AI-Weekly for Tuesday, March 26, 2024 – Volume 105

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1.) Top 5 Most Clicked News Articles From Last Week

A.) Almost Timely News: A Large Language Model Power Technique | Christopher Penn | YouTube | March 17, 2024

In today’s episode I share a powerful technique to dramatically boost your productivity and accuracy when using AI tools. You’ll learn how to get the best results from chatbots and similar software. Discover this simple trick that will improve your AI experience.

B.) Grok-1 Fully Tested — Fascinating Results | Matthew Berman | YouTube | March 18, 2024

Let’s test Grok using our LLM rubric. How does it compare to other models?

C.) OpenAI’s ChatGPT Now Gets a Humanoid Body | AnalyticsIndiaMag.com | March 14, 2024

Figure, an AI robotics company that claims to build the world’s first commercially viable autonomous humanoid robot, has made a huge stride by integrating a voice feature to its humanoid, Figure 01; the voice is powered by none other than OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

D.) Forget Chatbots. AI Agents Are the Future | Wired.com | March 14, 2024

Startups and tech giants are trying to move from chatbots that offer help via text, to AI agents that can get stuff done. Recent demos include an AI coder called Devin and agents that play videogames.

E.) Apple Buys Startup DarwinAI, Adds Staff To Its AI Division | Reuters.com | March 14, 2024

Apple has bought artificial intelligence (AI) startup DarwinAI and added dozens of the Canadian company’s staffers to its AI division, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.

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4.) Mistral v0.2 Released! Did The Best Open-Source Model Get Better? | Matthew Berman | YouTube | March 25, 2024

Mistral dropped v0.2 of their Mistral 7b model and we’re going to test it.

5.) Introducing Stable Code Instruct 3B | Stability.ai | March 23, 2024

Stable Code Instruct 3B is an instruction-tuned Code LM based on Stable Code 3B. With natural language prompting, this model can handle a variety of tasks such as code generation, math and other software development related queries.

6.) Sora: First Impressions | OpenAI.com | March 23, 2024

We have gained valuable feedback from the creative community, helping us to improve our model.

7.) Emad Mostaque Resigns as CEO of Stability AI and Steps Down From The Board | Stability.ai | March 23, 2024

Earlier today, Emad Mostaque resigned from his role as CEO of Stability AI and from his position on the Board of Directors of the company to pursue decentralized AI.

8.) Run ANY Open-Source LLM Locally (No-Code LMStudio Tutorial) | Matthew Berman | YouTube | March 23, 2024

LMStudio tutorial and walkthrough of their new features: multi-model support (parallel and serialized) and JSON outputs.

9.) Almost Timely News: A Guided Tour of the Most Powerful Generative AI Model Google Offers | Christopher Penn | YouTube | March 23, 2024

In today’s episode, I’ll take you on a guided tour of the most powerful AI model Google has to offer. You’ll learn how to harness this incredibly advanced technology to summarize huge amounts of information and turn it into actionable insights. If you’re trying to master a new topic like Instagram marketing, this tool is a game-changer.

10.) AI News: The AI World Just Changed Forever (Again) | Matt Wolfe | YouTube | March 22, 2024

Here’s the AI News this week that you probably missed.

11.) Unveiling the O1 Lite: The Future of Open Source AI Devices( | FutureTools.io | March 22, 2024

The O1 Lite, a groundbreaking open-source AI device, allows voice-controlled interaction with your home computer.

12.) LPUs, NVIDIA Competition, Insane Inference Speeds, Going Viral (Interview with Lead Groq Engineers) | Matthew Berman | YouTube | March 22, 2024

This is an interview with Andrew Ling (VP, Compiler Software) and Igor Arsovski (Chief Architect and Fellow) from Groq. We cover topics ranging from the founding story to chip design and manufacturing and so much more. Plus, they reveal how Groq’s insane inference speed can generate much better quality from existing models.

13.) Tennessee Becomes The First State To Protect Artists Against AI | NPR.org | March 22, 2024

Tennessee made history on Thursday, becoming the first U.S. state to sign off on legislation to protect musicians from unauthorized artificial intelligence impersonation.

14.) Open Interpreter’s 01 Lite — World’s First Fully Open-Source Personal AI Agent Device | Matthew Berman | YouTube | March 22, 2024

01 Lite by Open Interpreter is a 100% open-source personal AI assistant that can control your computer. Let’s review it and I’ll show you how to install open-interpreter.

15.) Microsoft Unveils AI-Powered Surface Devices And Copilot For Windows | Microsoft.com | March 21, 2024

Advancing the new era of work with Copilot, Windows, and Surface.

16.) Unitree’s Robot Is The First Humanoid To Do A Backflip Without Hydraulics | Reddit.com | March 20, 2024

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17.) OpenAI’s Chatbot Store Is Filling Up With Spam | TechCrunch.com | March 20, 2024

When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPTs, custom chatbots powered by OpenAI’s generative AI models, onstage at the company’s first-ever developer conference in November, he described them as a way to “accomplish all sorts of tasks” — from programming to learning about esoteric scientific subjects to getting workout pointers.

18.) Key Stable Diffusion Researchers Leave Stability AI As Company Flounders | Forbes.com | March 20, 2024

Key members of the artificial intelligence research team that developed Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image generation model that helped catalyze the AI boom, have resigned from British AI unicorn Stability AI, Forbes has learned.

19.) AGI Inches Closer — 5 Key Quotes: Altman, Huang and ‘The Most Interesting Year’ | AI Explained | YouTube | March 19, 2024

Nvidia’s GTC brought Blackwell, while Sam Altman brought only hints. I’ll cover both, exploring the checkpoint strategy for GPT 4.5, the embodiment progress with Nvidia, recursive chip improvements in production with ASML, TSMC and Nvidia and more. I’ll also cover an epic new paper unveiling the use of ChatGPT by top peer reviewers.

20.) Introducing Stable Video 3D: Quality Novel View Synthesis And 3D Generation From Single Images | Stability.ai | March 19, 2024

Today we are releasing Stable Video 3D (SV3D), a generative model based on Stable Video Diffusion, advancing the field of 3D technology and delivering greatly improved quality and view-consistency.

21.) Everything Just Announced at Google’s AI Health Event | CNet.com | March 19, 2024

This video from CNet outlines everything just announced at Google’s AI health event.

22.) Mustafa Suleyman, Deepmind And Inflection Co-Founder, Joins Microsoft To Lead Copilot | Blogs.Microsoft.com | March 19, 2024

I’m very excited to announce that Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonyan are joining Microsoft to form a new organization called Microsoft AI, focused on advancing Copilot and our other consumer AI products and research.

23.) Nvidia Enlists Humanoid Robotics’ Biggest Names For New Ai Platform, GR00T | TechCrunch.com | March 18, 2024

It’s tough to argue with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang when he notes, “Building foundation models for general humanoid robots is one of the most exciting problems to solve in AI today.” The humanoid form factor is one of the most hotly contested topics in the world of robotics at the moment, raising venture capital by the boatload, while generating massive skepticism along the way.

24.) Nvidia’s Newest Cloud Service Promises To Accelerate Quantum Computing Simulations | SiliconAngle.com | March 18, 2024

Computer chipmaker Nvidia Corp. is beefing up its efforts to advance quantum computing with the debut of a new service aimed at researchers and developers.

25.) Nvidia Announces Earth-2 Digital Twin To Forecast Planet’s Climate Change | VentureBeat.com | March 18, 2024

Nvidia unveiled Earth-2 Cloud Platform for predicting climate change across the entire planet, using simulation by AI supercomputers.

26.) Nvidia Unveils Next-Gen Blackwell GPUs With 25x Lower Costs And Energy Consumption | VentureBeat.com | March 18, 2024

Nvidia unveiled its next-generation Blackwell graphics processing units (GPUs), which have 25 times better energy consumption and lower costs for tasks for AI processing.

27.) Sam Altman on Lex Fridman Podcast: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI | YouTube.com | March 18, 2024

Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind GPT-4, ChatGPT, Sora, and many other state-of-the-art AI technologies.

28.) Hey YouTube Creators, It’s ime To Start Labeling AI-Generated Content In Your Videos | CNN.com | March 18, 2024

Starting Monday, YouTube creators will be required to label when realistic-looking videos were made using artificial intelligence, part of a broader effort by the company to be transparent about content that could otherwise confuse or mislead users.

29.) Google Researchers Unveil ‘VLOGGER’, An AI That Can Bring Still Photos To Life | VentureBeat.com | March 18, 2024

Google researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence system that can generate lifelike videos of people speaking, gesturing and moving — from just a single still photo.

30.) ‘We Created a Processor for the Generative AI Era,’ NVIDIA CEO Says | Blogs.Nvidia.com | March 18, 2024

Kicking off the biggest GTC conference yet, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang unveils NVIDIA Blackwell, NIM microservices, Omniverse Cloud APIs and more.

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