WAID #20: A roundup of Top News & Developments in AI
This week, AI innovation is on fire! OpenAI and Anthropic signed a groundbreaking agreement with the U.S. for government testing of their AI models before public release. California also passed a bill requiring safety testing for large AI models. These developments show a growing focus on ethical and responsible AI development.
Industry Pulse
Klarna reduced the number of employees it needs to handle customer queries and resolution time on those queries from 11 to 2 minutes with AI.
At the 2024 World Robot Conference in Beijing, Chinese companies showcased 27 humanoid robots alongside Tesla’s Optimus, signalling China’s ambition to dominate the industry.
Google AI Studio released a native prompt gallery featuring long context, multi-model inputs, and structured outputs for enhanced AI development.
Google appointed former Character.AI founder and long-time Google researcher Noam Shazeer as co-lead of its Gemini AI model development.
Chinese companies reportedly bypassed U.S. AI chip export restrictions by accessing banned technologies through Amazon Web Services’ cloud platform.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is headed to Arizona State University (ASU), where the university is integrating the AI assistant into over 200 projects across teaching, research, and operations.
Anthropic published system prompts for its Claude AI models, revealing instructions on behavior, capabilities, and personality traits.
Inflection AI partnered with Data Transfer Initiative, enabling Pi users to export conversations and announced plans to cap free usage while focusing on enterprise AI.
Pharia released Pharia-1-LLM-7B, an open-source model optimized for German, French, and Spanish that excels in domain-specific applications.
IBM previewed Spyre, a new AI accelerator chip for IBM Z mainframes, designed to scale enterprise AI workloads with clustering capabilties.
Hugging Face and Google Cloud just partnered up to release optimized Deep Learning Containers for building AI with open models on Google Cloud infrastructure.
OpenAI hired former Meta executive Irina Kofman to lead strategic initiatives, focusing initially on AI preparedness and safety.
Apple announced a September 9 event where it’s expected to debut the iPhone 16 with new generative AI features.
Amazon plans to launch a delayed AI-powered Alexa subscription in October, featuring “Smart Briefing” AI-generated news summaries.
Fourier Intelligence unveiled GR-2, a next-gen humanoid robot with swappable batteries, advanced hand dexterity, and a sleek design, in a CGI teaser.
Nvidia released NIM Agent Blueprints, a catalog of customizable AI workflows to help enterprises build and deploy generative AI applications.
SoundHound AI partnered with MUSC Health to deploy an AI agent for streamlining patient appointment management and access.
CoreWeave launched Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPUs, becoming the first cloud provider to offer the advanced AI infrastructure.
Midjourney teased an upcoming hardware launch with “multiple efforts in flight”, but details are not yet available on the specifics of the launch.
Meta reported significant growth for its Llama AI models, with downloads approaching 350 million and usage increasing 10x since January.
Deals & Finance
— OpenAI is reportedly in talks to raise a new funding round at a valuation exceeding $100 billion, led by Thrive Capital, with Microsoft also expected to participate.
— Fetch.ai launched Innovation Lab in San Francisco with a $10 million fund to support early-stage AI agent startups.
— Imagination Technologies abandoned standalone NPUs, integrating AI capabilities into GPUs instead and securing $100 million in financing.
— Nvidia and Apple reportedly discussed joining OpenAI’s funding round with Microsoft, potentially valuing the AI startup at over $100 billion.
— Yale University announced a $150 million investment over 5 years to support AI research, development, and education across the institution.
— Codeium raised $150 million in Series C funding, reaching a $1.25 billion valuation and unicorn status less than two years after launch.
Researches
? Researchers recently developed an AI tool called AINU that can differentiate cancer cells from normal cells and detect early stages of viral infection, by analyzing high-resolution images of cell nuclei.
? Google researchers just developed GameNGen, an AI system that can simulate the classic game DOOM in real-time, running at over 20 frames per second and producing visuals nearly indistinguishable from the original game.
? IBM Research and Cornell University recently created AutoToS, a system that teaches AI to solve complex planning problems at 100% accuracy — without needing a human to check its work.
? OpenAI researchers are preparing to launch a new AI model, code-named Strawberry (previously Q*), that demonstrates superior reasoning capabilities in solving complex problems, according to a new report via The Information .
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? Scientists from China and the U.S. just developed ActFound, a new AI model that outperforms existing methods in predicting drug bioactivity, potentially accelerating and reducing costs in drug development.
? Researchers at Washington State University recently developed an AI technique called Bayesian Optimization that dramatically improves the speed and efficiency of 3D printing lifelike human organs.
? Nous Research released the Hermes Function Calling V1 dataset for training AI models in function calling and structured output capabilities.
? Scientists from the Universities of Edinburgh and Dundee are launching a massive AI-driven study of over 1.6 million brain scans to develop tools for early dementia prediction and diagnosis.
Models Race
Google just released three new experimental Gemini 1.5 models, including a compact 8B parameter version, an improved Pro model, and an enhanced Flash model — all available for developers on Google AI Studio.
Alibaba just unveiled Qwen2-VL, a new vision-language AI model that outperforms GPT-4o in several benchmarks — particularly excelling in document comprehension and multilingual text-image understanding.
Magic just developed LTM-2-mini, a model capable of processing 100 million tokens of context — equivalent to about 10 million lines of code or 750 novels — and partnered with Google Cloud to build advanced AI supercomputers.
xAI’s Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini just made major improvements — doubling the model’s speed in the mini version and showing increased accuracy in both models, just days after its beta launch.
Regulation & Legal
? OpenAI and Anthropic just signed a groundbreaking agreement with the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute to allow government access and testing of their AI models before public release.
? Anthropic supported California’s AI regulation bill after changes were made, saying its benefits likely outweigh its costs for advanced AI development.
? Elon Musk endorsed California’s Senate Bill 1047, which would require safety testing for large AI models, breaking with other tech leaders who oppose the regulation.
? California lawmakers approved a bill proposing sweeping AI regulations, including safety testing requirements and potential legal consequences for harmful AI systems.
? Mark Zuckerberg and Spotify’s Daniel Ek advocated for Europe to embrace open-source AI, warning against complex regulations hindering innovation.
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Stay Curious, Stay Informed!
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2 个月It's good to see that AI development is becoming more regulated. Safe AI development is exactly what we need!