an airport in a forest with a trail sign that reads “International” –ar 5:3 –style raw
This week’s category cover theme is a sign in a forest. Each category image prompt is a derivative of the formula “an [category themed object] in a forest with a trail sign that reads “[category name]”. Using a theme each week takes the cover creation time down to about 20 minutes, rather than several hours.
“OpenAI opening an office in France?
French AI startup H raises $220M seed round | TechCrunch
French Startup H Raises $220 Million From Accel, UiPath, Bernard Arnault, Amazon – Bloomberg
“Welcome CogVLM 2 ⚡ > Beats GPT4 V/ Gemini Pro on TextVQA, DocVQA and ChartQA – by a decent margin 🔥 > 19B params > Llama 3 8B (Instruct) text backbone > Supports 8K context length > Upto 1344 X 1344 resolution supported > Works with both Chinese and English > Open access with
Indian journalists are on the frontline in the fight against election deepfakes | Nieman Journalism Lab – https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/05/indian-journalists-are-the-frontline-against-election-deepfakes/
IBM makes more AI models open source and lands Saudi Arabia deal
“6/ on the national security front, the US has won by leading. restricting open-source AI won’t stop determined adversaries, only slow U.S. innovation and cede that leadership. openness keeps us on the offense. we must shape AI with western values and norms.” / X
“Indian Voters Are Being Bombarded With Millions of Deepfakes. Political Candidates Approve
“Very proud to continue to push the state-of-art in multilingual. 🌏 Introducing Aya 23 — a family of very powerful multilingual models with coverage that serves nearly 1/2 the world’s population. 🎉🔥” / X
Top US and Chinese officials begin talks on AI in Geneva | AP News
US raises concerns to Chinese officials about AI misuse | Reuters
UK engineering firm Arup falls victim to £20m deepfake scam | Engineering | The Guardian
Baidu
Earnings call: Baidu’s Q1 2024 earnings show steady growth in AI and cloud By Investing.com
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This week’s executive overview and top links are here:
AI News #34: Week Ending 05/24/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 47 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/
For previous issues, please visit the archives!
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