a phone in a forest next to a trail sign that reads “Local” –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.
Microsoft Phi-Silica: 3.3B small AI model made for Copilot+ PC NPUs | VentureBeat
New models added to the Phi-3 family, available on Microsoft Azure | Microsoft Azure Blog
“Phi-3 small & medium are now available under the MIT license! 🚀@Microsoft has just launched Phi-3 small (7B) and medium (14B) 🤯. The Phi-3 small model claims to outperform @AIatMeta’s Llama 3 and @MistralAI, and the Phi-3 medium model GPT-3.5 and @cohere Command R+. 🤔 TL;DR:
“You can now have an AI agent in your mobile operating system. Here are 3 things it can do: 1. Hook into system-level triggers like notifications 2. Use any app that’s already installed on the device 3. Read data and gather context across sandboxed applications
“The built-in GPU on an M3 MacBook Pro is fast. I’m testing it by multiplying two 10,000 x 10,000 matrices using PyTorch. 3.72 ms when running on metal. 14.4 ms on the CPU (4 times slower.) I get similar results using TensorFlow and JAX. I love this computer.
“No cloud, no cost, no data sent to anyone, no problem. Welcome to local AI on Hugging Face!
“Unleash your creative potential with Cocreator, an amazing new, fast, and free way to create in real-time with AI on your PC. Here is a demo from my colleague Erica. https://twitter.com/yusuf_i_mehdi/status/1792626471552336101

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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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