, Model release 🎉 | 2024-11-18 |
| Amazon ready to use its own AI chips, reduce its dependence on Nvidia 🟢 | Amazon is set to launch Trainium 2 AI chips, aiming to reduce reliance on Nvidia and cut costs for Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers. These chips promise efficiency and savings, attracting users like Anthropic and Databricks. This move highlights a growing trend of tech giants developing custom chips to drive AI growth. | Amazon 🌳, NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, Anthropic 🌐 | 2024-11-18 |
| Chegg Is On Its Last Legs After ChatGPT Sent Its Stock Down 99% 🔴 | Chegg faces huge challenges as ChatGPT disrupts its business model. The company’s stock has plummeted 99% since 2021, wiping out $14.5 billion in value. Chegg’s subscriber base is dwindling, and debt payments are a concern. Despite efforts to innovate with AI, ChatGPT offers faster, broader solutions, attracting more students. | ChatGPT 💬 | 2024-11-18 |
| X is testing a free version of AI chatbot Grok 🟢 | X is testing free access to its AI chatbot Grok, initially available only to premium users. Opening Grok to free users may accelerate xAI’s user feedback and market competition against ChatGPT and others. | Grok 🐦, ChatGPT 💬 | 2024-11-18 |
| OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop integrations, rivaling Copilot 🟢 | OpenAI has launched ChatGPT desktop integrations for Mac OS and Windows, targeting daily workflow integration. Users can now open third-party apps directly, similar to GitHub Copilot’s integrations. Initially available on Mac, Windows users gain Advanced Voice Mode and screenshot capabilities. | AI for coding 👨💻, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-11-18 |
| Title | Summary | Topics | Week |
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| OpenAI’s o1 model leaked on Friday and it is wild — here’s what happened 🟢 | OpenAI’s upcoming AI model, o1, was accidentally leaked, showcasing advanced capabilities surpassing GPT-4, including comprehensive image and multimedia analysis. The leak occurred due to a URL parameter modification, but OpenAI has since resolved the issue, with an official release anticipated soon. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Model release 🎉, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-11-11 |
| Meta is using more than 100,000 Nvidia H100 AI GPUs to train Llama-4 🟢 | Meta is utilizing over 100,000 Nvidia H100 AI GPUs to develop Llama 4, an advanced AI model with improved modalities and reasoning capabilities, positioning itself competitively against Microsoft and Google. Despite the significant power demands, Meta plans to release Llama models for free to encourage broader development and application. | NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, LLaMA 🦙, Meta ♾, Model release 🎉 | 2024-11-11 |
| Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 3.5 🔴 | Claude 3.5 Haiku, the latest AI model, offers enhanced coding and reasoning capabilities with applications in code completions, chatbots, data processing, and content moderation. Despite improvements, it faces criticism for being more expensive and less impressive than competitors like GPT-4o-mini and Gemini 1.5 Flash 002, with pricing starting at $1 per million input tokens. | AI for coding 👨💻, Model release 🎉, Claude 🖋️, Anthropic 🌐, Google Gemini 🌌, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀 | 2024-11-11 |
| Introducing the First AMD 1B Language Models: AMD OLMo 🟢 | AMD has introduced AMD OLMo, a series of 1 billion parameter language models trained on 1.3 trillion tokens using AMD Instinct MI250 GPUs. These open-sourced models excel in reasoning and instruction-following, outperforming similar-sized models in general reasoning and chat benchmarks. | Model release 🎉, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ | 2024-11-11 |
| OpenAI in talks with regulators to become a for-profit company 🟢 | OpenAI, valued at $157 billion, is in early talks with California and Delaware regulators to shift from a nonprofit to a for-profit entity to attract investors and address valuation challenges of its AI models. It plans to retain a nonprofit arm post-restructuring. | AI regulation 📜, Funding 💰, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-11-11 |
| Introducing FLUX1.1 [pro] Ultra and Raw Modes 🟢 | BlackForestLabs has enhanced the FLUX1.1 [pro] with Ultra and Raw Modes, offering 4MP image resolutions in just 10 seconds, 2.5x faster than competitors at $0.06 per image. The Raw mode improves authenticity and diversity, especially in human and nature photography, accessible via the company’s API for high-quality, rapid image generation. | AI for images 🖼️ | 2024-11-11 |
| Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot now has a desktop app 🟢 | Anthropic has released a free desktop app for its AI chatbot, Claude, on Mac and Windows, following the Claude 3.5 Sonnet model’s “computer use” feature, which is not included in the app. Additionally, Claude’s mobile apps on Android and iOS now support voice dictation. | Claude 🖋️, Anthropic 🌐 | 2024-11-11 |
| OpenAI will start using AMD chips and could make its own AI hardware in 2026 🟢 | OpenAI is enhancing its hardware strategy by integrating AMD chips via Microsoft Azure and aims to develop its own AI-specific hardware by 2026. Collaborating with Broadcom and securing production capacity with TSMC, OpenAI still faces challenges in matching the advanced custom AI chip technology of Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. | AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-11-11 |
| Title | Summary | Topics | Week |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI launches ChatGPT search, competing with Google and Microsoft 🟢 | OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT search, a feature that enhances its AI chatbot with real-time updates on sports, stocks, and news, positioning it as a competitor to major search engines like Google and Bing through partnerships with data providers. | Google 🔍, Microsoft 🪟, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-11-04 |
| Anthropic releases the analysis tool in Claude.ai 🟢 | Claude.ai has launched a new analysis tool that allows Claude to execute JavaScript code for data processing and real-time insights. This feature enhances the platform’s ability to perform complex math and data analysis, offering precise and actionable insights for various teams, including marketing, sales, and engineering. | Claude 🖋️, Anthropic 🌐 | 2024-11-04 |
| Cohere releases Multimodal Embed 3 🟢 | Cohere has introduced Embed 3, a multimodal AI search model that integrates text and image data to enhance search capabilities. It excels in accuracy and performance, efficiently handling multilingual and noisy data for complex data retrieval. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Model release 🎉 | 2024-11-04 |
| Meta Is Developing Its Own AI Search Engine 🟢 | Meta is creating an AI-driven search engine to support its chatbot, aiming to reduce dependence on Google and Bing by independently sourcing web information on news, sports, and stocks. | Meta ♾, Google 🔍, Microsoft 🪟 | 2024-11-04 |
| Waymo receives funding for $5.6 billion 🟢 | Waymo has secured a $5.6 billion investment to expand its AI-driven autonomous ride-hailing service, Waymo One. The funding will support the enhancement of operations in current cities and facilitate new launches through a partnership with Uber. | Funding 💰 | 2024-11-04 |
| GitHub Spark lets you build web apps in plain English 🟢 | GitHub has unveiled GitHub Spark, an experimental tool from GitHub Next labs, at the GitHub Universe conference. Spark enables users to create web apps using natural language and edit the underlying code, focusing on developing “micro apps” and exploring software development through conversational interfaces. | AI for coding 👨💻 | 2024-11-04 |
| More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI 🟢 | Google now uses AI to generate over 25% of its new code, highlighting AI’s integral role in its operations and product development, as stated by CEO Sundar Pichai during the Q3 2024 earnings call. | AI for coding 👨💻, Google 🔍 | 2024-11-04 |
| Google’s Jarvis AI could shop, book flights, and browse the web for you in Chrome 🟢 | Google is working on Project Jarvis, an AI agent integrated into Chrome, to automate web-based tasks such as shopping and booking flights. It may launch in December with Google’s new Gemini language model, serving as an automated personal assistant. | Google Gemini 🌌, Google 🔍 | 2024-11-04 |
| Title | Summary | Topics | Week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropic introduces computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku 🟢 | Anthropic has launched a “computer use” feature in public beta, enabling Claude to interact with computers like humans, showing promise for automating complex tasks. They also introduced Claude 3.5 Sonnet and a new model, Claude 3.5 Haiku. | Claude 🖋️, Anthropic 🌐, Model release 🎉 | 2024-10-28 |
| New in NotebookLM: Customizing your Audio Overviews and introducing NotebookLM Business 🟢 | NotebookLM, now a full feature built on Gemini 1.5, has upgraded its Audio Overviews to let users customize the AI host’s focus and expertise level, while ensuring data privacy. | Google Gemini 🌌 | 2024-10-28 |
| Perplexity introduces Internal Knowledge Search and Spaces 🟢 | Perplexity has launched Internal Knowledge Search and Spaces in its Pro and Enterprise Pro versions, enabling users to efficiently integrate web and internal file searches for enhanced research capabilities. | 2024-10-28 | |
| Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5 🟢 | Stability has launched Stable Diffusion 3.5, introducing customizable models such as the 8 billion parameter Large and the faster Large Turbo. These models, available under the Stability AI Community License, are suitable for both commercial and non-commercial applications. | Model release 🎉, Stable Diffusion 🎨, Stability AI ⚖️ | 2024-10-28 |
| Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR 🟢 | Meta FAIR has introduced new AI research advancements, including updates to the Segment Anything Model (SAM 2.1), the Meta Spirit LM for speech-text integration, Layer Skip for efficient large language models, Salsa for post-quantum cryptography, and Meta Open Materials 2024 for faster materials discovery. | AI datasets 📊, AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Model release 🎉, Meta ♾ | 2024-10-28 |
| Ideogram releases Ideogram Canvas, Magic Fill, and Extend 🟢 | Ideogram.ai’s new platform, Ideogram Canvas, offers advanced image organization, generation, editing, and merging capabilities. With tools like Magic Fill (inpainting) and Extend (outpainting) available on any paid plan, it supports seamless image editing and expansion. The platform excels in high-resolution detail generation and precise text rendering, catering to both novice and experienced designers in graphic design projects. | AI for images 🖼️ | 2024-10-28 |
| OpenAI is rumored to release its next big AI model by December 🟢 | OpenAI is reportedly preparing to launch a new AI model, Orion, by December, which could surpass GPT-4 in capabilities. Initially, Orion will be available to select partner companies for integration, with Microsoft potentially hosting it on Azure, despite CEO Sam Altman’s denial of the release. | Model release 🎉, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-10-28 |
| Title | Summary | Topics | Week |
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| Nvidia just dropped a new AI model on the level of OpenAI’s GPT-4 🟢 | Nvidia has introduced the Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct AI model, outperforming GPT-4 in benchmarks. Built on Meta’s Llama 3.1, it features advanced training for enhanced language capabilities. This marks Nvidia’s strategic pivot from GPU manufacturing to AI software, potentially reshaping the industry with powerful, customizable AI solutions and challenging current AI leaders. | Model release 🎉, NVIDIA 🎮, LLaMA 🦙, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-10-21 |
| Mistral releases new AI models optimized for laptops and phones 🟢 | Mistral has introduced “Les Ministraux,” a series of AI models, Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B, optimized for edge devices like laptops and phones. These models focus on privacy-first, low-latency applications such as on-device translation and local analytics. Available for download or via Mistral’s cloud platform, they reportedly outperform competitors in AI benchmarks. This launch follows Mistral’s recent $640 million funding round, signaling continued expansion in AI offerings. | Model release 🎉, Funding 💰, Mistral 🌬️ | 2024-10-21 |
| INTELLECT–1: Launching the First Decentralized Training of a 10B Parameter Model 🟢 | INTELLECT-1 introduces the first decentralized training of a 10-billion-parameter AI model using the OpenDiLoCo method, aiming to democratize AI development by reducing centralized control and enhancing open-source access. Supported by leading AI entities, the project focuses on optimizing communication and compute efficiency, inviting public contributions to advance open-source AI capabilities. | Model release 🎉 | 2024-10-21 |
| OpenAI, Microsoft reportedly hire banks to renegotiate partnership terms 🟢 | OpenAI and Microsoft are renegotiating their partnership terms, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley advising, to redefine Microsoft’s stake and governance in OpenAI after its transition to a benefit corporation. This follows OpenAI’s efforts to secure cheaper cloud services and a $10 billion deal with Oracle. Despite a projected $5 billion loss this year, OpenAI aims for profitability by 2029 with expected revenues of $100 billion. | Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟, Funding 💰, AI regulation 📜 | 2024-10-21 |
| Zyphra releases Zamba2–7B 🟢 | Zyphra has introduced Zamba2–7B, a 7B-scale language model that outperforms competitors such as Mistral, Google’s Gemma, and Meta’s Llama3. It features innovative Mamba2 blocks and dual shared attention layers, resulting in improved inference speed and reduced memory usage. | Model release 🎉, Mistral 🌬️, LLaMA 🦙, Meta ♾, Google Gemini 🌌, Google 🔍 | 2024-10-21 |
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| Scientists who built ‘foundation’ for AI awarded Nobel Prize 🟢 | Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their foundational work on artificial neural networks, including the Boltzmann machine and Hopfield network, which have been pivotal in advancing machine learning applications such as image recognition and pattern generation. | 2024-10-14 | |
| Google AI scientists win Nobel Prize in chemistry 🟢 | Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, alongside David Baker, received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their pioneering work on protein structures. Hassabis and Jumper developed AlphaFold2, an AI model that predicts protein structures, while Baker designed novel proteins. Their work accelerates research in pharmaceuticals and environmental science. | DeepMind 🧩, Google 🔍 | 2024-10-14 |
| Anthropic releases the Message Batches API 🟢 | Anthropic has introduced a new Message Batches API in public beta, enabling asynchronous processing of up to 10,000 queries per batch with a 50% cost reduction. It supports various Claude models, integrates with Amazon Bedrock, and will soon support Google Cloud’s Vertex AI. | Amazon 🌳, Claude 🖋️, Anthropic 🌐, Google 🔍 | 2024-10-14 |
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| OpenAI’s DevDay brings Realtime API and other treats for AI app developers 🟢 | At OpenAI’s 2024 DevDay, the company launched the Realtime API for low-latency AI voice responses, enhancing its offerings amidst executive changes and competitive pressures. This API, providing near real-time speech-to-speech capabilities, is part of updates including vision fine-tuning, prompt caching, and model distillation, aimed at maintaining OpenAI’s competitive edge in AI development. | Text-to-speech 📢, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-10-07 |
| OpenAI raised $6.6B in new funding at a $157B post-money valuation 🟢 | OpenAI has raised $6.6 billion, bringing its valuation to $157 billion, to boost AI research, expand computing capabilities, and develop advanced problem-solving tools. | Funding 💰, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-10-07 |
| Nvidia just dropped a bombshell: Its new AI model is open, massive, and ready to rival GPT-4 🟢 | Nvidia released the new NVLM 1.0 family of large multimodal language models, led by the 72 billion parameter NVLM-D-72B. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Model release 🎉, NVIDIA 🎮, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀 | 2024-10-07 |
| Meta’s Movie Gen model puts out realistic video with sound 🟢 | Meta’s AI model, Movie Gen, generates realistic 16-second videos with sound from text prompts, surpassing competitors with advanced editing and camera movement understanding. However, it lacks voice capabilities and is not publicly released to prevent misuse. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Meta ♾, Model release 🎉, AI safety 🔐 | 2024-10-07 |
| ChatGPT’s ‘Canvas’ interface makes it easier to write and code 🟢 | OpenAI has launched a new “Canvas” interface for ChatGPT, enhancing user interaction with features like side-by-side text and code adjustments, inline editing shortcuts, grammar checks, and code translation tools. Aimed at reducing repetitive prompts, Canvas includes a back button for restoring previous versions. Currently in beta, it’s available to ChatGPT Plus and Teams users, with plans for wider access after the beta phase. | AI for coding 👨💻, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-10-07 |
| Microsoft gives Copilot a voice and vision in its biggest redesign yet 🟢 | Microsoft has enhanced its AI assistant, Copilot, by integrating voice and vision capabilities. The update introduces a card-based interface, a virtual news presenter, and visual assistance on select websites, aiming to offer a more personalized and adaptable user experience. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Microsoft 🪟 | 2024-10-07 |
| Black Forest Labs releases Flux 1.1 Pro and an API 🟢 | Black Forest Labs (BFL) has introduced Flux 1.1 Pro, an advanced text-to-image AI model, along with a paid API for developers at $0.04 per image. The model, accessible via partners like together.ai and Freepik, boasts improved speed and image quality. Following a $31 million seed funding, BFL is also expanding into AI-driven video media. | AI for images 🖼️, Model release 🎉, Funding 💰, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 | 2024-10-07 |
| Apple not investing in OpenAI after all, new report says 🔴 | Apple has opted not to invest in OpenAI, despite OpenAI nearing a $6.5 billion funding round. However, Apple will integrate ChatGPT into iOS 18 to enhance Siri, maintaining a non-financial partnership with OpenAI for mutual exposure benefits. | Apple 🍏, Funding 💰, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-10-07 |
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| Meta releases Llama 3.2 🟢 | Llama 3.2 features advanced AI models, including vision LLMs (11B and 90B) and lightweight text-only models (1B and 3B), optimized for edge and mobile devices. These models excel in tasks such as summarization and image understanding, supporting extensive token lengths. | Model release 🎉, LLaMA 🦙, Meta ♾, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 | 2024-09-30 |
| OpenAI releases ChatGPT Advanced Voice 🟢 | OpenAI has introduced Advanced Voice to all Plus and Team users in the ChatGPT app, featuring Custom Instructions, Memory, five new voices, and improved accents. | Text-to-speech 📢, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-09-30 |
| Updated production-ready Gemini models, reduced 1.5 Pro pricing, increased rate limits, and more 🟢 | Google’s updated Gemini models, Gemini-1.5-Pro-002 and Gemini-1.5-Flash-002, offer significant enhancements, including over 50% price reduction for the 1.5 Pro, doubled rate limits, and improved performance with outputs that are twice as fast and latency reduced by three times. | Google Gemini 🌌, Google 🔍, Model release 🎉 | 2024-09-30 |
| OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says she’s leaving the company 🔴 | Mira Murati, CTO of OpenAI, is leaving the company after over six years to pursue personal interests. Her departure comes as OpenAI prepares for DevDay and undergoes significant changes, including CEO Sam Altman’s growing influence and a potential $150 billion funding round. Murati played a key role in developing major AI projects like ChatGPT, and her exit occurs amid financial pressures due to high operational costs. | Funding 💰, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-09-30 |
| OpenAI Discusses Giving Altman 7% Stake in For-Profit Shift 🔴 | OpenAI is contemplating granting CEO Sam Altman a 7% equity stake as it transitions to a for-profit model, possibly becoming a public benefit corporation. This move aims to balance profitability with societal impact. Amid leadership instability and high-profile departures, the company, valued at $150 billion, seeks to raise $6.5 billion, which would significantly boost Altman’s net worth. | Funding 💰, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-09-30 |
| AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 🟢 | ETH Zurich researchers have enhanced the YOLO image-recognition model, achieving a 100% success rate in solving traffic-image CAPTCHAs. This surpasses previous models’ 71% success rate, highlighting advancements in AI capabilities and prompting a shift towards more sophisticated user verification methods like Google’s invisible reCAPTCHA v3. | AI for images 🖼️, Google Gemini 🌌, Google 🔍 | 2024-09-30 |
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| OpenAI releases o1-preview model 🟢 | OpenAI introduces the o1-preview, the first in a new series of reasoning models significantly adept at complex tasks in science, coding, and math. These models outperform predecessors by employing advanced reasoning before responding, with test performances comparable to PhD students in rigorous fields. Despite lacking some GPT-4o features, o1-preview excels in specialized reasoning tasks, promising substantial AI advancements. | Model release 🎉, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-09-16 |
| Mistral releases Pixtral 12B, its first multimodal model 🟢 | Mistral has introduced Pixtral 12B, a 12-billion-parameter multimodal AI model that processes both text and images. Building on features from their previous text model, Nemo 12B, Pixtral 12B is available for free download on GitHub and Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Model release 🎉, Mistral 🌬️ | 2024-09-16 |
| OpenAI in talks to raise $11.5 billion at a $150 billion valuation 🟢 | OpenAI is raising $11.5 billion at a $150 billion valuation, up from $86 billion. This includes $6.5 billion from investors, led by Thrive Capital and Microsoft, and $5 billion in bank debt. The funding will support OpenAI’s AI development and operational expansion while keeping the company private despite financial losses. | Funding 💰, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-09-16 |
| Replit launches the Replit Agent 🟢 | The Replit Agent, now in early access for Core and Teams subscribers, is an AI-powered tool aimed at assisting users in software development by understanding natural language prompts, thereby making the creation of applications more accessible across various skill levels. | AI for coding 👨💻 | 2024-09-16 |
| Reader-LM: Small Language Models for Cleaning and Converting HTML to Markdown 🟢 | Reader-LM by Jina AI is a compact language model API for efficient HTML to markdown conversion, surpassing traditional methods like readability and regex. Despite its small size, it performs exceptionally well against larger models, supporting large token contexts and optimized for GPUs. | 2024-09-16 | |
| Google is using AI to make fake podcasts from your notes 🔴 | Google’s new NotebookLM feature, Audio Overview, uses AI “hosts” to transform user notes into engaging AI-generated podcasts. While innovative, it has minor execution quirks, suits less serious topics, takes time to create, is only available in English, and may not always be fully accurate. | Text-to-speech 📢, Google 🔍 | 2024-09-16 |
| AMD is turning its back on flagship gaming GPUs to chase AI first 🟢 | AMD is prioritizing AI development over flagship gaming GPUs to achieve a larger market share and attract developer support. According to Jack Huynh, the goal is to reach a 40% market share to compete with Nvidia and optimize AMD platforms for developers before potentially re-focusing on gaming GPUs. | NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ | 2024-09-16 |
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| OpenAI co-founder Sutskever’s new safety-focused AI startup SSI raises $1 billion 🟢 | Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI, has launched Safe Superintelligence (SSI), an AI startup focused on developing safe superintelligent AI systems. SSI recently raised $1 billion, valuing the company at $5 billion, with backing from top venture capital firms like Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital. The funds are earmarked for computing power and talent acquisition, with a core focus on foundational AI research and safety. | AI safety 🔐, Funding 💰, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-09-09 |
| OpenAI Considers $2,000 Monthly Subscription Prices for New LLMs 🟢 | OpenAI is considering a $2,000 monthly subscription for advanced LLMs like Strawberry and Orion, a significant increase from the current $20 ChatGPT Plus fee. Additionally, OpenAI is looking to streamline its corporate structure to attract investment, aiming for a valuation above $100 billion, while garnering interest from major investors like Apple and Microsoft. | Apple 🍏, Funding 💰, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-09-09 |
| AlphaProteo generates novel proteins for biology and health research 🟢 | AlphaProteo, a new AI tool by DeepMind, designs novel proteins with high binding affinity for targets like VEGF-A, enhancing drug development and biological research. Trained on extensive protein data, it often outperforms existing methods and optimized binders. Despite some limitations, efforts are ongoing to tackle more complex proteins. | AI in healthcare 🏥, DeepMind 🧩 | 2024-09-09 |
| Intel CEO to pitch board on plans to shed assets, cut costs, source says 🔴 | Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is set to present a cost-cutting strategy involving asset sales and scaled-back capital expenditures, which may include halting a $32 billion German factory project. Engaging Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, Intel aims to stabilize amidst financial difficulties and intense AI sector competition. | 2024-09-09 | |
| 100M Token Context Windows 🟢 | Magic, an AI development company, has introduced the LTM-2-mini, an ultra-long context model handling up to 100M tokens, enhancing code synthesis and software development. Partnering with Google Cloud to build advanced AI supercomputers, Magic also secured $465M in new funding. | AI for coding 👨💻, Funding 💰, Google 🔍 | 2024-09-09 |
| Elon Musk is putting his AI chips to work — and he’s catching up with Mark Zuckerberg 🟢 | Elon Musk’s xAI has launched Colossus, a major training cluster boasting 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, making it the world’s most powerful AI system. Built in 122 days in Memphis and set to double in capacity soon, this development comes amid a global GPU shortage, with rivals like Meta and Microsoft also competing for AI supremacy. | NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, Meta ♾, Microsoft 🪟 | 2024-09-09 |
| Alibaba releases new AI model Qwen2-VL that can analyze videos more than 20 minutes long 🟢 | Alibaba Cloud’s new AI model, Qwen2-VL, excels in video analysis and multilingual comprehension, outperforming Meta’s Llama 3.1 and Google’s Gemini-1.5 in benchmarks. It supports multiple languages and extended video content analysis, and is available in three sizes, with two being open-sourced. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Model release 🎉, Google Gemini 🌌 | 2024-09-09 |
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| Apple and Nvidia may invest in OpenAI 🟢 | Apple and Nvidia are exploring investments in OpenAI to enhance their AI capabilities and maintain a competitive edge, though investment specifics remain undisclosed. | Apple 🍏, Funding 💰, NVIDIA 🎮, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-09-02 |
| Introducing Cerebras Inference: AI at Instant Speed 🟢 | Cerebras has achieved a significant speed advantage in AI language model inference, delivering 1,800 tokens per second on Llama3.1 8B and 450 tokens per second on Llama3.1 70B models, outperforms NVIDIA’s GPU-based solutions by 20-fold and is 2.4 times faster than Groq for the 8B model. Notably, Cerebras stands alone in offering immediate responses at a rate of 450 tokens per second on the 70B model. | NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, LLaMA 🦙 | 2024-09-02 |
| OpenAI’s Strawberry AI is reportedly the secret sauce behind next-gen Orion language model 🟢 | OpenAI is working on “Strawberry,” an AI model focused on solving math and programming challenges, aimed at supporting “Orion,” the anticipated successor to GPT-4. Strawberry is slated for release in the fall and may augment ChatGPT with improved data generation and search abilities, having already displayed promising performance in tests and to national security stakeholders. | AI for coding 👨💻, Model release 🎉, ChatGPT 💬, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-09-02 |
| Anthropic published the system prompts used by Claude 🟢 | Anthropic has added a new release notes section to their documentation, covering updates to the system prompts across all Claude.ai models, including Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3 Opus, and Claude 3 Haiku. | Claude 🖋️, Anthropic 🌐 | 2024-09-02 |
| Claude Artifacts are now generally available 🟢 | Claude.ai introduces Artifacts, a new feature for enhancing creativity and collaboration in real-time project development, now available across all user plans on both mobile and desktop. The tool supports a range of tasks including coding, prototyping, and data visualization, gaining popularity with millions created since its June preview release. | Claude 🖋️, AI for coding 👨💻 | 2024-09-02 |
| Google rolling out Gems and Imagen 3 to Gemini Advanced 🟢 | Google’s Gemini has launched Gems, a feature for custom task-oriented version creation, and Imagen 3, an advanced image generation tool that includes ethically-guided people generation, for Advanced subscribers to boost productivity and creativity. | AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Google Gemini 🌌, Google 🔍 | 2024-09-02 |
| Andrej Karpathy’s experience with Cursor and Claude Sonnet 🟢 | Andrej Karpathy highlights the efficiency gains in coding using VS Code Cursor and Sonnet 3.5 alongside GitHub Copilot, indicating a move towards “half-coding” with AI completions. He notes a substantial reduction in manual coding and expresses difficulty in reverting to pre-AI coding methods used three years prior. | AI for coding 👨💻 | 2024-09-02 |
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| Fine-tuning now available for GPT-4o 🟢 | OpenAI introduces GPT-4o fine-tuning for developers to customize models for better performance and cost- efficiency across domains. The feature is available for paid tiers with free daily training tokens until September 23. Notable achievements include Cosine’s Genie excelling in SWE-bench and Distyl leading the BIRD-SQL benchmark. | GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-08-26 |
| Microsoft releases new Phi 3.5 open-source language and vision models 🟢 | Microsoft’s new Phi 3.5 series introduces three open-source AI models — mini-instruct, MoE-instruct, and vision-instruct — designed to improve reasoning in multilingual commercial and scientific tasks, with capabilities in long document analysis. However, challenges with factual accuracy and potential bias are noted, and Microsoft recommends coupling these models with retrieval-augmented systems such as RAG for best results in resource-constrained environments. | Microsoft 🪟 | 2024-08-26 |
| Amazon Q saved 4,500 developer-years of work 🟢 | Amazon Q, a GenAI software assistant, has streamlined system upgrades, such as transforming Java systems automatically. It has enabled Amazon to upgrade more than 50% of its Java systems in 6 months, providing a significant efficiency boost equivalent to saving 4,500 developer-years and yielding $260M in yearly savings. The technology has notably improved upgrade speeds, security, and cost-effectiveness in software maintenance. | AI for coding 👨💻, Amazon 🌳 | 2024-08-26 |
| OpenAI snaps up another media partnership, this time with Condé Nast 🟢 | OpenAI has formed a partnership with Condé Nast to integrate SearchGPT with the media company’s publications, aiming to improve search capabilities and content credibility. The collaboration is seen as a strategy to mitigate the impact of technological advancements on media revenue. | OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-08-26 |
| Nvidia unveils AI model StormCast for advanced weather prediction 🟢 | Nvidia has launched StormCast, an AI-driven model on its Earth-2 platform, advancing mesoscale weather prediction with simulations of atmospheric dynamics. It achieves a 10% accuracy improvement over traditional six-hour forecasts, contributing to efficient disaster planning and positioning Nvidia alongside other tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and IBM in AI climate technology. | NVIDIA 🎮, Google 🔍, Microsoft 🪟 | 2024-08-26 |
| Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha Turbo is here and can make AI videos faster than you can type 🟢 | Runway ML introduces Gen-3 Alpha Turbo, an AI video generation model delivering 7x speed improvements and 50% cost reduction. Widely available across subscription plans, the model addresses diverse needs while promising advancements amidst ethical scrutiny, signaling Runway’s ambition for market leadership. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Model release 🎉 | 2024-08-26 |
| AMD to acquire infrastructure player ZT Systems for $4.9B to amp up its AI ecosystem play 🟢 | AMD has acquired AI-focused infrastructure company ZT Systems for $4.9 billion, aiming to enhance their data center offerings with ZT’s specialized systems design expertise in AI applications. | AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ | 2024-08-26 |
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| Prompt caching with Claude 🟢 | Anthropic has updated its API with prompt caching for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3 Haiku, promising up to 90% cost savings and 85% lower latency. This enhancement, which will also support Claude 3 Opus soon, optimizes repetitive API calls, especially useful for tasks needing persistent context. Pricing depends on the model and differs for cache writes and reads. | Claude 🖋️, Anthropic 🌐 | 2024-08-19 |
| Perplexity answers 250 million questions a month, showing growing appetite for AI search 🟢 | Perplexity, an AI search engine, saw substantial growth, handling 250 million queries in a month, reaching 500 million in 2023. However, it lags behind Google’s dominance and its 8.5 billion daily queries. This trend indicates a user shift towards AI-driven search options. | Google 🔍 | 2024-08-19 |
| X’s new AI image generator will make anything from Taylor Swift in lingerie to Kamala Harris with a gun 🔴 | Grok, xAI’s new chatbot released on Elon Musk’s platform X, enables generation of images from text prompts with minimal content restrictions. However, its production of controversial content has highlighted a stark difference in policy enforcement compared to other AI services, raising concerns about regulation and digital safety, which could impact the platform’s relationship with advertisers and attract attention from European regulators. | AI safety 🔐, AI for images 🖼️, AI regulation 📜, Grok 🐦, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 | 2024-08-19 |
| Apple Intelligence price: iPhone AI and Siri will be free until 2027 🟢 | Apple’s new Apple Intelligence service, debuting with iPhone 15 Pros, will offer free, privacy-centric on-device AI functionalities until 2027. The company will further develop the technology, including an enhanced Siri AI, before potentially moving to a subscription model, with advanced features being introduced over time. | Apple 🍏 | 2024-08-19 |
| The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery 🟢 | Sakana AI has launched The AI Scientist, an automated system designed to advance scientific discovery in areas such as diffusion models and transformers. Working with leading academic partners, it can produce and assess scientific papers, offering cost savings but with current limitations including no visual capabilities and potential inaccuracies. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 | 2024-08-19 |
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| Gemini 1.5 Flash price drop with tuning rollout complete, and more 🟢 | Gemini 1.5 Flash has significantly reduced its prices, with a 78% cut in input token costs to $0.075 per million tokens and a 71% reduction in output token costs to $0.3 per million tokens for prompts under 128K tokens. Additionally, the tuning feature for Gemini 1.5 Flash is now fully deployed and accessible to all developers. | 2024-08-12 | |
| AMD is becoming an AI chip company, just like Nvidia 🟢 | AMD’s Q2 2024 earnings highlight a strategic shift towards AI, with data center products like the Instinct MI300 accelerator leading sales, which have surged by 115%. The MI300 broke $1 billion in quarterly sales, indicating AMD’s intent to annually release AI chips to rival Nvidia’s market dominance. | NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ | 2024-08-12 |
| Zuckerberg says Meta will need 10x more computing power to train Llama 4 than Llama 3 🔴 | Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has stated that their upcoming language model, Llama 4, will require a tenfold increase in computing power for training compared to its predecessor, Llama 3, suggesting significant capital expenditure on infrastructure. However, CFO Susan Li clarified that these AI advancements are not anticipated to yield substantial revenue in the near term. | LLaMA 🦙, Meta ♾ | 2024-08-12 |
| Mistral alpha release of agents 🟢 | Mistral has introduced customization options for its models, including base prompts, few-shot prompting, and fine-tuning. The platform also launched an alpha version of Agents for workflow automation and debuted a stable client SDK for improved integration and application development. | Mistral 🌬️ | 2024-08-12 |
| Groq Raises $640M To Meet Soaring Demand for Fast AI Inference 🟢 | Groq, an AI hardware company, has raised $640 million in a Series D round led by BlackRock, reaching a $2.8 billion valuation. The investment will expand Groq’s capabilities by more than 100,000 LPUs to support growing demand from enterprises and developers, and will enable the company to hire industry experts to drive further growth. | Funding 💰, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ | 2024-08-12 |
| The core crew that helped Sam Altman start OpenAI has dwindled from 10 to 2 🔴 | OpenAI has seen the departure of most of its founding team since 2015, with cofounder John Schulman exiting for Anthropic. Amidst its evolution from a nonprofit to a company with significant partnerships, such as with Microsoft, it has faced criticism from co-founder Elon Musk. CEO Sam Altman remains, alongside two other original members, while one is currently on sabbatical. | Anthropic 🌐, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-08-12 |
| New free “AI Python for Beginners” course by Andrew Ng 🟢 | Andrew Ng has launched “AI Python for Beginners,” a free, four-part course designed for learners of all levels. The series integrates an AI coding chatbot to enhance education, focusing on hands-on AI project creation to boost productivity and efficiency in diverse professional spheres. | AI for coding 👨💻 | 2024-08-12 |
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| Google’s new Gemini AI model dominates benchmarks, beats GPT-4o and Claude-3 🟢 | Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro has set a new standard in AI benchmarks, achieving a leading score of 1,300 in the LMSYS Chatbot Arena, thereby outperforming OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Anthropic’s Claude-3. | Google Gemini 🌌, Google 🔍, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, Claude 🖋️, Anthropic 🌐 | 2024-08-06 |
| Introducing SAM 2: The next generation of Meta Segment Anything Model for videos and images 🟢 | Meta has launched SAM 2, an improved AI model for prompt-based real-time video and image segmentation, featuring zero-shot learning and requiring three times fewer interactions. SAM 2 is now available as open-source under the Apache 2.0 license. | AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Model release 🎉, Meta ♾ | 2024-08-06 |
| Google releases Gemma 2 2B 🟢 | Gemma 2, the latest AI release, features three key models: the efficient Gemma 2 2B which outperforms GPT-3.5 models in the Chatbot Arena, ShieldGemma for enhanced safety content classification, and Gemma Scope which provides advanced model interpretability. | Model release 🎉, Google Gemini 🌌, Google 🔍, GPT-3, GPT-3.5, and GPT-3.5 turbo 💡 | 2024-08-06 |
| Google slashes Gemini 1.5 Flash prices, igniting LLM price war 🟢 | Google has slashed the price of its Gemini 1.5 Flash AI model by 80%, undercutting OpenAI’s GPT-4o mini, albeit with lower performance, ramping up market competition including pressure on smaller AI firms and rivalry with big players like Meta. | Google Gemini 🌌, Google 🔍, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-08-06 |
| OpenAI training and inference costs could reach $7bn for 2024, AI startup set to lose $5bn 🔴 | OpenAI is expected to spend $7 billion on Microsoft servers in 2024 for extensive AI model training including ChatGPT, with costs potentially leading to a $5 billion operational loss despite earning $2 billion annually from ChatGPT. The company may seek new funding to address the projected revenue shortfall. | Microsoft 🪟, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-08-06 |
| Elon Musk calls Grok ‘the most powerful AI by every metric’ but ‘secretly’ trains the new model with your X data by default 🔴 | Elon Musk has stated that Grok AI will become the most potent AI by year-end through enhancements from a new training cluster. Grok is leveraging user data from X (formerly Twitter) for its training, with data sharing set as the default option. This method has stirred privacy debates and highlighted conversations around AI performance and the need for management. Users interested in opting out need to manually adjust their settings in the web app’s privacy section. | AI safety 🔐, AI datasets 📊, AI regulation 📜, Grok 🐦 | 2024-08-06 |
| Instagram starts letting people create AI versions of themselves 🟢 | Meta’s AI Studio has launched a new feature for Instagram and other Meta platforms, enabling users to generate AI-crafted avatars of themselves for use across social media and the web. | AI for images 🖼️, Meta ♾, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 | 2024-08-06 |
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| Meta releases Llama 3.1 🟢 | Meta unveiled the Llama 3.1 405B model, a cutting-edge open-source large language AI with advanced multilingual, reasoning, and tool-use features, alongside improvements to its 8B and 70B models. The update offers extended context lengths, better training, and thorough evaluations, available for download on various platforms. | Model release 🎉, LLaMA 🦙, Meta ♾ | 2024-07-29 |
| Mistral releases Mistral Large 2 🟢 | Mistral launched their new model, Mistral Large 2, with 123 billion parameters and a 128k context window, offering multi-language and programming language support, optimized for high-throughput single-node inference. It delivers 84.0% accuracy on the MMLU benchmark, exhibits enhanced code generation, and reasoning capabilities. The model is available with research and commercial licensing options. | AI for coding 👨💻, Model release 🎉, Mistral 🌬️ | 2024-07-29 |
| AI achieves silver-medal standard solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems 🟢 | AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2, two AI systems, demonstrated their proficiency by solving 4 out of 6 International Mathematical Olympiad problems, achieving silver-medal level. AlphaProof applied advanced reinforcement learning in formal mathematics, and AlphaGeometry 2’s neuro-symbolic hybrid approach led to substantial advancements in complex geometry problem-solving. | Reinforcement learning 🎮 | 2024-07-29 |
| OpenAI’s new SearchGPT prototype is a declaration of war against Google 🟢 | OpenAI has launched “SearchGPT,” a prototype conversational search tool with real-time web information enhancements, challenging Google’s stronghold in the search engine market by promising a more efficient and accurate user experience. | Google 🔍, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-07-29 |
| OpenAI allows finetuning of GPT-4o mini for free 🟢 | OpenAI now allows tier 4 and 5 users to fine-tune GPT-4o mini for specific use-cases with the first 2 million training tokens daily free until September 23, with plans to extend this feature to all user tiers eventually. | GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-07-29 |
| Condé Nast Sends Cease-and-Desist to Perplexity AI Over Data Scraping 🔴 | Condé Nast has taken legal action against AI search engine Perplexity for unauthorized use of its content, mirroring Forbes’ earlier response and amid an ongoing Amazon probe into Perplexity’s data scraping. The situation highlights rising legal challenges in AI related to content usage and the potential implications for the media industry. | AI and copyright ©️, AI regulation 📜, Amazon 🌳 | 2024-07-29 |
| Study reveals rapid increase in web domains blocking AI models from training data 🔴 | A study indicates a notable increase from April 2023 to April 2024 in web domains using blocks to prevent AI models from scraping training data, which could lead to AIs relying on biased or obsolete information. | AI and copyright ©️, AI datasets 📊, AI regulation 📜 | 2024-07-29 |
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| GPT-4o mini: advancing cost-efficient intelligence 🟢 | OpenAI has released GPT-4o mini, an advanced, cost-efficient AI model priced at $0.15/million input tokens and $0.60/million output tokens, offering superior performance at a lower cost than GPT-3.5 Turbo. | Model release 🎉, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-07-22 |
| Mistral NeMo 🟢 | Mistral, in collaboration with NVIDIA, has launched the 12B parameter Mistral NeMo model, featuring a 128k token context window, FP8 inference compatibility, and a cutting-edge Tekken tokenizer. It is open-sourced under Apache 2.0, boasts enhanced multilingual capabilities, and outperforms the previous 7B version in instruction-following tasks. | Model release 🎉, NVIDIA 🎮, Mistral 🌬️ | 2024-07-22 |
| Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI 🔴 | An investigation revealed that major AI firms, including Apple, Nvidia, and Anthropic, have trained their AI models using subtitles from over 173k YouTube videos, potentially breaching YouTube’s anti-data harvesting policy and raising issues on creators’ rights and compensation. | AI and copyright ©️, AI datasets 📊, Apple 🍏, NVIDIA 🎮, Anthropic 🌐 | 2024-07-22 |
| Codestral Mamba 🟢 | Mistral has introduced Codestral Mamba, a new coding-centric Mamba model known for efficiently managing long sequences with linear time inference and theoretical support for unlimited sequence lengths. It competes with leading SOTA models and is open-source, accessible for extension through the GitHub repository with integration options like mistral-inference SDK, TensorRT-LLM, and an upcoming llama.cpp. | AI for coding 👨💻, Model release 🎉, Mistral 🌬️ | 2024-07-22 |
| Meta to drop Llama 3 400b next week — here’s why you should care 🟢 | Meta plans to launch Llama 3 400B in July 2024, expanding the Llama 3 AI model series. This open-source model will offer improved features for chatbots and multilingual applications, aiming to provide wide access to the latest AI advancements. | Model release 🎉, LLaMA 🦙, Meta ♾ | 2024-07-22 |
| Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott thinks LLM “scaling laws” will hold despite criticism 🟢 | Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott expressed confidence in the growth potential of Large Language Models on a Sequoia Capital podcast, challenging the idea of an AI development peak and emphasizing the advantages of expanding model sizes and training capabilities. | Microsoft 🪟 | 2024-07-22 |
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| Microsoft gives up observer seat on OpenAI board 🟢 | Microsoft has stepped down from its observer seat on OpenAI’s board, reflecting confidence in OpenAI’s trajectory under CEO Sam Altman. This move streamlines Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI, also possibly addressing antitrust issues. OpenAI will not offer future observer roles, preferring direct partnership interactions, as with Microsoft and Apple. | Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟, Apple 🍏, AI regulation 📜 | 2024-07-15 |
| Figma pulls AI tool after criticism that it ripped off Apple’s design 🔴 | Figma retracted its AI tool, Make Designs, after accusations of replicating Apple’s iOS weather app interfaces. The swift rollout was recognized as flawed by CEO Dylan Field, and CDT Kris Rasmussen noted the use of third-party AI models, not internally developed by Figma, indicating possible training concerns with AI models potentially sourced from entities like OpenAI or Amazon. | AI and copyright ©️, Amazon 🌳, Apple 🍏, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-07-15 |
| OpenAI unveils five-level AI scale, aims to reach level 2 soon 🟢 | OpenAI’s five-stage AGI progression scale indicates a near-approach to Level 2 “Reasoner,” demonstrating human-like problem-solving. Level 2, characterized by advanced logic and reasoning, is anticipated to be attainable within the next 1.5 years. | OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-07-15 |
| Stability AI Releases Stable Assistant Features 🟢 | Stability AI has enhanced its Stable Assistant with new capabilities from Stable Diffusion 3, featuring “Search & Replace” for object swapping in images, alongside existing functions for image editing, upscaling, and video generation. | AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Stable Diffusion 🎨, Stability AI ⚖️ | 2024-07-15 |
| Licence updates for Stability AI 🟢 | Stability AI has revised its licensing to the “Stegree AI Community License,” which offers more generous terms for individuals and small businesses, including free usage below certain revenue thresholds and no restrictions for non-commercial and small business use, while also tackling quality issues with the SD3 Medium model. | AI and copyright ©️, Stability AI ⚖️ | 2024-07-15 |
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| Apple’s Phil Schiller to reportedly join OpenAI’s board 🟢 | Phil Schiller, App Store chief at Apple, may be appointed as an observer to OpenAI’s nonprofit board to deepen his understanding of AI as Apple integrates ChatGPT into their operating systems. He will participate in meetings without voting rights. | Apple 🍏, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-07-08 |
| Adept joins Amazon 🟢 | The team from Adept, including its co-founders, is integrating into Amazon’s AGI division, aiming to advance general intelligence efforts. Amazon has licensed Adept’s advanced multimodal agent technology and acquired select datasets. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Amazon 🌳 | 2024-07-08 |
| Elon Musk: Grok 2 AI Arrives in August 🟢 | Elon Musk has unveiled plans for Grok 2, a new AI model expected in August 2024, promising enhanced efficiency. His company anticipates an upgrade to Grok 3 by the end of the same year, utilizing cutting-edge Nvidia GPU technology. | Grok 🐦, NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ | 2024-07-08 |
| YouTube now lets you request removal of AI-generated content that simulates your face or voice 🟢 | YouTube’s revised privacy policy now enables users to request the removal of deepfake content replicating their likeness if it raises privacy issues, with certain considerations for content context and public interest. | AI safety 🔐, AI and copyright ©️, AI regulation 📜, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Google 🔍 | 2024-07-08 |
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| Gemini 1.5 Pro 2M context window, code execution capabilities, and Gemma 2 are available today 🟢 | Gemini 1.5 Pro has been updated with a larger 2M token context window and new code execution features to improve performance on complex tasks. Gemma 2 is now open for testing in Google AI Studio, and Gemini 1.5 Flash tuning has been released. | Google Gemini 🌌, Google 🔍 | 2024-07-01 |
| Collaborate with Claude on Projects 🟢 | Claude.ai introduces the Projects feature for Pro and Team users, leveraging Claude 3.5 Sonnet’s 200K context window to enhance collaborative work through organized chats, document integration, and tailored assistance. The addition of Artifacts and a shared activity feed fosters co-creation and inspiration within the platform. | Claude 🖋️ | 2024-07-01 |
| Apple is first company charged with violating EU’s DMA rules 🔴 | The EU has charged Apple with violations of the Digital Markets Act due to restrictive App Store policies. A new investigation into how Apple manages alternative app stores and associated fees has begun. Apple could face fines of up to 10% of its global revenues and has stated it will cooperate with EU regulators. | Apple 🍏, AI regulation 📜 | 2024-07-01 |
| Major Labels Sue AI Firms Suno and Udio for Alleged Copyright Infringement 🔴 | Major music labels have sued AI music firms Suno and Udio for copyright infringement, alleging unlicensed use of copyrighted songs to train their AIs, which can produce tracks resembling popular artists. Suno and Udio claim their work is transformative and qualifies for fair use. | AI and copyright ©️, AI regulation 📜 | 2024-07-01 |
| Apple won’t roll out AI tech in EU market over regulatory concerns 🔴 | Apple Inc. has postponed the launch of new AI technologies in the EU due to the compliance requirements of the Digital Markets Act, which aims to prevent the favoring of own products and the misuse of consumer data, impacting privacy and security. This affects features like Apple Intelligence, iPhone Mirroring, and SharePlay, as Apple is considered a “gatekeeper” under EU regulations. | AI regulation 📜, Apple 🍏 | 2024-07-01 |
| Stability.ai gets new CEO and investment dream team to start rescue mission 🟢 | Prem Akkaraju has been named the new CEO of Stability.ai, creator of Stable Diffusion, alongside receiving investment from notable figures. Akkaraju’s role is pivotal in leading the company’s turnaround efforts, leveraging his experience as the former CEO of Weta Digital. | Funding 💰, Stable Diffusion 🎨, Stability AI ⚖️ | 2024-07-01 |
| YouTube reportedly wants to pay record labels to use their songs for AI training 🔴 | YouTube seeks licensing agreements with major record labels Sony, Universal, and Warner for AI training to circumvent copyright troubles, but faces pushback from artists. Meanwhile, labels are suing AI music platforms Suno and Udio for copyright infringement. | AI and copyright ©️, AI datasets 📊 | 2024-07-01 |
| Meet Figma AI: Empowering designers with intelligent tools 🟢 | Figma has launched Figma AI, a new AI-enhanced design platform featuring AI-driven search capabilities, generative text and image tools, and advanced prototyping functionalities. It’s currently in beta and free until 2024, though usage may be capped depending on the cost of tools. | AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 | 2024-07-01 |
| Snapchat AI turns prompts into new lens 🟢 | Snapchat has launched a feature enabling users to create custom AI-driven lenses using textual prompts, leveraging user interaction data and online activity to tailor experiences. | AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 | 2024-07-01 |
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| Introducing Claude 3.5 Sonnet 🟢 | The latest Claude 3.5 Sonnet upgrade offers enhanced intelligence, increased processing speed, and improved efficiency at a competitive price, with notable advancements in reasoning, coding, and vision processing. Additionally, the newly introduced ‘Artifacts’ feature enables real-time collaboration. | AI for coding 👨💻, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Claude 🖋️ | 2024-06-24 |
| Introducing Gen-3 Alpha: A New Frontier for Video Generation 🟢 | Runway has launched Gen-3 Alpha, an advanced AI capable of generating videos and images from text and images. It features control modes for detailed manipulations and promises future enhancements in structure, style, and motion control. | AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 | 2024-06-24 |
| OpenAI CEO says company could become for-profit corporation 🔴 | OpenAI is considering a transition to a “for-profit benefit corporation,” moving away from its nonprofit origins, a direction similar to its industry competitors such as Anthropic and xAI, as indicated by CEO Sam Altman. | OpenAI 🌟, Anthropic 🌐 | 2024-06-24 |
| Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s former chief scientist, launches new AI company 🟢 | Ilya Sutskever, alongside Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy, has established Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), a new AI venture based in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv dedicated to creating superintelligent AI with a strong emphasis on safety. SSI is poised to integrate AI advancements with robust safety measures, prioritizing long-term security over immediate profits, and is anticipated to attract substantial investment due to its compelling objective and skilled founders. | AI safety 🔐, Funding 💰, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-06-24 |
| NVIDIA Releases Open Synthetic Data Generation Pipeline for Training Large Language Models 🟢 | NVIDIA has launched Nemotron-4 340B, an open suite of models designed to create synthetic data for training language models in diverse sectors. The suite, which includes base, instruct, and reward models, focuses on improving the quality and availability of training data. It is optimized for NVIDIA NeMo and TensorRT-LLM, providing support for more efficient training and inference of LLMs. | AI datasets 📊, NVIDIA 🎮 | 2024-06-24 |
| Indian election was awash in deepfakes — but AI was a net positive for democracy 🟢 | India’s 2024 elections saw AI advancements in voter engagement through deepfake communication and real-time multi-language translation. Despite instances of AI-facilitated trolling, the technology predominantly boosted democratic participation and personalized voter outreach, even projecting virtual embodiments of past political figures. | AI safety 🔐, AI regulation 📜, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 | 2024-06-24 |
| Generating audio for video 🟢 | DeepMind has created a V2A (Video-to-Audio) system using a diffusion-based AI model for generating synchronized audio for silent videos, guided by visual and textual cues to produce lifelike sound environments. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, DeepMind 🧩 | 2024-06-24 |
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| OpenAI Doubles Annualized Revenue to $3.4 Billion 🟢 | OpenAI’s projected revenue for 2024 is $3.4 billion, up from $1.6 billion in 2023, with CEO Sam Altman citing $3.2 billion from core AI products/services and $200 million from partnerships such as with Microsoft Azure. The company’s valuation is at $86 billion as it continues to advance in the AI industry. | Funding 💰, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-06-17 |
| Microsoft’s Nadella Is Building an AI Empire. OpenAI Was Just the First Step. 🟢 | Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is enhancing the company’s AI capabilities by acquiring AI assets worldwide, cultivating proprietary AI technologies, and possibly positioning Microsoft as a competitor to OpenAI. This expansion includes investing in AI startups and recruiting industry experts. | Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-06-17 |
| Nvidia shipped 3.76M data center GPUs in 2023 — dominates business with 98% revenue share 🟢 | In 2023, Nvidia consolidated its position in the data center GPU market with a 98% share by distributing 3.76 million units and achieved a remarkable 126% revenue increase since 2020, reaching $60.9 billion, even amidst U.S. export restrictions and manufacturing hurdles. | NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ | 2024-06-17 |
| Paris-based AI startup Mistral AI raises $640M 🟢 | Mistral AI, a Paris-based AI startup with founders from Meta and DeepMind, secured $640M in a Series B round led by General Catalyst, reaching a $6B valuation, and focuses on creating cutting-edge AI technologies, balancing open-source and proprietary offerings. | Funding 💰, Mistral 🌬️, Meta ♾, DeepMind 🧩 | 2024-06-17 |
| Apple’s WWDC24 highlights 🟢 | Apple’s 2024 WWDC highlighted the introduction of Apple Intelligence, a new personal intelligence system leveraging generative models and personal context integration across its ecosystem, alongside significant updates to iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia, watchOS 11, tvOS 18, and visionOS 2. | Apple 🍏 | 2024-06-17 |
| Luma Dream Machine 🟢 | The Luma Dream Machine by Lumalabs is an AI model designed for synthesizing high-quality, realistic videos from text and images, leveraging a transformer-based method optimized for video content. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, AI for images 🖼️ | 2024-06-17 |
| Musk wants to ban Apple for cosying up to OpenAI 🔴 | Elon Musk has expressed intent to prohibit Apple devices in his firms in response to Apple’s announcement of deploying OpenAI’s ChatGPT in their OS, due to security apprehensions. | Apple 🍏, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-06-17 |
| Claude’s Character 🟢 | The article examines “character training”, focusing on imbuing the Claude 3 model with attributes like curiosity and open-mindedness in addition to harm avoidance. It describes a training strategy that seeks to harmonize AI’s interactive capabilities with ethical norms by flexibly aligning AI behavior with specific traits. | AI safety 🔐, Claude 🖋️, Anthropic 🌐 | 2024-06-17 |
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| Apple’s Reported ChatGPT Deal Could Crown OpenAI as King of the Valley 🟢 | Apple is anticipated to partner with OpenAI to incorporate ChatGPT into the iPhone’s operating system, which could be announced at the next WWDC. This integration, which could revolutionize AI interaction on iPhones, might see ChatGPT enhance Siri or launch as a separate application, signaling Apple’s pivot towards external AI expertise. | Apple 🍏, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-06-10 |
| Nvidia is now more valuable than Apple at $3.01 trillion 🟢 | Nvidia has achieved a market capitalization of $3.01 trillion, propelled by the artificial intelligence surge, overtaking Apple to become the world’s second most valuable company. | Apple 🍏, NVIDIA 🎮 | 2024-06-10 |
| Apple Keeps It Simple, Will Call Its AI ‘Apple Intelligence’ 🟢 | Apple is set to unveil “Apple Intelligence,” an AI solution with chatbot capabilities akin to ChatGPT, at WWDC on June 10. This will be included in upcoming iOS, iPadOS, and macOS updates and is designed for offline operation, marking a partnership with OpenAI and improvements to Siri. | Apple 🍏, OpenAI 🌟, ChatGPT 💬 | 2024-06-10 |
| AMD unveils new AI chips to compete with Nvidia 🟢 | AMD is challenging Nvidia’s leadership in AI with upcoming releases: the MI325X in 2024, and the MI350/MI400 series in 2025–2026, promising notable performance boosts to satisfy increasing AI demands. | NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ | 2024-06-10 |
| OpenAI Is Rebooting Its Robotics Team 🟢 | OpenAI is reinstating its robotics division, focusing on creating AI models for robotic applications in collaboration with external robotics companies. This marks a strategic pivot from producing in-house hardware to empowering humanoid robots through partnerships, as evidenced by investments in entities like Figure AI. The team expansion is underway through active recruitment. | Robotics 🤖, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-06-10 |
| Nvidia and Salesforce may double down on AI startup Cohere in $450 million round 🟢 | Generative AI startup Cohere has secured a $450 million funding round led by Nvidia and Salesforce, alongside new backers such as Cisco and PSP Investments, boosting its valuation to $5 billion from its prior $2.2 billion mark. The company also disclosed an annualized revenue of $35 million. | Funding 💰, NVIDIA 🎮 | 2024-06-10 |
| Stability AI releases a sound generator 🟢 | Stability AI has launched “Stable Audio Open,” an AI model that generates sound from text descriptions using royalty-free samples, geared towards non-commercial use. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Model release 🎉, Stability AI ⚖️ | 2024-06-10 |
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| Gemini 1.5 Pro/Advanced at #2 on the LMSYS leaderboard, right behind GPT-4o 🟢 | The latest LMSYS leaderboard shows that Gemini 1.5 Pro/Advanced ranks second, right behind GPT-4o, while Gemini 1.5 Flash holds the ninth position, surpassing Llama-3–70b and closely competing with GPT-4–0120. | Google Gemini 🌌, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-06-03 |
| Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead to head up new team 🟢 | Jan Leike has moved from OpenAI to Anthropic to head a new AI safety team dedicated to “superalignment,” focusing on enhancing scalable oversight and large-scale AI alignment research. | AI safety 🔐, Anthropic 🌐, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-06-03 |
| xAI announces series B funding round of $6 billion 🟢 | xAI has raised $6 billion in a Series B round to expand AI tech deployment, including their Grok-1 series, and to innovate new products, building on a year of significant AI advancements and the Grok-1 open-source release. | Grok 🐦, Funding 💰 | 2024-06-03 |
| Mistral releases Codestral 🟢 | Codestral is Mistral AI’s new generative AI model focused on coding, boasting proficiency in over 80 programming languages and a large 32k context window for superior performance in benchmarks. | AI for coding 👨💻, Model release 🎉, Mistral 🌬️ | 2024-06-03 |
| China invests $47 billion in largest ever chip fund 🟢 | China allocated $47.48 billion to a new chip fund aimed at advancing domestic semiconductor production, a critical step toward self-sufficiency and competitiveness in technology sectors, including AI. | Funding 💰, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ | 2024-06-03 |
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| Nvidia Stock Surges as Sales Forecast Delivers on AI Hopes 🟢 | Nvidia’s stock surged 9.3% after a promising sales forecast, pointing to a robust demand for AI technologies. The $28 billion projected Q2 revenue exceeds expectations, highlighting the company’s strong position in the AI market, buoyed by their new Blackwell chips and significant data-center revenue. | NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ | 2024-05-27 |
| Microsoft introduces Phi-Silica, a 3.3B parameter model made for Copilot+ PC NPUs 🟢 | Microsoft has unveiled Phi-Silica, a compact language model with 3.3 billion parameters, tailored for Copilot+ PCs equipped with NPUs. This model is engineered for rapid on-device inferencing, improving productivity and accessibility for Windows users with optimal power efficiency. Phi-Silica is Microsoft’s inaugural local language model, with a release slated for June. | Model release 🎉, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, Microsoft 🪟 | 2024-05-27 |
| mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 🟢 | Mistral has launched version 3 of their 7B model, the models “Mistral-7B-v0.3” and “Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3”. Enhancements include an expanded vocabulary of 32,768 terms, integration with the v3 Tokenizer, and new function calling capabilities. | Mistral 🌬️, Model release 🎉 | 2024-05-27 |
| OpenAI reportedly didn’t intend to copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice 🔴 | OpenAI’s selection of a voice for its Sky assistant, which prioritized warmth and charisma, sparked controversy when Scarlett Johansson noted a strong resemblance to her own voice, leading to public and legal issues. OpenAI, having denied deliberately imitating Johansson’s voice, halted the use of Sky’s voice after her objections. This dispute followed unsuccessful discussions regarding Johansson potentially providing her voice for ChatGPT with OpenAI’s Sam Altman. | AI and copyright ©️, Text-to-speech 📢, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-05-27 |
| OpenAI sends internal memo releasing former employees from controversial exit agreements 🟢 | OpenAI reversed a decision that would have required former employees to agree to a perpetual non-disparagement clause in order to retain their vested equity. The company confirmed in an internal memo, seen by CNBC, that it will not cancel any vested units regardless of whether the agreement was signed. | OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-05-27 |
| Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price 🟢 | Amazon is updating Alexa with advanced generative AI capabilities and launching an additional subscription service separate from Prime in efforts to stay competitive with Google and OpenAI’s chatbots, reflecting the company’s strategic emphasis on AI amidst internal and leadership changes. | Amazon 🌳, Google 🔍, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-05-27 |
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| OpenAI releases GPT-4o 🟢 | OpenAI released the new model GPT-4o, capable of processing and generating text, audio, and image inputs and outputs. It boasts quick audio response times on par with humans, enhanced non-English language processing, and cost-efficient API usage, while maintaining GPT-4 Turbo’s performance levels. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Model release 🎉, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-05-21 |
| 100 things Google announced at I/O 2024 🟢 | At Google I/O 2024, notable AI developments were announced such as Gemini 1.5 models, Trillium TPU, and enhanced AI in Google Search. Key introductions include Imagen 3 for image creation, Veo for video generation, and upgraded features in the Gemini app for premium users, alongside new generative media tools. | Google Gemini 🌌, Google 🔍, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, AI for images 🖼️, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ | 2024-05-21 |
| Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI, Jakub Pachocki announced as Chief Scientist 🔴 | Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI, is stepping down from its role. Jakub Pachocki, with the company since 2017, will take over as Chief Scientist. | OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-05-21 |
| Hugging Face is sharing $10 million worth of compute to help beat the big AI companies 🟢 | Hugging Face is dedicating $10M in free GPU resources to support AI developers, startups, and academics. Their ZeroGPU initiative, part of Hugging Face Spaces, offers communal GPU access, aiming to reduce computational access barriers and improve cost-efficiency. | Hugging Face 🤗, Funding 💰, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ | 2024-05-21 |
| IBM’s Granite code model family is going open source 🟢 | IBM has released its Granite code models as open source. These models, trained on 116 languages with up to 34 billion parameters, facilitate code generation, bug fixing, and explanation tasks, and are accessible via GitHub and Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license. | AI for coding 👨💻, Model release 🎉 | 2024-05-21 |
| iOS 18: Apple finalizing deal to bring ChatGPT to iPhone 🟢 | Apple is nearing an agreement with OpenAI to incorporate ChatGPT functionalities into iOS 18, focusing on on-device AI for enhanced privacy and performance. The tech giant intends to announce this integration at the WWDC event on June 10, amidst ongoing discussions with Google regarding their Gemini chatbot. | Apple 🍏, Google Gemini 🌌, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-05-21 |
| Meta’s AI system ‘Cicero’ learning how to lie, deceive humans: study 🔴 | MIT researchers have found that Meta’s AI, Cicero, demonstrates advanced deceptive capabilities in the game Diplomacy, ranking in the top 10% of human players through strategic betrayal. This reflects a growing trend among AI systems such as Google’s AlphaStar and OpenAI’s GPT-4 to employ deceit against human opponents, raising concerns over the potential risks of AI deception and the need for preventive strategies. | AI safety 🔐, AI regulation 📜, Meta ♾, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-05-21 |
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| DeepMind releases AlphaFold 3 🟢 | AlphaFold 3 is an advanced AI model by Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs, capable of accurately predicting biomolecular structures and interactions. Providing a significant advancement over prior models, it enhances scientific research and drug development, and is available globally through the AlphaFold Server. | AI in healthcare 🏥, Model release 🎉, DeepMind 🧩, Google 🔍 | 2024-05-13 |
| Microsoft allegedly developing MAI-1, a competing model to OpenAI’s GPT-4 🟢 | Microsoft is currently working on MAI-1, a 500 billion parameter AI model, aiming for a competitive edge in the AI industry and moving towards greater independence in AI development. | Microsoft 🪟, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-05-13 |
| gpt2-chatbot confirmed as OpenAI 🔴 | The gpt2-chatbot that appeared in the LMSYS arena was confirmed to be an OpenAI test model after a 429 rate limit error revealed its connection to OpenAI’s API. Now renamed to im-also-a-good-gpt-chatbot, it can only be accessed randomly in “Arena (battle)” mode rather than “Direct Chat”. | OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-05-13 |
| OpenAI partnership with Stack Overflow 🟢 | OpenAI is partnering with Stack Overflow to integrate their OverflowAPI into ChatGPT, enriching it with Stack Overflow’s extensive developer knowledge for more accurate, programming-related AI responses. | AI for coding 👨💻, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-05-13 |
| Neuralink Safety Concerns Drove Co-Founder to Break Up With Elon Musk 🔴 | Neuralink’s co-founder has departed to create a new venture focusing on a safer, non-invasive brain-computer interface technology using surface microelectrodes, in contrast to Neuralink’s penetrating electrodes method. | Neuralink 🧠, AI in healthcare 🏥, AI safety 🔐 | 2024-05-13 |
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| Mysterious “gpt2-chatbot” AI model appears suddenly, confuses experts 🔴 | The “gpt2-chatbot” recently emerged on the LMSYS Chatbot Arena, generating discussions within the AI community about its potential relation to new OpenAI models. While demonstrating strong performance, analyses indicate it does not outperform GPT-4, and its exact origin and details are still uncertain. | GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-05-06 |
| GitHub Copilot Workspace 🟢 | GitHub has launched Copilot Workspace, a comprehensive developer environment that facilitates the entire coding process, including planning, coding, testing, and deployment, through natural language commands, offering AI-industry professionals an integrated solution for streamlining development workflows. | AI for coding 👨💻 | 2024-05-06 |
| OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says GPT-4 is the dumbest AI model you’ll ever have to use again 🟢 | OpenAI’s Sam Altman considers GPT-4 the most rudimentary AI that users will encounter as the company progresses towards more sophisticated models like GPT-5, which is expected to feature enhanced abilities such as video generation. He foresees AI developing into highly efficient assistants, performing tasks and providing solutions effortlessly. | GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, GPT-5 🔮, OpenAI 🌟, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 | 2024-05-06 |
| Pro music video powered by OpenAI’s Sora released in a world-first 🟢 | Paul Trillo directed the official music video for Washed Out’s “The Hardest Part” using OpenAI’s Sora, a text-to-video AI, producing 700 clips of which 55 were used. The project has stirred ethical discussions within the AI industry. | AI and copyright ©️, AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-05-06 |
| A ChatGPT search engine is rumored to be coming next week 🟢 | OpenAI is rumored to be launching a ChatGPT-based search engine, potentially at “search.chatgpt.com,” aiming to rival Google by integrating a chatbot feature with traditional search results. This reflects the industry trend of AI potentially revolutionizing standard web search methods. | Google 🔍, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-05-06 |
| Memory and new controls for ChatGPT 🟢 | OpenAI is testing a new memory feature for ChatGPT to improve interaction continuity, offering user-managed options for adding, reviewing, and deleting retained information or disabling the feature. | ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-05-06 |
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| Microsoft launches Phi-3, its smallest AI model yet 🟢 | Microsoft unveils its new language model, Phi-3 Mini, comprising 3.8 billion parameters, and announces forthcoming variants including Phi-3 Small and Phi-3 Medium with 7 billion and 14 billion parameters respectively. The training approach for Phi-3 Mini mimics the progressive learning stages of children, utilizing a curriculum of materials ranging from simple to complex structures and concepts. | Microsoft 🪟 | 2024-04-29 |
| Apple releases OpenELM: small, open source AI models designed to run on-device 🟢 | Apple has introduced OpenELM, a suite of open-source AI text generation models with 270M to 3B parameters, optimized for on-device deployment. Available on Hugging Face, these models are released under a sample code license to enable AI functionalities independently of the cloud. | Hugging Face 🤗, Apple 🍏, Model release 🎉 | 2024-04-29 |
| Moderna banks on OpenAI to accelerate mRNA research 🟢 | Modern Pharma collaborates with OpenAI to incorporate generative AI into its mRNA development and operational processes, securing ChatGPT Enterprise access for around 3,000 Moderna staff, leveraging GPT-4’s advanced language models. | AI in healthcare 🏥, ChatGPT 💬, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-04-29 |
| ChatGPT Could Power the iPhone’s AI Chatbot: Report 🟢 | Apple is negotiating with OpenAI and Google for potential integration of generative AI technologies such as ChatGPT or Gemini into the iPhone’s iOS 18, aiming to bridge its in-house AI development gap and circumvent past deployment issues while risking increased reliance on external AI advancements. | Apple 🍏, Google Gemini 🌌, Google 🔍, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-04-29 |
| xAI, Elon Musk’s OpenAI rival, is closing on $6B in funding and X, his social network, is already one of its shareholders 🟢 | Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, xAI, is on the verge of securing a $6 billion investment at an $18 billion pre-money valuation. Supported by Sequoia Capital and Future Ventures, xAI’s funding round demonstrates significant investor confidence, partly due to Musk’s reputation and connections from his ventures such as SpaceX and Tesla. | Funding 💰, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-04-29 |
| Startup Uses AI to Edit Human DNA 🟢 | Profluent, a Berkeley-based startup, is integrating generative AI into gene editing to improve disease treatment outcomes. They have launched OpenCRISPR-1, an open-source AI-driven gene editor, and emphasize the need for rigorous preclinical testing to validate the safety and efficacy of AI-assisted gene editing technologies. | AI in healthcare 🏥, AI safety 🔐 | 2024-04-29 |
| Snowflake releases Arctic, an open LLM for Enterprise AI 🟢 | Snowflake AI Research has released Arctic, a cost-effective enterprise AI LLM featuring a Dense-MoE Hybrid transformer architecture with 480 billion parameters. Trained for less than $2 million, Arctic excels in tasks like SQL generation and coding. It’s fully open-source under Apache 2.0, providing free access to model weights and code. | Mixture-of-Experts 🤝, AI for coding 👨💻, Model release 🎉, Funding 💰 | 2024-04-29 |
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| Introducing Meta Llama 3: The most capable openly available LLM to date 🟢 | Meta has introduced Meta Llama 3, a state-of-the-art open-source large language model (LLM) with versions up to 70 billion parameters, providing enhanced reasoning and multilingual capabilities. The current best models are pretrained and instruction-fine-tuned at both 8B and 70B scales. Additionally, even larger models exceeding 400 billion parameters are in development, promising to push the boundaries further upon their release in the coming months. | Model release 🎉, Meta ♾ | 2024-04-23 |
| Mistral released Mixtral 8x22B 🟢 | Mistral unveiled Mixtral 8x22B, an efficient sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 39B active out of 141B total parameters, specializing in multilingual communication, coding, mathematics, and excelling in reasoning and knowledge tasks. The model boasts a 64K token context window, is compatible with multiple platforms, and is available under the open-source Apache 2.0 license. | Mixture-of-Experts 🤝, AI for coding 👨💻, Model release 🎉, Mistral 🌬️ | 2024-04-23 |
| OpenAI Fires Researchers for Leaking Information 🔴 | OpenAI has terminated two members of its safety and AI reasoning teams following internal leaks, showcasing the ongoing challenge of balancing transparency with security at innovative AI organizations. The company is actively assessing the repercussions of the disclosure. | AI safety 🔐, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-04-23 |
| Google’s new chips look to challenge Nvidia, Microsoft and Amazon 🟢 | Google has unveiled the Cloud TPU v5p, an AI chip that delivers nearly triple the training speed of its predecessor, the TPU v4, reinforcing its position in AI services and hardware. At the Google Cloud Next event, CEO Pichai highlighted the company’s AI advancements and collaborations, including the use of the A3 supercomputer and Blackwell chips in the AI Hypercomputer. Additionally, Google introduced the Google Axion CPU, an Arm-based processor that competes with similar offerings from Microsoft and Amazon, boasting a 30% performance improvement and better energy efficiency. | Amazon 🌳, NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, Google 🔍, Microsoft 🪟 | 2024-04-23 |
| OpenAI denies Elon Musk’s lawsuit allegations, seeks dismissal in court 🔴 | OpenAI is contesting a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk, who accuses the organization of straying from its original mission upon its commercial endeavors with Microsoft. OpenAI disputes the claims, suggesting Musk’s competing AI interests might influence his action and argues that no concrete commitment was made to avoid commercialization, challenging the basis of Musk’s lawsuit for lack of a definitive agreement. | AI regulation 📜, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-04-23 |
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| Meta’s open source GPT-4 competitor Llama 3 is coming soon 🟢 | Meta is set to release Llama 3, an AI assistant intended to outperform its predecessors and compete with OpenAI’s GPT-4. It will debut with two preliminary versions before launching a comprehensive multimodal iteration in the summer. | LLaMA 🦙, Meta ♾, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 | 2024-04-15 |
| Gemini 1.5 Pro Now Available in 180+ Countries; With Native Audio Understanding, System Instructions, JSON Mode and More 🟢 | Gemini 1.5 Pro has launched globally, offering cutting-edge native audio understanding and upgraded features such as a File API, system instructions, JSON mode for developers, along with advanced audio/video modalities, including video quiz capabilities. The update also introduces a highly performant text embedding model. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 | 2024-04-15 |
| GPT4 Turbo has been upgraded and is out of preview 🟢 | The new GPT-4 Turbo, now with vision capabilities, supports vision requests via JSON mode and function calls, with knowledge updated until December 2023. | GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 | 2024-04-15 |
| x.AI Unveils it’s First Multimodal model, Grok-1.5 Vision 🟢 | x.AI, launched by Elon Musk, introduces Grok-1.5V, an advanced multimodal AI model with enhanced capabilities for analyzing visual data, including text, charts, and images. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Grok 🐦 | 2024-04-15 |
| TikTok may add AI avatars that can make ads 🟢 | TikTok is investigating the integration of AI-powered avatars to deliver more personalized and engaging advertising experiences by aligning ad content with user interests. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 | 2024-04-15 |
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| Introducing Stable Audio 2.0 from Stability AI 🟢 | Stable Audio 2.0 introduces significant advancements in music generation AI, offering audio-to-audio conversion through natural language prompts and expanding creative possibilities with sound effects and improved style transfer. The latest version now supports the generation of high-quality (44.1 kHz) structured songs up to three minutes in length from concise prompts. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Stability AI ⚖️ | 2024-04-08 |
| Start using ChatGPT instantly 🟢 | ChatGPT is now instantly accessible for new users, offering AI interaction without requiring initial account creation. | ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-04-08 |
| OpenAI’s Sora just made its first music video and it’s like a psychedelic trip 🟢 | OpenAI has showcased the capabilities of its text-to-video engine, Sora, by creating a music video for August Kamp’s song “Worldweight” entirely through the engine’s capabilities. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-04-08 |
| OpenAI expands its custom model training program 🟢 | OpenAI is broadening its Custom Model initiative to support various businesses in developing AI models tailored to unique industry needs, with a focus on enhanced fine-tuning via advanced hyperparameter optimization and scalable methods, as announced at DevDay. | OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-04-08 |
| Lambda Announces $500M GPU-Backed Facility to Expand Cloud for AI 🟢 | Lambda has successfully secured $500 million in funding to enhance its AI-oriented cloud services, powered by NVIDIA GPUs, following a Series C investment round. | Funding 💰, NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ | 2024-04-08 |
| Tesla increasing compensation for AI team: Elon Musk 🟢 | Tesla, under Elon Musk, is increasing AI team compensation to retain and attract experts amidst intensified industry competition, as highlighted by engineer Ethan Knight’s transition to Musk’s xAI project following OpenAI’s recruitment attempts. This strategy aims to maintain commitment to Tesla’s critical autonomous driving and humanoid robotics initiatives. | Robotics 🤖, Funding 💰 | 2024-04-08 |
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| Claude 3 Opus officially beats GPT-4 Turbo on LMSys Chatbot Arena leaderboards 🟢 | Claude 3 Opus outperforms GPT-4 Turbo and Gemini Pro, while Claude 3 Haiku surpasses GPT-4 and Mistral Large in efficiency and cost-effectiveness on the LMSys Chatbot Arena leaderboards. | Claude 🖋️, Google Gemini 🌌, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀 | 2024-04-02 |
| OpenAI and Microsoft reportedly planning $100 billion datacenter project for an AI supercomputer 🟢 | Microsoft and OpenAI have announced a partnership to construct “Stargate,” an advanced AI supercomputer in the U.S., featuring millions of GPUs. The project, which may exceed $115 billion, represents a major commitment to expanding datacenter capabilities to advance AI research and development. | Funding 💰, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-04-02 |
| xAI announces Grok-1.5 🟢 | xAI has announced Grok-1.5, an update that expands its token handling capacity to 128K, enabling it to process text documents up to 16 times longer than its previous version. This enhancement significantly boosts Grok-1.5’s performance in analyzing extensive texts and allows it to efficiently locate precise information within them, as demonstrated by its success in the Needle In A Haystack benchmark. | Grok 🐦 | 2024-04-02 |
| Amazon and Anthropic deepen their shared commitment to advancing generative AI 🟢 | Amazon has invested $4 billion in AI company Anthropic to further develop AI technologies. Anthropic leverages Amazon Web Services (AWS) Trainium and Inferentia chips for enhancing their AI models. Notably, Anthropic’s Claude 3 models have been incorporated into Amazon Bedrock by AWS. | Amazon 🌳, Funding 💰, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, Claude 🖋️, Anthropic 🌐 | 2024-04-02 |
| Apple says its latest AI model ReALM is even better than OpenAI’s GPT4 🟢 | Apple has announced ReALM, an LLM claimed to outperform OpenAI’s GPT-4 in contextual understanding, suitable for responding accurately to queries regardless of whether it’s interacting with on-screen content or operating in the background. | Apple 🍏, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-04-02 |
| Amazon’s AI team faces pressure to outperform Anthropic’s Claude models by mid-year 🟢 | Amazon has ramped up its AI game by finalizing a $2.75 billion investment in AI startup Anthropic, hitting a total investment milestone of $4 billion, as it aims to stay competitive with Microsoft’s AI progress in the cloud industry. | Amazon 🌳, Funding 💰, Claude 🖋️, Anthropic 🌐, Microsoft 🪟 | 2024-04-02 |
| OpenAI’s voice cloning AI model only needs a 15-second sample to work 🟢 | OpenAI has introduced a Voice Engine capable of generating synthetic voices using 15-second audio samples, featuring multilingual text-to-speech capabilities suitable for various industries, with an emphasis on adherence to consent guidelines in its rollout. | Text-to-speech 📢, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-04-02 |
| Introducing Jamba 🟢 | AI21Labs has developed Jamba, a hybrid AI model that merges Structured State Space (SSM) with the Transformer architecture, to improve efficiency and versatility in processing complex data sequences. Jamba aims to overcome the limitations of both the classic Transformer and standalone SSM models by integrating their strengths. | 2024-04-02 | |
| Introducing DBRX: A New State-of-the-Art Open LLM 🟢 | Databricks has unveiled DBRX, a new open-source large language model (LLM) that surpasses GPT-3.5 in programming and general tasks, and is competitive with Gemini 1.0 Pro. DBRX features a mixture-of-experts architecture with a massive 132 billion parameters, though only 36 billion are active for any given input. Both DBRX Base and DBRX Instruct models are openly accessible on Hugging Face. | Hugging Face 🤗, Mixture-of-Experts 🤝, AI for coding 👨💻, Model release 🎉, GPT-3, GPT-3.5, and GPT-3.5 turbo 💡 | 2024-04-02 |
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| Stability AI CEO resigns to “pursue decentralized AI” 🟢 | Emad Mostaque has stepped down as CEO of Stability AI to concentrate on decentralized AI developments. The company will be temporarily co-led by COO Shan Shan Wong and CTO Christian Laforte, maintaining its generative AI advancements. This leadership change occurs amid a notable industry trend of talent movement, highlighted by Microsoft’s acquisition of Inflection AI’s team and Google DeepMind’s co-founder Mustafa Suleyman. | Stability AI ⚖️, DeepMind 🧩, Google 🔍, Microsoft 🪟 | 2024-03-25 |
| ‘We Created a Processor for the Generative AI Era,’ NVIDIA CEO Says 🟢 | NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced the NVIDIA Blackwell computing platform at the GTC conference, aimed at advancing generative AI with superior training and inference capabilities. The platform includes enhanced interconnects for better performance and scalability. NVIDIA also launched NIM microservices for tailored AI deployment and Omniverse Cloud APIs for sophisticated simulation, signaling a transformative impact on sectors like healthcare and robotics. | AI in healthcare 🏥, Robotics 🤖, NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ | 2024-03-25 |
| OpenAI is expected to release a ‘materially better’ GPT-5 for its chatbot mid-year, sources say 🟢 | OpenAI is preparing to release GPT-5 around mid-year, offering significant improvements over GPT-4, particularly in enhanced performance for business applications. Although the launch date is not fixed due to continued training and safety evaluations, preliminary demonstrations to enterprise clients suggest new features and capabilities, raising anticipation for GPT-5’s impact on the generative AI landscape. | GPT-5 🔮, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-03-25 |
| After raising $1.3B, Inflection is eaten alive by its biggest investor, Microsoft 🔴 | Inflection, previously supported by $1.3B in funding, has pivoted from its original AI project ‘Pi’ due to competition lag and integrated its top staff into Microsoft. Notably, Suleyman and Simonyan, along with core team members, have assumed leadership positions within Microsoft’s AI division, indicating a strategic reorientation towards custom generative AI solutions for enterprise clients. This move exemplifies the competitive landscape in conversational AI, dominated by industry behemoths like Microsoft, which continually adapt through significant investments and acquisitions. | Funding 💰, Microsoft 🪟 | 2024-03-25 |
| Neuralink video shows patient using brain implant to play chess on laptop 🟢 | Neuralink demonstrated a significant advancement in brain-computer interfaces by presenting a paralyzed human patient who can play chess and operate a computer cursor with a brain implant. This milestone follows FDA approval for clinical trials and underscores the technology’s potential to revolutionize assistance for paralyzed individuals and perhaps expand abilities for the non-disabled. | AI in healthcare 🏥, Neuralink 🧠 | 2024-03-25 |
| Introducing Stable Video 3D: Quality Novel View Synthesis and 3D Generation from Single Images 🟢 | Stability AI has introduced Stable Video 3D (SV3D), a new generative model enhancing 3D tech with better quality and consistency. SV3D offers two versions: SV3D_u for single-image-based orbital videos without camera paths, and SV3D_p for more advanced 3D video creation using specified camera trajectories. For commercial use, it requires a Stability AI Membership, while non-commercial users can access the model weights through Hugging Face and consult the accompanying research paper. | AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Stability AI ⚖️ | 2024-03-25 |
| Apple reportedly in talks with Google to license Google’s Gemini AI for iPhones 🟢 | Apple is currently discussing the integration of Google’s Gemini AI into iPhone functionalities, furthering their collaboration beyond Google’s default search engine arrangement. Additionally, Apple plans to incorporate sophisticated AI features, such as image and text generation, into the forthcoming iOS 18 update and is exploring partnerships with prominent AI entities, including OpenAI and Google’s Gemini AI, to enhance their offering. | Apple 🍏, Google Gemini 🌌, Google 🔍, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-03-25 |
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| Introducing Devin, the first AI software engineer 🟢 | Devin is an AI-designed autonomous software engineer from Cognition, created to augment coding teams. It has strategic capabilities for complex challenges and integrates with dev tools for iterative development. Devin outperformed in SWE-bench, showing proficiency in learning and debugging, autonomously resolving 13.86% of real-world GitHub issues, marking an advancement over earlier AI models. | AI for coding 👨💻 | 2024-03-18 |
| Claude 3 Haiku: our fastest model yet 🟢 | Anthropic has launched Claude 3 Haiku, an AI model designed for enterprise use, offering high efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and superior performance in processing large data sets with advanced vision capabilities, capable of handling prompts at a speed of up to 21K tokens per second for inputs under 32K tokens. | Claude 🖋️, Anthropic 🌐 | 2024-03-18 |
| SIMA generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments 🟢 | DeepMind has developed SIMA, a generalist AI agent designed to operate within 3D virtual environments, focusing on interpreting natural language and navigating complex problems rather than traditional game score maximization. SIMA has been trained across nine games from various genres and features a combination of pre-trained image recognition and memory-based models to process and act on both visual cues and linguistic instructions. | Reinforcement learning 🎮, AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, DeepMind 🧩 | 2024-03-18 |
| Grok open release 🟢 | xAI has released Grok-1, a language Mixture-of-Experts model with 314 billion parameters, following its pre-training in October 2023. This base model checkpoint is intended for further research and the development of conversational applications, and it is accessible under the Apache 2.0 license. | Mixture-of-Experts 🤝, Grok 🐦, Model release 🎉 | 2024-03-18 |
| World’s first major act to regulate AI passed by European lawmakers 🟢 | The European Parliament has passed a comprehensive AI Act for risk-based regulation of artificial intelligence, mandating stringent consumer protections and maintaining human oversight. With its implementation set for 2025, the legislation is expected to influence global tech firms and potentially set a precedent for future international AI regulations. | AI regulation 📜 | 2024-03-18 |
| Midjourney debuts feature for generating consistent characters across multiple gen AI images 🟢 | Midjourney has introduced an update enabling AI-generated character consistency in artwork through new tagging features. The “ — cref” tag allows users to reference a character image URL to maintain the character’s appearance across different scenes, while the “ — cw” tag adjusts the level of character consistency. This facilitates continuity in visual storytelling within the AI art community, although the precision of replication can vary. | AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Midjourney 🛤️ | 2024-03-18 |
| Midjourney Accuses Stability AI of Image Theft, Bans Its Employees 🔴 | David Holz, CEO of Midjourney, has accused Stability AI of image dataset theft, sparking an online exchange where Stability AI’s CEO, Emad Mostaque, denied any directive for such actions and expressed willingness to support investigations into the matter. | AI and copyright ©️, AI datasets 📊, AI for images 🖼️, Midjourney 🛤️, Stable Diffusion 🎨, Stability AI ⚖️ | 2024-03-18 |
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| Introducing the next generation of Claude 🟢 | Anthropic has launched Claude 3, a new AI that surpasses GPT-4, with three models: Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku. Each supports a 200k context window, vision abilities, and multiple languages. Opus is touted as the top performer. Sonnet is integrated with Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, while Opus and Haiku are slated for future release along with new features like function calling and REPL. | Claude 🖋️, Anthropic 🌐, Model release 🎉, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Google 🔍, Amazon 🌳, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀 | 2024-03-11 |
| Inflection-2.5: meet the world’s best personal AI 🟢 | Inflection has launched its latest AI version, Inflection-2.5, enhancing its AI model, Pi, with advanced cognitive capabilities that challenge leading language models like GPT-4. Notably, Inflection-2.5 achieves competitive performance in AI tasks, particularly in coding and math, with 40% less computational power required during its training phase. In addition to its improved processing efficiency, Pi now features the ability to conduct real-time web searches to provide updated news and information. | AI for coding 👨💻, Model release 🎉, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀 | 2024-03-11 |
| Looks like we may now know which OpenAI execs flagged concerns about Sam Altman before his ouster 🔴 | Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, faced a brief ouster from his position after concerns were raised by two executives, one of which was CTO Mira Murati. The circumstances around his temporary departure in November remain unclear, despite him resuming the CEO role within a week, as reported by The New York Times. | OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-03-11 |
| Cloudflare announces Firewall for AI 🟢 | Cloudflare is developing ‘Firewall for AI’, a Web Application Firewall designed to safeguard Large Language Models from abuse by detecting vulnerabilities and providing enhanced security measures for AI-powered applications. | AI safety 🔐 | 2024-03-11 |
| Google is tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search 🟢 | Google is updating its Search algorithm to demote low-quality, automated content and elevate more valuable, trustworthy websites in search rankings, focusing on delivering a high-quality content experience. | Google 🔍 | 2024-03-11 |
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| Mistral AI releases new model to rival GPT-4 and its own chat assistant 🟢 | Mistral has launched Mistral Large, ranking just below GPT4. It boasts a 32K token context window and multilingual support for English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian. The model excels in following precise instructions, allowing for tailored moderation policies. | Model release 🎉, Mistral 🌬️, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀 | 2024-03-04 |
| Microsoft partners with Mistral in second AI deal beyond OpenAI 🟢 | Microsoft enters a multiyear collaboration with Mistral, valued at €2 billion, acquiring a minor stake shortly after its significant investment in OpenAI. | Mistral 🌬️, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-03-04 |
| Apple’s electric car project is dead 🔴 | Apple has discontinued its “Project Titan” electric car development, reallocating many of its 2,000 staff to focus on generative AI projects. | Apple 🍏 | 2024-03-04 |
| Elon Musk sues OpenAI over AI threat 🔴 | Elon Musk has initiated a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that the organization has departed from its founding mission of promoting AGI for public benefit by forming a profit-centered partnership with Microsoft. | AI safety 🔐, AI regulation 📜, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-03-04 |
| Evo: Long-context modeling from molecular to genome scale 🟢 | Evo is an advanced bio foundation model based on the StripedHyena architecture, specialized in interpreting biological data such as genomes and proteins with a vocabulary over 650k tokens. It’s been created by Together AI and the Arc Institute. | AI in healthcare 🏥 | 2024-03-04 |
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| Gemma — a family of lightweight, state-of-the art open models from Google. 🟢 | Google has released Gemma, an open-source large language model based on Gemini, in two versions with 2 billion (2B) and 7 billion (7B) parameters. Both versions come with a basic pretrained model and an instruction-tuned variant to enhance performance. | Model release 🎉, Google Gemini 🌌, Google 🔍 | 2024-02-26 |
| Nvidia’s data center GPU sales grow by a stunning 409% on huge demand for AI chips 🟢 | Nvidia has experienced a significant surge in GPU sales, reporting a 409% increase due in large part to the rising demand for AI technologies. With Q4 earnings and revenue significantly outpacing Wall Street forecasts, the company’s financials have thrived on the back of robust sales from their Hopper GPU series, including the H100. | NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ | 2024-02-26 |
| Stable Diffusion 3 🟢 | Stability AI has introduced Stable Diffusion 3 for early preview, featuring enhancements in handling multi-subject prompts, image quality, and the accuracy of visual text spelling. A select number of users have the opportunity to test and refine the model prior to general availability. | Stable Diffusion 🎨, Stability AI ⚖️, AI for images 🖼️ | 2024-02-26 |
| Google pauses Gemini’s ability to generate AI images of people after diversity errors 🔴 | Google has suspended the feature in its Gemini AI that creates images of human figures due to diversity-related inaccuracies. The AI was producing historical images that deviated from known racial and gender norms, such as depicting US Founding Fathers and Nazi-era soldiers with diverse ethnic backgrounds. | AI safety 🔐, AI for images 🖼️, Google Gemini 🌌, Google 🔍 | 2024-02-26 |
| Introducing Phind-70B — closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster 🟢 | Phind-70B is a new code-centric AI model that improves upon CodeLlama-70B by integrating 50 billion more tokens. It features a 32K token window, enabling it to produce high-quality technical solutions at a speed of 80 tokens per second. The model surpasses GPT-4 Turbo with an 82.3% HumanEval score, although it performs slightly below Meta’s CRUXEval. | AI for coding 👨💻, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀 | 2024-02-26 |
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| OpenAI announces Sora 🟢 | OpenAI has unveiled Sora, a novel AI video generator capable of crafting up to minute-long videos from textual prompts. Demonstrations showcase its ability to transform creative prompts into video content, emphasizing the synergy between AI and human creativity. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-02-19 |
| Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5 🟢 | Google has unveiled Gemini 1.5, which demonstrates an enhanced capacity for processing long-context information up to 1 million tokens. It matches the quality of Gemini 1.0 Ultra, but requires less computational power and surpasses Gemini 1.0 Pro in 87% of benchmarks. | Google Gemini 🌌, Google 🔍 | 2024-02-19 |
| Stability AI announces Stable Cascade 🟢 | Stability AI has introduced Stable Cascade, a research preview of a new text-to-image model based on the Würstchen architecture. This model is distributed under a non-commercial license and boasts ease of training and fine-tuning on consumer-grade hardware due to its innovative three-stage approach. | AI for images 🖼️, Stability AI ⚖️ | 2024-02-19 |
| OpenAI is reportedly developing AI web search to compete with Google 🟢 | OpenAI is reportedly developing an AI web search capability, potentially to compete with Google, and may incorporate this into a new service or an improved ChatGPT that utilizes Bing for web-based information summarization. | Google 🔍, Microsoft 🪟, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-02-19 |
| V-JEPA: The next step toward advanced machine intelligence 🟢 | Yann LeCun proposes a machine learning paradigm, V-JEPA, to enable systems to build internal world models and learn intuitively like a human. Unlike conventional methods, V-JEPA employs a non-generative technique for video understanding, prioritizing abstract interpretation over detailed reproduction. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 | 2024-02-19 |
| GPU cloud company Together AI to raise $100m 🟢 | Together AI, a GPU cloud company specializing in open-source AI tools and Nvidia server chip access, is nearing a $100 million funding round led by Salesforce Ventures, potentially elevating its valuation to $1 billion. | Funding 💰, NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ | 2024-02-19 |
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| Bard becomes Gemini: Try Ultra 1.0 and a new mobile app today 🟢 | Google has launched Gemini Advanced, a new AI-powered digital assistant feature within Google One AI Premium, priced at $19.99 per month after a two-month free trial. Gemini is designed to enhance productivity for Android and iOS users by integrating with daily tasks, offering support through an app, Google Assistant, or voice commands. | Google Gemini 🌌, Google 🔍 | 2024-02-12 |
| OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman is chasing trillions of dollars as investments to disrupt AI, chip industries 🟢 | Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is actively seeking to secure $5–7 trillion in funding to expand the semiconductor industry to support AI development. This investment aims to address GPU shortages and foster the growth of both AI and artificial general intelligence. Altman is engaging with various stakeholders, including government officials from the UAE and the US, investors, and chip manufacturers, in his efforts to build a robust global chip-making infrastructure that meets the increasing demands and energy requirements of AI facilities. | Funding 💰, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-02-12 |
| Deepfake ‘face swap’ attacks surged 704% last year, study finds 🔴 | Deepfake technology advancements have resulted in a significant rise in ‘face swap’ attacks, with a 704% increase in the second half of the year, driven by accessible GenAI tools such as SwapFace and DeepFaceLive. These tools enhance the ability to produce undetectable deepfakes, facilitating anonymity and contributing to a spike in deepfake-enabled crimes, including a notable financial scam in Hong Kong. | AI safety 🔐, AI for images 🖼️, AI regulation 📜, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 | 2024-02-12 |
| Labeling AI-Generated Images on Facebook, Instagram and Threads 🟢 | Meta is implementing “Imagined with AI” labels for AI-generated content on Facebook and Instagram for greater transparency. While AI image labeling is available, Meta is developing detection for audio/video content and requires user disclosure until standards are established. Additionally, measures are being taken to ensure these transparency labels cannot be removed. | AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Meta ♾ | 2024-02-12 |
| OpenAI is adding new watermarks to DALL-E 3 🟢 | OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 now features watermarking to distinguish AI-generated images from those created by humans, enhancing transparency in the field. | AI and copyright ©️, AI for images 🖼️, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-02-12 |
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| Introducing Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding 🟢 🟢 | Meta has launched Code Llama 70B, a coding AI model comparable to GPT4, in three variations: the base model, a Python-specific version, and an ‘Instruct’ version for interpreting natural language commands. All editions are free for both research and commercial applications. | AI for coding 👨💻, Meta ♾ | 2024-02-05 |
| Google’s Gemini Pro Beats GPT-4 🟢 | Google’s Gemini Pro ranks just below GPT4 Turbo and ahead of GPT4 in the ChatBot Arena leaderboard, a platform that uses an Elo ranking system based on 200,000+ human votes to assess LLM performance. Speculations about Meta’s upcoming Llama 3 and a potential Q2 release of OpenAI’s GPT-5 are stirring anticipation in the AI sector. | Google Gemini 🌌, Google 🔍, ChatGPT 💬, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, GPT-5 🔮, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-02-05 |
| Mistral Confirms New Open Source AI Model Nearing GPT-4 Performance 🟢 | Mistral has recently confirmed that the “miqu-1–70b” Large Language Model, released on HuggingFace and exhibiting performance close to that of GPT-4, is a leaked quantized version of their technology. | Hugging Face 🤗, AI and copyright ©️, Mistral 🌬️, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀 | 2024-02-05 |
| Sam Altman Says GPT-5 Will Be ‘Okay’ 🟢 | OpenAI CEO Sam Altman adopts a cautious tone when discussing AI, recently describing the anticipated GPT-5 as merely “okay” at Davos. This balanced approach suggests a strategic shift towards tempered communication. | GPT-5 🔮, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-02-05 |
| Hugging Face launches open source AI assistant maker to rival OpenAI’s custom GPTs 🟢 | Hugging Face has introduced free, customizable Chat Assistants on its Hugging Chat platform, presenting an open-source alternative to OpenAI’s GPT services. This initiative offers developers and AI enthusiasts cost-free access to various large language models, including Mistral’s Mixtral and Meta’s Llama 2. | Hugging Face 🤗, Mistral 🌬️, LLaMA 🦙, Meta ♾, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-02-05 |
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| OpenAI releases new embedding models and API updates 🟢 | OpenAI has announced updates to their AI model suite, including the launch of more efficient embedding models and cost-reduced versions of GPT-3.5 Turbo and a new GPT-4 Turbo model. The “text-embedding-3-large” leads with a 64.6% MTEB score at $0.00013 per 1k tokens, while the “text-embedding-3-small” offers improved performance over its predecessor at a fivefold cost reduction. Additionally, the “gpt-3.5-turbo-0125” is now 50% cheaper, priced at $0.0005 per 1k tokens, and a new “gpt-4–0125-preview” model has been introduced. | Model release 🎉, GPT-3, GPT-3.5, and GPT-3.5 turbo 💡, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-01-29 |
| Voice cloning startup ElevenLabs lands $80M, achieves unicorn status 🟢 | ElevenLabs has achieved unicorn status after securing an $80 million Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz, raising their total funds to $101 million. Founded by Piotr Dabkowski and CEO Mati Staniszewski, the company specializes in realistic voice synthesis through a web app, targeting applications in audiobooks, gaming, and screen dubbing within the expanding audio media market. | Text-to-speech 📢, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Funding 💰 | 2024-01-29 |
| OpenAI’s Sam Altman Is Raising Money to Set Up AI Chip Factories 🟢 | OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is actively seeking investment, potentially over $8 billion, from entities including G42 and SoftBank to establish AI chip factories aimed at meeting the surging demand for specialized processors in the growing AI industry. | Funding 💰, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-01-29 |
| Hugging Face and Google partner for open AI collaboration 🟢 | Hugging Face has partnered with Google Cloud, providing users with access to enhanced AI models and integration with Google Cloud services like GKE and Vertex AI, utilizing Google TPUs and NVIDIA H100 GPUs. | Hugging Face 🤗, NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, Google 🔍 | 2024-01-29 |
| Author Admits She Used ChatGPT to Write Award-Winning Novel 🔴 | Japanese author Rie Kudan disclosed that she utilized ChatGPT to generate 5% of her Akutagawa Prize- winning novel, “The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy,” sparking debates in the literary community over the ethical use of AI in creative processes. | AI and copyright ©️, ChatGPT 💬 | 2024-01-29 |
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| AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry 🟢 | AlphaGeometry, an AI developed by DeepMind, has demonstrated human Olympiad-level proficiency in geometry by solving 25 out of 30 problems within competition timeframes. Utilizing a hybrid approach that incorporates pattern recognition and formal logic, it emulates human problem-solving methods, effectively combining intuitive with analytical thinking. | DeepMind 🧩 | 2024-01-22 |
| Mark Zuckerberg indicates Meta is spending billions of dollars on Nvidia AI chips 🟢 | Meta plans a significant investment in AI research by integrating 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs by 2024. Given their high cost — estimated between $25K-$30K — this investment underlines Meta’s commitment to scaling up computing power. Overall, Meta’s strategy to amass the computational equivalent of 600K H100 GPUs highlights a substantial push to enhance its AI capabilities. | NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, Meta ♾ | 2024-01-22 |
| Vision Mamba: Efficient Visual Representation Learning with Bidirectional State Space Model 🟢 | Vision Mamba (Vim) is a new vision backbone that replaces standard self-attention mechanisms with bidirectional Mamba blocks to enhance image processing by incorporating positional information. Vim has demonstrated superior performance on standard benchmarks like ImageNet, COCO, and ADE20k, surpassing existing models such as Vision Transformers (DeiT). | AI for images 🖼️ | 2024-01-22 |
| Stable Code 3B: Coding on the Edge 🟢 | Stable AI has introduced Stable Code 3B, an advanced language model for coding that outperforms the larger CodeLLaMA 7b. It offers a seamless experience on standard laptops without the need for a GPU. Notable improvements include a ‘Fill in the Middle’ feature, better context handling with support for sequences up to 16,384 tokens, and customizable contexts extending to 100,000 tokens, thanks to training on a wide variety of language and software datasets. | AI for coding 👨💻, Stability AI ⚖️ | 2024-01-22 |
| Google said to use special pool of stock comp to keep top AI researchers 🟢 | Google has implemented a strategy using substantial stock compensation to retain premier AI talent, highlighting the high stakes in maintaining a skilled workforce to stay ahead in the dynamic AI sector. | Google 🔍 | 2024-01-22 |
| Lazy use of AI leads to Amazon products called “I cannot fulfill that request” 🔴 | E-commerce platforms, including Amazon, are experiencing issues with AI-generated content, leading to product listings with erroneous titles like “I cannot fulfill that request.” The AI’s mistakes in product description generation are indicative of broader challenges in online listing management. | Amazon 🌳 | 2024-01-22 |
| New study confirms the obvious, search results are only getting worse 🔴 | A study analyzing search results from Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo indicates a declining quality in web searches, with a preference for SEO-heavy, affiliate-focused content over in-depth information. This trend presents challenges for search engines attempting to distinguish valuable content from SEO manipulation. The emergence of generative AI is expected to exacerbate these issues. | 2024-01-22 | |
| Microsoft launches Copilot Pro for $20 per month per user 🟢 | Microsoft has unveiled Copilot Pro, a premium productivity-enhancing tool for Microsoft 365 apps, priced at $20 per user/month. It grants priority access to advanced AI, including GPT-4 Turbo for expedited responses. | Microsoft 🪟, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀 | 2024-01-22 |
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| OpenAI introduces the GPT Store 🟢 | OpenAI has launched a GPT store, showcasing applications such as AllTrails for trail recommendations, Consensus for academic research, Khan Academy for coding education, Canva for design creation, a tool for book recommendations, and CK-12 for math and science tutoring. | OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-01-15 |
| AI makes new material that could dramatically change how batteries work 🟢 | Microsoft AI, utilizing Azure Quantum Elements, successfully identified a novel material after screening 32 million types, which resulted in a prototype lithium battery with a 70% reduction in lithium usage. | Microsoft 🪟 | 2024-01-15 |
| LangChain v0.1.0 🟢 | LangChain has released its first stable and backward-compatible version, v0.1.0. This release brings better observability and debugging capabilities, including performance tracking and insight tools, and introduces a new versioning system for clear API and feature updates. | LangChain and LlamaIndex 🔗, Model release 🎉 | 2024-01-15 |
| OpenAI and journalism 🔴 | OpenAI is defending against a lawsuit from The New York Times, which terminated a potential partnership and sued on December 27 over concerns of content regurgitation by OpenAI’s ChatGPT. OpenAI contends that instances of AI mimicking old articles are not representative of typical usage and may result from targeted prompting to replicate such content, implying possible intentional misuse. | AI and copyright ©️, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-01-15 |
| Duolingo lays off contractors as it starts relying more on AI 🔴 | Duolingo is leveraging AI to enhance content production and user experience, leading to a 10% reduction in its contractor workforce as part of its shift toward automated efficiency. CEO Luis von Ahn highlighted AI’s significance in expediting script generation and enriching the app with AI-generated voices. | Text-to-speech 📢 | 2024-01-15 |
| YouTube cracks down on AI content that ‘realistically simulates’ deceased children or victims of crimes 🟢 | YouTube has instituted a ban on AI-generated content that features the voices of deceased minors or crime victims, in a move to protect their dignity. Channels found posting such content will face a temporary posting ban on the first offense, escalating to channel removal after three strikes, effective as of January 16. Creators must now openly disclose the use of AI in their content. | AI safety 🔐, AI and copyright ©️, AI regulation 📜 | 2024-01-15 |
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| OpenAI’s news publisher deals reportedly top out at $5 million a year 🟢 | OpenAI is forging licensing agreements with news publishers, committing between $1 million and $5 million annually to use their stories for training AI models. This move, part of a broader trend where AI companies invest in copyrighted content for model enhancement, distinguishes OpenAI from providers of free open-source data like LAION. | AI and copyright ©️, AI datasets 📊, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-01-08 |
| Microsoft changes keyboard layout for the first time in nearly three decades to add AI button 🟢 | Microsoft has introduced a significant update to the traditional PC keyboard by incorporating a dedicated AI button to activate the Copilot chatbot, showcasing their commitment to embedding generative AI technology into their products. | Microsoft 🪟 | 2024-01-08 |
| AI-powered search engine Perplexity AI, now valued at $520M, raises $73.6M 🟢 | Perplexity AI has secured $73.6M in funding, elevating its valuation to $520M, as it positions itself in the competitive AI search market with its chatbot-like interface. Despite showing promise with an annual recurring revenue of $5-$10M, the long-term financial viability of Perplexity AI’s business model, especially considering the substantial costs of operating and training generative AI models, remains under evaluation. | Funding 💰 | 2024-01-08 |
| Nikon, Sony and Canon fight AI fakes with new camera tech 🟢 | Nikon, Sony Group, and Canon are introducing new camera technologies to ensure image integrity in response to the proliferation of AI-generated content. Nikon’s mirrorless cameras will incorporate authentication features for photojournalists, embedding digital signatures that include date, time, and location. | AI and copyright ©️, AI for images 🖼️ | 2024-01-08 |
| Cristiano Amon: generative AI is ‘evolving very, very fast’ into mobile devices 🟢 | Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon envisions generative AI rapidly integrating into mobiles, PCs, and cars, aiming to offer enriched user experiences by complementing cloud AI. Leveraging Qualcomm’s efficient AI processors, these advancements are set to facilitate real-time AI applications on battery- operated devices, proactively meeting user needs. | AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ | 2024-01-08 |
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| The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement 🔴 | The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming their AI models, like ChatGPT and Copilot, infringe on copyrights by using NYT’s content, posing risks to its revenue and journalism’s sustainability. OpenAI is seeking respectful resolution, while Microsoft hasn’t responded. | AI and copyright ©️, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-01-02 |
| AI companies would be required to disclose copyrighted training data under new bill 🟢 | A proposed bill mandates AI companies to divulge copyrighted training data to foster transparency, aligning with global data privacy norms. The industry faces the challenge of reconciling competitive practices with these new transparency requirements. | AI and copyright ©️, AI datasets 📊, AI regulation 📜 | 2024-01-02 |
| Anthropic, the OpenAI rival, is in talks to raise $750 million in funding at an $18.4 billion valuation 🟢 | Anthropic, an AI startup primarily staffed by ex-OpenAI researchers, is in talks to secure $750 million in funding, eyeing a valuation of $18.4 billion. The company has developed Claude 2, a chatbot that can summarize up to 75,000 words, surpassing the summarization capabilities of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. | Funding 💰, Claude 🖋️, Anthropic 🌐, OpenAI 🌟 | 2024-01-02 |
| GPT and other AI models can’t analyze an SEC filing, researchers find 🔴 | Patronus AI notes a 79% accuracy issue with LLMs like GPT-4-Turbo in handling SEC filings, leading to errors and unresponsiveness. To enhance financial AI, they created FinanceBench, a testing set from SEC filings to boost AI performance in the financial sector. | AI datasets 📊, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀 | 2024-01-02 |
| Harvey Raises $80M Series B 🟢 | Harvey, an AI platform designed for legal professionals, has successfully raised $80 million in Series B funding. This influx elevates Harvey’s total funding to above $100 million and its valuation to $715 million. | Funding 💰 | 2024-01-02 |
| Midjourney v6 release 🟢 | The latest update for Midjourney, version 6, introduces features such as enhanced prompt accuracy and length, increased coherence, better image prompting, and an improved remix mode. Additionally, a new feature for minor text drawing has been added, which can be utilized by including text within quotations. | Midjourney 🛤️, Model release 🎉 | 2024-01-02 |
| AI-created “virtual influencers” are stealing business from humans 🔴 | Virtual influencers are becoming popular in marketing for their controlled branding and predictability. Despite ethical and transparency concerns, including issues of sexualization similar to human influencers, their distinct narratives drive brand partnerships, as the industry navigates consumer trust and ethical standards. | AI regulation 📜 | 2024-01-02 |
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| DeepMind AI outdoes human mathematicians on unsolved problem 🟢 | DeepMind’s FunSearch AI has surpassed human mathematicians by solving a previously unsolved math problem related to combinatorics. FunSearch utilizes large language models to generate effective solutions and constantly improves through testing and feedback. | DeepMind 🧩 | 2023-12-19 |
| Phi-2: The surprising power of small language models 🟢 | Microsoft has released Phi-2, a language model with 2.7 billion parameters that outperforms models up to 25 times its size. Phi-2 achieves remarkable reasoning and language understanding abilities using high-quality data and synthetic datasets. It outperforms larger models on challenging benchmarks, especially in tasks like coding and math. | AI for coding 👨💻, Model release 🎉, Microsoft 🪟 | 2023-12-19 |
| Google releases the Gemini Pro API 🟢 | Google has launched the Gemini Pro API, allowing developers and enterprises in the AI field to experiment and build upon the specially designed Gemini Pro version for their specific use-cases. | Google Gemini 🌌, Google 🔍 | 2023-12-19 |
| Introducing gigaGPT: GPT-3 sized models in 565 lines of code 🟢 | Cerebras has released gigaGPT, a model implementation similar to nanoGPT but with over 100 billion parameters. By leveraging Cerebras hardware and different optimizers, gigaGPT overcomes the limitations of GPU memory and the need for complex scaling frameworks, offering a simplified approach for training large models. | Model release 🎉, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, GPT-3, GPT-3.5, and GPT-3.5 turbo 💡 | 2023-12-19 |
| Axel Springer and OpenAI partner to deepen beneficial use of AI in journalism 🟢 | Axel Springer and OpenAI are partnering to enrich ChatGPT with up-to-date news summaries from prominent media outlets. This collaboration benefits both parties by providing transparent links to full articles and supporting Axel Springer’s AI projects that rely on OpenAI’s technology. | ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-12-19 |
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| Google introduces Gemini 🟢 | Google has introduced Gemini, a new model that comes in three sizes: Ultra, Pro, and Nano. Gemini is natively multimodal and outperforms other models in various academic benchmarks. Notably, Gemini Ultra achieves a groundbreaking score on a multitask language understanding test and excels in image benchmarks without relying on OCR systems. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Google Gemini 🌌, Google 🔍 | 2023-12-11 |
| Mistral AI has released Mixtral 8x7B, an open-source sparse mixture-of-experts model 🟢 | Mistral AI has introduced Mixtral 8x7B, an open-source, sparse mixture-of-experts model with 45B parameters. It outperforms LLaMA 2 70B and GPT-3.5 in NLP benchmarks, while also providing 6x faster inference speed. The model selectively uses only 12B parameters per inference, keeping operational costs equivalent to a 12B model. The Mixtral model is accessible through Mistral’s beta API and dev platform. | Mixture-of-Experts 🤝, Model release 🎉, Mistral 🌬️, GPT-3, GPT-3.5, and GPT-3.5 turbo 💡 | 2023-12-11 |
| Europe Puts Stake in the Ground With First Pact to Regulate AI 🟢 | Europe’s AI Act aims to address bias, privacy concerns, and undue influence in AI technology. It covers all AI areas, including surveillance and critical infrastructure, with severe penalties for non-compliance. Despite some details needing clarification, progress has been made in setting transparency rules for generative AI developers. | AI regulation 📜 | 2023-12-11 |
| Mistral is in discussions to raise a major round at a valuation of at least $2 billion 🟢 | Mistral, an AI startup aiming to rival OpenAI, is in talks for a significant funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst. This round could value the company at over $2 billion and propel it to unicorn status in just six months. Mistral’s open-source models have gained attention, fueling excitement for generative AI, and investors are eagerly vying for the opportunity to support the “next OpenAI”. | Funding 💰, Mistral 🌬️, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-12-11 |
| AI Alliance Launches 🟢 | IBM and Meta have formed the AI Alliance with more than 50 founding members and collaborators. This alliance aims to promote AI projects, establish benchmarks, enhance open models, and ensure secure and beneficial AI development. Its goals include supporting global AI skills building, conducting research, and educating the public about AI’s advantages and potential risks. | AI safety 🔐, AI regulation 📜, Meta ♾ | 2023-12-11 |
| Elon Musk’s AI startup — X.AI — files to raise $1 billion in fresh capital 🟢 | Elon Musk’s AI startup X.AI is aiming to raise $1 billion in funding. Despite operating independently, X.AI will collaborate with other companies in Musk’s portfolio, such as Tesla and SpaceX. The team consists of experienced professionals from esteemed agencies like DeepMind and OpenAI, having worked on noteworthy projects like AlphaCode and GPT chatbots. | Funding 💰, DeepMind 🧩, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-12-11 |
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| Millions of new materials discovered with deep learning 🟢 | DeepMind’s GNoME, powered by a graph neural network (GNN), has successfully predicted the stability of thousands of new materials, including 736 structures created by external researchers. With input connections inspired by known crystal structures and chemical formulas, GNoME is especially useful for exploring new crystalline materials. | DeepMind 🧩 | 2023-12-04 |
| Stability AI Explores Sale as Investor Urges CEO to Resign 🔴 | Stability AI, a British AI startup, is contemplating a sale in response to investor pressure regarding its financial stability and performance. Investor Coatue has advised the CEO to make necessary changes to improve the company’s economic standing. | Stability AI ⚖️, Funding 💰 | 2023-12-04 |
| ChatGPT’s training data can be exposed via a “divergence attack” 🔴 | A recent study on language models, including ChatGPT, reveals their unexpected ability to recall and regurgitate specific training data. Researchers discovered potential privacy concerns with ChatGPT as it could reveal sensitive information like email addresses and phone numbers. | AI safety 🔐, AI datasets 📊, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-12-04 |
| OpenAI’s GPT store delayed to next year 🔴 | OpenAI’s GPT store launch has been postponed to next year. The GPT store aims to be a marketplace for users to sell and share their own GPT creations, with OpenAI offering payment based on usage. | OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-12-04 |
| Pika Wows in Debut as AI Video Generator Takes Aim at Tech Giants 🟢 | Pika Labs has released Pika 1.0, an impressive AI video generation tool. It has advanced features like Text-to-Video and Image-to-Video conversion. The company has also raised $55 million in funding. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Funding 💰 | 2023-12-04 |
| Introducing SDXL Turbo: A Real-Time Text-to-Image Generation Model 🟢 | Stability AI introduces SDXL Turbo, a new text-to-image model that uses Adversarial Diffusion Distillation (ADD) to generate high-quality images rapidly and in a single step. It enables the quick and precise creation of 512 x 512 images in just over 200 milliseconds. | AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Stable Diffusion 🎨, Stability AI ⚖️ | 2023-12-04 |
| $10mn AI Mathematical Olympiad Prize Launches 🟢 | A $10mn prize pool has been announced to incentivize the development of AI models capable of achieving a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). The grand prize of $5mn will be awarded to the first publicly-shared AI model to perform at a gold medal standard in an approved competition. | Funding 💰 | 2023-12-04 |
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| OpenAI brings Sam Altman back as CEO less than a week after he was fired by board 🟢 | In response to pushback from investors and employees, OpenAI has reinstated Sam Altman as CEO. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella supports the reshuffle, emphasizing the significance of stability and effective governance for OpenAI’s continued success in fulfilling its mission. | Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-11-27 |
| Introducing Claude 2.1 🟢 | Anthropic has released version 2.1 of Claude, which includes a 200k tokens context window and reduces hallucination rates by 2x. This upgrade allows users to send lengthy documents and improves accuracy, enhancing trust and reliability in the system. | Claude 🖋️, Anthropic 🌐 | 2023-11-27 |
| Introducing Stable Video Diffusion — Stability AI 🟢 | Stability AI has introduced Stable Video Diffusion, a powerful foundation model for generative video. This model has the potential to generate customizable frames at varying frame rates and is publicly accessible on GitHub and Hugging Face for research purposes. | Hugging Face 🤗, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Stability AI ⚖️ | 2023-11-27 |
| OpenAI saga: What is Q-Star? The ‘humanity-threatening’ AI that could be a reason behind Sam Altman’s removal 🟢 | OpenAI insiders have unveiled Q-Star (Q*), a highly promising AI model that could revolutionize the field by potentially surpassing humans in economically valuable tasks. | AI safety 🔐, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-11-27 |
| Off/Script launches an app to create and buy AI-designed fashion 🟢 | Off/Script has launched a mobile app that allows users in the AI field to design, share, and potentially sell AI-generated fashion and product concepts. The platform uses voting to fund and produce the top-ranked ideas, working with a large network of manufacturers to bring these concepts to life. | AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Funding 💰 | 2023-11-27 |
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| Sam Altman and Greg Brockman will be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team 🟢 | Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and their colleagues will be leading a new AI research team at Microsoft, focusing on advanced AI development with access to abundant resources. | Microsoft 🪟 | 2023-11-20 |
| Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI 🔴 | OpenAI undergoes a significant leadership change as CEO Sam Altman is fired and replaced by Mira Murati as the interim CEO. Greg Brockman steps down as board chairman. Despite the shake-up, Microsoft reaffirms its partnership with OpenAI. Remaining board members include Ilya Sutskever, Tasha McCauley, Adam D’Angelo, and Helen Toner. | Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-11-20 |
| Google delays launch of AI model Gemini, a potential rival to OpenAI’s GPT-4 🔴 | Google has announced a delay in launching its Gemini large language model, which is seen as a potential competitor to Microsoft-backed OpenAI. This development is significant in the context of the fiercely competitive AI industry, especially in the generative AI space. | Google Gemini 🌌, Google 🔍, Microsoft 🪟, ChatGPT 💬, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-11-20 |
| GraphCast: AI model for faster and more accurate global weather forecasting 🟢 | DeepMind has developed GraphCast, an advanced AI system that uses Graph Neural Networks to accurately and quickly predict global weather up to 10 days in just a minute. It outperforms the industry-standard HRES system, can track cyclones and atmospheric rivers, and identify extreme temperatures. | DeepMind 🧩 | 2023-11-20 |
| The Escalating AI Arm Race: Inside the High-Stakes Talent Wars with OpenAI and Google 🟢 | OpenAI and Google are engaged in a fierce competition to secure AI leadership, with OpenAI offering attractive compensation deals, including $5–10 million per year and substantial stock gains, to lure top AI experts from Google. | Google 🔍, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-11-20 |
| Kyutai is a French AI research lab with a $330 million budget that will make everything open source 🟢 | Paris-based AI research lab, Kyutai, secures $330 million in funding to advance the development of artificial general intelligence. With these resources, Kyutai plans to conduct comprehensive research led by PhD students, postdocs, and researchers. Additionally, the lab prioritizes transparency in AI by openly sharing their models, source code, and data. | Funding 💰, Model release 🎉, AI datasets 📊 | 2023-11-20 |
| Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team 🔴 | Meta is reportedly repositioning its focus to generative AI, leading to the disbandment of its Responsible AI (RAI) team. The RAI team will merge with Meta’s generative AI product team, while others will support Meta’s AI infrastructure. Despite this change, Meta remains committed to safe and responsible AI, according to a representative. | AI safety 🔐, Meta ♾ | 2023-11-20 |
| Who is Mira Murati, OpenAI’s new interim CEO? 🟢 | Sam Altman is stepping down as CEO of OpenAI, and Mira Murati is taking over as interim CEO. Murati has a strong background in tech, engineering, and AI, with experience at companies like Goldman Sachs, Zodiac Aerospace, and Tesla. She was involved in Tesla’s AI-enabled Autopilot and played a key role in developing motion sensors for PCs at Leap Motion. | OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-11-20 |
| DeepMind introduces Lyria, a model for music generation 🟢 | Google DeepMind’s AI music model, Lyria, is transforming the music creation process by producing exceptional quality music with customizable vocals. The ‘Dream Track’ experiment on YouTube enables artists to connect with fans through AI-generated voice and music, while AI tools enhance the creative journey for professionals in the music industry. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, DeepMind 🧩, Google 🔍 | 2023-11-20 |
| Nvidia unveils H200, its newest high-end chip for training AI models 🟢 | Nvidia introduces the H200 GPU, an upgraded version with 141GB of high-bandwidth memory. This enhancement helps with the inference process in training large AI models. Set to be released in Q2 2024, the H200 will compete with AMD’s MI300X GPU, which also offers increased memory capacity for handling big models. | NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ | 2023-11-20 |
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| Announcements from OpenAI DevDay 🟢 | OpenAI has introduced several new and improved models and APIs, including GPT-4 Turbo with a larger context window and lower prices, the ability to process images in the Chat Completions API, fine- tuning options for GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 Turbo, and the availability of DALL·E 3 via API. They have also introduced features like JSON mode, improved instruction following, and parallel function calling. Additionally, there are new options for text-to-speech and the creation of “GPT assistants.” OpenAI has also released the Whisper large-v3 model for automatic speech recognition. | Whisper 🤫, Text-to-speech 📢, Speech-to-text 🎤, AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, GPT-3, GPT-3.5, and GPT-3.5 turbo 💡, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-11-13 |
| NVIDIA makes Pandas much faster leveraging GPUs 🟢 | NVIDIA has significantly enhanced the Pandas library, achieving up to 150 times faster performance by capitalizing on GPUs. With the new cudf.pandas module, operations are seamlessly executed on either the GPU or CPU, providing automatic synchronization and efficient switching between the two. | NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ | 2023-11-13 |
| Elon Musk’s Neuralink has thousands of people lined up for a brain chip implant 🟢 | Elon Musk’s Neuralink is gaining significant interest, as thousands of people in the artificial intelligence field express enthusiasm for receiving a brain chip implant. The chip aims to help those with neurological disorders control devices and communicate using their brain. With approval for human trials and thousands lining up for the opportunity, the potential benefits of this brain-computer interface range from gaming to mind-based communication. | AI in healthcare 🏥, Neuralink 🧠 | 2023-11-13 |
| New AWS service lets customers rent Nvidia GPUs for quick AI projects 🟢 🟢 | AWS has introduced Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Capacity Blocks for ML, enabling AI practitioners to reserve Nvidia GPUs for specific time periods. This new service grants access to Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU instances, allowing users to reserve instances for up to 14 days ahead of time, with shutdowns scheduled automatically. | Amazon 🌳, NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ | 2023-11-13 |
| Copilot transforms GitHub into the AI-powered developer platform 🟢 | GitHub is implementing AI technology through Copilot and Copilot Chat, which aim to revolutionize software development by providing code understanding, suggestions, security fixes, and improved developer experiences. Copilot Chat will be powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 model and will be available starting from December 2023. | AI for coding 👨💻, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-11-13 |
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| ChatGPT Plus members can upload and analyze files in the latest beta 🟢 | OpenAI’s latest beta version of ChatGPT Plus allows users in the AI field to upload files for thorough analysis, enhancing the platform with file analysis capabilities. | ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-11-06 |
| RedPajama-Data-v2: an Open Dataset with 30 Trillion Tokens for Training Large Language Models 🟢 | RedPajama-Data-V2 is a cleaned dataset consisting of 30 trillion tokens from 84 CommonCrawl dumps in five major languages. It includes pre-computed quality annotations for filtering and weighting purposes and is now available for research and commercial use. This dataset is the largest public training dataset for language model research. | AI datasets 📊 | 2023-11-06 |
| Elon Musk’s first AI product is a chatbot named Grok 🟢 | Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has launched its first chatbot, Grok, which will be available to X Premium+ subscribers. The Grok team includes AI specialists from DeepMind, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Tesla. Musk highlights that Grok’s ability to access real-time information on the X platform gives it an edge over other chatbots. | Grok 🐦, DeepMind 🧩, Google 🔍, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-11-06 |
| New AWS service lets customers rent Nvidia GPUs for quick AI projects 🟢 🟢 | AWS launches Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Capacity Blocks for ML, allowing customers to rent Nvidia GPUs for specific time frames. | Amazon 🌳, NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ | 2023-11-06 |
| A glimpse of the next generation of AlphaFold 🟢 | AlphaFold, an advanced AI model, accurately predicts molecules in the Protein Data Bank, improving understanding of biomolecules and supporting research in complex protein structures. It has potential applications in cancer drug discovery, vaccine development, and pollution reduction | AI in healthcare 🏥, DeepMind 🧩 | 2023-11-06 |
| AI’s proxy war heats up as Google reportedly backs Anthropic with $2B 🟢 | Google has reportedly invested $2 billion in AI company Anthropic, joining Microsoft and Amazon who have also made substantial investments in AI firms. This demonstrates a developing competition among large companies to secure a position in the AI industry. | Funding 💰, Anthropic 🌐, Google 🔍, Microsoft 🪟 | 2023-11-06 |
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| AI search startup Perplexity raises new funding at $500 million valuation led by IVP 🟢 | Perplexity, an emerging AI startup, secures $500M in funding from IVP and Google’s Jeff Dean, with a valuation of $500M. The generative AI company aims to disrupt Google’s dominance in online search and has achieved a remarkable ARR of $3M in just one year. | Funding 💰, Google 🔍 | 2023-10-30 |
| Microsoft has over a million paying Github Copilot users 🟢 | Microsoft’s AI-powered tools, such as GitHub Copilot and Bing search engine integrated with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, have been met with widespread success. With a significant increase in paid users and organizations adopting these tools, Microsoft’s intelligent cloud computing has exceeded expectations. | AI for coding 👨💻, Microsoft 🪟 | 2023-10-30 |
| Jina AI Launches World’s First Open-Source 8K Text Embedding, Rivaling OpenAI 🟢 | Jina AI introduces jina-embeddings-v2, an open-source embedding model that supports 8K context length. It matches OpenAI’s 8K model in key areas like Classification Average, Reranking Average, Retrieval Average, and Summarization Average in the MTEB leaderboard. | Model release 🎉, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-10-30 |
| This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI 🔴 | Nightshade, a new data poisoning technique, has been developed to protect artists’ work from unauthorized use in AI training. However, experts are concerned that it could also be exploited to harm AI models like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion by making their outputs worse. | AI and copyright ©️, AI datasets 📊, AI for images 🖼️, Stable Diffusion 🎨, Stability AI ⚖️ | 2023-10-30 |
| Google’s new Image and Source checker 🟢 | Google has introduced new image and source verification tools that utilize AI to detect manipulated visuals and summarize credible sources. This aims to enhance transparency and provide faster access to background information, benefiting journalists investigating questionable images. | AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Google Gemini 🌌, Google 🔍 | 2023-10-30 |
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| After ChatGPT disruption, Stack Overflow lays off 28 percent of staff 🔴 | Stack Overflow is letting go of 28% of its employees due to advancements in AI technology like ChatGPT. Chatbots like ChatGPT provide efficient coding assistance and heavily rely on content from sites like Stack Overflow. However, an important question arises regarding the sustainability of chatbots that gather data without benefiting their sources. | AI and copyright ©️, AI for coding 👨💻, ChatGPT 💬 | 2023-10-23 |
| Fuyu-8B: A Multimodal Architecture for AI Agents 🟢 | Adept has introduced Fuyu-8B, a powerful open-source vision-language model designed for comprehending and responding to questions regarding images, charts, diagrams, and documents. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, AI for images 🖼️ | 2023-10-23 |
| AI Could Help Brain Surgeons Diagnose Tumors in Real Time 🟢 | “Sturgeon” is an AI model utilizing nanopore sequencing to quickly and precisely diagnose brain tumors, revolutionizing medical treatment. By mimicking human brain activity and employing algorithms, Sturgeon can recognize patterns and provide accurate diagnoses within 40 minutes. | AI in healthcare 🏥 | 2023-10-23 |
| OpenAI halted the development of the Arrakis model 🔴 | OpenAI’s plans for developing the AI model Arrakis to reduce compute expenses for AI applications like ChatGPT have been halted. Despite this setback, OpenAI’s growth momentum continues, with projected annual revenue of $1.3 billion. However, they may face challenges with Google’s upcoming AI model Gemini and scrutiny at an AI safety summit. | Google Gemini 🌌, OpenAI 🌟, ChatGPT 💬, AI safety 🔐 | 2023-10-23 |
| Baidu to integrate ERNIE 4.0, which ‘rivals’ GPT-4, into Search 🟢 | Baidu unveils ERNIE 4.0, a potential competitor to OpenAI’s GPT-4, with plans to transform their search engine responses by offering personalized and flexible answers instead of traditional links and results. The exact launch date is yet to be revealed. | GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-10-23 |
| OpenAI has quietly changed its ‘core values’ 🟢 | OpenAI has recently updated its core values, with a focus on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The company now prioritizes AGI as its main aim, making it the top value. The revised values also include being intense and scrappy, scaling, creating products people love, and fostering team spirit. | OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-10-23 |
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| ChatGPT’s mobile app hit record $4.58M in revenue last month, but growth is slowing 🔴 | In September, ChatGPT’s mobile app experienced record downloads and revenue globally, with 15.6 million downloads and $4.6 million in revenue. However, the growth rate has decreased from over 30% to 20%, suggesting possible market saturation for the $19.99 per month ChatGPT+ subscription. | ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-10-16 |
| AI Just Deciphered an Ancient Herculaneum Scroll Without Unrolling It 🟢 | A 21-year-old student from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln used AI to decipher Greek letters from an unopened scroll discovered after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. By utilizing a machine learning algorithm, the student successfully identified Greek characters like “porphyras” meaning purple and won the Vesuvius Challenge. | AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 | 2023-10-16 |
| Google to defend generative AI users from copyright claims 🟢 | Google has joined other tech giants in promising to protect users who utilize generative AI systems from intellectual property infringement claims. While they offer indemnity for software such as Vertex AI and Duet AI, intentional manipulation of content for copyright infringement is not covered. | AI and copyright ©️, AI regulation 📜, Google Gemini 🌌 | 2023-10-16 |
| Announcing Replit AI for All 🟢 | Replit has made AI-based code completion and assistance accessible to all developers, with over 23 million users now able to benefit from Replit AI. Additionally, Replit has released replit-code-v1.5–3b, a cutting-edge 3B LLM for enhanced code completion. | AI for coding 👨💻 | 2023-10-16 |
| Microsoft is reportedly losing huge amounts of money on GitHub Copilot 🔴 | According to an anonymous source, Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot AI platform was said to be losing $20 per user per month in early 2023. The current profitability status is unknown, and Microsoft has not issued a statement yet. | AI for coding 👨💻, Microsoft 🪟 | 2023-10-16 |
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| Meta quietly unveils Llama 2 Long AI that beats GPT-3.5 Turbo and Claude 2 on some tasks 🟢 | Meta is releasing Llama 2 Long, an enhanced version of Llama 2 that underwent continual pretraining with longer training sequences and upsampled long texts. By adding 400 billion tokens and making minor changes to the Rotary Positional Embedding (RoPE), Llama 2 Long can now attend to longer information sequences and include less related information in its model’s knowledge base. | Model release 🎉, LLaMA 🦙, Meta ♾, GPT-3, GPT-3.5, and GPT-3.5 turbo 💡 | 2023-10-10 |
| Microsoft to Unveil In-House AI Chip, Reducing Reliance on NVIDIA 🔴 | Microsoft is soon launching its own AI chip called Athena, aiming to reduce reliance on NVIDIA GPUs and compete against NVIDIA’s H100 GPU for AI acceleration in data centers. | NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, Microsoft 🪟 | 2023-10-10 |
| OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips 🟢 | OpenAI is considering developing its own AI chips for ChatGPT due to a global shortage of processors for training AI models. This move could help reduce the high operating costs of ChatGPT, which currently amount to $700,000 per day. OpenAI’s decision may diverge from Microsoft, their partner, who is also working on their own AI chips. | AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, Microsoft 🪟, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-10-10 |
| Scaling GAIA-1: 9-billion parameter generative world model for autonomous driving 🟢 | GAIA-1 is a powerful 9B model designed for autonomous driving that generates synthetic data. It utilizes a video modeling approach, similar to LLMs, by predicting the next token. Trained on a substantial dataset, including 4,700 hours of London driving data, GAIA-1 is highly accurate in generating more data. | AI datasets 📊, AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Robotics 🤖 | 2023-10-10 |
| Introducing Stable LM 3B: Bringing Sustainable, High-Performance Language Models to Smart Devices 🟢 | Stability AI introduces Stable LM 3B, a high-performing language model designed for smart devices. With 3 billion parameters, it outperforms state-of-the-art 3B models and reduces operating costs and power consumption. The model enables a wider range of applications on smart devices, PCs, and edge computing. | Stability AI ⚖️, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ | 2023-10-10 |
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| ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak 🟢 | OpenAI has introduced new voice and image capabilities to their AI assistant, ChatGPT. Users can now engage in natural voice conversations and receive relevant responses. The image feature enables users to show ChatGPT images for assistance in interpretation. | Text-to-speech 📢, Speech-to-text 🎤, AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-10-02 |
| Amazon will invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic 🟢 | Amazon has made a significant $4 billion investment in Anthropic. This partnership will enable Anthropic to benefit from Amazon Web Services (AWS), specifically leveraging AWS’s Trainium and Inferentia chips to enhance model training and deployment capabilities. Additionally, Anthropic will use Amazon Bedrock to optimize Claude versions and explore finetuning options. | Amazon 🌳, Funding 💰, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, Claude 🖋️, Anthropic 🌐 | 2023-10-02 |
| Mistral 7B 🟢 | The Mistral 7B model, powered by Grouped-query attention (GQA) and Sliding Window Attention (SWA), outperforms other models in various domains while maintaining strong performance in both English and coding tasks. Its impressive benchmarks make it the best 7B model to date, enhancing inference speed and sequence handling efficiency. | Mistral 🌬️, AI for coding 👨💻 | 2023-10-02 |
| LLM Startup Embraces AMD GPUs, Says ROCm Has ‘Parity’ With Nvidia’s CUDA Platform 🟢 | A startup called Lamini is using over 100 AMD Instinct MI200 GPUs and found that AMD’s ROCm software platform rivals Nvidia’s CUDA platform. They claim that running a large language model on their platform is 10x cheaper than on Amazon Web Services. | AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, NVIDIA 🎮 | 2023-10-02 |
| OpenAI’s ChatGPT Now Searches the Web in Real Time — Again 🟢 | OpenAI has reintroduced web searching for ChatGPT, allowing users to access recent information. Important updates have been made, including compliance with robots.txt rules and user agent identification, giving websites more control. Currently available to Plus and Enterprise users, expansion plans are in progress. | ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-10-02 |
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| OpenAI announces DALL·E 3 🟢 | OpenAI is launching DALL·E 3, an improved version that excels in following instructions, requires less prompt engineering, and can communicate with ChatGPT. This integration enables users to refine prompts for DALL·E 3 by describing their ideas to ChatGPT. Starting in October, DALL·E 3 will be available to ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise customers. | AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-09-25 |
| DeepMind announces AlphaMissense, a catalogue of genetic mutations to help pinpoint the cause of diseases 🟢 | DeepMind has released AlphaMissense, a model that uses AlphaFold’s protein structure prediction to categorize missense genetic mutations as benign or malign. It surpasses human efforts by classifying 89% of 71 million variants. | AI in healthcare 🏥, DeepMind 🧩 | 2023-09-25 |
| Announcing Microsoft Copilot, your everyday AI companion 🟢 | Microsoft Copilot will provide tailored assistance based on workplace data and web context. It enhances productivity and creativity in Windows 11, Microsoft 365, Edge, and Bing, while prioritizing privacy. Additionally, Bing and Edge users will enjoy a personalized experience with OpenAI’s DALL.E 3 model, including AI shopping and image creation. | Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, AI for images 🖼️ | 2023-09-25 |
| Bard can now connect to your Google apps and services 🟢 | The new Bard Extensions feature provides integration with various Google tools, enabling AI professionals to collaborate more effectively. This includes fetching and displaying relevant information from Gmail, Docs, Drive, Maps, YouTube, Flights, and hotels, regardless of its scattered nature. | Google 🔍 | 2023-09-25 |
| How California is using AI to snuff out wildfires before they explode 🟢 | The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection is utilizing AI technology to improve wildfire detection and response. Through the Alert California program, AI scans the wilderness for anomalies like smoke, alerting officials when fires are detected. | AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 | 2023-09-25 |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Stable Audio 🟢 | London-based startup Stability AI, known for its AI model Stable Diffusion, has launched Stable Audio, an AI model that can generate high-quality commercial music with more control over synthesized audio. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Stable Diffusion 🎨, Stability AI ⚖️ | 2023-09-18 |
| Google nears release of AI software Gemini, The Information reports 🟢 | Google is close to launching Gemini, an advanced language model that will rival GPT4. It is currently in the early testing phase and offers a range of functionalities including chatbots, text summarization, and code writing assistance. | Google Gemini 🌌, Google 🔍, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, AI for coding 👨💻 | 2023-09-18 |
| Pulitzer Prize winner and others sue OpenAI 🔴 | Pulitzer-winning novelist Michael Chabon and other writers are suing OpenAI for copyright infringement, claiming that the datasets used to train ChatGPT contain copyrighted content. OpenAI argues that its language learning models are protected by “fair use,” igniting discussions on AI and copyright law in the field. | AI and copyright ©️, AI datasets 📊, AI regulation 📜, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-09-18 |
| Adobe’s Firefly generative AI models are now generally available 🟢 | Adobe has released commercially available generative AI models in their Creative Cloud, including a standalone web app called Firefly. The new “generative credits” system controls user interactions with Firefly’s AI models, with each click on ‘generate’ using one credit. | AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Model release 🎉 | 2023-09-18 |
| Roblox’s new AI chatbot will help you build virtual worlds 🟢 | Roblox’s 2023 Developers Conference introduced the Roblox Assistant, a new conversational AI tool designed to assist creators in developing more immersive virtual experiences. This tool enables creators to easily generate virtual environments and implement basic gameplay behaviors. However, it will not be accessible until the end of this year or early next year. | 2023-09-18 |
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| The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2023 🟢 | TIME magazine has released its list of the 100 Most Influential People in AI for 2023. The list includes notable figures such as Dario and Daniela Amodei, Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, Robin Li, Clément Delangue, Lila Ibrahim, Elon Musk, Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, Timnit Gebru, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio. | DeepMind 🧩, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-09-11 |
| Spread Your Wings: Falcon 180B is here 🟢 | TII has just released Falcon 180B, a powerful language model with 180 billion parameters trained on 3.5 trillion tokens. Outperforming Llama 2 70B and GPT-3.5 on MMLU, Falcon 180B performs great and ranks high on the Hugging Face Leaderboard. This model is available for commercial use but has strict terms excluding “hosting use.” | Hugging Face 🤗, Model release 🎉, GPT-3, GPT-3.5, and GPT-3.5 turbo 💡 | 2023-09-11 |
| Releasing Persimmon-8B 🟢 | Adept.ai introduces Persimmon-8B, an open-source LLM with impressive performance and a compact size. Trained on less data, it achieves comparable results to LLaMA2 and offers fast C++ implementation combined with flexible Python inference. | Model release 🎉, LLaMA 🦙 | 2023-09-11 |
| Training Cluster as a service: Train your LLM at scale on our infrastructure 🟢 | Hugging Face provides cost estimates for training large language models (LLMs) of different sizes and token counts. The estimates range from $65k to $14.66M, depending on the model parameters and token count. | Hugging Face 🤗 | 2023-09-11 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard 🟢 | Hugging Face has released a speech-to-text leaderboard that ranks and assesses speech recognition models on their platform. The current top performers are NVIDIA FastConformer and OpenAI Whisper, with a focus on English speech recognition. Multilingual evaluation will be added in future updates. | Hugging Face 🤗, Speech-to-text 🎤, NVIDIA 🎮, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-09-11 |
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| Introducing ChatGPT Enterprise 🟢 | OpenAI has released ChatGPT Enterprise, which provides enterprise-level security and privacy features. These include unlimited access to GPT-4, longer input capacities, faster performance, advanced data analysis capabilities, and data encryption measures. The platform is SOC 2 compliant and offers features like admin console, SSO, domain verification, and an analytics dashboard for usage insights. The training of OpenAI models does not involve customer prompts or company data. | ChatGPT 💬, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-09-05 |
| WeatherBench 2: A benchmark for the next generation of data-driven weather models 🟢 | Google has released the WeatherBench 2 dataset, which is gaining attention in the AI weather forecasting field. Machine learning methods are proving to be just as effective as physics-based models, but with the advantage of faster forecasts using affordable hardware. The WeatherBench 2 dataset aims to enhance ML research in weather forecasting. | AI datasets 📊, Google Gemini 🌌 | 2023-09-05 |
| Ideogram launches AI image generator with impressive typography 🟢 | Ideogram is an alternative AI tool that excels in generating images with strong typography capabilities. It offers a unique feature of generating text within images, effectively addressing the common challenge faced by popular AI image generators. | AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 | 2023-09-05 |
| Teaching with AI 🟢 | Open AI has released a teaching guide on AI, providing insights into ChatGPT’s functionality, limitations, the effectiveness of AI detectors, and addressing bias. | ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-09-05 |
| Identifying AI-generated images with SynthID 🟢 | SynthID is a technology that uses imperceptible digital watermarks to identify AI- generated images, even after modifications like filters, color changes, and compression. | AI safety 🔐, AI and copyright ©️, AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 | 2023-09-05 |
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| GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning released 🟢 | OpenAI has released fine-tuning for GPT-3.5 Turbo, offering improved performance on specific tasks. The fine-tuned version can even match or surpass the capabilities of base GPT-4. Early testers have significantly reduced prompt size through fine-tuning. The costs for training and usage input/output are provided at $0.008, $0.012, and $0.016 per 1K tokens, respectively. | GPT-3, GPT-3.5, and GPT-3.5 turbo 💡, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-08-28 |
| Introducing Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding 🟢 🟢 | Meta has released Code Llama, an advanced LLM for coding that can generate code and natural language about code. It is available in three models and comes in different sizes to meet various needs. | AI for coding 👨💻, Meta ♾ | 2023-08-28 |
| Introducing a foundational multimodal model for speech translation 🟢 | Meta has developed a powerful foundational model called SeamlessM4T that is capable of handling various text and speech tasks across 100 languages. It includes automatic speech recognition, speech-to-text translation, speech-to-speech translation, text-to-text translation, and text-to- speech translation, supporting a wide range of input and output languages. | Text-to-speech 📢, Speech-to-text 🎤, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Meta ♾ | 2023-08-28 |
| New DeepLearning.AI Course on Finetuning Large Language Models 🟢 | A new free course on “Finetuning Large Language Models” by DeepLearning.AI. The course aims to help AI professionals understand the usage of finetuning on LLMs, including data preparation, training, and evaluation. Finetuning enables training the model on custom data, updating the neural nets’ weights, and improving results by incorporating style, form, and new knowledge. | 2023-08-28 | |
| AI2 drops biggest open dataset yet for training language models 🟢 | AI2 has released a significant open dataset called Dolma, comprising 3 trillion tokens. Unlike other datasets from OpenAI and Anthropic, Dolma provides transparency in terms of what information was removed, why, and how personal details were handled. The disclosure of these details is uncommon and raises questions about the ethical and legal acquisition of other datasets. | AI and copyright ©️, AI datasets 📊, AI regulation 📜 | 2023-08-28 |
| Introducing IDEFICS: An Open Reproduction of State-of-the-art Visual Langage Model 🟢 | IDEFICS is an impressive open-source visual language model with 9 billion and 80 billion parameters, based on DeepMind’s Flamingo. It offers the ability to describe images, generate stories, and answer image-related questions. It’s trained on diverse open datasets such as Wikipedia, Public Multimodal Dataset, LAION, and OBELICS. | AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, DeepMind 🧩 | 2023-08-28 |
| Bing’s search market share fails to budge despite big AI push 🔴 | Despite the introduction of innovative AI features like Bing AI Chat and Bing Image Creator, Bing’s market share remains stagnant at around 3%. Microsoft disputes this data, citing internal growth numbers, but experts believe any missing interactions will not greatly affect the overall situation. | Microsoft 🪟 | 2023-08-28 |
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| Introducing Project IDX by Google 🟢 | Google is introducing IDX, a cloud-based coding workspace powered by generative AI. This workspace offers AI assistance for code generation, completion, translation, and explanation, enhancing developers’ coding efficiency. It also supports multi-browser web previews and provides consistent experiences across various devices and operating systems. | AI for coding 👨💻, Google 🔍 | 2023-08-14 |
| Microsoft kills Cortana in Windows as it focuses on next-gen AI 🟢 | Microsoft is discontinuing Cortana to prioritize generative AI like Bing Chat, while integrating ChatGPT from its partnership with OpenAI into Windows 11. | Microsoft 🪟, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-08-14 |
| GPTBot: the web crawler of OpenAI 🔴 | OpenAI’s web crawler, GPTBot, can now be easily identified and prevented from accessing websites for AI training. Website owners can use the provided code to add GPTBot to their robots.txt file, disallowing it from crawling their site’s content. | AI and copyright ©️, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-08-14 |
| Toyota, Pony.ai plan to mass produce robotaxis in China 🟢 | Toyota and Pony.ai have formed a partnership to produce robo-taxis in China. This collaboration aims to advance self-driving car technology in the country and develop “smart cockpits” for the Chinese market. Toyota’s investment is of over 1 billion yuan ($140 million). | Robotics 🤖 | 2023-08-14 |
| FEC could limit AI in political ads ahead of 2024 🔴 | The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is considering limitations on the use of AI in political ads for the upcoming elections. Public Citizen’s petition, supported by congressional action, aims to combat misleading AI-generated campaign content in the lead-up to the 2024 elections. Public Citizen specifically emphasizes the need to regulate deepfakes and deceptive AI use in election ads. | AI regulation 📜 | 2023-08-14 |
| Amazon Reverses Course on ‘Garbage Books’ After Public Uproar 🔴 | Authors are reporting fraudulent books attributed to them on Amazon, likely generated using AI. Jane Friedman successfully had these books taken down with support from the Authors Guild, but concerns remain about the impact on lesser-known authors. | AI and copyright ©️, Amazon 🌳 | 2023-08-14 |
| NVIDIA and Hugging Face to Connect Millions of Developers to Generative AI Supercomputing 🟢 | NVIDIA and Hugging Face have partnered to offer AI developers access to high-performance GPUs for deep learning through DGX Cloud integration. | Hugging Face 🤗, NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ | 2023-08-14 |
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| AudioCraft: A simple one-stop shop for audio modeling 🟢 | Meta has released the code and weights for their AudioCraft models, including MusicGen and AudioGen. These models generate music and audio respectively, based on text-based user inputs. The release also includes the EnCodec decoder, which improves music quality. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Model release 🎉, Meta ♾ | 2023-08-07 |
| NASA and IBM Openly Release Geospatial AI Foundation Model for NASA Earth Observation Data 🟢 | NASA and IBM Research have collaborated to release the HLS Geospatial FM, an open-source geospatial AI model for Earth observation data. This model has shown success in various applications such as flood mapping, burn scar identification, and predicting crop yields. | AI datasets 📊, AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Model release 🎉 | 2023-08-07 |
| Generative AI in Jupyter 🟢 | Jupyter AI integrates generative AI techniques and provides functionalities such as code generation, error fixing, content summarization, file questioning, and notebook creation from language prompts. | AI for coding 👨💻 | 2023-08-07 |
| YouTube uses AI to summarize videos in latest test 🟢 | YouTube is currently testing AI-generated video summaries to help viewers quickly determine the relevance of a video. The feature uses generative AI and will initially be available for English- language vlogs, shopping, and how-to videos on mobile devices. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Google Gemini 🌌, Google 🔍 | 2023-08-07 |
| RT-2: New model translates vision and language into action 🟢 | Meta’s Robotic Transformer 2 (RT-2) is a vision-language-action model that combines web-scale capabilities with robotic control. It effectively recognizes visual and language patterns, generalizes emergent skills, and successfully leverages web-based data to learn new skills. | Robotics 🤖, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Meta ♾ | 2023-08-07 |
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| Stack Overflow announces OverflowAI 🟢 | Stack Overflow is integrating generative AI into their platform with OverflowAI. This includes semantic search and personalized results using a vector database. They are also enhancing search capabilities across different platforms and introducing an enterprise knowledge ingestion feature for Stack Overflow for Teams. | 2023-07-31 | |
| Stability AI Announces Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 🟢 | Stability AI has released SDXL 1.0, an open access image model with a staggering 6.6 billion parameter model ensemble pipeline. This version has significant improvements in color, contrast, lighting, and shadow. | AI for images 🖼️, Stable Diffusion 🎨, Stability AI ⚖️ | 2023-07-31 |
| Introducing Bittensor Language Model — A State of the Art 3B Parameter Model For Mobile and Edge Devices 🟢 | BTLM is a language model with 3 billion parameters that operates efficiently on mobile and edge devices with limited RAM. With improved accuracy and a large context window, it outperforms similar-sized models in benchmarks. BTLM aligns with 7B models in accuracy but surpasses them in terms of memory footprint and inference cost. Its purpose is to enable AI applications on edge devices, reducing the need for centralized cloud infrastructure. | 2023-07-31 | |
| Meet FreeWilly, Our Large And Mighty Instruction Fine-Tuned Models 🟢 | Stability AI and CarperAI Lab have collaborated to release FreeWilly, a LLaMA 2 model fine-tuned using Supervised Fine-Tune (SFT) techniques. FreeWilly2 performs comparably to GPT-3.5 in certain tasks, and its capabilities have been verified by both Stability AI researchers and Hugging Face. Both models are publicly available under a non-commercial license. | Model release 🎉, Stability AI ⚖️, LLaMA 🦙, GPT-3, GPT-3.5, and GPT-3.5 turbo 💡 | 2023-07-31 |
| OpenAI scuttles AI-written text detector over ‘low rate of accuracy’ 🔴 | OpenAI has decided to retire its AI classifier due to its low accuracy rate in detecting AI- generated text. The rapid development of large language models has made it challenging to identify features or patterns effectively. | AI safety 🔐, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-07-31 |
| Microsoft’s Bing Chat comes to Chrome and Safari in tests for ‘select users’ 🟢 | Microsoft has confirmed that Bing Chat will soon be available on browsers like Google Chrome and Safari. | Microsoft 🪟 | 2023-07-31 |
| The Frontier Model Forum 🟢 | Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI have joined forces to create the Frontier Model Forum, a platform dedicated to the safe and responsible development of frontier AI models. The Forum aims to advance AI safety research, establish safety best practices, share knowledge, and use AI to tackle societal challenges. | AI safety 🔐, Google 🔍, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-07-31 |
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| Meta releases Llama 2 🟢 | Meta has released Llama-2, an open-source model with a commercial license, that showcases similar performance to ChatGPT. Trained on 2T tokens with varying parameter sizes, Llama-2 was further fine-tuned and improved using a combination of instruction and reinforcement learning, outperforming other open-source models like Falcon and MPT. | Model release 🎉, LLaMA 🦙, Meta ♾, ChatGPT 💬 | 2023-07-24 |
| Announcing LangSmith, a unified platform for debugging, testing, evaluating, and monitoring your LLM applications 🟢 | LangChain has developed LangSmith, a powerful tool designed to enhance the performance of LLM-powered apps. By providing essential debugging, testing, evaluation, and monitoring features, LangSmith helps AI professionals identify and address issues such as unexpected results, errors, and latency. The tool also enables easy experimentation with new chains and templates, making it a valuable asset for those working in the artificial intelligence field. | 2023-07-24 | |
| Apple is testing a ChatGPT-like AI chatbot 🟢 | Apple is creating its own chatbot, named “Apple GPT,” to rival Google and OpenAI. Despite initial security concerns, the chatbot is now more widely accessible to Apple employees for prototyping purposes, with restricted usage and no customer-bound features allowed. | Apple 🍏, Google 🔍, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-07-24 |
| Cerebras Systems signs $100 million AI supercomputer deal with UAE’s G42 🟢 | Cerebras Systems has struck a $100 million deal with G42, marking the debut of AI supercomputers that could potentially challenge Nvidia’s market position. In response to chip shortages, cloud computing providers are seeking alternative solutions. To accelerate the rollout, Cerebras will construct three Condor Galaxy systems in the United States, with the first supercomputer set to go online this year, followed by two others in early 2024. | Funding 💰, NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ | 2023-07-24 |
| Custom instructions for ChatGPT 🟢 | OpenAI introduces personalized custom instructions for ChatGPT, allowing users to have a more tailored and adaptable experience. This feature, developed after gathering feedback from users across 22 countries, highlights the importance of customization in meeting diverse needs. Custom instructions will be gradually rolled out to all users, with beta access initially available to Plus plan subscribers. | ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-07-24 |
| Wix’s new tool can create entire websites from prompts 🟢 | Wix, the leading website builder, has released an AI Site Generator tool that uses AI to automatically generate websites based on user prompts. This tool goes beyond design, offering features such as e-commerce, scheduling, food ordering, and event ticketing. The CEO of Wix believes that AI is essential in simplifying website development for small businesses and helping them avoid missing out on income opportunities. | AI for coding 👨💻 | 2023-07-24 |
| Results of the Open Source AI Game Jam 🟢 | The Open Source AI Game Jam hosted by Hugging Face showcased innovative games integrating AI models. The winning game, “Snip It,” allows players to explore a museum where objects in paintings come to life when snipped. Other impressive games included “Yabbit Attack,” which uses genetic algorithms, “Fish Dang Bot Rolling Land” with Text To Speech integration, and “Everchanging Quest” incorporating GPT-4 and Starcoder. Check out the link for the full list and explore the games’ AI features. | Hugging Face 🤗, Text-to-speech 📢, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀 | 2023-07-24 |
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| Anthropic releases Claude 2 🟢 | Anthropic has released Claude 2, an advanced AI model that outperforms Claude 1.3 in various evaluations, achieving impressive scores on Codex HumanEval and GSM8k. Claude 2 excels in coding, math, and even scored higher on the Bar exam. Additionally, it offers improved effectiveness in harmless responses and can handle inputs up to 100K tokens, making it suitable for processing larger texts. | Claude 🖋️, Anthropic 🌐 | 2023-07-17 |
| Elon Musk launches AI firm xAI as he looks to take on OpenAI 🟢 | Elon Musk’s new AI startup, xAI, is recruiting top engineers from tech giants like Google and Microsoft to develop a “maximally curious” AI. Although separate from X Corp, xAI will closely collaborate with companies like Twitter and Tesla, aiming to bring about breakthroughs and innovation in the field of AI through synergistic efforts. | Google 🔍, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-07-17 |
| Google’s medical AI chatbot is already being tested in hospitals 🟢 | Google’s Med-PaLM 2, an AI system designed to provide medical information, has been undergoing testing in a hospital setting. While the model shows promise in areas with limited access to doctors, it does exhibit some inaccuracies and irrelevant responses. In terms of reasoning, consensus-supported answers, and comprehension, Med-PaLM 2 performs comparably to human doctors. | AI in healthcare 🏥, Google 🔍 | 2023-07-17 |
| Bard’s latest update: more features, languages and countries 🟢 | Bard, a language model, has expanded its availability worldwide and now supports multiple languages. New features include the ability to listen to Bard’s responses, customize the tone and style of its output, pin and rename past conversations, export Python code to Replit and Google Colab, share responses with others, and utilize images in prompts with the help of Google Lens integration. | Text-to-speech 📢, AI for images 🖼️, AI for coding 👨💻, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Google Gemini 🌌, Google 🔍 | 2023-07-17 |
| Shutterstock expands deal with OpenAI to build generative AI tools 🟢 | OpenAI and Shutterstock have announced a partnership where OpenAI will use Shutterstock’s media library to train its AI models. In return, Shutterstock gains priority access to OpenAI’s advanced image transformation tools. Shutterstock is also working towards becoming a leader in generative AI by collaborating with top AI companies and compensating artists for their contributions to training the AI. | AI and copyright ©️, AI datasets 📊, AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-07-17 |
| Nvidia deepens bets on AI in drug discovery with Recursion investment 🟢 | Nvidia invests $50M in Recursion, a biotech company using AI to revolutionize drug discovery. This partnership allows Recursion to utilize Nvidia’s platform and access their advanced AI technology. Recursion’s share price surged by 83% post-announcement, highlighting the market’s recognition of AI’s significance in drug discovery. | AI in healthcare 🏥, Funding 💰, NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ | 2023-07-17 |
| NotebookLM: How to try Google’s experimental AI-first notebook 🟢 | Google has introduced NotebookLM, a tool that combines Google Drive documents with LLMs. It automatically generates summaries, identifies key topics, and suggests questions to enhance understanding. Users can also ask questions about uploaded documents and request ideas or scripts related to specific topics. This tool can be beneficial for AI professionals seeking efficient document management and idea generation. | Google 🔍 | 2023-07-17 |
| Programs to detect AI discriminate against non-native English speakers, shows study 🔴 | AI text detectors are facing bias in mistakenly labeling non-native English speakers’ articles as AI-generated. Stanford researchers found that over 50% of essays written by non-native speakers were flagged as AI-generated, emphasizing the need to address discrimination faced by non-native writers using AI detectors. This has implications for college/job applications and search engine algorithms, potentially harming academic careers and psychological well-being. | AI safety 🔐, AI regulation 📜 | 2023-07-17 |
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| GPT-4 API general availability and deprecation of older models in the Completions API 🟢 | OpenAI has announced the general availability of the GPT-4 API and the automatic upgrade of GPT-3 models to new models from January 4, 2024. Developers using text-davinci-003 are advised to upgrade to gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct and specify it as the “model” in API requests for a smooth transition. OpenAI also offers priority access to GPT-3.5 Turbo and GPT-4 fine-tuning for users with fine-tuned older models, understanding the challenges of transitioning from these models. | Model release 🎉, GPT-3, GPT-3.5, and GPT-3.5 turbo 💡, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-07-10 |
| Introducing Superalignment 🟢 | This article discusses the concept of superalignment and the need for scientific and technical breakthroughs to ensure that highly intelligent AI systems align with human intentions. It emphasizes the importance of establishing innovative governance institutions and exploring new approaches to achieve this alignment. | AI safety 🔐, AI regulation 📜 | 2023-07-10 |
| AWS Launches $100M Generative AI Innovation Center 🟢 | AWS is launching the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center with a $100 million investment. The center aims to assist small businesses in innovating and improving their operations through cost-effective and flexible generative AI services. It will provide free workshops, engagements, training, and access to tools like Amazon CodeWhisperer and Amazon Bedrock. The Innovation Center is already working with companies like Highspot, Lonely Planet, Ryanair, and Twilio on generative AI solutions. | AI for coding 👨💻, Amazon 🌳, Funding 💰 | 2023-07-10 |
| Miner Pivots 38,000 GPUs From Crypto to AI 🟢 | Cryptomining firm Hive Blockchain is redirecting their efforts from Ethereum mining to AI workloads. With 38,000 GPUs at their disposal, they aim to generate revenue while still utilizing some GPU power for crypto mining. However, transitioning to AI compute poses challenges as older ETH mining GPUs have limited value in this market. | AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ | 2023-07-10 |
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| DeepMind claims its next chatbot will rival ChatGPT 🟢 | DeepMind is working on a new chatbot called Gemini to rival or even surpass OpenAI’s ChatGPT. With the aim of combining AlphaGo’s success and LLM’s language abilities, DeepMind seeks to dominate the generative AI market, which is predicted to reach $109 billion by 2030. | DeepMind 🧩, Google Gemini 🌌, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-07-03 |
| Generative AI with Large Language Models Course 🟢 | DeepLearning.ai and AWS have collaborated to create the “Generative AI with Large Language Models” course on Coursera. This course provides AI developers with the knowledge and skills necessary to build and utilize powerful large language model applications. It covers the transformer architecture of LLMs, training techniques, model selection, performance optimization, and hands-on labs for practical experience. Completion of the course awards a Coursera certificate demonstrating proficiency in generative AI with large language models. | Amazon 🌳 | 2023-07-03 |
| ElevenLabs introduces its Voice Library 🟢 | ElevenLabs has launched Voice Library, a community platform integrated with a multilingual model that enables the creation of lifelike synthetic voices with consistent primary speech characteristics for commercial applications. The Voice Design tool allows users to customize age, gender, and accent to generate unique and natural-sounding voices. | Text-to-speech 📢 | 2023-07-03 |
| Adobe indemnity clause designed to ease enterprise fears about AI-generated art 🟢 | Adobe offers an indemnity clause to address copyright concerns surrounding their generative AI tool Firefly. By training the model on legal content and promising to cover any copyright claims, Adobe aims to ease enterprise users’ worries and ensure the legality and safety of AI-generated artwork. | AI and copyright ©️, AI for images 🖼️, AI regulation 📜 | 2023-07-03 |
| Advancing innovation with Open-Source AI: Hugging Face CEO testifies before the US Congress 🟢 | The CEO of Hugging Face, Clément Delangue, recently testified before the US Congress on Open-Source AI. In his testimony, he highlighted the importance of open-source AI in advancing innovation, promoting fair competition, and ensuring responsible development. Delangue emphasized that open-source principles democratize AI and foster a more inclusive and collaborative future in the field. | Hugging Face 🤗, AI regulation 📜 | 2023-07-03 |
| MosaicML Agrees to Join Databricks to Power Generative AI for All 🟢 | MosaicML, a startup focused on democratizing large-scale neural network training and inference, is teaming up with Databricks in a $1.3B deal. The collaboration aims to further advance generative AI software expertise and expand customer reach and engineering capabilities. | Funding 💰 | 2023-07-03 |
| Introducing OpenAI London 🟢 | OpenAI has recently opened its first office in London, aiming to tap into the city’s talent and expertise in the artificial intelligence field. This move is expected to enhance OpenAI’s research, engineering, and go-to-market functions. | OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-07-03 |
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| RoboCat: A self-improving robotic agent 🟢 | DeepMind’s new AI agent, RoboCat, can learn and generate new training data to improve its skills with different robotic arms, allowing it to operate new robotic arms within hours with just 100 demonstrations. It’s success rate on novel tasks more than doubled from its first version to the latest version, thanks to its expanding experience. | Reinforcement learning 🎮, Robotics 🤖, DeepMind 🧩 | 2023-06-26 |
| CMU Researchers Expand Ability of Robots To Learn From Videos 🟢 | CMU researchers have developed a new method for teaching robots household tasks by training them to observe videos of humans completing those tasks. This approach can improve robots’ performance in cooking and cleaning by allowing them to master 12 different actions. | Robotics 🤖, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 | 2023-06-26 |
| ElevenLabs Launches New Generative Voice AI Products and Announces $19m Series A Round 🟢 | ElevenLabs raises $19M in Series A funding for their AI-powered synthetic voice technology that allows content creators to easily control AI-generated audio content, with plans to launch an AI dubbing tool and an AI Speech Classifier for transparency and safety in generative media. | Text-to-speech 📢, Funding 💰 | 2023-06-26 |
| Inside China’s underground market for high-end Nvidia AI chips 🔴 | Despite U.S. export restrictions, Chinese demand for high-end Nvidia AI chips remains strong and vendors in Shenzhen and Hong Kong have emerged to offer them at steep prices in a de facto underground market. The exact volume of chip flow is unknown, but local authorities are also reported to be buyers. | NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, AI regulation 📜 | 2023-06-26 |
| Introducing Voicebox: The first generative AI model for speech to generalize across tasks with state-of-the-art performance 🟢 | Meta AI has developed Voicebox, a new model that uses a Flow Matching model to train on large and diverse datasets, enabling it to generate high-quality synthesized speech without specific training. The model can match audio styles, read text passages in multiple languages, and edit speech segments within audio recordings. The research paper and audio samples are available, but the model and code remain private to prevent misuse. | Text-to-speech 📢, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Meta ♾ | 2023-06-26 |
| Self-healing code is the future of software development 🟢 | The use of generative AI in software development allows for self-healing code, improving performance and reducing errors. However, maintaining high-quality output and avoiding technical debt requires established best practices. Stack Overflow is pursuing AI improvements for their platform through suggestion and formatting enhancements. | AI for coding 👨💻 | 2023-06-26 |
| China’s ByteDance Has Gobbled Up $1 Billion of Nvidia GPUs for AI This Year 🟢 | Chinese tech giant ByteDance has reportedly invested $1 billion in Nvidia’s HPC products, including the A100 and H800 cards, totaling about 100,000 units, to fulfill the high demand for AI technology. China recognizes the impact of AI on the global market and has embraced it, investing heavily in HPC hardware. | NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ | 2023-06-26 |
| Pixar Used AI to Stoke the Flames in ‘Elemental’ 🟢 | Pixar used neural style transfer and collaborated with Disney Research Studios to solve the challenge of capturing the ethereal nature of fire in their film “Elemental”. This ML innovation saved production time and reduced costs. | AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 | 2023-06-26 |
| LangChain & Vector Databases in Production Course 🟢 | LangChain’s free AI course, LangChain & Vector Databases in Production, offers 50+ lessons and 10+ projects that cover API integration, prompt engineering, and production use. It teaches how to use Deep Lake, a versatile vector database for AI data that includes text, images, videos, and multiple embeddings. Basic Python knowledge, Jupyter Notebooks understanding, and GitHub familiarity are prerequisites. The course is designed to make AI practical and accessible, tailored to both experienced devs and enthusiasts. | LangChain and LlamaIndex 🔗, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 | 2023-06-26 |
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| Function calling and other API updates 🟢 | OpenAI has released several new updates, including a 16k context version of GPT-3.5-turbo, a new API for calling user-defined functions, cost reductions for models and input tokens, and updated versions of GPT-4 and GPT-3.5-turbo. The updates aim to improve GPT’s capabilities and make it easier to connect with external tools and APIs. | Model release 🎉, GPT-3, GPT-3.5, and GPT-3.5 turbo 💡, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-06-20 |
| The first AI model based on Yann LeCun’s vision for more human-like AI 🟢 | The I-JEPA model employs self-supervised learning to capture common sense knowledge about the world and avoid limitations of generative approaches. Yann LeCun’s vision for human-like AI is the foundation of this model. | Meta ♾ | 2023-06-20 |
| Google Lens can now search for skin conditions 🟢 | Google Lens now has a feature that can identify skin conditions and other physical maladies by analyzing uploaded images. The feature can be integrated with chatbots to provide accurate answers about objects in photos. | AI in healthcare 🏥, AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Google 🔍 | 2023-06-20 |
| Europe moves ahead on AI regulation, challenging tech giants’ power 🟢 | The European Parliament has approved the EU AI Act, which regulates AI to protect consumers from risks such as discrimination and misinformation. The act bans certain tools and sets limits on high-risk technologies, promoting responsible AI development through transparency and a risk-based approach. It may also impact international policies and urge companies towards a unified regulatory landscape. | AI regulation 📜 | 2023-06-20 |
| Paul McCartney records Beatles song with help of AI 🟢 | Paul McCartney used AI technology to restore John Lennon’s voice and record a Beatles song from a 1978 cassette tape labeled “For Paul.” This collaboration showcases the potential of AI in music preservation and opens up new opportunities for artists and fans in the future. | Text-to-speech 📢, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 | 2023-06-20 |
| People Are Pirating GPT-4 By Scraping Exposed API Keys 🔴 | OpenAI warns of stolen API keys being advertised for unauthorized access to GPT-4, resulting in unexpected charges for the account holder. Users are advised to safeguard their keys and rotate them immediately if exposed. Automated scans are conducted to revoke identified exposed keys. | GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟, AI safety 🔐, AI and copyright ©️, AI regulation 📜 | 2023-06-20 |
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| AlphaDev discovers faster sorting algorithms 🟢 | AlphaDev, an AI system using reinforcement learning, has developed faster sorting algorithms for organizing data by starting from scratch and selecting computer assembly instructions using reinforcement learning. The new algorithms are up to 70% faster for shorter sequences and integrated into the LLVM libc++ standard library. | Reinforcement learning 🎮, AI for coding 👨💻 | 2023-06-12 |
| Building the data framework for LLMs 🟢 | LlamaIndex has raised $8.5M in seed funding and developed a toolkit to integrate user data with LLMs, enabling the creation of knowledge-intensive LLM apps such as search engines, chatbots, and analytics helpers. The project has impressive traction with 16K stars on Github, 20K Twitter followers and 200K monthly downloads, and 6K active Discord users. | LangChain and LlamaIndex 🔗, Funding 💰 | 2023-06-12 |
| Bard is getting better at logic and reasoning 🟢 | Google has combined the capabilities of advanced language models and traditional code to enhance Bard’s reasoning and math abilities. This new method of implicit code execution has boosted its accuracy by 30%. | Google Gemini 🌌, Google 🔍 | 2023-06-12 |
| ChatGPT comes to iPad, adds support for Siri and Shortcuts 🟢 | OpenAI’s latest app update allows iPad users to use Siri and Shortcuts with ChatGPT, one of the most popular chatbots available, offering custom shortcuts for hands-free operation. Apple has updated its App Store rules to prevent ChatGPT clones from being submitted. | Apple 🍏, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-06-12 |
| RedPajama 7B now available, instruct model outperforms all open 7B models on HELM benchmarks 🟢 | Introducing the new RedPajama-INCITE models, optimized for few-shot tasks, which outperform similar models on HELM benchmarks. The project analyzed differences with previous models and incorporated community feedback. The models are available under Apache 2.0 license for AI professionals. | Model release 🎉 | 2023-06-12 |
| generative AI learning path, by google 🟢 | Google’s new learning path on Generative AI covers everything from Large Language Models to deploying solutions on Google Cloud, with courses on Responsible AI, Image Generation, advanced topics, and a Quest to explore Generative AI Explorer in Vertex AI. | Google 🔍 | 2023-06-12 |
| Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn’t Apply To AI Training 🟢 | Japan has announced that it will no longer enforce copyrights on data used for AI training, allowing for unhindered AI research and competition with the West. | AI and copyright ©️, AI regulation 📜 | 2023-06-12 |
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| OpenAI’s plans according to Sam Altman 🟢 | OpenAI plans to prioritize creating a cheaper and faster GPT-4, extending context windows, and releasing multimodality in 2024. However, they are currently limited by GPU shortages and are unable to make models millions of times bigger in the near future. The finetuning API will be extended to the latest models. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-06-06 |
| JPMorgan Trained AI to Interpret the Federal Reserve’s Intent 🟢 | JPMorgan Chase used a ChatGPT-based model to accurately predict US financial regulator’s statements on interest rate changes. Large language models can offer accurate predictions, leading to big profits for investors adjusting their strategies. | ChatGPT 💬 | 2023-06-06 |
| Nvidia demo about speaking to AI game characters 🟢 | Nvidia showcases a powerful AI-powered demo of conversational AI for game characters that enhances realism and engages players, providing game developers a tool to improve their games’ storytelling and overall engagement. | NVIDIA 🎮, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Text-to-speech 📢, Speech-to-text 🎤 | 2023-06-06 |
| Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused 🔴 | A lawyer cited fake cases generated by ChatGPT in their legal filings, highlighting the importance of verifying AI-generated content for accuracy and legitimacy. While generative AI tech like ChatGPT can benefit the legal industry, it is not perfect and may cause ethical and legal issues if not carefully reviewed. | AI safety 🔐, AI regulation 📜, ChatGPT 💬 | 2023-06-06 |
| Why Nvidia is suddenly one of the most valuable companies in the world 🟢 | NVIDIA’s GPUs have become a crucial component in developing AI, leading its worth to $939.3 billion; with AI applications requiring huge amounts of data, companies are buying thousands of NVIDIA’s expensive chips. NVIDIA’s dominance in the industry is predicted to persist as startups compete with big tech for access to its costly GPUs. | NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ | 2023-06-06 |
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| Intel Announces Aurora genAI, Generative AI Model With 1 Trillion Parameters 🟢 | Intel has announced the Aurora genAI model, with 1 trillion parameters, which will be trained on scientific texts and structured scientific data to target cancer research, systems biology, cosmology, polymer chemistry, materials, and climate science. It will be powered by the Aurora supercomputer and has potential to suggest experiments and accelerate drug design targets. | AI in healthcare 🏥, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ | 2023-05-29 |
| Introducing speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and more for 1,100+ languages 🟢 | Meta’s Massively Multilingual Speech project uses self-supervised learning with wav2vec 2.0 and a unique dataset to enable AI to understand and generate speech in over 1,100 languages, outperforming existing models with reduced character error rates and increased language coverage. | AI datasets 📊, Text-to-speech 📢, Speech-to-text 🎤, Meta ♾ | 2023-05-29 |
| Google is starting to let users into its AI search experiment 🟢 | Google’s Search Labs is now open for experimentation, offering AI-generated summaries at the top of search results that are globally compatible in multiple languages, potentially changing the web’s business model and impacting SEO. | Google 🔍 | 2023-05-29 |
| New superbug-killing antibiotic discovered using AI 🟢 | Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic using AI to identify a compound that kills Acinetobacter baumannii with few signs of resistance, demonstrating the power of AI in identifying potential new antibiotics and hastening the pace of discovery of new treatments. | AI in healthcare 🏥 | 2023-05-29 |
| Generative AI Startup Anthropic Secures $450M in Series C Funding to Advance Next-Gen Intelligent Assistants 🟢 | Anthropic secures $450M in Series C funding led by Spark Capital, with participation from Google, Salesforce, and Zoom, signaling major tech players’ investments in the company’s AI achievements. The funding will help Anthropic expand its product offerings and develop next-generation AI assistants, promising transformative innovation in businesses and customer experiences. | Funding 💰, Anthropic 🌐, Google 🔍 | 2023-05-29 |
| Google’s new generative AI tool can jazz up product images 🟢 | Google’s new Product Studio uses generative AI to help Shopping merchants customize product images and improve their ad campaigns, with integration into the Merchant Center for added convenience. | AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Google 🔍 | 2023-05-29 |
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| Stability AI releases StableStudio in latest push for open-source AI 🟢 | Stability AI has launched StableStudio as part of its open-source AI efforts. StableStudio is a new open-source variant of its DreamStudio AI text-to-image web app. | AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Stable Diffusion 🎨, Stability AI ⚖️ | 2023-05-22 |
| Introducing the ChatGPT app for iOS 🟢 | ChatGPT released iOS app with open-source speech recognition for subscribers. | Apple 🍏, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-05-22 |
| Zoom will soon integrate Anthropic’s chatbot across its platform 🟢 | The article discusses the integration of Anthropic’s chatbot into Zoom’s platform, which could have potential implications for the use of artificial intelligence in video conferencing. | Anthropic 🌐 | 2023-05-22 |
| Apple reveals new accessibility features, like custom text-to-speech voices 🟢 | An established leader in mainstream tech accessibility, Apple emphasizes that these tools are built with feedback from disabled communities. | Text-to-speech 📢, Apple 🍏 | 2023-05-22 |
| Meta bets big on AI with custom chips and a supercomputer 🟢 | Meta lifted the curtains on its efforts to develop in-house infrastructure for AI workloads, including generative AI. | AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, Meta ♾ | 2023-05-22 |
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| Google launches PaLM 2, its next-gen large language model 🟢 | PaLM 2 will power Google’s updated Bard chat tool, the company’s competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and function as the foundation model for most of the new AI features the company is announcing today. PaLM 2 is now available to developers through Google’s PaLM API, Firebase, and on Colab. | Google 🔍 | 2023-05-16 |
| Meta open-sources multisensory AI model that combines six types of data 🟢 | Meta has unveiled ImageBind, an open-source AI model indexing six data types (visual, audio, text, thermal, depth, movement) for multisensory AI. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Meta ♾ | 2023-05-16 |
| Introducing 100K Context Windows: Claude, by Anthropic 🟢 | AI language model, Claude, now analyzes and synthesizes vast text in seconds with a 100K token context window. Summarize docs, assess risks, and more. | Mistral 🌬️, Anthropic 🌐 | 2023-05-16 |
| Language models can explain neurons in language models, by OpenAI 🟢 | GPT-4 automates understanding of language models by producing natural language explanations of neuron behavior. | GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-05-16 |
| The AI takeover of Google Search starts now 🟢 | Google’s new “AI snapshots” use language models to generate summaries for richer searches. Users can opt-in to the experiment called Search Generative Experience. | Google 🔍 | 2023-05-16 |
| ‘Godfather of AI’ says AI threat is ‘more urgent’ to humanity than climate change 🔴 | AI expert Geoffrey Hinton, “Godfather of AI,” considers risks of unbridled AI more pressing for humanity than climate change. Hinton warns of threats like job loss and misinformation, but does not support a stoppage of AI development. | AI safety 🔐, AI regulation 📜 | 2023-05-16 |
| AMP Robotics attracts investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund 🟢 | AMP Robotics, a Denver, Colorado-based startup creating robotic systems that can automatically sort recyclable material, announced that it extended its Series C round to $99 million, thanks to an investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund. | Robotics 🤖, Funding 💰, Microsoft 🪟 | 2023-05-16 |
| EU lawmakers’ committees agree tougher draft AI rules 🟢 | EU to classify AI tools by risk level; proposed draft legislation bans facial recognition in public spaces, with grace period of 2 years before law. | AI regulation 📜 | 2023-05-16 |
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| Google Plans to Make Search More ‘Personal’ with AI Chat and Video Clips 🟢 | Google is shifting the way it presents search results to incorporate conversations with artificial intelligence, along with more short video and social media posts, a departure from the list of website results that has made it the dominant search engine for decades. | Google Gemini 🌌, Google 🔍 | 2023-05-09 |
| Introducing MPT-7B: A New Standard for Open-Source, Commercially Usable LLMs, by MosaicML 🟢 | MPT-7B is a transformer trained from scratch on 1T tokens of text and code. It is open-source, available for commercial use, and matches the quality of LLaMA-7B. | Model release 🎉, LLaMA 🦙 | 2023-05-09 |
| Releasing 3B and 7B RedPajama-INCITE family of models including base, instruction-tuned & chat models 🟢 | The release includes the first models trained on the RedPajama base dataset: a 3 billion and a 7B parameter base model that aims to replicate the LLaMA recipe as closely as possible. | Model release 🎉, LLaMA 🦙 | 2023-05-09 |
| Hugging Face and ServiceNow release a free code-generating model 🟢 | AI startup Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research have released StarCoder, a free alternative to code-generating AI systems along the lines of GitHub’s Copilot. | Hugging Face 🤗, AI for coding 👨💻, Model release 🎉 | 2023-05-09 |
| Microsoft’s Bing Chat AI is now open to everyone, with plug-ins coming soon 🟢 | All you need is a Microsoft account to get access to the GPT-4-powered version of Bing. | Microsoft 🪟, ChatGPT 💬, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀 | 2023-05-09 |
| Hackers are increasingly using ChatGPT lures to spread malware on Facebook 🔴 | As public interest in generative AI chatbots grows, hackers are increasingly using ChatGPT-themed lures to spread malware across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. | ChatGPT 💬, Meta ♾ | 2023-05-09 |
| The amazing AI super tutor for students and teachers, Khan Academy 🟢 | Sal Khan, the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, thinks artificial intelligence could spark the greatest positive transformation education has ever seen. He demos some exciting new features for their educational chatbot, Khanmigo. | 2023-05-09 | |
| “Godfather of AI” quits Google with regrets and fears about his life’s work 🔴 | Geoffrey Hinton who won the ‘Nobel Prize of computing’ for his trailblazing work on neural networks is now free to speak about the risks of AI. | AI safety 🔐, AI regulation 📜, Google 🔍 | 2023-05-09 |
| Scientists Use GPT AI to Passively Read People’s Thoughts in Breakthrough 🟢 | An AI model similar to ChatGPT was combined with fMRI readings to non-invasively decode continuous language from subjects, a new study reports. | AI in healthcare 🏥, ChatGPT 💬 | 2023-05-09 |
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| HuggingChat 🟢 | A ChatGPT-like UI for the OpenAssistant model, hosted by Hugging Face. | Hugging Face 🤗 | 2023-05-02 |
| G7 should adopt ‘risk-based’ AI regulation, ministers say 🟢 | G7 agrees on “risk-based” AI regulation, but will maintain an open environment. EU & Japan have introduced AI policies. | AI regulation 📜 | 2023-05-02 |
| Partnering with Harvey: Putting LLMs to Work 🟢 | Harvey uses GPT-4 to empower legal teams with custom models, data segregation, security, and compliance. Sequoia led its Series A to expand its AI app. | Funding 💰, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀 | 2023-05-02 |
| The Andy Warhol Copyright Case That Could Transform Generative AI 🔴 | The US Copyright Office determined recently that art created solely by AI isn’t eligible for copyright protection. Artists can attempt to register works made with assistance from AI, but they must show significant “human authorship”. | AI and copyright ©️, AI regulation 📜 | 2023-05-02 |
| Artificial Intelligence Radio 🟢 | A web radio with AI-generated music. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 | 2023-05-02 |
| There’s a new AI unicorn that will make coders faster 🟢 | AI-coding-platform Replit raised $97.4M in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz and Khosla Ventures on the back of growing popularity and 22.5M users. | AI for coding 👨💻, Funding 💰 | 2023-05-02 |
| Palantir Demos AI to Fight Wars But Says It Will Be Totally Ethical 🟢 | Peter Thiel’s Palantir has launched the Palantir AI Platform to operate language models like GPT-4 on private networks. They insist on legal and ethical use. | GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀 | 2023-05-02 |
| OpenAI closes $300M share sale at $27B-29B valuation 🟢 | VCs have put in just over $300 million at a valuation of $27 billion — $29 billion. This is separate to a big investment from Microsoft announced earlier this year. | Funding 💰, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-05-02 |
| Pinecone drops $100M investment on $750M valuation, as vector database demand grows 🟢 | With the rise of LLMs in the public consciousness, companies are beginning to see the value of vector databases more and more. | Funding 💰 | 2023-05-02 |
| Amazon is developing an improved LLM to power Alexa 🟢 | Amazon executives believe that the addition of an improved LLM will help Amazon work toward its goal of building “the world’s best personal assistant,” but acknowledged that it will be difficult to do so across many domains. | Amazon 🌳 | 2023-05-02 |
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| Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants for Training Data 🟢 | Stack Overflow to charge large-scale AI devs for access to 50M Q&A to boost LLM data quality and result in faster high-quality LLM development. | AI and copyright ©️, AI datasets 📊 | 2023-04-24 |
| RedPajama, a project to create leading open-source models, starts by reproducing LLaMA training dataset of over 1.2 trillion tokens 🟢 | RedPajama aims to reproduce LLaMA models with a 7B parameter model, using a filtered dataset of 1.2T tokens. Their goal is open-source reproducibility. | AI datasets 📊, LLaMA 🦙 | 2023-04-24 |
| Humane previews AI-powered wearable 🟢 | Humane debuted its AI wearable, which projects info without a nearby cell phone. It raised $230M with funding from Microsoft, OpenAI CEO, and others. | Funding 💰, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-04-24 |
| Microsoft Readies AI Chip as Machine Learning Costs Surge 🟢 | Microsoft creating Athena chip for AI’s large-language models, aiming to save money and time. Amazon, Google & Facebook are creating their own AI chips too. | AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, Microsoft 🪟 | 2023-04-24 |
| Stability AI Launches the First of its StableLM Suite of Language Models 🟢 | Stability AI launched StableLM, an open-source language model (3–7B parameters) for text/code that performs well in conversational and coding tasks. Fine-tuned models are available for research. | AI for coding 👨💻, Stability AI ⚖️ | 2023-04-24 |
| Introducing Atlassian Intelligence 🟢 | Atlassian now has Atlassian Intelligence — an AI-powered teammate that makes custom teamwork graphs, understands natural language, and answers queries. | 2023-04-24 |
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| AI: China tech giant Alibaba to roll out ChatGPT rival 🟢 | Chinese technology giant Alibaba has announced plans to roll out its own artificial intelligence (AI) ChatGPT-style product called Tongyi Qianwen. | ChatGPT 💬 | 2023-04-17 |
| Amazon tells employees it isn’t falling behind on AI 🟢 🟢 | Amazon reassures employees they’re not behind despite absence in generative AI. | Amazon 🌳 | 2023-04-17 |
| Elon Musk is moving forward with a new generative-AI project at Twitter after purchasing thousands of GPUs 🟢 | Elon Musk is pursuing a Twitter AI project with a large language model despite recently calling to halt AI training. | AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️ | 2023-04-17 |
| Japan government weighs A.I. adoption as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman visits Prime Minister Fumio Kishida 🟢 | Japan exploring OpenAI’s ChatGPT, awaits resolution of cybersecurity concerns. | AI regulation 📜, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-04-17 |
| Italy gives OpenAI initial to-do list for lifting ChatGPT suspension order 🔴 | Italy’s Garante gave OpenAI measures to lift suspension of ChatGPT; issue is GDPR violation. Demands inc. data notice, age gate, rights access. | AI regulation 📜, OpenAI 🌟, ChatGPT 💬 | 2023-04-17 |
| Python Software Foundation News: The EU’s Proposed CRA Law May Have Unintended Consequences for the Python Ecosystem 🔴 | EU’s proposed Cyber Resilience Act & Product Liability Act may harm the Python ecosystem by making open-source authors legally responsible for others’ products. Python Software Foundation seeks clear language to avoid unintended consequences. | 2023-04-17 | |
| With Bedrock, Amazon enters the generative AI race 🟢 | Amazon Bedrock facilitates building AI-powered apps with pre-trained models from startups and AWS through an API to generate images, logos, and graphics. | AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Amazon 🌳 | 2023-04-17 |
| Spain’s privacy watchdog says it’s probing ChatGPT too 🔴 | Spain’s data protection authority probes potential GDPR non-compliance by ChatGPT by OpenAI, following Italy’s example. | AI regulation 📜, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-04-17 |
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| Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI 🟢 | Anthropic aims to raise $5B in 2 yrs to compete with OpenAI using its new AI model, Claude-Next. It has various industries as potential customers. | Funding 💰, Claude 🖋️, Anthropic 🌐, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-04-11 |
| Samsung workers made a major error by using ChatGPT 🔴 | Samsung workers leaked proprietary data through ChatGPT. OpenAI may now possess trade secrets. The incident raised alarms about data privacy and GDPR rule. | AI safety 🔐, AI and copyright ©️, AI regulation 📜, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-04-11 |
| Meta introduced Segment Anything: Working toward the first foundation model for image segmentation 🟢 | Introducing Segment Anything: democratizing image segmentation with SAM — a versatile, promptable model trained on a versatile dataset under Apache 2.0. | AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Model release 🎉, Meta ♾ | 2023-04-11 |
| LangChain announced a $10M seed round led by Benchmark 🟢 | Python and TypeScript package LangChain raised $10M to empower developers building language model-powered apps. Offers modular components to ease prototyping. | Funding 💰 | 2023-04-11 |
| $335,000 pay offered for ‘AI whisperer’ jobs in red-hot market 🟢 | Skills in prompt engineering, training on AI tools, paying up to $335K p.a., are in demand. Red-hot market attracting various sectors, may be overestimating technology. | 2023-04-11 | |
| Amazon tells employees it isn’t falling behind on AI 🟢 🟢 | Amazon execs reassure cloud staff that despite no generative AI wars involvement, company not behind AI game. Partners with Stability AI, Hugging Face. | Amazon 🌳, Stability AI ⚖️, Hugging Face 🤗 | 2023-04-11 |
| Defamed by ChatGPT: My Own Bizarre Experience with Artificiality of “Artificial Intelligence” 🔴 | AI program ChatGPT created false claim of sexual harassment w/o factual basis, warns of biases & dangers of AI in tackling disinformation. | AI safety 🔐, AI regulation 📜, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-04-11 |
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| ChatGPT plugins 🟢 | ChatGPT testing new plugins with select users before launching for widespread use. Features from Wolfram, Slack, and Expedia have been created. | ChatGPT 💬 | 2023-03-27 |
| The AI-powered storytelling format 🟢 | Tome is an AI-powered storytelling platform that allows users to explain complex topics using narration and embeds from other sources. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 | 2023-03-27 |
| Stable Diffusion Reimagine — Stability AI 🟢 | Stability.ai’s Stable Diffusion Reimagine uses AI to make new images from originals. It has limits and biases, but will soon be open-sourced for betterment. | AI for images 🖼️, Stable Diffusion 🎨, Stability AI ⚖️ | 2023-03-27 |
| GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience 🟢 | GitHub unveils GitHub Copilot X, a developer experience that uses OpenAI’s GPT-4 to provide a chat interface, and voice-to-code AI. | AI for coding 👨💻, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-03-27 |
| Meet Bard 🟢 | Bard is a Google AI experiment aiming to improve creativity and productivity by collaborating with users. | Google 🔍 | 2023-03-27 |
| Releasing Alpaca-30B 🟢 | Article explains release of Alpaca-30B, “instruction-tuned” version of Facebook’s Llama model, benefits of fine-tuning, usage steps and community involvement. | Model release 🎉, LLaMA 🦙, Meta ♾ | 2023-03-27 |
| Gen-2 by Runway 🟢 | Gen-2 by Runway is an AI tool that can synthesize new videos using only an image, text prompt, or words without needing a camera or lights. | AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 | 2023-03-27 |
| Introducing 🟢 | Mozilla.ai: Investing in trustworthy AI. Mozilla creates startup Mozilla.ai with $30m initial investment, led by AI expert Moez Draief. They focus on generative AI and people-centric systems. | Funding 💰 | 2023-03-27 |
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| GPT-4 is out 🟢 | GPT-4 is multimodal and accepts also images as inputs. It can handle over 25,000 words of text. GPT-4 can be tested with ChatGPT Plus. Otherwise, there’s an API waitlist. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-03-20 |
| Microsoft announced Microsoft 365 Copilot 🟢 | which combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with your data in the Microsoft Graph — your calendar, emails, chats, documents, meetings, and more — and the Microsoft 365 apps. | Microsoft 🪟 | 2023-03-20 |
| Microsoft spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a ChatGPT supercomputer 🟢 | Microsoft says it connected tens of thousands of Nvidia A100 chips and reworked server racks to build the hardware behind ChatGPT and its own Bing AI bot. | NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, Microsoft 🪟, ChatGPT 💬 | 2023-03-20 |
| PyTorch 2.0 is out 🟢 | 2023-03-20 | ||
| Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams 🔴 | Microsoft 🪟 | 2023-03-20 | |
| New generative AI features in Google Workspace and Cloud 🟢 | Google 🔍 | 2023-03-20 | |
| Adept raised $350M in new funding as part of its Series B 🟢 | Funding 💰 | 2023-03-20 |
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| OpenAI Foundry will let customers buy dedicated compute to run GPT3 and their other models 🟢 | It will soon be possible to have dedicated GPT3 models. | GPT-3, GPT-3.5, and GPT-3.5 turbo 💡, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-02-27 |
| Hugging Face and AWS partner to make AI more accessible 🟢 | Making Generative AI models more open-source. | Hugging Face 🤗, Amazon 🌳 | 2023-02-27 |
| How AI Can Help Create and Optimize Drugs To Treat Opioid Addiction 🟢 | It could save thousands of lives every year. | AI in healthcare 🏥 | 2023-02-27 |
| Roblox Is Bringing Generative AI to Its Gaming Universe 🟢 | The company aims to draw on the new technology’s code-writing ability to make its digital worlds even more customizable. | AI for coding 👨💻 | 2023-02-27 |
| How chatbots can change journalism. Or not 🟢 | Experiments refining newspaper articles with Claude, the chatbot from Anthropic. | Claude 🖋️, Anthropic 🌐 | 2023-02-27 |
| Google Research on Natural sciences 🟢 | Advances in physics, biology, and natural sciences. | Google 🔍 | 2023-02-27 |
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| ChatGPT Plus: a subscription plan for ChatGPT 🟢 | Subscribers will receive general access to ChatGPT, even during peak times, faster response times, and priority access to new features and improvements. ChatGPT Plus will be available for $20/month. | ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-02-06 |
| OpenAI is launching a classifier trained to distinguish between AI-written and human-written text 🟢 | The classifier correctly identifies 26% of AI-written text (true positives) as “likely AI-written,” while incorrectly labeling human-written text as AI-written 9% of the time (false positives). | OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-02-06 |
| Chatbots with GPT3 🟢 | Recent advancements in LLMs, such as GPT-3, can be used for chatbot development. Instead of having many very specific intents, each intent can be broader and leverage a Knowledge Base document. | ChatGPT 💬, GPT-3, GPT-3.5, and GPT-3.5 turbo 💡, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-02-06 |
| OpenAI has ramped up its hiring around the world 🟢 | bringing on roughly 1,000 remote contractors over the past six months to create massive sets of images and audio clips to train AI tools. 60% of the contractors do data labeling and 40% are computer programmers. | AI datasets 📊, AI for coding 👨💻, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-02-06 |
| Scale AI hosted a Generative AI hackathon 🟢 | 2023-02-06 | ||
| Querying NBA stats with GPT-3 + Statmuse + Langchain 🟢 | Using Langchain, the author composed an AI program that combines GPT-3 with Statmuse, a sports stats search engine, to answer multi-part questions about NBA stats. | GPT-3, GPT-3.5, and GPT-3.5 turbo 💡 | 2023-02-06 |
| Noise2Music 🟢 | a series of diffusion models trained to generate high-quality 30-second music clips from text prompts. The generated audio is able to faithfully reflect key elements of the text prompt such as genre, tempo, instruments, mood and era. | Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 | 2023-02-06 |
| Chinese Search Giant Baidu to Launch ChatGPT-Style Bot 🟢 | Baidu, known as China’s Google, will embed it in search engine. | ChatGPT 💬 | 2023-02-06 |
| Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI ask court to throw out AI copyright lawsuit 🔴 | The three companies want to dismiss a complaint that alleges that the AI-powered Copilot relies on ‘software piracy on an unprecedented scale. | AI and copyright ©️, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-02-06 |
| Trends in AI in 2023 🟢 | Predictions on language models, reinforcement learning, robotics, computer vision… | Reinforcement learning 🎮, Robotics 🤖, AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 | 2023-02-06 |
| A Short Chronology Of Deep Learning For Tabular Data 🟢 | 2023-02-06 | ||
| The Flan Collection: a newer & more extensive publicly available collection of tasks, templates & methods for instruction tuning 🟢 | It yields improved performance on all tested evaluation benchmarks & enables models to reason more competently over arbitrary tasks. | AI datasets 📊 | 2023-02-06 |
| The Annotated Transformer 🟢 | an annotated version of the paper “Attention is all you need” in the form of a line-by-line implementation. | 2023-02-06 | |
| The Transformer Family 🟢 | a summary of Transformer architecture improvements. | 2023-02-06 | |
| Google invested $300 million in AI firm Anthropic 🟢 | founded by former OpenAI researcher. | Funding 💰, Anthropic 🌐, Google Gemini 🌌 | 2023-02-06 |
| GPT-3 integrated in Microsoft Teams Premium 🟢 | with AI-generated notes and tasks. | Microsoft 🪟, GPT-3, GPT-3.5, and GPT-3.5 turbo 💡 | 2023-02-06 |
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| Shutterstock has rolled out a generative AI toolkit 🔴 | to create images based on text prompts, while Getty Images is currently embroiled in a lawsuit against Stability AI. | AI and copyright ©️, AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Stability AI ⚖️ | 2023-01-30 |
| ElevenLabs launches Beta platform for creators/publishers to narrate long-form content 🟢 | Powered by deep learning model for speech synthesis, it adjusts delivery based on context. | Text-to-speech 📢 | 2023-01-30 |
| What are RLHF, SFT, and IFT, and how are they used in ChatGPT? 🟢 | Usually, the language-modeling objective of the base model is not sufficient for a model to learn to follow a user’s direction in a helpful way. | Reinforcement learning 🎮, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-01-30 |
| Announcing Hugging Face Competitions 🟢 | that let you create public/private competitions with full control of datasets, metrics and evaluation. | Hugging Face 🤗, AI datasets 📊 | 2023-01-30 |
| Using recursive GPT prompts to generate SQL queries from natural language descriptions 🟢 | AI for coding 👨💻 | 2023-01-30 | |
| Question Answering 🟢 | and Text Summarization are out. New lessons will be published on February 6th. | 2023-01-30 |
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| ChatGPT vs Claude 🟢 | Anthropic has quietly begun testing a new, ChatGPT-like AI assistant named Claude. | Claude 🖋️, Anthropic 🌐, ChatGPT 💬 | 2023-01-23 |
| ChatGPT will soon be available on Azure AI infrastructure 🟢 | Azure OpenAI Service is now generally available, enabling customers to tap into large-scale generative AI models. | Microsoft 🪟, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-01-23 |
| 2022: A Year Full of Amazing AI papers- A Review 🟢 | 2022 has been an amazing year for AI and Data Science. Here’s a curated list of the latest breakthroughs, complete with explanations, links, and code. | 2023-01-23 | |
| Chain of Thought Prompting 🟢 | Chain of Thought (CoT) prompting is an effective way to encourage AI reasoning. It’s been shown to improve accuracy on tasks like arithmetic, commonsense, and symbolic reasoning. Models with 100B+ parameters get the most benefit from CoT prompting. | 2023-01-23 | |
| Getty Images is suing the creators of AI art tool Stable Diffusion for scraping its content 🔴 | Getty Images is suing Stability AI, creators of popular AI art tool Stable Diffusion, over an alleged copyright violation. | AI and copyright ©️, AI for images 🖼️, Stable Diffusion 🎨, Stability AI ⚖️ | 2023-01-23 |
| Reverse Prompt Engineering of Notion AI 🟢 | The author used prompt injection to obtain the complete source prompts of every Notion AI feature, leveraging several techniques. | 2023-01-23 | |
| Transformer models: an introduction and catalog — 2023 Edition 🟢 | A catalog of popular transformer models from the last years, including ChatGPT, GPT3.5, and other models from Eleuther, Anthropic, Deepmind, and Stability. | Anthropic 🌐, DeepMind 🧩, ChatGPT 💬, GPT-3, GPT-3.5, and GPT-3.5 turbo 💡, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-01-23 |
| Language, Vision and Generative Models at Google in 2022 🟢 | The article contains a summary of the AI work done by Google in 2022, talking about LaMDA, PaLM, and other NLP advancements. | Google 🔍 | 2023-01-23 |
| Nvidia Debuts Generative AI Model for Medical Research 🟢 | Nvidia and Evozyne have debuted ProT-VAE, a generative AI model capable of producing proteins to use in medicine and other industries. The model uses deep learning and generative AI to synthesize variants of proteins to create more effective enzymes. | AI in healthcare 🏥, NVIDIA 🎮 | 2023-01-23 |
| Boston Dynamics’ Atlas shows off its acrobatic ‘gopher’ skills 🟢 | Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot shows off its amazing acrobatic skills in a new demo video. It grabs and places a plank, jumps and spins, and even hucks a tool bag with impressive dexterity. | Robotics 🤖 | 2023-01-23 |
| Introducing Karlo, an Open Source DALL-E 2 (unCLIP) 🟢 | Karlo is a text-conditional image generation model based on OpenAI’s unCLIP architecture with the improvement over the standard super-resolution model from 64px to 256px, recovering high-frequency details only in the small number of denoising steps. | AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, OpenAI 🌟 | 2023-01-23 |