TLDR AI 2024-07-24

Meta has released its first open frontier AI model along with training details. The model is on par with top closed models with a 128k context length, chat models, and a great open system.

The legal startup, now a unicorn, has raised from Google ventures and others to continue its push into big law firms.

Mark Zuckerberg outlined why open source is key to Meta's strategy and how Meta plans to support this work.

LocoTrack is an advanced model for tracking any point across video sequences. It uses local 4D correlation and bidirectional correspondence for precise tracking. LocoTrack operates nearly six times faster than current leading models.

STAble Memory rePlay (STAMP) is a method that addresses distribution shifts between training and test data using only unlabeled test data. Unlike existing methods, STAMP excels in both recognizing known classes and rejecting outliers during inference.

The star operation is a method that enriches AI models by projecting data into complex, high-dimensional spaces without the need for bulky architectures.

Odyssey is a new framework that equips large language model-based agents with advanced skills for exploring Minecraft.

Meta has released an example system for using its Llama models as agents to perform a variety of tasks.

Artist is a training-free method that controls content and style generation in pretrained diffusion models for text-driven stylization.

Iterative's new open-source tool lets you simplify AI projects and scale unstructured data management. With DataChain, you can source, curate, and version cloud data at scale; easily integrate metadata from various formats; parallelize local and API-based AI model inferences for 3x-10x speedup; and store AI model outputs as Python data objects. Star the repo

Skoltech and Sber researchers have developed AI models that can predict droughts several months to a year in advance, improving risk management for agriculture, insurance, and finance sectors. The models, tested across various climates, utilize spatiotemporal neural networks and publicly available data. Russia's largest bank plans to integrate these findings into its risk assessment systems.

Tenstorrent has launched affordable AI development hardware, including the Wormhole n150 and n300 PCIe cards, priced at $999 and $1,399, as well as developer workstations, the air-cooled TT-LoudBox for $12,000 and water-cooled TT-QuietBox for $15,000, both designed to aid AI development with a focus on connectivity and scaled-out performance.

Gumloop raised a $3.1M Seed round led by First Round Capital with participation from YC and co-founders at Instacart, Dropbox, and Airtable. Gumloop is a no-code AI automation platform that lets any employee within a business build their own AI tooling and have as much impact as an engineer.

It's unclear what role money will play in a future AI utopia.

Samsung is currently spending the “lion's share” of its research and development efforts on creating “AI phones.”

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Every sixty seconds, nearly $300K is spent on AI, 52 college papers are plagiarized using AI, and nearly 20K images are created using text-to-image algorithms.