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A daily show about AI made by AI: news, announcements, and research from arXiv, mixed in with some fun. Hosted by Giovani Pete Tizzano, an overly hyped AI enthusiast; Robert, an often unimpressed analyst, Olivia, an overly online reader, and Belinda, a witty research expert.

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Aug 29, 2024

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Meta's AI Instagram Search 🔍 // Grok-1.5V Multimodal Model 🌟 // Scaling CLIP 📉 15.04.2024

Meta is testing an AI-powered search bar in Instagram, which could improve the quality of search and help users discover new content on the platform. Grok-1.5V is a new multimodal model that can process a wide variety of visual information and outperforms its peers in the new RealWorldQA benchmark. "Scaling (Down) CLIP" explores the performance of the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-train...

Ai Pin Device 💻 // OpenAI's Spider Problem 🕷️ // Adapting Transformer to Vision 🧠 12.04.2024

The Ai Pin, a new device that offloads smartphone tasks, is discussed, funded by OpenAI's Sam Altman and other companies. A Twitter thread about OpenAI's spider problem is shared, raising questions about the consequences of AI technology. The paper "Adapting LLaMA Decoder to Vision Transformer" explores adapting decoder-only Transformers to computer vision, resulting in the creat...

Meta's AI Accelerator 💻 // Turing Award Winner 🏆 // Intel's GPU Advancements 🚀 11.04.2024

Meta's Training and Inference Accelerator promises significant performance improvements for AI workloads. Avi Wigderson receives the Turing Award for his contributions to the theory of computation and randomness in computation. Intel's Meteor Lake iGPU and Mistral 8x22B offer exciting advancements in the GPU market and language models. MuPT and Eagle and Finch present new models for music...

Meta's Llama 3 ⏰ // Intel's Enterprise GenAI 💥 // Microsoft's Direct Nash Optimization for LMs 🚀 10.04.2024

Meta is launching its Llama 3 open source LLM with 140 billion parameters, catching up to OpenAI's ChatGPT.  Intel's Gaudi 3 AI accelerator is breaking down proprietary walls to bring choice to enterprise GenAI market, with OEMs like Dell and Lenovo adopting it.  Microsoft Research's Direct Nash Optimization (DNO) is a new approach to improving language models, achieving state-of-the-a...

Secret AI Device Company 🤫 // Tesla's Robotaxi 🚗 // Language Model Navigation 🗺️ 09.04.2024

Sam Altman and Jony Ive are raising funding for a secret AI device company that could challenge the conventional smartphone experience and explore new interaction modalities with artificial intelligence. Tesla is unveiling its new 'robotaxi' on August 8th, which is specifically designed for ridesharing and could potentially shift the company's focus away from achieving self-driving on...

Tesla vs. OpenAI Talent War ⚔️ // YouTube Policy Violation Warning 🚫 // Efficient Retrieval with Bit Vectors 🤖 08.04.2024

Tesla and OpenAI are in a talent war for AI experts, with OpenAI offering salaries of up to $925,000. YouTube has warned that OpenAI's training of its text-to-video AI model using YouTube videos would violate its policies. Three AI research papers are discussed, including a new approach to unsupervised domain adaptation for ranking, a more efficient method for dense retrieval using bit vectors...

Cohere's Command R+ 🔝 // JetMoE-8B cost-effective model 💸 // Think-and-Execute framework for algorithmic reasoning 🤖 05.04.2024

Command R+ is a new language model designed for enterprise-grade workloads that outperforms similar models in the scalable market category and offers multilingual coverage in 10 key languages to support global business operations. JetMoE-8B is a new model that was trained with less than $0.1 million cost and outperformed LLaMA2-7B from Meta AI, who has multi-billion-dollar training resources. Mixt...

AI Weapons in Gaza ⚫️ // On-device Language Models 📱 // Style Similarity in Generative Models 🎨 04.04.2024

The use of AI in military decision-making is a complex and controversial topic, as highlighted in the discussion of the Lavender system used by the Israeli army in Gaza. The SWE-agent and IPEX-LLM projects showcase exciting advancements in the optimization of language models for software engineering and on-device use, respectively. The "Measuring Style Similarity in Diffusion Models" pap...

Grifting in AI 💸 // Intel's Foundry Resurgence 🚀 // Many-Shot Jailbreaking 🔓 03.04.2024

The potential risks associated with false claims and grifting in the AI industry. The resurgence of Intel in the foundry and product space, with a goal to become the second-largest foundry by 2030. The discovery of a new technique called "Many-shot jailbreaking" that can be used to evade the safety guardrails of large language models. The evaluation of the performance of large language m...

OpenAI's Voice Cloning AI 🗣️ // $100B Data-Center Project 💻 // Impossible Supersized Machines 🤖 02.04.2024

OpenAI's voice cloning AI model can create a synthetic voice based on just a 15-second clip of someone's voice, while Microsoft and OpenAI are reportedly working on a data center project that could cost up to $100 billion and include an AI supercomputer called "Stargate". "On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines" presents seven distinct arguments that show why it is...

Amazon's $2.75B Investment 💰 // AI and Economic Growth 💸 // Language Model Upset 🤯 29.03.2024

Amazon's $2.75 billion investment in Anthropic, a top player in AI research and development, is the largest outside investment in history and could have significant implications for the AI arms race. The potential economic explosion caused by AI is explored in a Vox article, discussing how AI could cause economic growth at a scale never seen before. Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus language model...

DBRX surpasses GPT-3.5 🤯 // Apple's iOS 18 AI strategy 📱 // DINO-Tracker for dense video tracking 🎥 28.03.2024

DataBricks introduces DBRX, a new state-of-the-art open LLM that surpasses GPT-3.5 and even competes with Gemini 1.0 Pro. Apple's upcoming AI strategy for iOS 18 is expected to include a revamped version of Siri, AI integrated into iMessage, auto-generated playlists, and even an AI health coach for watches. BinaryVectorDB offers lightning-fast search capabilities on large datasets with an embe...

Competition for Nvidia's Chips 🔥 // Baidu x Apple AI Partnership 🍎 // Elasticsearch Embeds Cohere 🧰 27.03.2024

A group of tech giants, including Google and Intel, are teaming up to challenge Nvidia's monopoly on the AI chip market with an open-source software suite called the UXL Foundation. Baidu has partnered with Apple to provide the AI backend for the Chinese versions of the iPhone 16, macOS, and the upcoming iOS 18, beating out rival Alibaba and others to secure the role. The Elasticsearch open in...

Stability AI CEO to Resign 🤝 // OpenAI Courts Hollywood 🎥 // Iterative Data Enhancement 🔄 26.03.2024

Stability AI founder Emad Mostaque plans to resign as CEO amid investor pressure and financial struggles. OpenAI is courting Hollywood studios and directors with its unreleased AI video generation tool, Sora. Researchers are exploring ways to teach information retrieval models to follow complex instructions and enhance LLMs with iterative data augmentation strategies. A study investigates the abil...

GPT-5 Soon? 🤖 // Ethical Issues in AI 🔎 // Efficient Video Models 🎥 25.03.2024

OpenAI is set to release GPT-5, a language model that could revolutionize the AI world by calling on other AI agents to help with tasks. The European Conference on Information Retrieval is taking place in Glasgow, with a focus on ethical issues in information retrieval technologies. Three AI research papers were discussed, including a new approach to generating high-quality videos more efficiently...

AI for Musicians 🎶 // GPT-5 Upgrade 📈 // RewardBench Evaluation 🧑‍💻 22.03.2024

Soundry AI promises to be a game-changer for musicians with its superior flexibility and versatility compared to standard sample libraries. OpenAI is set to release GPT-5, an improved version of the AI language model that powers ChatGPT, which could represent a notable advancement for OpenAI. RewardBench, a benchmark dataset and codebase for evaluating reward models, provides a standardized way to...

Microsoft hires Suleyman 💻 // NVIDIA's GR00T humanoid robot 🤖 // uBlockOrigin AI blocklist 🚫 21.03.2024

Microsoft hires Mustafa Suleyman to lead AI division, including Copilot, an AI tool that helps programmers write better code. NVIDIA announces Project GR00T, a multimodal AI system that enables advanced humanoid robots to learn skills and interact with the real world, with partnerships from leading robotics companies. LLMLingua-2 and Agent-FLAN are two cutting-edge AI research papers that address...

Sam Altman on GPT-5 💰 // Compute as Currency 💻 // Vid2Robot 🤖 20.03.2024

Saudi Arabia's $40 billion investment in AI, making them the largest investor in the field. OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman's prediction that compute will be the currency of the future. Vid2Robot, a video-based learning framework that directly produces robot actions given a video demonstration of a manipulation task and the robot's current visual observations. TexDreamer, the first zero-sh...

Nvidia's Blackwell B200 🚀 // Stable Video 3D 💥 // Apple's AI Partnership Talks 🍎 19.03.2024

Nvidia's Blackwell B200 GPU is the world's most powerful chip for AI, offering up to 20 petaflops of FP4 horsepower and reducing cost and energy consumption. Stable Video 3D is a generative model that can be used for commercial purposes and improves the quality of 3D meshes generated directly from novel views. Apple is in talks with potential partners like Google to integrate their AI mode...

Figure AI Robots 🤖 // OpenAI Leaks GPT-5 🤫 // Scaling Language Models 📈 18.03.2024

Figure, a leading AI robotics company, is making significant advancements in creating robots that can perceive their environment, make decisions, and take action, all in a way that aligns with human expectations. OpenAI may have accidentally leaked details about a new AI model called GPT-4.5 Turbo, which could level the playing field with Google's AI model Gemini. Two papers explore the develo...

Grok-1 Released 🤖 // Landmark EU AI Act 🇪🇺 // Multimodal LLM Importance 🔍 18.03.2024

X AI has released their 314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model, Grok-1, which is currently the largest language model that has been publicly released and could be used for a variety of tasks. The European Parliament has passed a landmark AI act that bans certain AI applications and requires strict obligations for high-risk AI, positioning itself as the global standard for regulation. The p...

Devin: First AI Software Engineer 🤖 // Google Gemini AI on Elections 🚫 // WorkArena Benchmark 💼 14.03.2024

Introducing Devin, the first AI software engineer that can plan and execute complex engineering tasks requiring thousands of decisions. Google's AI chatbot won't answer questions about upcoming elections to prevent inaccurate or misleading responses. WorkArena, a benchmark measuring the ability of large language model-based agents to perform tasks that align with the daily work of knowledg...

Language Model Advancements 🔍 // Meta's AI Investment 💰 // Model Security Risks 🔒 13.03.2024

The latest research in AI language models, including algorithmic progress and multistep consistency models. A new LLM model called Command-R, designed for large-scale production workloads. The announcement of Meta's investment in AI infrastructure, including two 24k GPU clusters and plans for continued growth. A discussion on the potential security risks of model-stealing attacks on language m...

Nvidia's Dominance 🏆 // AI & Cryptocurrency's Energy Demands 💡 // OpenAI's Transformer Debugger 🔍 12.03.2024

Nvidia's CEO claims that even free AI chips from competitors can't beat Nvidia's GPUs, highlighting the company's dominance in the AI industry. The energy demands of AI and cryptocurrency are discussed, with concerns raised about the potential consequences of their growing electricity needs. OpenAI's Superalignment team has developed a powerful new tool called Transformer Debug...

Apple's AI Release Plans 🍎 // Sam Altman Returns to Board 🤝 // Novel Transformer-Based Architectures 🧐 11.03.2024

Apple's upcoming AI releases in 2024, including a new Siri upgrade and a rumored "AppleGPT" LLM. Sam Altman's return to OpenAI's board of directors after an investigation into his ouster. Research on high-resolution image synthesis using rectified flow transformers and a novel transformer-based architecture for text-to-image generation. A new metric called FENICE for evaluati...

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