The Generative A.I. Brief Issue #16

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Hey Everyone,

This was for the week of September 18th, 2023 and some of the week of the 25th. This takes me countless hours, so you might want to take a glance.

Let’s see what happend during the last week or two in A.I. I hope you find something to read of interest here.

You can also just skim the link titles and get some general idea if you are pressed for time. You ready for a lot of news packed into a single piece? Let’s go! 🏃 Weekend reading for the serious folk.

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💬Introduction for Today🎯

This week Meta personas go live, Google Gemini is coming and Anthropic got more funding, from Amazon of all people.

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📢Top News 📺

Audience Pulse Survey - Find the Best Newsletters here.

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Anthropic AI: Expanding access to safer AI with Amazon (official)

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OpenAI: ChatGPTcan now search the web in real time (The Verge) ​

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Microsoft is trying to reduce its reliance on OpenAI by developing a cheaper, less powerful AI model, report says (Insider)

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Meta to release AI persona chatbots this week. Meta to Push for Younger Users With New AI Chatbot Characters (WSJ paywalled)

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OpenAI: ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak (official)

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FTC and 17 states sue Amazon on antitrust charges​

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Writers reach tentative deal with studios to end strike after nearly 150 days​

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OpenAI’s Sam Altman wants to make hardware AI now (Ben’s Bites, Quick bites) What? 🤯

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🔗Partnership & Announcements🏭

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Spotify: Spotify’s AI Voice Translation Pilot Means Your Favorite Podcasters Might Be Heard in Your Native Language (Official)

Generative AI by Getty Images, A New Product, powered by NVIDIA (Official) - More Context (The Verge)

AmazonClaims to Bring Generative A.I. to Assistant Alexa (TechCrunch)

Announcing Microsoft Copilot, your everyday AI companion (official) (see Ben’s Summary)

Snap partners with Microsofton ads in its ‘My AI’ chatbot feature​

Google: YouTube announces new AI-powered tools (official)

OpenAI launches DALL-E 3, it will appear in Bing as well (official)

OpenAI Multi Modal Marketing Claims: ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak​

Anthropicpartners with BCG (Sept 14th)

Cloudflare and Meta Collaborate to Make Llama 2 Available Globally​

Meta: Facebook and Instagram will soon get a slew of AI-powered creator tools - View Meta Connect live-stream.

McKinsey launches an open-source ecosystem for digital and AI projects​

Zapier launches Canvas, an AI-powered flowchart tool​

The U.S. NSAstarts AI security center with eye on China​

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📰Noted Newsletters📬

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Nvidia Illumina Acquisition: The AI Foundry for Healthcare – The Hardware of Life (SemiAnalysis)

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​🤖 Cyborg Workers (Azeem) ​

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​Generative AI and intellectual property​

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​How Google taught AI to doubt itself (Platformer) ​

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More Newsletters I write at my own cadence include: 🎓 A.I. Learning | 🚀Read A.I. Startups | 📑 Read A.I. Survey | 🌌 Quantum Foundry | 📊 Data Science​

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📝 Papers 🗏

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The Rise and Potential of Large Language Model Based Agents: A Survey (Sept 19th)

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Agents: An Open-source Framework for Autonomous Language Agents (Sept 14th)

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LONGLORA: EFFICIENT FINE-TUNING OF LONGCONTEXT LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS (Sept, 21st) - on GitHub: https://github.com/dvlab-research/LongLoRA​

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The Reversal Curse:LLMs trained on “A is B” fail to learn “B is A” (September, 22) ​

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ProPainter: Improving Propagation and Transformer for Video Inpainting​

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Multimodal Foundation Models: From Specialists to General-Purpose Assistants (HF, Sept, 19th)

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​Accurate proteome-wide missense variant effect prediction with AlphaMissense (Google Deepmind, Science, Sept 19th)

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​The Cambridge Law Corpus: A Corpus for Legal AI Research (September 21st)

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LongLoRA: Efficient Fine-tuning of Long-Context Large Language Models (Sept, 22nd, HF)

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Chain-of-VerificationReduces Hallucination in Large Language Models (HF)

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Bonus Video:

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The Economic Case for Generative AI with a16z's Martin Casado - Link ​

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Yes and it’s totally VC fluff, but funny to hear how they convince themselves.

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🚀 Startups 🧠

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AI Startup WriterRaises $100 Million to Pen Corporate Content (Bloomberg BNN)

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AlphaSense, an AI-based market intel firm, snaps up $150M at a $2.5B valuation​

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Corti raises $60M in funding to expand its AI co-pilot for healthcare professionals (SiliconAngle)

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Senserlaunches its AI-enhanced observability platform, raises $9.5M​

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AI chip firm Kneronraises $49 million as it looks to rival Nvidia​

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Betterleapleverages AI to revolutionize recruitment, launches with impressive $13M in seed funding (VentureBeat)

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Revefi secures $10.5M in seed funding, launches AI-powered enterprise data platform​

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💸Venture Capital🦄

As reported by Ben’s Bites​

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Repeat a16z: How Are Consumers Using Generative AI? (Olivia Moore)

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​Unicorn Market Cap 2023: Rise of AI (Newsletter)

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Sequoia:Bringing Generative AI to Healthcare​

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​The Israeli Generative A.I. Landscape (VC Cafe)

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Amazon's Partnership With Anthropic Shows Size Matters in the AI Industry (Time)

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Acquisition Watch: Salesforce to acquire Airkit.ai, a low-code platform for building AI customer service agents (TechCrunch)

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Acquisition: LimeWire Acquires BlueWillow - AI Image Generation Model and 2nd Largest Community with 2.3 Million Users

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Acquisition: Roblox acquires AI voice moderation start-up Speechly​

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Acquistion: CrowdStrikeconfirms its Bionic.ai acquisition, sources say for $350M​

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a16z: Commercializing AI in Healthcare: The Jobs to be Done​

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Mythos Ventures grabs $14M for inaugural fund to invest in AI​

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French billionaire Xavier Niel pledges to invest up to $210 million in AI​

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More Newsletters I write at my own cadence include: 🎓 A.I. Learning | 🚀Read A.I. Startups | 📑 Read A.I. Survey | 🌌 Quantum Foundry | 📊 Data Science​

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💼 Business to Business (B2B)📈

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​Mistral 7B | Open Source​

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China’s chip equipment firms see revenue surge as Beijing seeks semiconductor self-reliance​

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Meta debuts AI Studio to let developers build custom chatbots​

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​Third-party AI tools are responsible for 55% of AI failures in business​

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Microsoft: Massive Windows 11 update brings Microsoft Copilot and more AI features​

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Rumour: Google may ditch Broadcom, build its own Tensor Processing Units by 2027 to save billions​

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White House could force cloud companies to disclose AI customers (Semafor) ​

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🎬Videos🎥

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Emad Mostaque: How generative AI will unlock humanity's potential | CogX Festival 2023 | Link ​

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⚒️Novel Tools🔥

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Google DeepMind: New AI tool classifies the effects of 71 million ‘missense’ mutations ​

Find it on GitHub: https://github.com/google-deepmind/alphamissense​

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​Rewind for Windows is coming soon (Official) - A Truly Personalized AI ​

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(Older) Funding story of Rewind with a16z as a Lead

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Microsoft Research Blog: AutoGen:Enabling next-generation large language model applications​

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👾Hacker News📰

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Web statistics show that generative AI is mostly ChatGPT hype​

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​Telling AI model to “take a deep breath” causes math scores to soar in study​

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ElevenLabslaunches free book classics narrated by high-quality AI voices (The Decoder)

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​OpenAI could answer Google's Gemini with GPT-Vision and "Gobi"​

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🤖 Robotics 🦿

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​10 Companies Leading the Humanoid Robotic Wave (Conrad Gray, LinkedIn Slideshow)

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​Tesla’s Optimus robot can now sort objects autonomously (Teslarati)

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​Robots that learn as they fail could unlock a new era of AI

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​Skydio’s enterprise pivot kicks off with a new drone (TechCrunch)

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Uber-backed delivery robots to deploy Israeli startup’s remote human operator tech​

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Open Robotics’ ROS is safe despite Alphabet buying OSRC, says Intrinsic - Context ​

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Extreme Parkour with Legged Robots via

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🥼Healthcare🩺

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Sequoia: Bringing Generative AI to Healthcare​

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a16z: Commercializing AI in Healthcare: The Jobs to be Done​

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🧪 Science 🔬

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AI and science: what 1,600 researchers think (Nature)

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Google DeepMindIntroduces a New AI Tool that Classifies the Effects of 71 Million ‘Missense’ Mutations (MarkTechPost) - Read the Paper​

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​LLM Training: RLHF and Its Alternatives (Ahead of AI)

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​AI will transform science — now researchers must tame it (Nature)

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💬 Open-Source LLMs 👐

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Mistral AI makes its first large language model free for everyone (Mistral 7B model)

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Meet MAmmoTH: A Series of Open-Source Large Language Models (LLMs) Specifically Tailored for General Math Problem-Solving (Marktechpost)

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💰Stock Market 🛒

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Alibaba to list its logistics unit Cainiaoas part of historic shakeup​

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💀AGI and ASI 👽🌋

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What is AGI? How Artificial General Intelligence could make humans obsolete (May, 2023)

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🎓 Education & Learning📚

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​Student Use Cases for AI​

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Google Research: Distilling step-by-step: Outperforming larger language models with less training data and smaller model sizes​

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Tutorial: Unlocking Multi-GPU Model Training with Dask XGBoost (Nvidia)

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➡️ Prompt Engineering 🧠

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🎥Videos & Podcasts🎙️

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Andrew Ng: Opportunities in AI - 2023 | Link​

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🎖️National Defense & Military🕊️

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No 10 worried AI could be used to create advanced weapons that escape human control​

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🪐Space and Emerging Tech🛰️

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Sierra Space:SpaceX rival achieves $5 billion valuation amid industry record milestone​

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🔮Future of Work & Automation🦾

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Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier: Field Experimental Evidence of the Effects of AI on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality (The Paper)

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​Indeed’s AI at Work Report​

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​The Useful Jagged Frontier?

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Enterprise workers gain 40 percent performance boost from GPT-4, Harvard study finds​

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Hundreds of consultants were given AI tools. What happened next shows the promises and pitfalls of the technology (Insider)

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🐲 China A.I.🏯

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China identifies AI, optoelectric semiconductors, as challenges it wants to crack​

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​UAE wants to disrupt the AI superpowers (Axios)

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Indonesia to ban purchases on social media like TikTok, says it will further regulate e-commerce!

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​CHIPS Act Tries to Keep Quantum Away From China (Tom’s Hardware)

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🦹🏻‍♂️Dystopian 🗽

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POLITICO summit: Khan puts AI companies on notice​

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Amazon’s new Subscription? Alexa's future is pay-to-play, departing Amazon exec predicts (The Register) - they are listening.

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​How Big Tech Is Ruining the Dream of AI (The New Republic)

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Sam Altman tracked how quickly people responded to his texts and emails to distinguish between 'great and mediocre founders' (Insider)

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🏛Governance and Regulation⚖️

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​AI Safety Summit: introduction (UK)

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UK quietly dismisses independent AI advisory board, alarming tech sector (TNW)

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UK Antitrust Watchdog Sets Out Seven Principles for Regulating AI​

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What is: Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy? (Official)

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Coinbase CEO Calls for Deregulation of Artificial Intelligence (Decrypt)

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💬Opinion Editorial🙄

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​Why Open Source AI Will Win (Public Experiments)

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​The Dawn of Sensory AI​

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​Experts disagree over threat posed but artificial intelligence cannot be ignored (Guardian)

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🎭Entertainment & the Arts🎨

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​George R.R. Martin and other authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement (TheVerge)

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​Why Silicon Valley’s biggest AI developers are hiring poets (Rest of World)

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🌏Manifestations of Utopia🏙️

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Exclusive: How AI policy aligns with what voters want (Axios) ​

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🌌Quantum Computing⚗️

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Infleqtion Wins Award For Defense Data Analysis Using AI And Quantum (Quantum Insider)

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​Quantum Computing In Scandinavia​

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📣Public Relations💞

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Exclusive: DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis unveils his vision for Isomorphic and AI’s future in biotech (Endpoints News)

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Dario Amodei Quit OpenAI to Build a GPT Rival. It’s Now a $5 Billion A.I. Leader (Yahoo Finance)

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​Google is quietly handing out early demos of its GPT-4 rival calledGemini. Here's what we know so far about the upcoming AI model.

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6 Big Announcements At IntelInnovation 2023: From 288-Core CPU To AI Supercomputer​

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15 times Faster than Llama 2: Introducing DeciLM – NAS-Generated LLM with Variable GQA​

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Indeed: https://www.hiringlab.org/2023/09/21/indeed-ai-at-work-report/​

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