AI-Weekly for Tuesday, July 2, 2024 – Issue 119

The Week’s News in Artificial Intelligence

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July 1, 2024 📅️

4.) The Greatest AI Video EVER?! (Available Now!) | Matt Wolfe | YouTube.com | July 1, 2024

Let’s play with Runway Gen-3! The video mentions it’s coming in a couple weeks but it’s actually now available to everyone!

5.) Mixture of Agents TURBO Tutorial Better Than GPT4o AND Fast?! | Matthew Berman | YouTube.com | July 1, 2024

Here’s how to use Mixture of Agents with Groq to achieve not only incredible quality output because of MoA, but to solve the latency issue using Groq.

6.) Smudgy Chins, Weird Hands, Dodgy Numbers: Seven Signs You’re Watching A Deepfake | TheGuardian.com | July 1, 2024

Look out for surplus fingers, compare mannerisms with real recordings and apply good old-fashioned common sense and scepticism, experts advise.

7.) YouTube Now Lets You Request Removal Of AI-Generated Content That Simulates Your Face Or Voice | TechCrunch.com | July 1, 2024

Meta is not the only company grappling with the rise in AI-generated content and how it affects its platform. YouTube also quietly rolled out a policy change in June that will allow people to request the takedown of AI-generated or other synthetic content that simulates their face or voice. The change allows people to request the removal of this type of AI content under YouTube’s privacy request process. It’s an expansion on its previously announced approach to responsible AI agenda first introduced in November.

8.) Instagram’s ‘Made With AI’ Label Swapped Out For ‘AI Info’ After Photographers’ Complaints | TheVerge.com | July 1, 2024

The AI label from Meta angered photographers after it tagged real-life pictures that had been retouched in editing tools like PhotoShop.

9.) xAI’s Grok 2: Elon Musk Unveils Jarvis-Inspired AI Assistant Arriving In August | CoinSpeaker.com | July 1, 2024

Grok 2 may have taken inspiration from iconic AI characters such as JARVIS from Iron Man and the guide from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

June 30, 2024 📅️

10.) Almost Timely News: How to Build a Generative AI Priming Representation | Christopher Penn | YouTube.com | June 30, 2024

In this issue, you’ll learn the secrets of crafting compelling content with generative AI. Discover the power of priming representations and how they can elevate your creative process. You’ll gain insights into outlining techniques and crafting effective prompts to get the most out of AI tools. Tune in to unlock your creative potential and revolutionize your content creation workflow!

11.) Apple Could Announce A Google Gemini Deal This Fall | TheVerge.com | June 30, 2024

The Apple chatbot integrations are stacking up.

12.) Eternal You Review — Thought-Provoking Look At New AI Product For The Grieving | TheGuardian | June 30, 2024

Death is a booming business. For one thing, it’s inevitable. For another, it brings a uniquely vulnerable and receptive market for any product that promises to numb the grief. Enter artificial intelligence. This thought-provoking and bang-up-to-the-minute documentary explores a morally questionable use of AI: the digital afterlife business, tech that recreates the personality (and in some cases speaking voice and even the likeness) of deceased individuals, designed to offer “comfort” to the bereaved.

13.) Cryptographers Are Discovering New Rules for Quantum Encryption | Wired.com | June 30, 2024

Researchers have proved that secure quantum encryption is possible in a world without hard problems, establishing a new foundation for what is needed to keep information secure.

14.) Figma Will Use Your Content To Train Its AI | StackDiary.com | June 30, 2024

Figma, the popular collaborative design platform, recently announced it is also getting in on the AI hype train. The company’s latest move will also involve leveraging user-generated content to train its AI models, a decision that was somewhat expected to happen.

June 29, 2024 📅️

15.) New INSANE AI Chip, GPT4o Voice Update, Claude 3.5 Dominates, SpaceX Double Landing, AI Video Games | Matthew Berman | YouTube.com | June 29, 2024

Big AI News this week!

16.) AI Scientist Ray Kurzweil: ‘We Are Going To Expand Intelligence A Millionfold By 2045’ | TheGuardian.com | June 29, 2024

The Google futurist talks nanobots and avatars, deepfakes and elections — and why he is so optimistic about a future where we merge with computers.

17.) Look out, Meta Ray-Bans: These Are The World’s First Smart Glasses With GPT-4o | ZDNet.com | June 29, 2024

The Solos AirGo Vision are the newest smart glasses that use AI to analyze what the wearer sees, offering directions, price checking, and more.

June 28, 2024 📅️

18.) AI News: The Best Chat Tool Got SO Much Better! | Matt Wolfe | YouTube.com | June 28, 2024

Here’s the AI News you might have missed this week.

19.) NVIDIA’s MASSIVE Model Creates Synthetic Data, But Is It Actually Good? | Matthew Berman | YouTube.com | June 28, 2024

Testing Nemotron 340b.

20.) YC Alum Fluently’s AI-Powered English Coach Attracts $2M Seed Round | TechCrunch.com | June 28, 2024

There are plenty of resources to learn English, but not so many for near-native speakers who still want to improve their fluency. That description applies to Stan Beliaev and Yurii Rebryk, and this is what inspired them to create Fluently.

21.) He Helped Invent Generative AI. Now He Wants to Save It | Wired.com | June 28, 2024

Illia Polosukhin doesn’t want big companies to determine the future of artificial intelligence. His alternative vision for “user-owned AI” is already starting to take shape.

22.) Microsoft’s AI Boss Thinks It’s Perfectly Ok To Steal Content If It’s On The Open Web | TheVerge.com | June 28, 2024

Mustafa Suleyman has a curious understanding of copyright law on the web.

23.) The Center For Investigative Reporting Is Suing OpenAI And Microsoft | TheVerge.com | June 28, 2024

Following the New York Times and other outlets, the company that produces Mother Jones is suing the two AI giants for copyright infringement.

24.) The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses Are About To Get New Competition | DigitalTrends.com | June 28, 2024

Solos, makers of the AirGo smart glasses, sees what Ray-Ban Meta is doing and wants some of the same. Announced today, the Solos AirGo Vision adds a front camera to the frames, set in the corner just like the popular Ray-Ban models, and is ready to provide on-the-go access to AI-powered visual search and other interactive features.

June 27, 2024 📅️

25.) OpenAI Builds AI to Critique AI | Spectrum.ieee.org | June 27, 2024

CriticGPT is intended to help identify hallucinations as models grow more sophisticated.

26.) Can’t Decide Which AI Chatbot Is Best? Poe Says Use Them All | CNet.com | June 27, 2024

The chat platform provides access to multiple generative AI models.

27.) Goldman Sachs Deploys Its First Generative AI Tool Across the Firm | WSJ.com | June 27, 2024

It started by centralizing all its proprietary AI technology on an internal platform, which CIO Marco Argenti said might have slowed it down at first but is now paying off.

28.) Finding GPT-4’s Mistakes With GPT-4 | OpenAI.com | June 27, 2024

CriticGPT, a model based on GPT-4, writes critiques of ChatGPT responses to help human trainers spot mistakes during RLHF.

29.) Zuckerberg Disses Closed-Source AI Competitors As Trying To ‘Create God’ | TechCrunch.com | June 27, 2024

Riffing on what he sees for the future of AI, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview published Thursday that he deeply believes that there will not be “just one AI.” Touting the value of open source to put AI tools into many people’s hands, Zuckerberg took a moment to disparage the efforts of unnamed competitors who he sees as less than open, adding that they seem to think they’re “creating God.”

30.) Announcing Langgraph V0.1 & Langgraph Cloud: Running Agents At Scale Reliably | Langchain.Dev | June 27, 2024

Our new infrastructure for running agents at scale, LangGraph Cloud, is available in beta. We also have a new stable release of LangGraph.

31.) Meta Starts Testing User-Created AI Chatbots On Instagram | TechCrunch.com | June 27, 2024

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Thursday that the company will begin to surface AI characters made by creators through Meta AI studio on Instagram. The tests will begin in the U.S.

32.) Character.AI Now Allows Users To Talk With AI Avatars Over Calls | TechCrunch.com | June 27, 2024

Google is taking a ‘permission first’ approach as labels and artists sue other AI music companies.

33.) YouTube Is Trying To Make AI Music Deals With Major Record Labels | TheVerge.com | June 27, 2024

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/27/24187151/youtube-ai-music-deals-licensing-record-labels-sony-umg-warner

34.) Time And OpenAI Announce Strategic Content Partnership | Time.com | June 27, 2024

TIME and OpenAI Announce Strategic Content Partnership.

35.) Time And Elevenlabs Partner To Accelerate The Creation Of Audio Accessible Content | Elevenlabs.Io | June 27, 2024

TIME and ElevenLabs partner to accelerate the creation of audio accessible content.

36.) Google Translate Adds 110 Languages In Its Biggest Expansion Yet | Google.com | June 27, 2024

We’re using AI to add 110 new languages to Google Translate, including Cantonese, NKo and Tamazight.

37.) Google Launches Gemma 2 Its Next Generation Of Open Models | Google.com | June 27, 2024

Gemma 2 offers best-in-class performance, runs at incredible speed across different hardware and easily integrates with other AI tools.

38.) Gemini 1.5 Pro 2M Context Window Code Execution Capabilities And Gemma 2 Are Available Today | Google.com | June 27, 2024

Today, we are giving developers access to the 2 million context window for Gemini 1.5 Pro, code execution capabilities in the Gemini API, and adding Gemma 2 in Google AI Studio.

June 26, 2024 📅️

39.) Here’s Where AI Is Headed (Feat. Dmitry Shapiro) | Matt Wolfe | YouTube.com | June 26, 2024

I had the opportunity to sit down with the CEO of MindStudio, Dmitry Shapiro. Enjoy this deep-dive conversation!

40.) Does This Worm Prove We’re In a Computer Simulation? | Matthew Berman | YouTube.com | June 26, 2024

Let’s explore this microscopic roundworm, which has been fully mapped to the neuron and simulated using consumer-grade computers. This is strong proof of simulation theory, in my opinion.

41.) Cook Like A Bot: AI Dinner Parties | Misha Leybovich | Medium.com | June 26, 2024

One year ago, I was 40 and didn’t know how to cook. So I set out on a journey to the most obvious solution: become a sous-chef to an AI. There have been highs and lows, yums and yucks, and lots of learning. Here’s the story so far, and what’s to come.

42.) Lester Holt interviews Open AI’s Sam Altman and Airbnb’s Brian Chesky | NBC News | YouTube.com | June 26, 2024

The CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman and co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, Brian Chesky join NBC News’ Lester Holt to talk about the benefits of artificial intelligence. The group discusses deep fakes, ChatGPT, and how AI is evolving. NBCUniversal News Group is the media partner of Aspen Ideas Festival.

43.) How AI Revolutionized Protein Science, But Didn’t End It | QuantaMagazine.com | June 26, 2024

Three years ago, Google’s AlphaFold pulled off the biggest artificial intelligence breakthrough in science to date, accelerating molecular research and kindling deep questions about why we do science.

44.) Amazon Is Reportedly Working On A New AI Chatbot | Engadget.com | June 26, 2024

Metis could be available as early as September.

45.) Captions Releases AI Edit Feature That Automatically Adds Effects To Your Video | TechCrunch.com | June 26, 2024

Video editing app Captions, which is backed by a16z, Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital, has launched a new feature that takes an existing unedited video and adds custom graphics, zooms, music, sound effects, transitions and motion backgrounds based on the content.

46.) Figma Announces Big Redesign With AI | TheVerge.com | June 26, 2024

Figma is launching a presentation feature, too.

47.) Expanding Access To Claude For Government | Anthropic.com | June 26, 2024

Anthropic’s mission is to build reliable, interpretable, steerable AI systems. We have been excited to see our technology used in areas like coding, customer service, drug discovery, and medical research. We’re eager to make these tools available through expanded offerings to government users. Leveraging the flexibility and security of Amazon Web Services [AWS], our AI models Claude 3 Haiku and Claude 3 Sonnet are now available in the AWS Marketplace for the US Intelligence Community [IC] and in AWS GovCloud.

48.) What The Riaa Lawsuits Against Udio And Suno Mean For AI And Copyright | TheVerge.com | June 26, 2024

Even if AI startups used copyrighted music without permission to make their song generators, there’s still the question of fair use.

49.) Lester Holt Interviews Open AI’s Sam Altman And AIrbnb’s Brian Chesky | Nbc News On YouTube | June 26, 2024

The CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman and co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, Brian Chesky join NBC News’ Lester Holt to talk about the benefits of artificial intelligence. The group discusses deep fakes, ChatGPT, and how AI is evolving. NBCUniversal News Group is the media partner of Aspen Ideas Festival.

50.) Opera’s Browser Adds AI-Powered Image Generation And Better Multimedia Controls | TechCrunch.com | June 26, 2024

Opera said today it is releasing Opera One’s second version in developer beta with features such as new multimedia controls, split tabs, and new AI capabilities.

51.) An AI Version Of Al Michaels Will Deliver Olympic Recaps On Peacock | TheVerge.com | June 26, 2024

NBC’s AI-generated voice could create nearly 7 million customized recaps during the Paris Olympics.

June 25, 2024 📅️

52.) With AI, Are Coding Jobs at Risk? ft. Python Simplified | The Next Wave | YouTube.com | June 25, 2024

Are coding jobs at risk with the rise of AI? Matt Wolfe and Nathan Lands dive into this compelling topic with guest Mariya Sha, a seasoned coder and the creator of the popular YouTube channel Python Simplified. This episode delves into the contradictions and synergies between artificial intelligence and coding, featuring Mariya Sha, who started coding at a young age and later found success with her YouTube channel that simplifies Python programming. Together, they explore the changing landscape of coding due to AI advancements, ethical concerns, and the future of AI-integrated coding environments. Mariya shares her skepticism and hopes for the future, particularly AI’s potential impact on coding jobs and the importance of a personalized touch in YouTube content creation.

53.) LLM101n: Let’s Build A Storyteller | Andrej Karpathy | Github | June 25, 2024

Karpathy annoucnes LLM101n, a massive course to build AI storytellers using LLMs.

54.) ESM3: Simulating 500 Million Years Of Evolution With A Language Model | EvolutionaryScale.ai | June 25, 2024

More than 3.5 billion years ago, life on Earth emerged from chemical reactions. Nature invented RNA, proteins, and DNA, the core molecules of life, and created the ribosome, a molecular factory that builds proteins from instructions in the genome.

55.) OpenAI Has Delayed The Release Of Their Advanced Voice Assistant | OpenAI On X | June 25, 2024

We had planned to start rolling this out in alpha to a small group of ChatGPT Plus users in late June, but need one more month to reach our bar to launch. For example, we’re improving the model’s ability to detect and refuse certain content. We’re also working on improving the user experience and preparing our infrastructure to scale to millions while maintaining real-time responses.

56.) ChatGPT Desktop Now Available for MacOS | OpenAI.com | June 25, 2024

Chat about email, screenshots, files, and anything on your screen.

57.) ChatGPT For Mac Is Now Available To All | TechCrunch.com | June 25, 2024

You can now more easily use ChatGPT on your Mac computer. OpenAI’s popular AI chatbot is available to all macOS users, the company announced on Tuesday. The app was first announced ahead of Apple’s WWDC 2024 in June, where the companies jointly announced integrations between OpenAI’s chatbot and Apple’s operating systems for iPhone, iPad and Mac.

58.) Collaborate With Claude On Projects | Anthropic.com | June 25, 2024

Our vision for Claude has always been to create AI systems that work alongside people and meaningfully enhance their workflows. As a step in this direction, Claude.ai Pro and Team users can now organize their chats into Projects, bringing together curated sets of knowledge and chat activity in one place — with the ability to make their best chats with Claude viewable by teammates. With this new functionality, Claude can enable idea generation, more strategic decision-making, and exceptional results.

59.) The Owner Of Toys ‘R’ Us Just Used OpenAI’s Sora To Animate The Zombie Brand | TheVerge.com | June 25, 2024

Toys ‘R’ Us might be making a larger comeback, too.

60.) Introducing The Elevenlabs Reader App | Elevenlabs.Io | June 25, 2024

Listen to any text on the go with the highest quality voices.

61.) Rabbit Data Breach: All R1 Responses Ever Given Can Be Downloaded | Rabbitu.De | June 25, 2024

Rabbit, Inc. has known that we have had their ElevenLabs (TTS) API key for a month, but they have taken no action to rotate the API keys.

62.) Etched Unveils Sohu: AI Chip Claims 20X Performance Boost For Transformer Models | Etched.com | June 25, 2024

In 2022, we made a bet that transformers would take over the world. We’ve spent the past two years building Sohu, the world’s first specialized chip (ASIC) for transformers (the “T” in ChatGPT).

63.) Training a 70B Model From Scratch: Open-Source Tools, Evaluation Datasets, And Learnings | Imbue.com | June 25, 2024

Earlier this year, we pre-trained and fine-tuned a 70B-parameter model that outperforms GPT-4o zero-shot on a range of reasoning and coding-related benchmarks and datasets. Our fine-tuned model, pre-trained on 2T tokens, roughly matches a fine-tuned Llama 3 70B, which was pre-trained on more than seven times as much data.

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64.) Gemini In The Side Panel Of Gmail Is Rolling Out Now | Google.com | June 24, 2024

In addition to the recent announcement of Gemini in the side panel of Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, and Drive, we’re excited to introduce the general availability of Gemini in the Gmail side panel. Built to leverage Google’s most capable models, including the Gemini 1.5 Pro model with a longer context window and more advanced reasoning.

65.) Introducing Synthesia 2.0 | Synthesia | YouTube | June 24, 2024

We live in a video-first world — except at work. Humans default to watching video over reading in our everyday life. But when it comes to work, we still spend a lot of time writing long emails and reading wordy reports and PDFs. This is about to change forever — with Synthesia 2.0! We’ve reinvented every step of the tedious video production process and created the world’s first AI video communications platform for businesses. Synthesia CEO Victor Riparbelli introduces Synthesia 2.0 at this special live event. Be among the first to learn how you can unlock the power of AI video in your business today and in the future.

66.) Sony Warner Universal Sue Suno Udio For Training AI On Copyrighted Music | Bloomberg.com | June 24, 2024

Suno, Udio AI accused in twin suits claiming damages up to $150,000 per work infringed.

67.) OpenAI Buys A Remote Collaboration Platform | TechCrunch.com | June 24, 2024

OpenAI is on an M&A tear. Days after acquiring database tech firm Rockset, OpenAI has purchased Multi (previously Remotion), a startup developing an enterprise-focused, video-first collaboration platform. A source familiar with the matter says that the deal is technically an acqui-hire and that most of Multi’s team — around five people — will join OpenAI following the deal’s close.

68.) Multi is Joining OpenAI | Multi.app | June 24, 2024

What if desktop computers were inherently multiplayer? What if the operating system placed people on equal footing to apps? Those were the questions we explored in building Multi, and before that, Remotion.

69.) Apple Meta Have Discussed An AI Partnership | Wsj.com | June 23, 2024

The longtime rivals have held talks about potentially integrating Meta’s generative AI model into Apple Intelligence.

70.) Stability AI Gets New Ceo And Funding | The-Decoder.com | June 23, 2024

Stability AI, the startup behind Stable Diffusion, has appointed a new CEO and secured additional funding. Prem Akkaraju, former CEO of Weta Digital, will take over leadership of the company. A group of investors led by ex-Facebook president and Napster co-founder Sean Parker is providing fresh capital. Parker will become chairman of the board. Financial details were not disclosed. Stability AI has recently faced financial challenges and employee departures. In Q1, the company reportedly generated less than $5 million in revenue while losing over $30 million, according to The Information. Stability also owes nearly $100 million to cloud providers. The startup currently has about 170 employees.

71.) Google Introduces New AI Tools For Workspace For Education | Google | June 23, 2024

We’re bringing Gemini to teen students using their school accounts to help them learn responsibly and confidently in an AI-first future, and empowering educators with new tools to help create great learning experiences.

72.) Meta AI Arrives In India: Leading AI Assistant Now At Your Fingertip | About.Fb.com | June 23, 2024

Meta AI, one of the world’s leading AI assistants, now arrives in India on WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and meta.ai. And it’s built with Meta Llama 3 — our most advanced LLM to date.

73.) Multiple AI Companies Bypassing Web Standard To Scrape Publisher Sites Licensing Firm Says | Reuters.com | June 21, 2024

Multiple artificial intelligence companies are circumventing a common web standard used by publishers to block the scraping of their content for use in generative AI systems, content licensing startup TollBit has told publishers.

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