“Microsoft announced a new whopping $3.44B investment in Germany. The focus is to double the company’s AI infrastructure and cloud capacities in Germany, as well as to train more than 1.2 million skilled workers. https://t.co/XUD6QoQYkc” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1758315208336884048

Microsoft bets on Germany in 3.2 bln euro AI push | Reuters – https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-invest-32-bln-eur-germany-ai-push-2024-02-15/ 

Microsoft tests Windows 11 ‘Super Resolution’ AI-upscaling for gamers – https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-tests-windows-11-super-resolution-ai-upscaling-for-gamers/
Introducing Assistants API on Azure OpenAI Service enabling developers to easily build stateful AI-powered assistants in a secure environment with the latest GPT models. – https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ai-azure-ai-services-blog/azure-openai-service-announces-assistants-api-new-models-for/ba-p/4049940

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AI News #20: Week Ending 02/16/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 39 Stories

The post you just read is an extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.

• Agents/Copilots
• Apple
• Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
• Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
• Autonomous Vehicles
• AI Audio
• Business and Enterprise AI
• Chips and Hardware
• Consumer Products
• Education
• Ethics/Legal Security
• Images/Photos
• Google
• Locally Run AI Models
• Meta
• Microsoft
• OpenAI
• Open Source
• Podcasts/YouTube
• Publishing and News
• Robots and Embodiment
• Science and Medicine
• Video
• Vision/Multimodality
• X/Twitter/Grok
• Tech and Development

Credits/Sources

Most of these links come from just a few incredible sources.  Please follow them:

• Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer
• Ethan Mollick:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/
• David Armano: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darmano/
• Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/
• Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia 
• The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/
• Borriss: https://twitter.com/_Borriss_  
• Bilawal Sidhu:  https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/ 
• TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai 
• Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang 
• Wes Roth: https://www.youtube.com/@WesRoth 

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