ODSC’s AI Weekly Recap: Week of May 17th

Every week, the ODSC team researches the latest advancements in AI. We review a selection of the most impactful research, trending open-source projects, and significant startup investments. We carefully curate and share a selection of the most impactful developments, bringing you the insights that matter most to the AI and data science community.

Open Data Science Blog Recap

• Google Introduces Generative AI Into Search and More. (Source)
• CorePlus Using AI To Enhance Cervical Cancer Screenings(Source)
• Microsoft Offering Relocation to AI Staff due to U.S.- China Tensions (Source)
• IMF Chief Sees AI Impacting Labor like a “Tsunami” (Source)
• US and China to Meet to Discuss AI Risk in Geneva (Source)
• NASA Appoints David Salvagnini as First Chief AI Officer (Source)
• Elon Musk Shares Skepticism Through the AI Hype (Source)
• Apple Making the Move to Push AI With in-House Chip Development?(Source)

AI News Highlights

• OpenAI considers allowing users to create AI-generated Adult Content
• Artificial intelligence not always helpful for reducing doctor burnout, studies suggest
• Google’s Demis Hassabis is the man tasked with turning bleeding-edge AI research into profits
• Artificial intelligence may help to make the VA claims filing process easier
• Woman uses artificial intelligence to speak after brain surgery damaged voice
• Former World of Warcraft lead says AI is fine for the MMO "grunt work," but not the creative tasks that "thousands of talented people" are dying to do
• Artificial intelligence tool detects sex-related differences in brain structure
• What Do You Do When A.I. Takes Your Voice?
• Hollywood at a Crossroads: “Everyone Is Using AI, But They Are Scared to Admit It”
• Senators studied AI for a year. Critics call the result ‘pathetic.’

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New Trending Open Source Projects

• NocoBase - a scalability-first, open-source no-code/low-code platform for building business applications and enterprise solutions.
• Bilibot - A local chatbot fine-tuned by bilibili user comments.
• Gemini Cookbook - A collection of guides and examples for the Gemini API.
• Piko - An open-source alternative to Ngrok, designed to serve production traffic and be simple to host (particularly on Kubernetes)
• Hunyuan-DiT - A Powerful Multi-Resolution Diffusion Transformer with Fine-Grained Chinese Understanding
• Phidata - Allows for the building of AI Assistants with memory, knowledge and tools.
• Apache Superset - a data visualization and data exploration platform
• OpenAI Cookbook - Examples and guides for using the OpenAI API
• Lobe Chat - an open-source, modern-design LLMs/AI chat framework. Supports Multi AI Providers( OpenAI / Claude 3 / Gemini / Ollama / Bedrock / Azure / Mistral / Perplexity ), Multi-Modals (Vision/TTS) and plugin system.

New Trending Research From Around The Globe

• OpenGait: A Comprehensive Benchmark Study for Gait Recognition towards Better Practicality - Paper
• SambaNova SN40L: Scaling the AI Memory Wall with Dataflow and Composition of Experts - Paper
• Harmonics of Learning: Universal Fourier Features Emerge in Invariant Networks - Paper
• RobustMVS: Single Domain Generalized Deep Multi-view Stereo - Paper
• RSHazeDiff: A Unified Fourier-aware Diffusion Model for Remote Sensing Image Dehazing - Paper
• Color Space Learning for Cross-Color Person Re-Identification - Paper
• MMFusion: Multi-modality Diffusion Model for Lymph Node Metastasis Diagnosis in Esophageal Cancer - Paper
• TimeX++: Learning Time-Series Explanations with Information Bottleneck - Paper
• Gaze-DETR: Using Expert Gaze to Reduce False Positives in Vulvovaginal Candidiasis Screening - Paper
• ReconBoost: Boosting Can Achieve Modality Reconcilement - Paper
• ICAL: Implicit Character-Aided Learning for Enhanced Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition - Paper
• Xmodel-VLM: A Simple Baseline for Multimodal Vision Language Model - Paper
• No Time to Waste: Squeeze Time into Channel for Mobile Video Understanding - Paper
• Lens functions for exploring UMAP Projections with Domain Knowledge - Paper
• Energy-based Hopfield Boosting for Out-of-Distribution Detection- Paper

Start-Up Funding News

• San Francisco-based Sigma Computing, a business intelligence solution providing live access to cloud data warehouses, raised over $581M in Series D
• France-based Constellation, a cloud and artificial intelligence-powered information technology company, raised over €116 in private funding
• California-based WEKA, a global data platform company that delivers a cloud-native, software-based data platform for AI & next-generation workloads, raised over $375M in Series E
• South Korea-based DeepX, a software company that offers artificial intelligence services., raised over $80M in Series C
• Shanghai-based Gaussian Robot, a robotics company that develops intelligent cleaning robots, raised over $394M in Series D
• London-based PlolyAI developer a machine learning platform for conversational artificial intelligence, raised $116M in Series C
• New York-based SmarterDx, a clinical AI company that develops automated pre-bill review tech to help hospitals maintain revenue integrity, raised over $55M in Series B
• Michigan-based Voxel51, Refinery for visual data + models that enable AI builders to bring the value of visual AI into their applications, raised over $45M in Series B

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