Last Week on AI - no. 44

Every week, new technologies and strategic innovations appear in the ever-evolving AI scene, and it's our duty to report on those we consider essential. So, let's quickly dive into which things made the list in the past few weeks!

Reflection 70B: The World’s Top Open-Source Model: Reflection 70B, an open-source model trained using the innovative Reflection-Tuning technique, has been announced as the world's leading model in its category. Expect more with the upcoming 405B model, anticipated to be the best globally.

Google DeepMind Presents AlphaProteo: Google DeepMind unveils AlphaProteo, an AI system designed to create novel proteins that bind more effectively to target molecules. This could revolutionize research in biological systems, drug design, and more.

xAI's Colossus Training Cluster Goes Live: xAI has brought its Colossus 100k H100 training cluster online, now the most powerful AI training system in the world. Plans are in place to double its capacity to 200k (50k H200s) in the coming months.

Amazon Turns to Anthropic's Claude for Alexa Revamp: Amazon is leveraging Anthropic's Claude AI to power a significant overhaul of Alexa, aiming for smarter, more intuitive user interactions.

US Government Collaborates with OpenAI and Anthropic on AI Safety: The US Government announced a formal partnership with OpenAI and Anthropic on AI safety research, granting the USAISI early access to new models from both companies.

Magic.dev Explores 100M Token Context Windows: research update on ultra-long context models, a new partnership with Google Cloud, and recent funding developments.

Introducing Project Sid: Project Sid launches the first simulation of over 1000 autonomous agents collaborating in a virtual world with emergent economies, cultures, religions, and governments, showcasing large-scale cooperation.

Last week on AI is a weekly recap of the most significant #ai news from the past two weeks, curated by the team at Leniolabs_

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