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Data Phoenix is your best friend in learning and growing in the data world!
We publish digest, organize events and help expand the frontiers of your knowledge in ML, CV, NLP, and other aspects of AI. Idea and implementation: @dmitryspodarets
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[News] Activeloop announces its Series A with a reflection on the future of AI data
Activeloop, the AI data infrastructure company behind Deep Lake, celebrates its $11M Series A with an illuminating reflection on AI data's past, present, and future. Where the present struggles are caused by a data stack from the past, Deep Lake emerges as a promising future for the AI data stack.
https://dataphoenix.info/activeloop/
[News] The 2024 Machine Learning, AI & Data Landscape is hot off the presses
The 2024 MAD Landscape opens with a chart neatly organizing 2,011 active AI companies. The consequent discussion is equally informative and amusing, with this piece aiming to provide a not-too-brief overview.
https://dataphoenix.info/this-years-machine-learning-ai-data-landscape-is-out/
[News] OpenPipe announces its $6.7M seed funding round
OpenPipe secured $6.7 million, in a seed funding round led by Costanoa Ventures and featuring the participation of Y Combinator and a selection of investors, to enable developers and enterprises to substitute their GPT-4 prompts with fine-tuned models and to build their custom data flywheel.
https://dataphoenix.info/openpipe-announces-its-6-7m-seed-funding-round/
[News] There's more to the 'AI boom' than foundational model companies
The AI boom is often associated with the lightning-fast rise of foundational model companies like OpenAI. Once more, NVIDIA reminds us that hardware is also important, as its groundbreaking financial growth shines its light upon other AI hardware-related stocks.
https://dataphoenix.info/theres-more-to-the-ai-boom-than-foundational-model-companies/
[News] This Week in AI: March 31 – April 6
Hailo secures additional funds and introduces Hailo-10 for edge devices; Luminance raised $40 million in Series B led by March Capital; The US and the UK signed into a partnership on AI safety; Stability AI launched Stable Audio 2.0; Google won big in the AI talent-luring battle; and more.
https://dataphoenix.info/this-week-in-ai-march-31-april-6/
[News] Spotify launches AI Playlist beta for Premium users in Australia and the UK
Spotify is releasing AI Playlist as a beta feature for Premium users in Australia and the UK. AI Playlist lets users create and refine personalized playlists via text-based prompts on a chat interface.
https://dataphoenix.info/spotify-launches-ai-playlist-beta-for-premium-users-in-australia-and-the-uk/
[News] Google showcased its AI ecosystem at Google Cloud Next '24
Google Cloud Next '24 took place last week and featured an opening keynote delivered by CEO Thomas Kurian. The keynote was brimming with announcements covering everything from its AI Hypercomputer to the newly Gemini-infused Workspace, as Google revamped every layer in its AI stack.
https://dataphoenix.info/google-cloud-next-24-offered/
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[News] The UK government will fund AI training for small and medium-sized businesses
The UK Government has announced it has 6.4M available to fund small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) looking to train their workforce on AI technologies. SMEs can apply until May 31st. Successful applicants will receive an up to 50% reimbursement from their AI training investment.
https://dataphoenix.info/the-uk-government-will-fund-ai-training-for-small-and-medium-sized-businesses/
⚡️ DataPhoenix presented the new issue of the digest!

Latest AI News - Webinar "Training an Expert Finance LLM", Customizing Large Language Models, Efficiently Finetune Llama 3 with PyTorch FSDP and Q-Lora, Improving Diffusion Models for Authentic Virtual Try-on in the Wild, StoryDiffusion, Invisible Stitch, and more.

👉 https://dataphoenix.info/data-phoenix-digest-issue-8-2024/
[News] Codestral is Mistral AI's first model for code-generation tasks.
Mistral AI recently launched Codestral, a 22B-parameter model focused at helping developers with code-generation tasks, and shown to outperform models with more significant system requirements, including CodeLlama 70B, Llama 3 70B, and DeepSeek Coder 33B.

👉 Read more https://buff.ly/3V6f5lm
👉 Join our community on Slack https://buff.ly/4bVcOAa
[News] ElevenLabs launched a text-to-sound effects AI audio model.
ElevenLabs has launched a groundbreaking new Text to Sound Effects feature that leverages AI to allow users to generate a wide variety of audio content like sound effects, instrumental tracks, and character voices simply from text prompts.

👉 Read more https://buff.ly/4c0UsxI
👉 Join our Discord community https://buff.ly/4ceno5z
[News] Leading voice cloning tools are alarmingly easy to manipulate to produce election disinformation.

An alarming new report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate reveals how leading AI voice cloning tools can be easily manipulated to generate disinformation mimicking political leaders' voices, posing a severe threat to the integrity of the many upcoming elections worldwide in 2024.

👉 Read more on our website
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📢 We are live and starting Data Phoenix webinar "Training an Expert Finance LLM" with Mark Kim-Huang (Co-founder and Chief Architect at Gradient).

👉 Join us https://events.dataphoenix.info/live
[News] Sakana AI claims it is working towards automating the scientific research process
Sakana AI has developed "The AI Scientist," a groundbreaking system that aims to automate the scientific research process in machine learning, from idea generation to paper writing and peer review, thus exploring how AI can impact the scientific progress.
https://dataphoenix.info/sakana-ai-claims-it-is-working-towards-automating-the-scientific-research-process/
𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗣𝗵𝗼𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘅 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿'𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿! 𝗥𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗦𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗳𝗹𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹: 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗼 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱.

Building a cost-efficient, single source of truth data infrastructure solution can be difficult, but this is exactly what Spectrio achieved by migrating to managed ClickHouse, along with drastically cutting costs.

The webinar will cover:
- An introduction to ClickHouse and its capabilities
- Ways to handle common migration challenges
- Migration results and wins

Tune in on August 22 at 9:00 am PDT to learn how managed ClickHouse can enhance your own analytics capabilities!

𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝗼𝘄 -> https://go.dataphoenix.info/ojAjJZ
[News] Condé Nast has entered a multi-year partnership with OpenAI
OpenAI has announced a licensing agreement with Condé Nast to display content on its products, marking a collaborative approach to address content monetization challenges in the era of generative AI, in contrast to other publishers who have pursued legal action against OpenAI.
https://dataphoenix.info/conde-nast-has-entered-a-multi-year-partnership-with-openai/
[News] Skyfire has launched a first-of-its-kind payment network for AI agents
Skyfire Systems Inc., founded by former Ripple executives, has raised $8.5 million to develop infrastructure enabling AI agents to make autonomous payments, focusing on secure wallet access, verified identity services, and an open payment protocol.
https://dataphoenix.info/skyfire-has-launched-a-first-of-its-kind-payment-network-for-ai-agents-2/
[News] Ideogram 2.0 is the latest text-to-image model to boast its superior text rendering capability
Ideogram has launched Ideogram 2.0, a cutting-edge text-to-image AI model with superior capabilities in realistic image generation and typography, alongside new offerings including an iOS app, API access, and a searchable database of over 1 billion community-generated images.
https://dataphoenix.info/ideogram-2-0-is-the-latest-text-to-image-model-to-boast-its-superior-text-rendering-capability/
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[News] NVIDIA showcased its pruning and distillation techniques with Llama-3.1-Minitron 4B
NVIDIA researchers have developed a breakthrough technique combining structured weight pruning and knowledge distillation to create smaller, more efficient language models, which offer improved performance and significant compute savings while remaining competitive with larger models.
https://dataphoenix.info/nvidia-showcased-its-pruning-and-distillation-techniques-with-llama-3-1-minitron-4b/
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[News] Opkey raised $47M to revolutionize ERP testing with AI
AI-powered software testing company Opkey has secured $47 million in funding to enhance and expand its technology that uses artificial intelligence to streamline and improve the risky process of updating crucial business software systems.
https://dataphoenix.info/opkey-raised-47m-to-revolutionize-erp-testing-with-ai/
[News] Dropbox has acquired the AI-powered calendar assistant Reclaim.ai
Reclaim.ai, an intelligent scheduling assistant that optimizes users' calendars by automatically managing time blocks for activities and facilitating smart scheduling of recurring meetings, announced its plans to continue developing its product after being acquired by Dropbox.
https://dataphoenix.info/dropbox-has-acquired-the-ai-powered-calendar-assistant-reclaim-ai/