Introducing PaperQA2, the first AI agent that conducts entire scientific literature reviews on its own.

Source: https://x.com/SGRodriques/status/1833908643856818443

What Else is Happening in AI on September 12th 2024!

OpenAI is reportedly in talks to raise $6.5 billion (plus another $5 billion credit line with banks) at a $150 billion valuation, significantly higher than its previous $86 billion valuation.

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-11/openai-fundraising-set-to-vault-startup-s-value-to-150-billion

Meta is reportedly finalizing a new AI supercomputing cluster with over 100,000 Nvidia H100 chips to train its next Llama 4 language model.

Source: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-will-soon-get-a-100-000-gpu-cluster-too-whats-life-at-character-like-now

Canada’s Defence Minister announced the country is working on incorporating AI into its military by 2030, emphasizing for the tech to “improve the work of our military personnel, but not to replace it”.

Source: https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/canada-working-on-military-ai-blair-says-as-he-endorses-international-agreement-1.7033904

Kai-Fu Lee (former head of Google China), stated that Chinese AI models lag behind U.S. by 6 to 9 months, but predicts that Chinese AI apps will proliferate faster than in the U.S. by early next year.

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/11/chinas-ai-models-lag-their-us-counterparts-by-6-to-9-months-says-former-head-of-google-china.html

Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris for president, partly prompted by AI-generated deepfakes falsely showing her supporting Trump.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/10/24241538/taylor-swift-endorses-kamala-harris-donald-trump-ai-endorsement-deepfake

Oracle unveiled over 50 AI agents for its Fusion Cloud Applications Suite, designed to automate business processes across functions like capital management, supply chain, and customer experience.

Source: https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/news/366610494/Oracle-launches-over-50-AI-Agents-for-business-use

Algorithm takes robots a step closer to being able to ‘act on intuition’.

Source: https://techxplore.com/news/2024-09-algorithm-robots-closer-intuition.html

Nevada will use Google’s AI to help decide if people should receive unemployment benefits.

Source: https://www.techspot.com/news/104696-nevada-use-google-ai-help-decide-if-people.html

A Daily Chronicle of AI Innovations on September 11th 2024:

 OpenAI’s Strawberry set for early release

 Engineer creates AI-designed walking table

 Create photo-illustration blends with AI

 Waymo’s driverless cars outperform humans

🤷‍♂️ Meta scraped every Australian user’s account to train its AI

🔮 Mistral releases Pixtral 12B, its first multimodal AI model

💻 Sergey Brin says Google engineers underutilize AI for coding

 OpenAI’s Strawberry set for early release

According to a new report by The Information, OpenAI is planning to release Strawberry, its reasoning-focused AI model, as part of ChatGPT within the next two weeks — earlier than the originally expected fall timeline.

• According to early testers, Strawberry “thinks” for 10-20 seconds before responding, unlike typical AI models that answer immediately.
• The initial version will only handle text input and output, not images, making it non-multimodal unlike other recent AI models.
• Strawberry is expected to improve complex query handling without requiring users to use specialized prompt techniques like “chain-of-thought-prompting“.
• Early testers also said that Strawberry’s responses, while slightly better than GPT-4o, may not be worth the extra 10-20 second wait time.

If it lives up to reports, Strawberry will likely excel not only on objective tasks (math, coding) but also subjective ones (like product marketing) and open up a whole new world of practical AI use cases. But with early testers reporting that the model is only “slightly better“, is it really worth all the hype? We’ll find out soon.

Source: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/new-details-on-openais-strawberry-apples-siri-makeover-larry-ellison-doubles-down-on-data-centers

 Engineer creates AI-designed walking table

Dutch engineer Giliam de Carpentier has created the ‘Carpentopod’, a wireless walking wooden coffee table, using an AI-optimized leg mechanism designed through evolutionary algorithms.

• The leg mechanism was developed using software that simulated thousands of generations of designs, optimizing for walking speed, clearance, and efficiency.
• The table features 12 legs (six on each end) made from precision-cut laminated bamboo, controlled by two motors.
• Carpentier developed a custom motor control software and uses a repurposed Nunchuck controller for remote operation.
• Watch a live demo of the walking coffee table in action here.

This project shows how makers are combining AI, traditional craftsmanship, and modern fabrication techniques to create unique projects that blur the lines between art, engineering, and furniture design. AI for design optimization, even for seemingly simple mechanical systems — is just getting started.

Source: https://www.decarpentier.nl/carpentopod

 Create photo-illustration blends with AI

Using this unique prompt, AI image generators like Freepik and Midjourney can create images that blend both photography and illustration together.

1. Choose an AI image generator (e.g., Freepik or Midjourney).
2. Use this prompt template: “Blending of editorial photography and illustration, model, illustration fashion outfit, surreal environment of vibrant bold illustrations blending with the subject, flowers, smoke, flames and sparkles, half photography and half illustration”.
3. Generate your image and check out the results.
4. Upscale using 2K resolution, add “mix of photography and illustration” to the upscaler prompt, and apply “subtle” and “digital art” parameters.

Source: https://university.therundown.ai/c/daily-tutorials/create-photo-illustration-blends-with-ai-15b43823-d20a-4895-968d-fead4eb3e0ef

 Waymo’s driverless cars outperform humans

A new deep dive into Waymo’s new crash data suggests that driverless cars are significantly safer than human-driven vehicles, with fewer injury-causing crashes and airbag deployments per mile driven.

• Waymo vehicles have traveled over 22 million miles, with only 20 injury-causing crashes reported.
• This rate is less than one-third of what’s expected for human drivers in similar conditions.
• Out of 23 severe crashes, 16 involved human drivers rear-ending Waymo vehicles.
• Waymo estimates its vehicles are one-sixth as likely as human drivers to experience crashes triggering airbag deployment.

As Waymo rapidly scales up its robotaxi service — now providing 100,000 rides per week — these safety statistics are crucial. The data suggests that we now have safe self-driving cars, and that these AI-driven cars could significantly reduce road accidents and injuries.

Source: https://x.com/binarybits/status/1833528077496029643

US Man Charged In Historic AI Music Fraud Case: Used Thousands Of Bots To Stream Fake Songs, Raked In $10M In Royalties

An American musician is facing charges for using AI to fraudulently inflate his song streams and earn millions in royalties. Prosecutors have never seen a case like this before. The musician faces decades in prison if convicted.

Source: Read the full story: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-man-charged-historic-ai-music-fraud-case-used-thousands-bots-stream-fake-songs-raked-10m-1726815

James Earl Jones’ Darth Vader voice lives on through AI. Voice actors see promise and peril in that

James Earl Jones’ Darth Vader voice lives on through AI. Voice actors see promise and peril in that
Source: https://candorium.com/news/20240911050001425/james-earl-jones-darth-vader-voice-lives-on-through-ai-voice-actors-see-promise-and-peril-in-that

Taylor Swift says AI version of herself falsely endorsing Trump ‘conjured up my fears’

Source: https://www.the-express.com/entertainment/celebrity-news/148376/taylor-swift-ai-fake-trump-endorsement-fears

🤷‍♂️ Meta scraped every Australian user’s account to train its AI

• Meta’s global privacy director admitted that Meta scrapes photos and texts from all public Facebook and Instagram posts from Australian users since 2007 to train its AI technology.
• Unlike the European Union, Australian users do not have an opt-out option from data collection for AI training, which Meta attributes to the lack of specific privacy regulations in Australia.
• Meta does not scrape data from users under 18 but collects information if shared on accounts managed by their parents or guardians, indicating a gap in data protection for minors.
• Source: https://www.engadget.com/apps/meta-scraped-every-australian-users-account-to-train-its-ai-120026200.html

🔮 Mistral releases Pixtral 12B, its first multimodal AI model

• Mistral has launched Pixtral 12B, a 12-billion-parameter multimodal model capable of processing both images and text, making it the company’s first such model.
• This new model, which is built on Mistral’s existing Nemo 12B text model, can interpret images of various sizes and can be accessed via platforms like GitHub and Hugging Face.
• Pixtral 12B’s release follows Mistral’s successful $645 million funding round, positioning the company as a significant European contender in the AI industry, comparable to OpenAI.
• Source: Mistral releases Pixtral 12B, its first multimodal model | TechCrunch

💻 Sergey Brin says Google engineers underutilize AI for coding

Sergey Brin, Google’s cofounder, believes that the company’s engineers are not using artificial intelligence for coding as frequently as they should.

• Brin, speaking at the “All-In” summit, emphasized that AI’s advancement could simplify tasks like writing code, yet engineers remain conservative in their AI utilization.
• At the summit, Brin showcased an experiment where Google’s AI successfully generated Sudoku puzzle versions in just 30 minutes, demonstrating its potential in programming.
• Source: Sergey Brin Says Google Engineers Don’t Use AI As Much As They Should – Business Insider

NotebookLM.Google.com can now generate podcasts from your Documents and URLs!

Ready to have your mind blown? This is not an ad or promotion for my product. It is a public Google product that I just find fascinating!

This is one of the most amazing uses of AI that I have come across and it went live to the public today!

For those who aren’t using Google NotebookLM, you are missing out. In a nutshell it lets up upload up to 100 docs each up to 200,000 words and generate summaries, quizes, etc. You can interrogate the documents and find out key details. That alone is cool, but TODAY they released a mind blowing enhancement.

Google NotebookLM can now generate podcasts (with a male and female host) from your Documents and Web Pages!

Try it by going to NotebookLM.google.com uploading your resume or any other document or pointing it to a website. Then click * Notebook Guide to the right of the input field and select Generate under Audio Overview. It takes a few minutes but it will generate a podcast about your documents! It is amazing!!

Source: http://notebooklm.google.com/

What Else is Happening in AI  on September 11th 2024?

China refuses to sign agreement to ban AI from controlling nuclear weapons.

Source: https://fortune.com/2024/09/10/china-ai-ban-nuclear-weapons

SambaNova launched SambaNova Cloud, claiming it’s the world’s fastest AI inference platform, running Llama 3.1 70B at 461 tokens per second and 405B at 132 tokens per second at full precision.

Source: https://x.com/SambaNovaAI/status/1833504179148755122

Salesforce introduced Industries AI, embedding over 100 industry-specific AI capabilities across 15 industry clouds to address unique challenges.

Source: https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/industries-ai-announcement

Glean raised over $260 million in new funding at a whopping $4.6 billion valuation, co-led by Altimeter and DST Global, to expand its Work AI platform.

Source: https://x.com/jainarvind/status/1833479487415325006

Anthropic unveiled Workspaces in its API Console, allowing developers to manage multiple Claude deployments with granular controls for spend limits, rate limits, and access management.

Source: https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1833529395765776615

UBS developed an AI tool capable of analyzing 300,000 companies in 20 seconds to generate M&A ideas and identify potential buyers.

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-10/ubs-has-an-ai-tool-that-can-scan-300-000-firms-in-20-seconds

The Australian government proposed new legal requirements for AI in high-risk settings and introduced a Voluntary AI Safety Standard for businesses.

Source: https://www.climatecontrolnews.com.au/contracting/new-ai-safety-standard

A Daily Chronicle of AI Innovations on September 10th 2024:

 Apple launches AI-powered iPhone 16

 Google’s AlphaProteo AI designs new protein binders

 OpenAI backs new drug discovery startup

 AI generates ideas better than humans

 iPhone 16 gets AI superpowers

Apple just launched the iPhone 16, and it’s all about AI. The new A18 chip powers Apple Intelligence, a suite of AI features:

• Smarter writing tools that can rewrite emails and create custom emojis,
• Photo searches that understand natural language, and
• Siri finally gets what you’re saying (and can actually do something about it).

But it’s not just about the iPhone. Apple is bringing AI to the whole ecosystem. The Apple Watch Series 10 is 10% lighter and adds AI features like smart photo curation for watch faces. AirPods 4 now understands head gestures, letting you nod or shake to respond to Siri. While iOS 18 launches September 16, the full suite of Apple Intelligence features will roll out gradually through 2024, starting with a U.S. beta this fall.

Why does it matter?

By developing its own AI models and integrating them deeply into its ecosystem, Apple is not just competing with Google and OpenAI – it’s changing what we expect from our devices.

Source: https://www.apple.com/apple-events

Apple Faces Criticism in China Over Lack of AI in New iPhones as Huawei Gains Ground

The latest iPhones unveiled by Apple lack AI in China and people are angered while Huawei’s advancement continues. It is widely believed that China consumers are dissatisfied with the newest iPhone released by Apple as it lacks the integration of new age Artificial Intelligence. This has created concern for the tech giant particularly when Huawei is now a more enhanced competitor.

Source: https://theaiwired.com/apple-faces-criticism-in-china-over-lack-of-ai-in-new-iphones-as-huawei-gains-ground/

Google’s AlphaProteo AI designs new protein binders

Google DeepMind’s new AI, AlphaProteo, can design novel proteins that bind to specific targets up to 300 times more effectively than current methods. In lab tests, AlphaProteo’s creations successfully designed binders for 7 out of 8 target proteins, including some linked to cancer and viral infections.

It could accelerate drug discovery processes, improve disease diagnostic tools, and contribute to developing pest-resistant crops. While AlphaProteo could not design a binder for one challenging protein (TNFα), Google’s research team is actively expanding the system’s capabilities to address more complex targets.

Why does it matter?

This shows how AI can accelerate the development of new treatments for diseases like cancer and create more effective diagnostic tools. It also saves years of lab work and billions in research costs, potentially bringing life-saving drugs to market faster.

Source: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaproteo-generates-novel-proteins-for-biology-and-health-research

 OpenAI backs new drug discovery startup

 OpenAI and Thrive Capital recently backed Chai Discovery, a six-month-old AI biology startup founded by ex-OpenAI and Meta researchers that raised $30 million to develop AI models for drug discovery.

• Chai’s AI model, Chai-1, predicts biochemical molecule structures, potentially speeding up drug development.
• The company claims Chai-1 outperforms Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold on certain benchmarks.
• Chai-1 can work with proteins, small molecules, DNA, and RNA, making it versatile for various applications.
• Chai is making its first model free and open-source for non-commercial use.

Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold is the pinnacle of protein prediction models, and Chai is already giving it a run for its money. The more money flowing into drug discovery, the closer we get to curing major diseases using AI — and Chai is even open-sourcing its first model for the benefit of humanity.

Source: https://www.chaidiscovery.com/blog/introducing-chai-1

 AI generates ideas better than humans

Researchers found that AI ideas are judged as more novel, though slightly less feasible, than those from human experts in a study comparing AI-generated research ideas in natural language processing (NLP).

• Over 100 NLP researchers were recruited to write novel ideas and review both AI and human-generated ideas.
• The ideas were evaluated blindly, meaning reviewers did not know which were AI-generated.
• AI-generated ideas were rated as significantly more novel than human expert ideas, but less feasible.
• The study also identified challenges in AI idea generation, including issues with self-evaluation and lack of diversity in outputs.

This is one of the biggest, most important questions surrounding AI — can it spark innovation and accelerate scientific discovery? The answer, according to this study, is a resounding yes.

Source: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.04109

New bill would force AI companies to reveal source of AI art

• A bill introduced in the US Congress seeks to compel AI companies to reveal the copyrighted material they use for their generative AI models.
• The legislation, known as the Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act, would require companies to submit copyrighted works in their training datasets to the Register of Copyrights before launching new AI systems.
• If companies fail to comply, they could face financial penalties.
• The bill has garnered support from various entertainment industry organizations and unions.
• AI companies like OpenAI are facing lawsuits over alleged use of copyrighted works, claiming fair use as a defense.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/09/artificial-intelligence-bill-copyright-art

Is the impact of generative AI on elections overblown?

Matt Motyl , a researcher at the Integrity Institute, explains that the impact of AI on elections might be overblown. Despite widespread concerns, Motyl points out that real-world events still pack more punch than AI-generated content in shaping public opinion. He suggests that the ease of creating fake content with AI isn’t the main issue – it’s the distribution mechanisms on social media platforms that need addressing.

Source: https://mattmotyl.substack.com/p/impact-of-generative-ai-on-elections

Exploring the Frontiers of Language AI: LLM Tensors with Markov Chain Induced Virtual Neuron Pairs

It would be a groundbreaking development at the intersection of linguistics, mathematics, and artificial intelligence, if true. A leaked internal paper states that Apple AI researchers are delving into a novel field dubbed “LLM Tensors with Markov Chain Induced Virtual Neuron Pairs.” This cutting-edge approach promises to revolutionize our understanding of language models and potentially unlock new capabilities in AI-driven language processing. The Fundamentals

At its core, this research combines several complex concepts: Large Language Models (LLMs): The foundation of modern AI-driven text generation and understanding. Tensor Mathematics: Advanced linear algebra used to represent multi-dimensional data. Markov Chains: Probabilistic models that predict future states based on current states. Virtual Neuron Pairs: A theoretical construct representing emergent properties in neural networks. Key Innovations

The primary innovation lies in the creation of “Tensor-Markov Embedding Spaces.” These are high-dimensional mathematical constructs where each dimension corresponds to a specific linguistic feature. Within these spaces, language evolution is modeled using Markov chain probabilities, allowing for a more dynamic and context-sensitive representation of language. Another crucial aspect is the concept of “Virtual Neuron Pair Attention.” These pairs, while not physically present in the network, emerge from the interactions of real neurons. They act as specialized attention mechanisms, focusing on specific semantic relationships and potentially enabling more nuanced language understanding. Potential Applications

This research could lead to significant advancements in various fields: Machine Translation: More accurate and context-aware translations between languages. Content Generation: AI-generated text with improved coherence and style consistency. Sentiment Analysis: Deeper understanding of complex emotional nuances in text. Linguistic Research: New tools for studying language evolution and structure. Challenges and Future Directions

While promising, this field faces substantial challenges. The computational resources required to model these complex tensor spaces are immense. Future research will focus on refining the mathematical models, developing more efficient computational methods, and conducting extensive empirical studies to validate the approach’s effectiveness. The tweet with a link to the PDF was deleted, and this is only a summary.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtificialInteligence/comments/1fdds07/exploring_the_frontiers_of_language_ai_llm

What Else is Happening in AI on September 10th 2024!

Audible announced plans to create AI voice replicas of select US-based audiobook narrators, including a royalty-sharing model for AI-narrated books.

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-09/amazon-s-audible-to-create-ai-voice-replicas-of-select-audiobook-narrators

Oscar-nominated studio XTR acquired AI animation studio Late Night Labs, launching Asteria Film Co. to produce AI-powered animations.

Source: https://variety.com/2024/film/news/xtr-buys-ai-animation-company-late-night-labs-1236137868

BP signed a five-year deal with Palantir to expand AI use in its operations, aiming to speed up engineer decision-making with LLMs.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/sep/09/bp-ai-deal-palantir-oil-gas-artificial-intelligence

Roche expanded its digital pathology open environment, integrating over 20 AI algorithms from eight new collaborators to enhance cancer diagnostics and research.

Source: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/roche-advances-ai-driven-cancer-diagnostics-by-expanding-its-digital-pathology-open-environment-302241196.html

Researchers introduced Robot Utility Models (RUMs), a zero-shot method for training robot policies that can perform new tasks in unfamiliar environments.

Source: https://x.com/LerrelPinto/status/1833172778326925391

 Recently, researchers created AI agents that can play procedurally generated video game levels to evaluate human engagement, helping to speed up game design.

Source: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.02632

A Daily Chronicle of AI Innovations on September 09th 2024:

 Apple debuts AI-boosted iPhone 16

 xAI could help Tesla with FSD, Optimus, and Siri-like feature

 New robot butler does your chores

 Tesla Robotaxi to charge wirelessly

 AI rates fun factor of video game levels

 New robot butler does your chores

Weave just announced Isaac, a versatile personal robot designed to help with various household tasks, made in California and set to ship to its first customers in fall 2025.

• Isaac can autonomously tidy up, fold laundry, organize spaces, and perform many other household chores.
• The robot butler responds to voice or text commands and can be programmed via an app.
• The camera that Isaac carries around folds away and stows in an included enclosure when not in use for privacy reasons.
• Weave plans on charging $59,000 (or $1,385 per month for 48 months) with a $1,000 reservation fee for 30 lucky US customers.

The competition for affordable, intelligent, personal robot assistants is continuing to heat up, and it looks like we’ll start to see these robots in homes by 2025. Whether its Tesla’s Optimus, 1X’s NEO Beta, China’s AGIBOT, or Weave’s Isaac — we’re just excited to not fold laundry ever again.

Source: https://www.weaverobots.com/

 Tesla Robotaxi to charge wirelessly

A new patent from Tesla has revealed its advanced wireless charging system, potentially solving the need to manually plug in electric vehicles — allowing autonomous Robotaxis to charge without human intervention.

• The patent, filed in February and published recently, highlights a system that uses smart technology to adapt to variations in wireless charging conditions.
• It mentions a ground pad and a vehicle pad that work together to charge the car without any wires.
• The charging station can estimate and adjust for changes in coil inductance, improving efficiency and safety.
• Tesla may unveil this wireless charging technology at their upcoming Robotaxi event next month, aligning with the tech’s potential to enable self-driving vehicles to charge autonomously.

While wireless charging for EVs doesn’t solve a major problem, it could be a game-changer for self-driving vehicles. If Tesla’s Robotaxis can charge wirelessly, they could autonomously operate almost endlessly without human intervention — an important feature to keeping the fleet of taxis running 24/7.

Source: https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2024182372

 AI rates fun factor of video game levels

Researchers recently developed AI agents that can “play” procedurally-generated video game levels to evaluate how engaging they are for human players, helping to quicken the pace of game design.

• Researchers used AI agents to explore levels from the video game Super Mario Bros for high places, interesting objects, and more.
• The AI explored five “engaging” and five “unengaging” levels, judging them based on factors like how much of the level they covered and how many new things they found.
• The AI agents consistently rated the engaging levels higher than the unengaging ones.
• This technique could help game designers automatically test and improve their levels before human playtesters try them.

This AI-powered approach to video game evaluation could speed up game development and lead to more consistently fun levels for humans to explore. As we saw with Google’s DOOM clone — we might be approaching an era where AI not only rates games but creates them from the ground up.

Source: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.02632

 Apple debuts AI-boosted iPhone 16

• Apple unveiled the iPhone 16 at its “Glowtime” event, featuring new generative AI functionalities designed into the device from the ground up, starting at a price of $799.
• The smartphone boasts a dedicated camera button for quick photo and video capture, a 48-megapixel main camera with improved low-light capabilities, and a new vertical lens layout.
• Powered by the 3 nm A18 chip, the iPhone 16 offers up to 30% increased speed and 35% better power efficiency, with larger batteries promoting enhanced battery life.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/09/apple-iphone-16-announced/

xAI could help Tesla with FSD, Optimus, and Siri-like feature

• Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, could help Tesla with its Full Self-Driving (FSD) software, Optimus humanoid robot, and a Siri-like voice assistant by licensing xAI’s AI models, according to the Wall Street Journal.
• The potential revenue-sharing deal between Tesla and xAI would depend on the extent of xAI’s technology used, with discussions even suggesting an even split for FSD.
• Musk has expressed intentions to integrate xAI more deeply with Tesla, discussing a potential $5 billion investment and highlighting xAI’s contributions to advancing Tesla’s projects, though this has raised concerns among some investors and lawmakers.

Source: https://fortune.com/2024/09/08/elon-musk-xai-artificial-intelligence-tesla-fsd-optimus-revenue-sharing-robotaxi/

What Else is Happening in AI on September 07th 2024!

OpenAI reported over 1 million paying users across its business products ChatGPT Enterprise, Team, and Edu within their first year of launch.

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-05/openai-hits-1-million-paid-users-for-business-version-of-chatgpt

Google Photos upgraded search with natural language queries and launched “Ask Photos”, an AI-powered conversational search feature for US users.

Source: https://blog.google/products/photos/google-ask-photos-early-access

X permanently stopped Grok AI from using EU citizens’ tweets after legal action by Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner.

Source: https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/x-permanently-stops-grok-ai-from-using-eu-citizens-tweets-after-court-action-by-irish-data-watchdog/a168142842.html

Qualcomm CEO revealed that its partnership with Samsung and Google is developing mixed reality smart glasses as a companion device for smartphones.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/5/24236545/qualcomm-mixed-reality-smart-glasses-google-samsung

DeepSeek released version 2.5, a 238B-parameter model with enhanced chat, coding, and 128k context length capabilities.

Source: https://x.com/osanseviero/status/1832037954224545978

OpenAI clarified that “GPT-Next” mentioned in a presentation is not a new model, but a placeholder term to illustrate potential future AI models.

Source: https://mashable.com/article/openai-clarifies-no-gpt-next-not-a-new-model

YouTube is developing AI detection tools for synthetic music and faces, and creator controls for AI model training, to protect content creators.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/05/youtube-is-developing-ai-detection-tools-for-music-and-faces-plus-creator-controls-for-ai-training

LLM chatbots, search engines will co-exist, says Google’s Raghavan.

Source: https://www.livemint.com/technology/llm-chatbots-chatgpt-seo-ai-search-engines-google-search-prabhakar-raghavan-ads-genai-slms-11725770982208.html

Anthropic’s Mike Krieger wants to build AI products that are worth the hype.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/24237562/anthropic-mike-krieger-claude-ai-chatbot-artifact-web-decoder-podcast-interview

A Daily Chronicle of AI Innovations on September 06th 2024:

 OpenAI’s new AI models could cost up to $2,000/month

 Man accused of using bots and AI to earn $10 million in royalties

 Google’s Gemini-powered photo search arrives in early access

 New AI model ‘learns’ how to simulate Super Mario Bros. from video footage

 Google DeepMind reveals ‘AlphaProteo’

 New AI agent builds apps from prompts

 Find top prompts with Google’s Prompt Gallery

 AI creates infinite Super Mario Bros game

 Google DeepMind reveals ‘AlphaProteo’

Google DeepMind just unveiled AlphaProteo, a groundbreaking AI system that designs custom proteins to bind with specific molecular targets, potentially turbocharging drug discovery and cancer research.

• AlphaProteo creates proteins that stick to specific targets like a biological lock and key, which is 3 to 300 times better at creating strong-binding proteins than current methods.
• The AI successfully designed binders for 7 out of 8 diverse targets, including cancer-related proteins.
• Independent tests showed some AlphaProteo designs could stop SARS-CoV-2 (Covid) from infecting cells and slash years of lab work down to days or weeks.

AlphaProteo could help us block viruses, fight cancer, and treat diseases in new ways using more targeted treatment approaches that could have far less side effects. This could dramatically accelerate drug discovery, potentially saving billions in R&D costs and bring life-saving treatments to patients faster.

Source: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaproteo-generates-novel-proteins-for-biology-and-health-research

 New AI agent builds apps from prompts

Replit just launched an AI-powered tool called Replit Agent that can create software applications based on simple text descriptions, making coding more accessible to people of all skill levels.

• Users can describe the app they want to build in natural language, and the AI will generate a customizable plan and start to code.
• The agent can choose appropriate technologies and frameworks for the project and create web-based apps from scratch.
• Users can also interact with the agent, providing feedback and additional information as needed.
• The tool is available now on both web and mobile platforms for Replit Core and Teams subscribers.

AI is good at coding, but setting up an integrated development environment is still a major roadblock for most new coders. Replit Agent does this automatically and helps complete beginners go from idea to a fully functional app in a few prompts. It’s never been easier to build something cool.

Source: https://docs.replit.com/replitai/agent

 Find top prompts with Google’s Prompt Gallery

Google AI Studio’s new Prompt Gallery offers pre-made prompts to help you craft better queries for the latest Gemini models.

1. Visit Google’s Prompt Gallery.
2. Browse and select a pre-made prompt that interests you and click on the prompting use case you want to use.
3. Sign in to Google AI Studio, and customize the prompt to fit your specific needs.
4. Adjust settings (e.g., model or temperature) and click “Run” to generate your AI-powered response.

Source: https://university.therundown.ai/c/daily-tutorials/improve-your-prompts-with-google-s-prompt-gallery-984194a6-ddba-4f38-b42f-1c56b1d92645

Pro tip: Mix and match ideas from different pre-made prompts to create unique queries specific to your projects!

 AI creates infinite Super Mario Bros game

Researchers developed an AI system called MarioVGG that can generate an infinitely playable Super Mario Bros game entirely through video, without using a traditional game engine.

• MarioVGG is a text-to-video AI model trained specifically on Super Mario Bros gameplay with a single consumer-grade GPU in just 48 hours.
• It can generate continuous, infinite game footage based on simple text commands like “run” or “jump”.
• The AI simulates game physics, mimics character movements, and even creates new levels on demand.

A week ago, Google created an AI-generated DOOM video game. Now, we have infinite Super Mario Bros. In the future, with tech like this, anyone will be able to create custom, interactive games simply by describing them to an AI.

Source: https://virtual-protocol.github.io/mario-videogamegen/static/pdfs/VideoGameGen.pdf?

OpenAI’s new AI models could cost up to $2,000/month

• OpenAI is reportedly considering a subscription fee of up to $2,000 per month for its upcoming large language models, codenamed Strawberry and Orion.
• The company plans to launch Strawberry this fall, which is anticipated to surpass current AI models in solving complex problems, including unseen math problems and market strategies.
• OpenAI is also reportedly aiming to raise several billion dollars in a new funding round, potentially valuing the company at over $100 billion, with possible investors including Apple, NVIDIA, and Microsoft.

Source: https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/science/openai-may-charge-2-000-month-for-advanced-ai-models/story

Man accused of using bots and AI to earn $10 million in royalties

• A musician named Michael Smith from North Carolina has been charged with wire fraud conspiracy, wire fraud, and money laundering conspiracy for using AI-generated songs to fake music streams and collect over $10 million in royalties.
• From 2017 to 2024, Smith allegedly employed AI to create songs and used automated bots to inflate streaming numbers, exploiting platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music, leading to around $1.2 million in annual royalties.
• The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York revealed that Smith is accused of deceiving the streaming systems, with billions of fraudulent streams, resulting in charges that could lead to up to 20 years in prison each.
• Source:  https://decrypt.co/248161/music-for-bots-doj-fake-ai-songs-streaming

 Google’s Gemini-powered photo search arrives in early access 

• Google Photos has revamped its search function, allowing users to search using everyday language for terms like “Alice and me laughing” or “kayaking on a lake surrounded by mountains,” rather than specific keywords.
• The new ‘Ask Photos’ feature, now with an open waitlist in the US, uses Gemini-powered AI to answer natural language questions about your photos, making it act like an AI-powered photographic memory.
• Google assures users that their data is protected with top-notch security and won’t be used for ads, with queries reviewed anonymously if needed to improve the ‘Ask Photos’ feature.
• Source: https://www.techradar.com/computing/cloud-computing/google-photos-gets-a-massive-search-upgrade-and-opens-its-waitlist-for-black-mirror-style-ask-photos-feature

 New AI model ‘learns’ how to simulate Super Mario Bros. from video footage

• The MarioVGG model, despite showing glitches and being slow, demonstrates how even a limited AI can infer game physics and dynamics from video and input data.
• Researchers aim to develop a controllable video game generator or potentially replace traditional game development and engines with video generation models in the future.
• Training involved using a public Super Mario Bros. gameplay dataset of over 737,000 frames, focusing on limited inputs like “run right” and “run right and jump” to create consistent gameplay sequences.
• Source: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/09/new-ai-model-learns-how-to-simulate-super-mario-bros-from-video-footage/

What Else is Happening in AI on September 06th 2024!

OpenAI reportedly considered high-priced subscriptions up to $2,000 per month for advanced AI models like Strawberry and Orion.

Source: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-considers-higher-priced-subscriptions-to-its-chatbot-ai-preview-of-the-informations-ai-summit

Tesla announced plans to launch AI-powered Full Self-Driving in China and Europe by early 2025, pending regulatory approval.

Source: https://www.investors.com/news/tesla-stock-china-fsd-ai-roadmap

Dell Technologies reported surging AI server sales, with CEO Michael Dell dismissing concerns about an AI spending slowdown.

Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/michael-dell-on-ai-talk-of-a-slowdown-is-way-overblown-231351649.html

The US, EU, and UK signed the world’s first legally binding international AI treaty, emphasizing human rights and accountability in AI regulation.

Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/global-ai-treaty-human-rights-regulation

Microsoft announced its “Microsoft 365 Copilot: Wave 2” event for September 16, promising the reveal next-phase developments for its AI assistant.

Source: https://www.linkedin.com/events/7236780403867443202

Ada leveraged GPT-4 to double customer service resolution rates, aiming for 100% automated query resolution in the near future.

Source: https://openai.com/index/ada/

LMSYS opened beta testing signups for Copilot Arena, a new AI assistant comparison platform for tools like Cursor AI and Copilot.

Source: https://x.com/lmsysorg/status/1831733622401036703

YouTube is making tools to detect face and voice deepfakes.

Source: https://www.engadget.com/ai/youtube-is-making-tools-to-detect-face-and-voice-deepfakes-191536027.html

Marc Benioff says Salesforce is basically starting from a ‘beginner’s mind’ mentality and going all in on AI agents.

Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-says-new-focus-on-ai-agents-2024-9

A Daily Chronicle of AI Innovations on September 05th 2024:

 OpenAI co-founder raises $1B for AI safety

 The fastest AI model goes multimodal

 Turn any text into speech in seconds

 AI gets smarter by re-reading questions

 Engineers gave a mushroom a robot body and let it run wild

 OpenAI co-founder raises $1B for AI safety

Safe Superintelligence (SSI), a new AI startup co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, just raised $1 billion in funding to develop safe AI systems that surpass human intelligence.

• SSI plans to focus on AI safety, aiming to create superintelligent AI systems that are safe for humans and will spend years on R&D before bringing any product to market.
• Sutskever, Daniel Gross, and Daniel Levy founded SSI just three months ago, and the company is now valued at $5 billion.
• The startup, which only has ten employees, plans to use the funds to acquire computing power and hire top talent.
• Investors include major venture capital firms like Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital.

This is the first time a startup — that only came into existence three months ago — raised a whopping $1 billion dollars for a seed round. But it doesn’t come without reason, as Ilya Sutskever was one of the main reasons OpenAI is what it is today, and SSI is bound to attract some incredible talent.

Source: https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-co-founder-sutskevers-new-safety-focused-ai-startup-ssi-raises-1-billion-2024-09-04

 The fastest AI model goes multimodal

Groq just launched LLaVA v1.5 7B, a powerful, new multimodal AI model that can understand both images and text and reportedly runs 4x faster than OpenAI’s GPT-4o.

• LLaVA v1.5 7B can answer questions about images, generate captions, and engage in conversations involving text, voice, and pictures.
• The model can also be used for various tasks like visual product inspection, inventory management, and creating image descriptions for visually impaired users.
• This is Groq’s first venture into multimodal models and faster processing times on image, audio, and text inputs could lead to better AI assistants.
• Groq is currently offering this model for free in “Preview Mode” for developers to experiment with.

Groq went viral earlier this year for its blazing-fast AI speeds — and now it’s pairing those capabilities with powerful multimodal models. When it comes to AI apps, faster is always better, and the insane speeds paired with advanced models open the door for an endless supply of new applications.

Source: https://groq.com/introducing-llava-v1-5-7b-on-groqcloud-unlocking-the-power-of-multimodal-ai

 Turn any text into speech in seconds

ElevenLabs’ free mobile app (for both iOS and Android) allows users to convert any text into high-quality audio using AI voiceovers, across multiple languages.

Step-by-step:

1. Download the ElevenLabs app from their website and create a free account.
2. Tap the “+” icon and choose “Submit File” to upload your text.
3. Tap “Generate” to create your audio file, then find it in your library to listen.

Pro tip: You can truly customize your audio by selecting from hundreds of AI voice options.

Source: https://university.therundown.ai/c/daily-tutorials/turn-any-text-into-speech-in-seconds-67dd99ae-25a3-494e-b953-3492e1a193fc

 AI gets smarter by re-reading questions

Researchers have discovered that making AI systems ‘re-read‘ questions twice, mimicking human behavior, significantly improves their reasoning and problem-solving abilities across various tasks.

• The technique, called RE2 (Re-Reading), improves AI performance in math, common sense, and symbolic reasoning by simply repeating the question before answering.
• It works with different AI models and can be combined with other AI reasoning techniques.
• The method is most effective when repeating the question twice — more repetitions can decrease performance.
• RE2 even improved non-instruction-tuned AI models, showing broad applicability.

RE2 adds to the growing list of research showing the potential of mimicking the way humans think and process to improve AI. The simplicity of this research also suggests that many AI companies may be overlooking basic, human-inspired prompting techniques in the quest towards the highest performing model.

Source: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.06275

With 10x growth since 2023, Llama is the leading engine of AI innovation

Llama models are approaching 350 million downloads to date (more than 10x the downloads compared to this time last year), and they were downloaded more than 20 million times in the last month alone, making Llama the leading open source model family.

Llama usage by token volume across our major cloud service provider partners has more than doubled in just three months from May through July 2024 when we released Llama 3.1.

Monthly usage (token volume) of Llama grew 10x from January to July 2024 for some of our largest cloud service providers.

Source: https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-usage-doubled-may-through-july-2024/

 Nvidia denies DOJ antitrust investigation claims

• Nvidia stated it has not received a subpoena from the U.S. Department of Justice concerning an ongoing antitrust investigation, as confirmed in a statement to Bloomberg.
• A Nvidia representative emphasized that the company wins on merit and is ready to respond to any inquiries from regulators about their business practices.
• Despite reports of subpoenas, Nvidia clarified that it received civil investigative requests instead, which are often mistaken for subpoenas, according to Bloomberg.
• Source: https://www.benzinga.com/government/24/09/40719936/nvidia-has-not-been-subpoenaed-by-doj-whats-going-on

 Engineers gave a mushroom a robot body and let it run wild

• Researchers from Cornell University and the University of Florence used the king oyster mushroom’s root-like structure (mycelium) to control robotic vehicles by converting its natural electrical signals into commands that guide the robots’ movements.
• The team successfully demonstrated how the mushroom’s natural signals, triggered by stimuli like UV light, could guide the movement of robots, creating a biohybrid system that responds to environmental cues.
• This innovation suggests potential future applications in agriculture and environmental monitoring, where fungal networks could help automate responses to various environmental cues.
• Source: https://www.sciencealert.com/engineers-gave-a-mushroom-a-robot-body-and-let-it-run-wild

What Else is Happening in AI on September 05th 2024!

Anthropic launched Claude Enterprise, competing with ChatGPT Enterprise by offering larger context windows and GitHub integration for businesses.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/04/anthropic-launches-claude-enterprise-plan-to-compete-with-openai

Google committed $10 million to improve AI literacy among young people in 17 countries and across 13 different languages.

Source: https://blog.google/technology/families/improving-ai-literacy-in-young-people

Sakana AI raised $100M in Series A funding and announced a collaboration with Nvidia to advance AI research and infrastructure in Japan.

Source: https://sakana.ai/series-a/

Salesforce agreed to acquire AI voice agent firm Tenyx to enhance its AI offerings, joining tech giants in the race for AI talent and technology.

Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/salesforce-acquire-ai-voice-agent-213825311.html

A Samsung executive reportedly revealed GPT-5 specs, 3.5 trillion parameters and 7000 B100 GPUs for compute, at SEMICON Taiwan.

Source: https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/1831237312887308718

Microsoft announced Copilot+ AI features will expand to new laptops starting in November, broadening its AI capabilities beyond ARM-based devices.

Source: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/microsoft-adds-copilot-support-for-new-cpus-amd-ryzen-ai-300-and-intel-core-ultra-200v-chips-receive-new-ai-experiences

You.com raised $50M to focus on AI productivity agents for complex queries, moving away from general AI search.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/04/you-com-refocuses-from-ai-search-to-deeper-productivity-agents-with-new-50m-round

Yi-Coder: A Compact Yet Powerful Code LLM Released by 01.ai

01.ai has introduced Yi-Coder, a series of small but highly capable open-source large language models (LLMs) tailored for code generation. Despite having fewer than 10 billion parameters, Yi-Coder models offer cutting-edge performance, available in 1.5B and 9B parameter variants.

Yi-Coder is in the realm of open-source large language models (LLMs) specialized in coding.

• Performance and Size: Despite having fewer than 10 billion parameters, they deliver state-of-the-art coding performance. There are two sizes available: 1.5 billion and 9 billion parameters.
• Model Variants: Yi-Coder comes in both base and chat versions, designed to be efficient in inference and flexible in training.
• Enhanced Capabilities: The 9B version, particularly Yi-Coder-9B, extends its predecessor by adding 2.4 trillion high-quality tokens. These are meticulously sourced from a code corpus at the repository level on GitHub and selectively filtered code-related data from CommonCrawl.

Source: https://open.substack.com/pub/transitions/p/yi-coder-a-compact-yet-powerful-code?r=56ql7

A Daily Chronicle of AI Innovations on September 04th 2024:

 OpenAI Japan reveals ‘GPT-Next’ details

 Student builds fusion reactor at home with AI and $2K

 Nvidia AI antitrust investigation is ‘escalating,’ reports Bloomberg

 Autonomous AI agents form civilizations

 Nvidia hit with antitrust subpoena

 57% of online content now AI-generated, study shows

 OpenAI Japan reveals ‘GPT-Next’ details

 OpenAI Japan’s CEO just stated (article is in Japanese) that ‘GPT-Next’, OpenAI’s upcoming AI model, is expected to be 100 times more powerful than GPT-4, while also confirming a more advanced model named Orion is slated for 2025.

• GPT-Next is expected to achieve a 100x performance increase without wasting significantly more computing resources.
• The improvement comes from better architecture and learning efficiency, not just raw computing power.
• GPT-Next will use a smaller version of “Strawberry”, an advanced AI system OpenAI is currently developing.
• The slide mentions GPT Next 2024, which while unconfirmed, hints that the model may be released by the end of 2024.

OpenAI is still the undisputed leader in AI model usage, and if translations are accurate, GPT-Next will be the next huge leap that developers have been waiting for. Most impressively, it makes that leap without using much more compute, a major bonus for apps that require speed + efficiency.

Source: https://www.itmedia.co.jp/aiplus/articles/2409/03/news165.html

 Autonomous AI agents form civilizations

 Altera’s Project Sid just created the first simulation of over 1,000 autonomous AI agents collaborating in a Minecraft world, developing their own economy, culture, religion, and government.

• The AI agents in Altera are truly autonomous, operating for hours or days without human intervention.
• They can collaborate to achieve goals that are impossible for individual agents, like forming merchant hubs, democracies, and religions.
• The agents are programmed with motivations to support humans and can express their thoughts and feelings, even searching for a lost agent in one simulation.
• Minecraft is just the start — Altera’s agents are game-agnostic and capable of using other apps and platforms.

If you’re not paying attention to AI agents yet, you probably should be. Altera’s latest breakthrough could revolutionize how we approach complex societal issues by allowing us to simulate and test solutions in virtual environments before implementing them in the real world.

Source: https://x.com/GuangyuRobert/status/1831006762184646829

 Nvidia hit with antitrust subpoena

The U.S. Department of Justice reportedly issued a subpoena (legal order) to Nvidia, escalating its antitrust investigation into the company’s practices in the AI chip market.

• The DoJ has moved from sending questionnaires to issuing legally binding subpoenas to Nvidia and other companies.
• Investigators are concerned Nvidia may be making it difficult for customers to switch to other chip suppliers, including allegations that Nvidia penalizes buyers who don’t exclusively use its AI chips.
• This probe comes after a softer-than-expected revenue forecast for Nvidia and could force the AI chip-making giant to embrace competition in the space.

While it is unlikely that Nvidia will lose its large lead in the AI chip market, this investigation could open the doors for new competitors like Sam Altman’s secret chip venture. The AI giant’s company shares fell over 11% on Tuesday, slashing market cap by $279 billion — an all-time record one-day loss for any company.

Source: https://www.reuters.com/legal/nvidia-hit-with-subpoena-us-justice-department-bloomberg-news-reports-2024-09-03

Student builds fusion reactor at home with AI and $2K

• A University of Waterloo math student named Hudhayfa Nazoordeen built a fusion reactor in his bedroom within four weeks, spending approximately $2,000 on various components purchased online.
• Nazoordeen’s project involved creating a mini fusor powered by a 12kV neon sign transformer, resulting in a setup that successfully produced plasma, which is essential for fusion processes.
• Nazoordeen credited his success to assistance from other engineers and the AI chatbot Claude 3.5, although his reactor has not yet achieved full fusion and emission of neutrons, and he plans further development pending additional funding.
• Source: https://www.techspot.com/news/104550-math-student-builds-fusion-reactor-home-help-claude.html

Nvidia AI antitrust investigation is ‘escalating,’ reports Bloomberg

• The Department of Justice is intensifying an antitrust investigation into Nvidia’s dominance in AI hardware, with Bloomberg reporting that legally binding information requests have been sent to Nvidia and other companies.
• Nvidia had surpassed Microsoft as the most valuable company earlier this year but now trails behind Microsoft and Apple, with its share price dropping more than 9 percent, resulting in a market value loss of about $279 billion in one day.
• Despite the recent setbacks, Nvidia’s stock has more than doubled this year, driven by high sales of its expensive AI chips, even amid reports of potential delays for its upcoming Blackwell series due to design issues.
• Source: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/3/24235233/nvidia-doj-ai-antitrust-investigation

57% of online content now AI-generated, study shows

• A recent study reports that over 57% of internet content is generated by AI, significantly affecting the quality of search results.
• The influx of AI-generated information hampers the training of AI models like ChatGPT, causing them to produce less accurate and more misleading responses.
• Researchers found that AI content usage leads to a decline in response quality, creating a cyclical degradation that worsens the authenticity and usefulness of search outputs.
• Source: https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/sam-altman-indicated-its-impossible-to-create-chatgpt-without-copyrighted-material

What Else is Happening in AI on September 04th 2024!

Anthropic Quickstarts: a collection of projects enabling developers to easily start building applications with the Anthropic API, providing foundations for customizable, deployable AI-assisted applications like customer support agents.

Source: https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-quickstarts

Google announced the release of Function Calling in Google AI Studio, allowing users to test model capabilities directly within the user interface.

Source: https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1831004923128910201 and https://aistudio.google.com/

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin suggested that using AI and prediction markets could accelerate X’s Community Notes feature for quicker fact-checking.

Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/vitalik-buterin-ai-prediction-markets-x-community-notes

The FDA approved Rebrain’s OptimMRI software update, which includes a new AI model to help target brain regions for treating Parkinson’s disease.

Source: https://parkinsonsnewstoday.com/news/rebrain-ai-software-optimize-brain-targeting-approved-fda

Dutch regulators fined Clearview AI more than $30 million for GDPR violations, including building a database of biometric data without consent.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/03/clearview-ai-hit-with-its-largest-gdpr-fine-yet-as-dutch-regulator-considers-holding-execs-personally-liable

Ligo released an open-source implementation of DeepMind’s AlphaFold3 protein structure prediction model.

Source: https://x.com/ArdaGoreci/status/1830744265007480934

A new benchmark of 80+ large language models found Anthropic’s Sonnet 3.5 performed best overall, while top models varied significantly by programming language.

Source: https://x.com/zimmskal/status/1830564004592316745

A Daily Chronicle of AI Innovations on September 03rd 2024:

🔮 Elon Musk launches the world’s most powerful AI training system

💸 Canva says its AI features are worth the 300 percent price increase

👀 Huawei’s AI chips still lag far behind Nvidia’s

📱 OpenAI to develop AI chips with TSMC, Apple

🧬 Generative AI meets CRISPR gene editing

🤖 xAI builds the world’s top AI cluster

Elon Musk’s xAI just launched “Colossus“, the world’s most powerful AI cluster powered by a whopping 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, which was built in just 122 days and is planned to double in size soon.

• Colossus consists of 100k liquid-cooled Nvidia H100 GPUs connected on a single network fabric and is considered the “most powerful” in the world, according to Musk.
• The system was built and launched in just 122 days, an incredibly quick accomplishment that was brought online over a holiday weekend in the United States.
• xAI plans to expand Colossus to 200,000 GPUs (50,000 H200s) in the coming months.
• In a recent podcast, Elon Musk (founder of xAI) said Grok 2 was trained on only around 15,000 GPUs.

xAI’s Grok 2 recently caught up to OpenAI’s GPT-4 in record time, and was trained on only around 15,000 GPUs. With now more than six times that amount in production, the xAI team and future versions of Grok are going to put a significant amount of pressure on OpenAI, Google, and others to deliver.

Source: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1830650370336473253

 OpenAI to develop AI chips with TSMC, Apple

OpenAI is reportedly planning to develop its first in-house AI chips using TSMC’s advanced 1.6mm A16 process node, potentially partnering with Broadcom, Marvell, or Apple for the chip design.

• The chip will reportedly be built on TSMC’s A16 Angstrom process, not expected for mass production until 2026.
• Partnering with Broadcom, Marvell, or Apple for chip design expertise, OpenAI could significantly reduce its dependence on expensive Nvidia AI servers.
• The A16 process node will use advanced gate-all-around transistors and backside power delivery to significantly improve chip performance and energy efficiency.

By developing its own chips, OpenAI could break free from the GPU shortage bottleneck, potentially supercharging its mission towards AGI. If successful, this could spark a trend of AI companies developing their own specialized hardware instead of relying so heavily on the current industry giant, Nvidia.

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/tech/openai-plans-build-own-ai-120921975.html

 Generative AI meets CRISPR gene editing

Researchers at Profluent Bio used AI to successfully create OpenCRISPR-1, a novel gene-editing tool that matches or surpasses the performance and safety of current CRISPR systems.

• Researchers used Large Language Models (LLMs) trained on over a million CRISPR operons to understand and generate novel protein structures.
• The LLMs designed a new gene-editing tool called OpenCRISPR-1, capable of various tasks including base editing.
• In tests, OpenCRISPR-1 showed a similar efficiency in cutting DNA to the current models while making fewer mistakes.
• Researchers made OpenCRISPR-1’s sequence publicly available to encourage broader use in research.

OpenCRISPR-1 helps to treat genetic diseases in the safest, fastest, and most personalized way possible. While still years away from practical applications, AI tools like this opens doors for custom gene-editors tailored to individual DNA, potentially accelerating cures for previously untreatable conditions.

Source: https://crisprmedicinenews.com/news/opencrispr-1-generative-ai-meets-crispr/

 Elon Musk launches the world’s largest Nvidia supercomputer

• Elon Musk’s company, xAI, has brought an AI training cluster named Colossus online, claiming it is the most powerful AI training system in the world.
• Colossus, built using 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, aims to help Musk catch up to Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta in AI technology advancements.
• Musk revealed that the cluster, established in Memphis, was completed in 122 days and will double in size within a few months as more GPUs are added.
• Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-xai-chips-mark-zuckerberg-2024-9

 Canva says its AI features are worth the 300 percent price increase

• Canva is significantly increasing the price for Canva Teams subscriptions by over 300 percent next year, citing the addition of generative AI features as the reason.
• In the US, Canva Teams users will see their annual subscription costs rise from $120 to $500, but a discount will reduce it to $300 for the first year; Australian users will experience a similar steep increase in fees.
• These new prices make Canva less affordable compared to its original position as a cost-effective alternative to Adobe, leading some users to plan on canceling their subscriptions in favor of Adobe applications.
• Source: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/3/24234698/canva-price-increase-300-percent-ai-features

 Huawei’s AI chips still lag far behind Nvidia’s

• Customers of Huawei’s AI chips have reported multiple performance issues and bugs, making the software difficult to work with compared to Nvidia’s products.
• Huawei has been sending engineers to assist companies in transitioning from Nvidia’s software to its own, but stability problems and crashes have hindered these efforts.
• The company has faced significant challenges due to US export controls, impacting supply and leading to increased prices for its AI chips.
• Source: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/09/bugs-performance-issues-hinder-huaweis-ai-chips/

What Else is Happening in AI on September 03rd 2024?

Free event: Augmenting Human Creativity with AI. Section’s CEO & SonyAI’s Chief Scientist discuss how AI can help you stay in the flow state. RSVP.*

Source: https://www.sectionschool.com/events/live-events/promising-ai-business-models

California Assembly passed AB 3211, requiring AI image watermarking that could effectively ban most AI image generation in the state.

Source: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3211

Researchers developed an AI tool that accurately models cellular metabolic states by combining different types of data to create kinetic models.

Source: https://www.drugtargetreview.com/news/152570/new-ai-tool-accurately-portrays-metabolic-states

UK’s first “teacherless” classroom will open at David Game College in London, using AI platforms to provide personalized GCSE instruction.

Tesla is reportedly planning to reveal its highly-anticipated Robotaxi self-driving cars on Oct. 10 at California Warner Bros. Studio.

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-30/tesla-plans-robotaxi-reveal-at-california-warner-bros-studio

SportsLine’s AI-powered PickBot released NFL predictions for all Week 1 games based on each team’s historical data and opponent strengths.

Source: https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/self-learning-ai-makes-nfl-against-the-spread-over-under-money-line-picks-for-every-2024-week-1-game

Clearview AI fined by Dutch authorities for ‘illegal’ facial recognition database.

Source: https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/09/03/clearview-ai-fined-by-dutch-authorities-for-illegal-facial-recognition-database

A Daily Chronicle of AI Innovations on September 02nd 2024:

🤖 Start-up unveils most realistic robot yet

🤖 1X’s NEO robot acts just like a human

📦 Amazon’s Alexa gets a Claude power-up

💡 How to use Claude’s new ‘Explain‘ feature

🌐 Train AI with your home computer

🤖 1X’s NEO robot acts just like a human

Image source: 1X Technologies 1X Technologies just unveiled the most realistic AI-powered humanoid yet: NEO Beta, an advanced robot designed for everyday home assistance with human-like capabilities in movement, interaction, and task performance.

NEO Beta stands 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighs 66 pounds, and can walk at 2.5 miles per hour and run at 7.5 miles per hour. The robot has a carry capacity of 44 pounds and can operate for 2 to 4 hours on a single charge. NEO Beta uses embodied artificial intelligence to understand its environment and learn from past interactions. It’s designed to perform a wide range of tasks, from household chores to providing companionship and support for individuals with mobility challenges, and it can be remotely operated by a human if necessary.

Why it matters: The race to an affordable robot butler is officially underway and 1X Technologies just boosted itself into the same conversation as China’s AGIBOT fleet and Tesla’s Optimus. NEO is so realistic and smooth that thousands of people on X (Twitter) were debating if it was a person in a suit.

Source: https://x.com/1x_tech/status/1829567690681307284

📦 Amazon’s Alexa gets a Claude power-up

Amazon’s upcoming “Remarkable” version of Alexa is set for release next month and will reportedly use Anthropic’s Claude AI models rather than Amazon’s in-house technology.

The details: Initial versions using Amazon’s in-house AI struggled with slow response times and poor performance. Amazon turned to Anthropic’s Claude AI as it outperformed the company’s models, an unusual move for the giant which typically prefers to use its own tech. The upgraded Alexa aims to offer more complex conversations, shopping advice, and improved home automation. Amazon plans to charge $5 to $10 monthly for the new AI-powered Alexa version, with the “Classic” version remaining free.

Why it matters: This decision highlights the complexity and challenges that even tech giants face in developing advanced AI systems. Google is developing its own AI, but Apple turned to OpenAI and similarly, Amazon is now turning to Anthropic.

Source: https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/amazon-turns-anthropics-claude-alexa-ai-revamp-2024-08-30/

💡 How to use Claude’s new ‘Explain‘ feature

Claude’s newest ‘Explain‘ feature allows users to instantly get an explanation on any highlighted text (or code) within an artifact — enabling a new way to learn and understand complex topics.

Step-by-step:

Access Claude AI and start a conversation that generates a code artifact.

Click on the artifact to enter the code view. Highlight any portion of the code, then click “Explain” for instant clarification or “Improve” to suggest changes.

Check out the chat for the explanation or the Artifact for the updated version.

Pro tip: Try highlighting different parts of components to gain a deeper understanding of how they work!

Source: https://university.therundown.ai/c/daily-tutorials/instant-explanations-and-improvements-with-claude-s-new-feature

🌐 Train AI with your home computer

The Rundown: Nous Research recently introduced DisTrO, a new way to train large AI models that drastically reduces the need for super-fast internet connection, potentially allowing training on regular home computers and internet connections.

The details: DisTrO cuts down the amount of data that needs to be shared between computers by 857 to 3000x during pre-training, and up to 10,000x during fine-tuning. The method is architecture-agnostic and network-agnostic, working with various model types and network setups. In tests, DisTrO successfully trained a 1.2B parameter language model with performance on par with traditional methods. The researchers suggest this could enable decentralized AI training that could be done from home.

Why it matters: Right now, training state-of-the-art AI models is limited to big tech companies with massive computing resources. DisTrO could democratize AI training by allowing everyday people and smaller organizations to participate in AI development using regular computers and internet connections.

Source: https://github.com/NousResearch/DisTrO

🤖 Start-up unveils most realistic robot yet

1X, a Norwegian robotics startup, has introduced NEO Beta, a humanoid robot designed for home use, showcasing its capabilities such as assisting with everyday tasks through two demonstration videos. NEO stands out due to its silent and efficient operation, remarkable dexterity, and ability to intuitively respond to human gestures, body language, and voice commands without verbal communication. Weighing 66 pounds, NEO features muscle-inspired anatomy and advanced AI, making it adapt to various tasks, and is backed by a $100 million Series B funding to advance from testing to widespread household deployment.

Source: https://www.maginative.com/article/1x-unveils-neo-a-humanoid-robot-for-the-home/

What Else is Happening in AI on September 02nd 2024!

Google partnered with Indian startup Salcit Technologies to develop AI that detects tuberculosis and other diseases from cough sounds. Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-08-29/google-and-others-are-developing-ai-that-can-hear-signs-of-sickness

Amazon hired Covariant AI robotics experts and licensed their foundation models to advance warehouse automation capabilities. Source: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-covariant-ai-robots

Oprah Winfrey announced a primetime ABC special exploring AI’s societal impact, featuring interviews with tech leaders like Sam Altman and Bill Gates. Source: https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/oprah-winfrey-ai-abc-special-bill-gates-sam-altman-1236124394/

Stanford Medicine researchers developed nuclei.io, an AI tool helping pathologists identify diseased cells more quickly and accurately. Source: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/06/digital-pathology.html

Coinbase executed its first AI-to-AI cryptocurrency transaction, demonstrating AI agents’ ability to use digital wallets for autonomous trading. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-artificial-intelligence-ai-crypto-transactions-wallet-brian-armstrong

Tom Hanks warned followers about fraudulent AI-generated ads using his likeness without consent to promote unauthorized products. Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tom-hanks-warns-followers-wary-fraudulent-ads-using-likeness-ai-rcna168966

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