The Generative A.I. Brief Issue #19

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Aztecs in the year 2077: Cyberpunk. Midjourney.

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Hey Everyone,

Let’s see what happend during the last week or two in A.I. I hoping you find something to read of interest here. You ready for A LOT of links?

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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 October 23rd, 2023.

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💬Introduction for Today🎯

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• Microsoft earnings would suggest that Azure is growing faster due to its A.I. efforts while Google did not experience the same boost with Google Cloud growth. Amazon is powering Ads with Generative A.I. in an attempt to accelerate its already impressive advertising growth.
• In Earnings week for the magnificent seven, Generative A.I. doesn’t look like innovation, but as a mechanism to boost existing Cloud and Ads revenue. At least that’s what the markets are saying.
• In this edition, I’m only choosing the best links and articles I could find. You can follow our Newsletter’s reddit for more exhaustive link coverage. Not all of my readers apparently are a fan of my exhaustive research into detailed links.

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This was a big week for A.I. papers around agents. (see the Paper section for more details)

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🚀Read A.I. Startups | 📑 Read A.I. Papers | 🌌 Quantum Foundry | 📊 Data Science​

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• Report (The Information): Generative AI search startup Perplexity AIseeking millions in venture capital funding (seeking $500 million valuation)

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📢Top News 📺

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Amazon: Amazon rolls out AI-powered image generation to help advertisers deliver a better ad experience for customers (official)

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OpenAI: Thrive Capital to Lead Purchase of OpenAI Employee Shares at $80 Billion-Plus Valuation (this would 3x OpenAI’s internal valuation in a very short period)

• Valuation going up 175% in eight months. I guess we can call them the OpenAI Mafia.

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Twelve Labs: Introducing Video-To-Text and Pegasus-1 (80B)(Blog official) - Video ​

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Meta: Introducing Habitat 3.0: The next milestone on the path to socially intelligent robots​

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Google: Google is actively looking to insert different types of ads in its generative AI search​

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OpenAI and partners announce new Executive Director of the Frontier Model Forum and a new $10 million AI Safety Fund.

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🔗Partnership & Announcements🏭

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Lenovo and NVIDIA Announce Hybrid AI Solutions to Help Enterprises Quickly Adopt GenAI​

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Google Search: 3 new ways to check images and sources online​

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IBM acquires Manta Software Inc. to complement data and AI governance capabilities​

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📰Noted Newsletters📬

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​The Rise of Military AI and the Military-Tech Complex​

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​Strange Ways AI Disrupts Business Models, What’s Next For Creativity & Marketing, Some Provocative Data (semi Paywalled)

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📝 Papers 🗏

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Eureka: Human-Level Reward Design via Coding Large Language Models (October 19th)

• EUREKA, a human-level reward design algorithm powered by LLM (the agent is by Nvidia)
• EUREKA exploits the remarkable zero-shot generation, code-writing, and in-context improvement capabilities of state-of-the-art LLMs, such as GPT-4, to perform evolutionary optimization over reward code.

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Zero123++: a Single Image to Consistent Multi-view Diffusion Base Model (Oct. 23)

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OpenAgents:An Open Platform for Language Agents in the Wild (Oct 16) - on GitHub​

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AgentTuning: Enabling Generalized Agent Abilities for LLMs (Oct 19)

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Sparse Fine-tuning for Inference Acceleration of Large Language Models (Oct 10)

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📱Semiconductor Notes📝

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TSMCUndecided Where to Build 1.4nm Fab (Tom’s Hardware)

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🚀 Startups 🧠

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TwelveLabs is building models that can understand videos at a deep level[Visit Website] - Video​

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CentML lands $27M from Nvidia, others to make AI models run more efficiently (TechCrunch)

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​Startup Map (Interactive) by Dealroom

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Imbue gets $12 million in follow-on funding re Series B for a total of $210 million. (Reuters)

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💸Venture Capital🦄

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​The big risk behind the AI investment boom (Axios)

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Inside SequoiaCapital’s Growing AI Portfolio (Crunchbase News)

• A year ago, about 16% of Sequoia Capital’s new investments were in artificial intelligence startups. So far in 2023, that number has jumped to nearly 60%.

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💼 Business to Business (B2B)📈

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​AI Report 2023 by Kaggle (a fairly long aggregation summary)

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🎬Videos🎥

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AI Inflection points: [link]

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⚒️Novel Tools🔥

The Humane AI Pin apparently runs GPT-4 and flashes a ‘Trust Light’ when it’s recording (Verge)

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👾Hacker News📰

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A supposed Gemini Leak: Gemini is coming to Makersuite & so are Stubbs​

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🤖 Robotics 🦿

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Eureka: With GPT-4 overseeing training, robots can learn much faster

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🥼Healthcare🩺

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• A lot has progress has been made in Genertive AI’s impact on drug development.

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🧪 Science 🔬

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​How Scientists Taught AI To Mimic Crucial Human Skills (The Messenger)

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💬 Open-Source LLMs 👐

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Find an LLM, in the Collection​

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💰Stock Market 🛒

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​Microsoft shares rise as Wall Street heralds ‘strong execution,’ wider AI rollout

​MSFT -0.46%↓ stock is up 37% YTD.

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Google Cloud revenue misses expectations despite AI boom (Guardian)

(Gemini is not out yet)

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💀AGI and ASI 👽🌋

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OpenAI forms new team to assess ‘catastrophic risks’ of AI (x-risk)

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🎓 Education & Learning📚

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​Intro to LangChain and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) (via Sophia Yang)

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Quick Summary: Functions, Tools and Agents with LangChain (DeepLearning.AI)

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Repost: Multimodality and Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) (Chip Huyen)

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➡️ Prompt Engineering 🧠

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7 advanced ChatGPT prompt-writing tips you need to know​

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🎥Videos & Podcasts🎙️

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Geoffrey Hinton and Fei-Fei Li in conversation [link] Look how far we have come.

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Bloomberg: Might as well watch this: RUIN: Money, Ego and Deception at FTX​

(Not very A.I. related except that SBF is a huge investor in Anthropic AI)

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🎖️National Defense & Military🕊️

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Scale A.I.is selling Generative A.I. to the military, what could go wrong. (Washington Post)

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🪐Space and Emerging Tech🛰️

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AI is already helping astronomers make incredible discoveries. Here's how​

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🔮Future of Work & Automation🦾

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​Gen AI and the future of work (McKinsey)

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🐲 China A.I.🏯

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Chinese Generative AI startups are finally getting some bigger funders: Alibaba, Tencent Join Big Backers for Chinese AI Startup Zhipu

• Zhipu and Baichuan are among the better-known startups developing generative artificial intelligence, hoping to match the likes of Microsoft Corp.-backed OpenAI and Google and Amazon backed Anthropic AI.

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🦹🏻‍♂️Dystopian 🗽

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​Robotic dog-mounted rifles are now a thing thanks to US Army​

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🏛Governance and Regulation⚖️

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​Just launched: High-level UN Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence (via Eugenio V Garcia)

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💬Opinion Editorial🙄

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Microsoft CEO: My annual letter: Leading in a new era​

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🎭Entertainment & the Arts🎨

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​How Meta and AI companies recruited striking actors to train AI (MIT) ​

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🌏Manifestations of Utopia🏙️

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Breast cancer breakthrough: AI predicts a third of cases prior to diagnosis in mammography study​

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🌌Quantum Computing⚗️

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​Time to get serious about the dangers ofquantum computing (FT)

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📣Public Relations💞

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Jina AILaunches World's First Open-Source 8K Text Embedding​

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Patronus AI launches EnterprisePII, the industry’s first LLM dataset for detecting business-sensitive information​

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🙉Last Memes🎭

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“Cruise Didn't Tell Anyone That A Woman Was Dragged 20 Feet After Being Pushed Into Robotaxi” - Yikes GM this is very shady behavior.

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

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