AI Trends and Innovations

Our 129th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps:

• (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
• Tools & Apps
  • (00:05:40) These 'A.I. humans' are letting gamers modify their voices in real time
  • (00:07:48) New Clippy app gives us a taste of AI in Windows 11
  • (00:10:40) ChatGPT on iOS now comes with Bing built-in
• Applications & Business
  • (00:11:50) Junk websites filled with AI-generated text are pulling in money from programmatic ads
  • (00:14:28) AI startups buck funding winter, grow share in ’23
  • (00:18:35) The TSA will use facial recognition in over 400 airports
  • (00:20:18) OpenAI Chooses London for Its First Corporate Office Outside US
  • (00:21:24) Unity shares rise 12% after company announces A.I. marketplace
  • (00:22:40) Fundings 
    • Inflection lands $1.3B investment to build more ‘personal’ AI
    • Runway, a startup building generative AI for content creators, raises $141M
    • Typeface, which is building generative AI for brands, raises $100M at a $1B valuation
    • Celestial AI raises $100M to transfer data using light-based interconnects
    • Gleamer, which provides AI software for radiologists, raises $29.5M
    • Parrot, an AI-powered transcription platform that turns speech into text, raises $11M Series A
  • (00:26:45) Acquisitions
    • Databricks Strikes $1.3 Billion Deal for Generative AI Startup MosaicML
    • Meituan buys founder’s months-old ‘OpenAI for China’ for $234M
    • As the generative AI craze rages on, Ramp acquires customer support startup Cohere.io
    • Nvidia Acquired AI Startup That Shrinks Machine-Learning Models
• Projects & Open Source
  • (00:30:51) Unraveling GPU Inference Costs for Fine-tuned Open-source Models V/S Closed Platforms
• Research & Advancements
  • (00:33:48) Researchers From LinkedIn And UC Berkeley Propose A New Method To Detect AI-Generated Profile Photos
  • (00:35:35) China's Baidu claims its Ernie Bot beats ChatGPT on key tests as A.I. race heats up
  • (00:38:47) LeanDojo: Theorem Proving with Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
  • (00:40:21) Self-Improving Robots: Embracing Autonomy in Robot Learning
  • (00:41:48) RoboCat: A self-improving robotic agent
  • (00:45:05) NVIDIA H100 GPUs Set Standard for Generative AI in Debut MLPerf Benchmark 
• Policy & Safety
  • (00:46:50) From ChatGPT to executive orders: Inside the White House’s urgent push to regulate AI
  • (00:53:50) US considering new restrictions on AI chip exports to China, Wall Street Journal reports
  • (00:57:10) 17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot
  • (01:00:32) European companies claim the EU’s AI Act could ‘jeopardise technological sovereignty’
• Synthetic Media and Art
  • (01:04:22) Adobe Stock creators aren’t happy with Firefly, the company’s ‘commercially safe’ gen AI tool
  • (01:08:27) Adobe indemnity clause designed to ease enterprise fears about AI-generated art
• (01:12:17) Outro