SenseTime pauses trading as stock surges 30% with new AI model’s launch
Stardust just launched its AI robot, Astribot S1 – YouTube
“On Thursday, I posted about China’s recent major LLM developments. Just three days later, China now has a Sora competitor and a humanoid robot that can cook, clean, and do laundry. China’s pace of AI development should not be underestimated.
Italy Plans to Invest About €10 Billion in Chips, Minister Urso Says – Bloomberg
Microsoft announces US$1.7 billion investment to advance Indonesia’s cloud and AI ambitions – Microsoft Stories Asia
Stardust’s Astribot S1 Watch: A new mind blowing Chinese robot claims to be superfast and precise
“Only 14 languages have DPO preference style datasets on the @huggingface Hub. Let’s improve that! How? The @CohereForAI Aya dataset has human-annotated prompt-completion pairs in 71 languages. We can use this to create DPO datasets for more languages!” / X
“👋 Meet Victoria Shi — a digital representative of the MFA of Ukraine, created using AI to provide timely updates on consular affairs! For the first time in history, the MFA of Ukraine has presented a digital persona that will officially comment for the media.
Ukraine Unveils AI-generated Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman | Barron’s
Baidu
Baidu, Tesla agree on mapping deal for FSD in China, sources say | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/technology/baidu-tesla-agree-mapping-deal-fsd-china-sources-say-2024-04-29
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AI News #31: Week Ending 05/03/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 95 Links
The post you just read is an deep dive 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
- Amazon
- 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
- International AI News
- Locally Run AI Models
- Mobile
- Meta
- Microsoft
- OpenAI
- Open Source
- Podcasts/YouTube
- Publishing and News
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) News
- Robots and Embodiment
- Science and Medicine
- Video
- Vision/Multimodality
- X/Twitter/Grok
- Tech and Development
Credits/Sources
Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.
- Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer
- Ethan Mollick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/
- Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/
- Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia
- The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/
- Bilawal Sidhu: https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/
- TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai
- Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang
- Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats
- Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan
- All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI
- Marshall Kirkpatrick: https://aitimetoimpact.com/
- AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/
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