The pace of AI is insane. Massive developments this week from...
Rowan Cheung@rowancheung
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Mar 15, 2024
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The pace of AI is insane.
Massive developments this week from Microsoft, ChatGPT, Google, Meta, LinkedIn, Harvard, Playground AI, The Verge, MosiacML, Baidu, Reka, Adobe, Insilico, and AI in farming.
Plus, 27 new AI tools.
EVERYTHING you need to know and why it's important:
Massive developments this week from Microsoft, ChatGPT, Google, Meta, LinkedIn, Harvard, Playground AI, The Verge, MosiacML, Baidu, Reka, Adobe, Insilico, and AI in farming.
Plus, 27 new AI tools.
EVERYTHING you need to know and why it's important:
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Microsoft releases online shopping with AI-powered tools in Bing and Edge.
-AI-generated buying guides
-Summarized reviews
-Price Match
The features aim to alleviate shopper overwhelm and save big bucks.
Bing with the comeback of the year 🥵
-AI-generated buying guides
-Summarized reviews
-Price Match
The features aim to alleviate shopper overwhelm and save big bucks.
Bing with the comeback of the year 🥵
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ChatGPT now lets ChatGPT Plus users use Bing’s web search on iOS.
For $20 a month, ChatGPT Plus subscribers on iOS can now activate browsing via the Bing search engine.
For $20 a month, ChatGPT Plus subscribers on iOS can now activate browsing via the Bing search engine.
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Google's latest AI upgrade, "Help me organize," is now launching in Google Sheets.
Enter a prompt, and bam, a customizable table generated by AI.
Excel has some serious competition.
Enter a prompt, and bam, a customizable table generated by AI.
Excel has some serious competition.
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Meta releases a sneak peek into its AI's content-curation magic for Facebook and Instagram with 22 'system cards.'
These guides disclose how Meta ranks content using its algorithm, user customization, and the factors or 'signals' that influence AI prediction.
These guides disclose how Meta ranks content using its algorithm, user customization, and the factors or 'signals' that influence AI prediction.
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LinkedIn & UC Berkeley built a 99.6% accurate deep fake detector for profile photos, leveraging a unique geometric attribute of AI-generated faces.
The method learns from 41,500 synthetic and 100,000 real LinkedIn pictures.
The method learns from 41,500 synthetic and 100,000 real LinkedIn pictures.
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Harvard University is integrating its own generative AI into its popular CS50 course.
This is to facilitate a simulated 1:1 teacher-student ratio, fostering individual learning styles.
A new way of education is forming.
This is to facilitate a simulated 1:1 teacher-student ratio, fostering individual learning styles.
A new way of education is forming.
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Playground AI releases mixed image editing- a new way to combine real and synthetic images.
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A recent study by The Verge surveyed 2,000 US adults and revealed that 43% of people haven't even heard of ChatGPT, and only 25% have heard of MidJourney.
We're still so early.
We're still so early.
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Databricks shells out a whopping $1.3 billion to acquire MosaicML, an open-source startup renowned for its neural network expertise.
MosaicML's valuation leaped 6x to $1.3 billion from its previous round of $222 million.
MosaicML's valuation leaped 6x to $1.3 billion from its previous round of $222 million.
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Baidu's new ERNIE 3.5 beats GPT-4 in Chinese language tasks and dramatically boosts inference throughput by an astonishing 17-fold compared to ERNIE 3.0.
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Reka, a startup born out of DeepMind, Google, Baidu, and Meta, comes out of nowhere.
They just announced they raised $58 million to redefine task-specific large language models (LLMs).
Yasa is their flagship, easily customizable multimodal AI assistant.
They just announced they raised $58 million to redefine task-specific large language models (LLMs).
Yasa is their flagship, easily customizable multimodal AI assistant.
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The AI art scene has been slowed down recently due to large amounts of fear towards specific legal concerns around permissions.
Adobe recognized this fear and now offers to pay copyright claims for works spun by its generative AI tool, Adobe Firefly.
Adobe recognized this fear and now offers to pay copyright claims for works spun by its generative AI tool, Adobe Firefly.
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Insilico Medicine (member of NVIDIA Inception) is cutting costs and time in drug discovery using gen AI.
Their AI-led candidate, designed to treat a rare respiratory disease, is zipping into Phase 2 trials just 2.5 years after project inception.
(usually, a takes six years)
Their AI-led candidate, designed to treat a rare respiratory disease, is zipping into Phase 2 trials just 2.5 years after project inception.
(usually, a takes six years)
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Eliminating weeds can be a tedious, time-consuming, and costly task for farmers.
LaserWeeder from Carbon Robotics is capable of eliminating over 200,000 weeds per hour at an 80% cost savings.
The AI machine does the equivalent work of about 70 people. x.com/AgRoboticsTech…
LaserWeeder from Carbon Robotics is capable of eliminating over 200,000 weeds per hour at an 80% cost savings.
The AI machine does the equivalent work of about 70 people. x.com/AgRoboticsTech…
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27 new AI tools.
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That's it for this week's AI rundown.
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Rowan Cheung@rowancheung
The pace of AI is insane.
Massive developments this week from Microsoft, ChatGPT, Google, Meta, LinkedIn, Harvard, Playground AI, The Verge, MosiacML, Baidu, Reka, Adobe, Insilico, and AI in farming.
Plus, 27 new AI tools.
EVERYTHING you need to know and why it's important:
Massive developments this week from Microsoft, ChatGPT, Google, Meta, LinkedIn, Harvard, Playground AI, The Verge, MosiacML, Baidu, Reka, Adobe, Insilico, and AI in farming.
Plus, 27 new AI tools.
EVERYTHING you need to know and why it's important:
