Data Phoenix: "This week in AI".
🔸 The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued 6(b) Orders to Alphabet Inc., Amazon, Anthropic, Microsoft and OpenAI
🔸 OpenDialog AI raised over $8M from AlbionVC and Dowgate Capital to keep bringing generative AI automation to regulated industries
🔸 DXwand, a startup developing a conversational AI platform that serves the MENA region, raised $4M in Series A funding from Shorooq Partners, Algebra Ventures and Dubai Future District Fund.
🔸 Lumiere: a space-time diffusion model that generates videos featuring coherent, realistic, and diverse motion
🔸 ElevenLabs closes $80M Series B round from Andreessen Horowitz, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Sequoia Capital, Smash Capital, SVA, BroadLight Capital, Credo Ventures and releases new AI-powered voice products
🔸 AiDash raised $50M from Lightrock and previous investors to continue making critical infrastructure climate-resilient and sustainable

This week in AI: January 21-26 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 -> https://bit.ly/3Ui0hRR

[News] Competera raises $3M in successful seed round to scale and enhance its AI pricing services.

Competera, a startup specializing in developing AI-powered price optimization services for retailers worldwide, recently closed a $3M seed funding round from STRATMINDS, Flyer One Ventures, Verras Capital, SMRK Fund, Transform Partners Fund, and a group of angel investors. Competera plans to use the funds to further its AI capabilities, expand its services, and keep up with demand, especially in the US market.

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[News] AlphaCodium: a new state-of-the-art approach to code generation problems
AlphaCodium is a code generation flow that improves the performance of LLMs without requiring fine-tuning. The flow can be used with closed and open-source models and was released with reproducible code and an evaluation noscript, enabling reproducible comparisons.
https://dataphoenix.info/alphacodium-a-ne/

[News] The Art of RAG Evaluation
Join AI Makerspace for a special event on RAG!

Deep dive into the art of evaluating complex LLM applications that leverage Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), the technique that aims to ground the outputs of LLMs in fact-checkable information.
https://dataphoenix.info/the-art-of-rag-evaluation/

[News] Semron is developing chips that enable consumer electronics to run AI models locally
Semron's chips use capacitors with a memory component. The capacitor's heat-reducing capabilities enable the building of multiple layers of capacitors on a chip, yielding a reduced footprint. The memory component diminishes the noise in calculations, accounting for the chips' energetic efficiency.
https://dataphoenix.info/semron-is-developing-chips-that-enable-consumer-electronics-to-run-ai-models-locally/

𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯: 𝗔 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿 - Dive into the fascinating world of AI with DataPhoenix's 2023 Year in Review! This concise summary highlights a year of innovation: from GPT-4's impact to Anthropic's strides, Google Bard's evolution, and the rise of multimodal AI models. A must-read to grasp how AI is reshaping our world. Check out the full story on our site and join the AI revolution.
https://dataphoenix.info/ai-in-2023-a-year-in-review/

[News] The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) released OLMo 7B and the OLMo framework
AI2 is committed to releasing genuinely open-source models. This means that the model, the pre-training data, training code, model weights, training metrics, and all other data related to the models' development will be released under an Apache 2.0 license.
https://dataphoenix.info/the-allen-institute-of-ai-released-olmo/

[News] Fine-Tuning OLMo the Open Language Model
AI Makerspace is hosting a deep dive into the OLMo series of models, including a discussion of the Dolma pre-training dataset as the model architectures leveraged for each of the three newly released versions: OLMo-1B, OLMo-7B, and OLMo-7B-Twin-2T!
https://dataphoenix.info/fine-tuning-olmo-the-open-language-model/

[News] This week in AI: January 28 - February 3
South Korea-based startup, Rebellions AI closed its successful Series B with $124M; Figure AI is in talks with Microsoft and OpenAI, Eagle-7B is the strongest multi-language open-source LLM to date; The EU AI Act has practically become a law; and other relevant headlines for this week
https://dataphoenix.info/this-week-in-ai-january-28-february-3/

Forget about vacuum-cleaning robots, Mobile ALOHA can replace your housekeeper and even your accountant!

Developed in collaboration with Stanford and Google DeepMind, this robot can clean your house and even manage household appliances - and you said you wanted a dog? It uses an imitation learning method, doing so with high accuracy, so you can show it how to properly fold socks or even open a bottle of beer with its gentle robo-hands.

[News] Accenture's Technology Vision 2024 advocates for "human by design" technology
Accenture's latest Technology Vision report focuses on "human by design" technology. Contrasting the limits of non-human technology and the advent of generative AI as an inclusive, potentially revolutionary technology, the report identifies the trends shaping the future of technology.
https://dataphoenix.info/accentures-technology-vision-2024-advocates-for-human-by-design/

[News] Aligning LLMs: RLAIF
AI Makerspace presents part 2 of the Alignment series, Aligning LLMs: RLAIF!

They will tackle RLAIF, a technique that attempts to solve the fundamental bottleneck of RLHF, namely, that it’s kind of expensive to collect a ton of data directly from humans!
https://dataphoenix.info/aligning-llms-rlaif/

⚡️ DataPhoenix presented the new issue of the digest!
Latest AI News, Become a Speaker at Data Phoenix Webinars, Getting Started with Diffusers for Text-to-Image, Merge Large Language Models, Building an LLMOPs Pipeline, Dealing with MRI and Deep Learning with Python, Lumiere, Diffutoon, SEELE, and more.
https://dataphoenix.info/data-phoenix-digest-issue-3-2024/

[News] "The State of The State of AI Report" compiles half a decade of headlines and predictions for AI
Offering a dive into the five-year archive of 'The State of AI Report' to revisit the most notable headlines and predictions that have appeared in the report, 'The State of The State of AI Report' is a must read for anyone wanting to familiarize themselves with the recent history of AI.
https://dataphoenix.info/unnoscriptd/

[News] AMD's Embedded+ will enable its partners to deliver AI applications faster
AMD recently launched its Embedded+ architectural solution for industrial and medical PCs. AMD Embedded+ combines the power-efficient performance of its Ryzen processors with the acceleration delivered by the Versal AI Edge adaptive SOCs onto a single board via a PCIe connection.
https://dataphoenix.info/amd-launched-embedded/

[News] Synthetaic raised $15M to commercialize its rapid automatic image categorization (RAIC) platform
Synthetaic raised $15 million in a Series B round co-led by Lupa Systems and TitletownTech with participation from IBM Ventures and Booz Allen Hamilton. The company is looking for new market opportunities for its successful RAIC platform.
https://dataphoenix.info/synthenaic/

[News] This week in AI: February 4 - 10
ChatGPT is getting an Apple Vision Pro app; Meta is working on a new standard to label AI-generated images on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads; FCC declares AI-generated voices 'artificial', making them illegal to use in automated calls.
https://dataphoenix.info/this-week-in-ai-february-4-10/

[News] Microsoft timed a significant Copilot update to its Super Bowl ad launch
To mark its return to Super Bowl advertising, Microsoft has timed the release of a major Copilot update to the launch of its Super Bowl ad. The commercial features people using Copilot to "attain the unattainable". The update expands Designer in Copilot's image generation and editing capabilities.
https://dataphoenix.info/microsoft-timed-a-significant-copilot-update-to-its-super-bowl-ad-launch/

⚡️ DataPhoenix presented the new issue of the digest!
Latest AI News, Evaluating LLM Models for Production Systems (Methods and Practices), Generating Images from Audio with ML, Sampling for Text Generation, YOLO-World, InstantID, MoE-LLaVA and more.
https://dataphoenix.info/data-phoenix-digest-issue-4-2024/

[News] Google rebrands Bard as Gemini as part of a significant AI update
Google has rebranded Bard as Gemini across all platforms and has also introduced a paid Gemini Advanced service. Powered by Google's most capable model, Gemini Advanced is currently available in English. The company also announced an updated Gemini experience in its Android and iOS apps.
https://dataphoenix.info/google-rebrands-bard-as-gemini-as-part-of-a-significant-ai-update/

[News] ChatGPT will soon be able to remember things
OpenAI is planning to roll out a memory feature for ChatGPT. Users can let the chatbot pick up details, or they can ask ChatGPT to remember something in the conversation. Memory will roll out to a select number of users, with plans to eventually make the feature broadly available.
https://dataphoenix.info/chatgpt-will-soon-be-able-to-remember-things/