ODSC's AI Weekly Recap: Week of October 11

Every week, the ODSC team researches the latest advancements in AI for this AI Weekly Recap. We review a selection of the most impactful research, trending open-source projects, and significant startup investments. We carefully curate and share the most impactful AI news & developments, bringing the insights that matter most to the AI and data science community. Subscribe to get this as a newsletter sent to your inbox every Friday!

Open Data Science AI News Blog Recap

Foxconn Smashes Estimates with Record Third-Quarter Revenue, Fueled by AI Demand (Source)

Meta Unveils AI-Powered Video Generation Model ‘Movie Gen’ (Source)

‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton Shares Nobel Prize for Work in Machine Learning (Source)

Medical Breakthrough: AI-Powered Brain Implant Helps Paralyzed Man Regain Movement and Sensation (Source)

AI News Highlights

AI revolution or ethical dilemma? What 4.2 million tweets reveal about public perception of ChatGPT

Kobold Metals, which uses AI to help find critical minerals for the energy transition, raises $491M

This Homemade AI Drone Software Finds People When Search and Rescue Teams Can’t

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says we should go all in on building AI data centers because ‘we are never going to meet our climate goals anyway’

AI’s detection gap opens new vulnerabilities

Americans are using AI at fairly high rates. What does this mean for the economy?

Exclusive: Virginia congressional candidate creates AI chatbot as debate stand-in for incumbent

AI will eliminate many ‘blue-collar’ jobs — and 4 other AI predictions

Unleash Innovation at the NVIDIA AI Hackathon at ODSC West 2024

Trending New Open Source Projects

Moshi is a speech-text foundation model and full-duplex spoken dialogue framework.

got-ocr2.0 is an official code implementation of General OCR Theory: Towards OCR-2.0 via a Unified End-to-end Model

Melty is an AI code editor where every chat message is a git commit

g1 using Llama-3.1 70b on Groq to create o1-like reasoning chains

Vl is an open-source starter kit based on Midday.

New Trending Research From Around The Globe

Data Selection via Optimal Control for Language Models — Paper

Pixtral 12B — Paper

VHELM: A Holistic Evaluation of Vision Language Models — Paper

Enabling Novel Mission Operations and Interactions with ROSA: The Robot Operating System Agent — Paper

Depth Pro: Sharp Monocular Metric Depth in Less Than a Second — Paper

Scaling Up Your Kernels: Large Kernel Design in ConvNets towards Universal Representations — Paper

Aria: An Open Multimodal Native Mixture-of-Experts Model — Paper

Start-Up Funding News

California-based KoBold Metals, an AI-powered critical mineral startup that discovers essential materials for electric vehicles and renewable energy, raised over $490M in Venture Round

San Francisco-based EvenUp, a legal tech company developing cloud and AI-based legal case management solutions, raised $135M in Series D Round

Washington-based Auger, a logistics software startup that integrates with inventory management systems to provide insights for supply chain businesses, raised $100M in Seed Round

San Francisco-based CytoVale, a medical technology company that focuses on advancing early detection technologies to diagnose immune-mediated diseases, over $100M in Series D Round

California-based Suki, a voice-based digital assistant for doctors, raised $70M in Series D Round

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