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I hope you appreciate links and reading about A.I. as much as I do! 🚀

This post is a quick link tool to completely get up to date on what occured in A.I. during the last week to ten days. Week of November 13th until the present.

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💬Introduction for Today🎯

You take a week off, and Sam Altman gets fired. Not as much happens in a week any longer than it used to in mid 2023. We shall try to keep things brief and condensed.

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Top News 📺

(Cohere, Anthropic and Inflection among others took advantage of the chaos at OpenAI in November, 2023. )

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Pika Labs raises $35 million for Video Prompting ​

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AnthropicIntroducing Claude 2.1​

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CohereLaunches Comprehensive Fine-Tuning Suite​

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OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say​

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Enterprise-focused AI startup Cohere launches demo chatbot Coral and Chat API​

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OpenAI $86 Billion Thrive-Led Tender to Continue After Altman Returns (The Information, paid scoop)

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Inflection announces Inflection-2 Model that has surpassed GPT-3.5​

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Google DeepMind’s AI Weather Forecaster Handily Beats a Global Standard (Wired)

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Together AIRaises more funds, backed by Nvidia ​

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🔗Partnership & Announcements🏭

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xAI will launch ‘Grok’chatbot this week: Here’s what to expect​

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ElevenLabs startup: now lets you use AI to change your voice — here’s how to sound like a different person​

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UK Generative AI startups Stability AI releases its first foundational model: Stable Video Diffusion​

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Google Lyria: Transforming the future of music creation​

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Adobe reportedly acquires text-to-video AI platform Rephrase​

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OpenAI releases ChatGPT with Voice for everyone for free (X post)

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Inflection announces Inflection-2 Model that has surpassed GPT-3.5​

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Nvidia: delays launch of new AI chip for China

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​Google in talks to invest in AI startup Character.AI

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📰Noted Newsletters📬

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• ​The Real Reason Sam Altman was Fired?​
• ​OpenAI & Grand Strategy​
• ​What is OpenAI, Really?​
• ​OpenAI and the Biggest Threat in the History of Humanity​

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• ​The interested normie's guide to OpenAI drama​
• ​Give OpenAI's Board Some Time. The Future of AI Could Hinge on It​
• ​‘Huge egos are in play’: behind the firing and rehiring of OpenAI’s Sam Altman​

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• ​OpenAI: The Battle of the Board (Zvi)
• ​OpenAI DevDay - a pivotal moment for AI​
• ​Copilot is an Incumbent Business Model​

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📝 Papers 🗏

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MEDITRON-70B:Scaling Medical Pretraining for Large Language Models (Nov 27)

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Stable Video Diffusion: Scaling Latent Video Diffusion Models to Large Datasets (Nov 25)

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Google’s Mirasol3B: A multimodal autoregressive model for learning across audio, video, and text​

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TaskWeaver:A Code-First Agent Framework (Microsoft, December 1)

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Video-LLaVA: Learning United Visual Representation by Alignment Before Projection (Nov 21st)

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​Advancing Transformer Architecture in Long-Context Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey (Nov 21)

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A Survey of Graph Meets Large Language Model: Progress and Future Directions​

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HierSpeech++: Bridging the Gap between Semantic and Acoustic Representation of Speech by Hierarchical Variational Inference for Zero-shot Speech Synthesis (Nov 21st)

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CogVLM: Visual Expert for Pretrained Language Models (Nov 6) ​

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Prospective implementation of AI-assisted screen reading to improve early detection of breast cancer​

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Orca 2: Teaching Small Language Models How to Reason​

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Google Deepmind: Levels of AGI: Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI​

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Such great overviews: ML Papers Explained ​

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LLMs cannot find reasoning errors but can correct them (paper, code)

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​System 2 Attention (is something you might need too) (Nov 20th)

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GAIA: a benchmark for General AI Assistants (Nov 21)

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📱Semiconductor Notes📝

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China’s AI Chipmaker BirenWins $280 Million In Funding Pledge After US Sanction​

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Chinese hackers steal chip designs from major Dutch semiconductor company — perps lurked for over two years to steal NXP's chipmaking IP: Report

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🚀 Startups 🧠

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Pika Labs raises $35 million for Video Prompting ​

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Together AIRaises more funds, backed by Nvidia ​

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Puzzle: Raises An Additional $30M to Fuel a New Era of AI-Powered Accounting​

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Inflection announces Inflection-2 Model that has surpassed GPT-3.5​

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Indian AI Video Startup Rephrase.ai Announces Acquisition by Adobe​

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KognitosRaises $20M in Series A Funding​

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💸Venture Capital🦄

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Khosla Ventures (the first VC of this startup) OpenAI profile ​

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Coatue: AI: The Coming Revolution​

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💼 Business to Business (B2B)📈

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​Kara Swisher talks to Satya Nadella about the OpenAI debacle (Podcast, Spotify)

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🎬Videos🎥

Podcast: No Priors Ep. 39 | With OpenAI Co-Founder & Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever | Link ​

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We interviewed Sam Altman | Hard Fork | Ep 58 | Casey Newton - Link.

Go to 35:58 for the actual Sam Altman interview.

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⚒️Novel Tools🔥

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Intelneural-chat-7b-v1-1​

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👾Hacker News📰

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Google Deepmind’s new AI Graphcast can predict the weather for 10 days ahead in just minutes​

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Unpacking the hype around OpenAI’s rumored new Q* model (MIT Tech Review)

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Contrary to reports, OpenAI probably isn’t building humanity-threatening AI​

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OpenAIlures Google's top AI researchers with multimillion-dollar offers (The Decoder)

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🤖 Robotics 🦿

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• ​Robots at Amazon​

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NIO to slash workforce by 30% as it bets on robots and AI​

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Brown Researchers Create Tool to Simplify Human-Robot Communication​

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🥼Healthcare🩺

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Primary care player Forward unveils AI-based, self-serve CarePods backed by $100M series E round​

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Another take: Forward Health launches CarePods, a self-contained, AI-powered doctor’s office​

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InnovationRx: Generative AI For Drug Discovery​

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🧪 Science 🔬

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​Unlocking New Frontiers: AI and the Sciences ( Stanford HAI)

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💬 Open-Source LLMs 👐

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New Anyscaleservice enables fine-tuning of open source LLMs (it’s called Endpoints)

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💰Stock Market 🛒

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​AI Alert: 3 Healthcare Stocks That Are Investing in Artificial Intelligence

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​OpenAI Made an AI Breakthrough Before Altman Firing ( Paywalled, The Information)

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💀AGI and ASI 👽🌋

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Google DeepMind wants to define what counts as artificial general intelligence​

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Microsoft president says no chance of super-intelligent AI soon​

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Paper: Levels of AGI: Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI​

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There are signs this paper is more important than we originally thought regarding the evolution of GPT-5. (May, 2023)

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🎓 Education & Learning📚

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​Curious Beginner's Guide to LLMs - Tweet X Post​

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Microsoft has created a free course of 12 lessons covering LLMs, prompt engineering, vector databases and building applications. Go see it here. For more beginner info go here.

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ChatGPT has entered the classroom: how LLMs could transform education (Nature)

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➡️ Prompt Engineering 🧠

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7 Key Principles of Effective Prompt Engineering​

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🎥Videos & Podcasts🎙️

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​Intro to large language models by Andrej Karpathy. (Video link)

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🎖️National Defense & Military🕊️

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Pentagon’s AI initiatives accelerate hard decisions on lethal autonomous weapons​

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Role of AI on the Battlefield Debated as Putin Stakes New Policy Position​

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The Pentagon is moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humans​

🪐Space and Emerging Tech🛰️

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The Search for Alien Life: Scientists Develop AI System with Method of Identifying Life on Other Worlds With 90% Accuracy​

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🔮Future of Work & Automation🦾

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Finance workers in London are most exposed to the threat of AI, and it should put Wall Street on notice – study shows - Read study.

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How generative AI will deliver significant benefits to the service industry​

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Nvidia CEO Huang urges faster AI development—to make it safer​

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🐲 China A.I.🏯

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Graphcore's retreat from China deals another blow to European AI ambitions​

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​China venture capital funding plunges amid slowing economy and weak global investor sentiment (SCMP)

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🦹🏻‍♂️Dystopian 🗽

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​The End of OpenAI Hegemony - Analysis of the firing of Sam Altman

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Elon Musk invested in Deep Mind after its founder told him that AI could destroy human colonies on Mars: NYT​

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🏛Governance and Regulation⚖️

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Investor Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst) has founded Responsible Innovation Labs​

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💬Opinion Editorial🙄

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‘We will coup whoever we want!’: the unbearable hubris of Musk and the billionaire tech bros (Guardian)

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📊Infographics 📏

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Read more about AI Workforce trends.

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🌏Manifestations of Utopia🏙️

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Deerpark AI is utilizing GPT-4 to assist in reading 14,000 volumes of Buddhist scriptures​

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🌌Quantum Computing⚗️

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Researchers use quantum computing to predict gene relationships​

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📣Public Relations💞

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Nvidia Collaborates With Genentech to Accelerate Drug Discovery Using Generative AI​

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🏋️‍♀️ Thanks for skimming, I hope you managed to find something of interest. 👀

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