ODSC's AI Weekly Recap: Week of September 13th

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

NVIDIA and Oracle Unveil AI and Data Processing Innovations at Oracle CloudWorld (Source)

Roche Expands AI-Driven Cancer Diagnostics with New Digital Pathology Integrations (Source)

New AI Chip Surpasses Nvidia, AMD, and Intel with 20x Faster Speeds and Over 4 Trillion Transistors (Source)

OpenAI Set to Release Strawberry AI Model in Two Weeks (Source)

Sakana AI Eyes Strategic Investors in Japan Amid US-China Tensions (Source)

Dozens of Nations Endorse Responsible AI Use in Military (Source)

US Proposes Mandatory Reporting for AI and Cloud Providers (Source)

South Korea Summit Targets Responsible Use of AI in Military (Source)

AI News Highlights

Exclusive: Marc Benioff has declared a ‘hard pivot’ to autonomous AI agents. Will it be enough for Salesforce to thrive in the generative AI era?

John Snow Labs Announces Fifth Annual NLP Summit, the World’s Largest Gathering for the Applied NLP, LLM, and Generative AI Community

Three Ways to Ride the Flywheel of Cybersecurity AI

Amazon is allowing Audible narrators to clone themselves with AI

AI generates playable DOOM in real-time

AI exuberance masks broad weakness in the tech sector, say investors

Apple’s iPhone 16 to put AI features in focus, Huawei’s new phone racks up pre-orders

China’s AI integration ‘advancing rapidly’ as it plays catch-up with US

Miami-based AI bookkeeping startup Finally has raised another big round: $200M in equity and debt

Apple’s iPhone 16 faces rising challenges with AI delay and growing Huawei competition

Exclusive: AI startup Glean aiming to build the ‘Google for Work,’ raises $260M at $4.4B valuation

Will California flip the AI industry on its head?

AI will not fix Apple’s sluggish iPhone sales any time soon

China’s AI models lag their U.S. counterparts by 6 to 9 months, says former head of Google China

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New Trending Open Source?Projects

kotaemon? —?An open-source clean & customizable RAG UI for chatting with your documents. Built with both end users and developers in mind.

Rag_techniques?—?This repository showcases various advanced techniques for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. RAG systems combine information retrieval with generative models to provide accurate and contextually rich responses.

Instant?—?A real-time client-side database

Avante?—?Use your Neovim like using Cursor AI IDE!

cosyvoice?—?a multi-lingual large voice generation model, providing inference, training, and deployment full-stack ability.

Mindsearch?—?An LLM-based Multi-agent Framework of Web Search Engine (like Perplexity.ai Pro and SearchGPT)

segement-anything 2?—?The repository provides code for running inference with the Meta Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2), links for downloading the trained model checkpoints, and example notebooks that show how to use the model.

New Trending Research From Around The?Globe

1M-Deepfakes Detection Challenge?—?Paper

LLaMA-Omni: Seamless Speech Interaction with Large Language Models?—?Paper

GeoCalib: Learning Single-image Calibration with Geometric Optimization?—?Paper

gsplat: An Open-Source Library for Gaussian Splatting?—?Paper

Robot Utility Models: General Policies for Zero-Shot Deployment in New Environments?—?Paper

Benchmarking Chinese Knowledge Rectification in Large Language Models?—?Paper

mPLUG-DocOwl2: High-resolution Compressing for OCR-free Multi-page Document Understanding?—?Paper

Start-Up Funding?News

• California-based Glean, a developer of an AI-based search engine software that connects enterprise data and generates answers through a tool in any company, raised $260M in Series E Funding
• Texas-based Pieces, a healthcare artificial intelligence and technology company, raised $25M in Venture Round Funding
• California-based Fiddler AI, a provider of enterprise model performance management software that allows monitoring, explaining, analyzing, and improving ML models, raised $18M in Venture Funding
• California-based Connectly.ai, a conversational commerce company that uses artificial intelligence models to help retailers grow their business, raised $20M in Series B Funding
• Texas-based Aifleet, a tech-first trucking company, using AI to optimize for asset utilization and driver experience, raised $16M in Series B Funding

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