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Microsoft AI News: Week Ending 07/12/2024

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“Microsoft just withdrew its role on OpenAI’s Board, while Apple also reportedly scrapped plans These drop-offs come right on the heels of the EU/US investigations around big co antitrust violations 

“Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott says despite what some people think, scale will keep making AI models better in every way and the next generation will be proof of that 

“Microsoft has given up its board observer seat at OpenAI. It cited OpenAI’s new partnerships, innovation and growing customer base since Altman’s return to the startup for giving up its observer seat 

Microsoft Gives Up Observer Seat in OpenAI Board, Apple Also Unlikely to Join – Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-10/microsoft-quits-openai-board-after-antitrust-scrutiny-grows

Microsoft, Apple give up observer seats on OpenAI’s board amid regulatory scrutiny – SiliconANGLE

https://siliconangle.com/2024/07/10/microsoft-apple-give-observer-seats-openais-board-amid-regulatory-scrutiny

OpenAI board shake-up: Microsoft out, Apple backs away amid AI partnership scrutiny | Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/07/openai-board-shakeup-microsoft-out-apple-backs-away-amid-ai-partnership-scrutiny

“As a special weekend release, we’ve implemented an initial working implementation of GraphRAG concepts in @llama_index [in beta]. GraphRAG from Microsoft has a lot of cool ideas, and we’ve implemented the following main concepts: 1. Graph Generation: Build graph and community 

“A recipe for Synthetic Data 2.0? @Microsoft introduced “AgentInstruct” a new way to teach an LLM a new skill or behavior from synthetic data generated by LLM Agents. AgentInstruct improved a 7B (Orca-3) model by ~20% across all benchmarks and matched GPT-4 on RAG. AgentInstruct https://x.com/_philschmid/status/1811308080166035549

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AI News #41: Week Ending 07/12/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 58 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.

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