Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

OpenAI-backed 1X Technologies just unveiled NEO Beta, the most realistic AI-powered robot yet, designed for everyday home assistance.

With the humanoid preparing for commercial use next year, are we on the brink of having robot butlers in our homes? Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• 1X’s NEO robot acts just like a human

• Amazon’s Alexa gets a Claude power-up

• How to use Claude’s new ‘Explain‘ feature

• Train AI with your home computer

• 5 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

1X TECHNOLOGIES

🤖 1X’s NEO robot acts just like a human

Image source: 1X Technologies

The Rundown: 1X Technologies just unveiled the most realistic AI-powered humanoid yet: NEO Beta, an advanced robot designed for everyday home assistance with human-like capabilities in movement, interaction, and task performance.

The details:

• NEO Beta stands 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighs 66 pounds, and can walk at 2.5 miles per hour and run at 7.5 miles per hour.

• The robot has a carry capacity of 44 pounds and can operate for 2 to 4 hours on a single charge.

• NEO Beta uses embodied artificial intelligence to understand its environment and learn from past interactions.

• It’s designed to perform a wide range of tasks, from household chores to providing companionship and support for individuals with mobility challenges, and it can be remotely operated by a human if necessary.

Why it matters: The race to an affordable robot butler is officially underway and 1X Technologies just boosted itself into the same conversation as China’s AGIBOT fleet and Tesla’s Optimus. NEO is so realistic and smooth that thousands of people on X (Twitter) were debating if it was a person in a suit.

TOGETHER WITH GOOGLE DEEPMIND

🎙️ Learn about AI from Google DeepMind

The Rundown: Google DeepMind’s podcast, hosted by Professor Hannah Fry, offers exclusive insights from leading AI researchers, exploring groundbreaking developments that are shaping our technological future.

In the series, you’ll explore:

• The role of gaming in the development of agentic AI

• How AI can push the boundaries of mathematics, digital biology, and material sciences

• Upcoming innovations from Google, including Project Astra and Gemini

• The critical importance of AI safety and alignment

Watch or listen now on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts - or wherever you get your podcasts.

AMAZON

📦 Amazon’s Alexa gets a Claude power-up

Image source: Midjourney

The Rundown: Amazon’s upcoming “Remarkable” version of Alexa is set for release next month and will reportedly use Anthropic’s Claude AI models rather than Amazon’s in-house technology.

The details:

• Initial versions using Amazon’s in-house AI struggled with slow response times and poor performance.

• Amazon turned to Anthropic’s Claude AI as it outperformed the company’s models, an unusual move for the giant which typically prefers to use its own tech.

• The upgraded Alexa aims to offer more complex conversations, shopping advice, and improved home automation.

• Amazon plans to charge $5 to $10 monthly for the new AI-powered Alexa version, with the “Classic” version remaining free.

Why it matters: This decision highlights the complexity and challenges that even tech giants face in developing advanced AI systems. Google is developing its own AI, but Apple turned to OpenAI and similarly, Amazon is now turning to Anthropic.

AI TRAINING

💡 How to use Claude’s new ‘Explain‘ feature

The Rundown: Claude's newest ‘Explain‘ feature allows users to instantly get an explanation on any highlighted text (or code) within an artifact — enabling a new way to learn and understand complex topics.

Step-by-step:

1. Access Claude AI and start a conversation that generates a code artifact.

2. Click on the artifact to enter the code view.

3. Highlight any portion of the code, then click "Explain" for instant clarification or "Improve" to suggest changes.

4. Check out the chat for the explanation or the Artifact for the updated version.

Pro tip: Try highlighting different parts of components to gain a deeper understanding of how they work!

AI RESEARCH

🌐 Train AI with your home computer

Image source: Midjourney

The Rundown: Nous Research recently introduced DisTrO, a new way to train large AI models that drastically reduces the need for super-fast internet connection, potentially allowing training on regular home computers and internet connections.

The details:

• DisTrO cuts down the amount of data that needs to be shared between computers by 857 to 3000x during pre-training, and up to 10,000x during fine-tuning.

• The method is architecture-agnostic and network-agnostic, working with various model types and network setups.

• In tests, DisTrO successfully trained a 1.2B parameter language model with performance on par with traditional methods.

• The researchers suggest this could enable decentralized AI training that could be done from home.

Why it matters: Right now, training state-of-the-art AI models is limited to big tech companies with massive computing resources. DisTrO could democratize AI training by allowing everyday people and smaller organizations to participate in AI development using regular computers and internet connections.

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Trending AI Tools

• 💻 Vercel v0 - Generate UI with simple text prompts and images

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• 🎥 Creatify 2.0 - Create and edit viral social media videos

• 🗣️ OpenHome - Conversational voice SDK for any platform

• 🎓 CheatSheet AI - Create visual cheat sheets on any topic

New AI Job Opportunities

• 📱 Mistral AI - Mobile Engineer

• 👩‍💻 Luma AI - Senior Software Engineer, Frontend

• 🥽 Meta - Research Scientist, Reality Labs

• 🎨 Cohere - Senior Product Designer

QUICK HITS

Google partnered with Indian startup Salcit Technologies to develop AI that detects tuberculosis and other diseases from cough sounds.

Amazon hired Covariant AI robotics experts and licensed their foundation models to advance warehouse automation capabilities.

Oprah Winfrey announced a primetime ABC special exploring AI’s societal impact, featuring interviews with tech leaders like Sam Altman and Bill Gates.

Stanford Medicine researchers developed nuclei.io, an AI tool helping pathologists identify diseased cells more quickly and accurately.

Coinbase executed its first AI-to-AI cryptocurrency transaction, demonstrating AI agents’ ability to use digital wallets for autonomous trading.

Tom Hanks warned followers about fraudulent AI-generated ads using his likeness without consent to promote unauthorized products.

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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

Alibaba just unveiled Qwen2-VL, a new vision-language AI that outperformed GPT-4o across several key benchmarks.

As China's AI developments continue to accelerate, is the gap between U.S. leaders closing faster than expected? Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• China’s new Qwen2 beats GPT-4o

• OpenAI and Anthropic partner with US gov

• Add yourself to images with a custom LoRA

• AI startup reaches 100M token context

• 5 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

ALIBABA

🤖 China’s new Qwen2 beats GPT-4o

Image source: Midjourney

The Rundown: Alibaba just unveiled Qwen2-VL, a new vision-language AI model that outperforms GPT-4o in several benchmarks — particularly excelling in document comprehension and multilingual text-image understanding.

The details:

• Qwen2-VL can understand images of various resolutions and ratios, as well as videos over 20 minutes long.

• The model excels particularly at complex tasks such as college-level problem-solving, mathematical reasoning, and document analysis.

• It also supports multilingual text understanding in images, including most European languages, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and Vietnamese.

• You can try Qwen2-VL on Hugging Face, with more information on the official announcement blog.

Why it matters: There’s yet another new contender in the state-of-the-art AI model arena, and it comes from China’s Alibaba. Qwen2-VL’s ability to understand diverse visual inputs and multilingual requests could lead to more sophisticated, globally accessible AI applications.

TOGETHER WITH ANYSCALE

🤝 The world’s largest gathering of AI leaders

The Rundown: Ray Summit 2024 is just around the corner. Get insights from cutting-edge AI companies like NVIDIA, Intel, Google, and others. Featuring 60+ breakout sessions and hands-on tech training, only available in person in San Francisco from September 30-October 2.

At Ray Summit you’ll:

• Learn from OpenAI's CTO, Instacart's co-founder, and others

• Explore real-world AI solutions from tech giants using Ray and Anyscale

• Boost your skills with hands-on training in GenAI, LLMs, and more

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OPENAI & ANTHROPIC

🏛️ OpenAI and Anthropic partner with US gov

Image source: Midjourney

The Rundown: OpenAI and Anthropic just signed a groundbreaking agreement with the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute to allow government access and testing of their AI models before public release.

The details:

• The U.S. AI Safety Institute will have access to major new models from both companies prior to and after their public release.

• This collaboration is a step toward AI regulation and safety efforts, with the U.S. government evaluating AI models’ capabilities and associated risks.

• The institute will provide feedback to OpenAI and Anthropic on potential safety improvements that should be made.

• These agreements come as AI companies face increasing regulatory scrutiny, with California legislators recently passing a broad AI regulation bill earlier today.

Why it matters: The two most popular AI companies in the world are granting the U.S. government access to unreleased models before release. This could reshape how AI is developed, tested, and deployed worldwide, with major implications around innovation, safety, and international competition in the AI space, for better or worse.

AI TRAINING

🖼️ Add yourself to images with a custom LoRA

The Rundown: Fal AI's Flux LoRA training tool helps you create a customized AI image generation model that can create images of you in any scenario or style from a few selfies.

Step-by-step:

1. Visit Fal AI's Flux LoRA training page and create an account (requires ~$10 in credits).

2. Upload 6-12 high-quality images of yourself with clear backgrounds.

3. Set training steps to 1000 and add a unique trigger word (e.g., "YourName").

4. Start the training process (takes about 20 minutes).

5. Generate images using prompts like "Portrait of [YourName] as a superhero" and explore!

Pro tip: To go one step further, import your images into Runway’s Gen-3 image-to-video feature and turn your generations into short clips.

THE RUNDOWN AI UNIVERSITY

 📧 Create AI Agents that respond to your emails

The Rundown: Tomorrow we’re hosting a live workshop with Flo Crivello, the founder of Lindy AI, to show you how to create AI agents that respond to emails, negotiate, and schedule meetings on your behalf.

Join us on live at 1:30 PM PST to learn:

• What Lindy's AI agents are capable of, and how to use the platform

• How to create your own agent that responds to emails on your behalf

• Exclusive Q&A for all members to ask any questions

If you’re a member of The Rundown AI University, you can RSVP here.

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MAGIC

📈 AI startup reaches 100M token context

Image source: Midjourney

The Rundown: Magic just developed LTM-2-mini, a model capable of processing 100 million tokens of context — equivalent to about 10 million lines of code or 750 novels — and partnered with Google Cloud to build advanced AI supercomputers.

The details:

• LTM-2-mini can process and understand 100 million tokens of context given during inference, surpassing current models by 50x.

• The model’s innovative algorithm processes long sequences of data 1000x more efficiently than the current top-performing AI models.

• Magic is also partnering with Google Cloud to build supercomputers powered by Nvidia’s newest and most advanced GPUs.

• The company has raised more than $450 million in total funding, including a recent $320 million investment round.

Why it matters: This breakthrough in context length allows AI agents to process and reason over dense and complicated codebases, vast databases, and years of conversation history in a single inference. It’s a significant step toward creating AI assistants with near-perfect recall and memory.

NEW TOOLS & JOBS

Trending AI Tools

• 💻 GPT Engineer - Chat with AI to build web applications on your behalf

• 🚀 Mimrr - Automate documentation and analysis for development teams

• 🤖 AgentOps - Develop and debug AI agents efficiently

• 🎨 Krea FLUX Style Mixer - Mix multiple Flux image generation styles with full control

• 🔎 Next Alpha Andromeda - LLM for crypto research

New AI Job Opportunities

• 🧑‍🔬 Mistral AI - AI Scientist - Internship

• 🤝 Meta - Business Development and Partnership Manager Artificial Intelligence

• 🚦Waymo - Product Manager, Perception

• 💪 Captions - Technical Recruiter

QUICK HITS

Meta reported significant growth for its Llama AI models, with downloads approaching 350 million and usage increasing 10x since January.

Nous Research released the Hermes Function Calling V1 dataset for training AI models in function calling and structured output capabilities.

Nvidia and Apple reportedly discussed joining OpenAI’s funding round with Microsoft, potentially valuing the AI startup at over $100 billion.

California lawmakers approved a bill proposing sweeping AI regulations, including safety testing requirements and potential legal consequences for harmful AI systems.

Yale University announced a $150 million investment over 5 years to support AI research, development, and education across the institution.

Codeium raised $150 million in Series C funding, reaching a $1.25 billion valuation and unicorn status less than two years after launch.

Playground launched a new AI-powered graphic design tool allowing users to make logos, social media and t-shirt designs, and more for free.

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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

A new AI system by Google just recreated the popular DOOM video game frame by frame in real-time.

With human testers barely able to distinguish the simulated game versus what was real, are AI-created games about to have its ‘moment’? Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• AI creates DOOM video game in real-time

• OpenAI raises at $100B valuation

• Automate LinkedIn outreach with AI

• AI spots cancer earlier than ever

• 5 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

GOOGLE

🕹️ AI creates DOOM video game in real-time

Image source: Google DeepMind / GameNGen

The Rundown: Google researchers just developed GameNGen, an AI system that can simulate the classic game DOOM in real-time, running at over 20 frames per second and producing visuals nearly indistinguishable from the original game.

The details:

• GameNGen produces playable gameplay at 20 frames per second on a single chip, with each frame predicted by a diffusion model.

• The AI was trained on 900M frames of gameplay data, resulting in 3-second clips almost indistinguishable from the actual game by playtesters.

• Running on a single TPU, GameNGen handles Doom's 3D environments and fast-paced action without traditional game engine components.

• In tests, human raters could barely distinguish between short clips of the AI simulation and the actual game.

Why it matters: GameNGen is the first AI model that can generate a complex and playable video game in real-time without any underlying real game engine. We’re at the fascinating time where soon, AI will be able to create entire games on the fly, personalized to each player.

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WorkOS delivers:

• Easy-to-use APIs designed for B2B SaaS, allowing you to integrate SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and audit logs in minutes.

• Free user management up to 1 million MAUs – including MFA, bot protection, social logins, and more.

• High-quality documentation and self-serve onboarding for your customers, removing all the unnecessary complexity for your engineers.

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OPENAI

💰 OpenAI raises at $100B valuation

Image source: Midjourney

The Rundown: OpenAI is reportedly in talks to raise a new funding round at a valuation exceeding $100 billion, led by Thrive Capital, with Microsoft also expected to participate.

The details:

• The potential valuation of over $100 billion would be significantly higher than OpenAI’s previous $86 billion valuation.

• Thrive Capital is expected to invest around $1 billion in this round.

• OpenAI’s annualized revenue reportedly surpassed $3.4 billion earlier this year.

• The company is still, however, projected to lose nearly $5 billion by the end of the year and has already spent $8.5 billion on AI training and staffing.

Why it matters: Building AI is expensive, and raising billions of dollars at a $100B+ valuation would silence OpenAI’s critics who insist that the company is on its downfall. The increased valuation also suggests that the company has potential hidden breakthroughs behind the scenes, such as Project Strawberry and Orion.

AI TRAINING

✉️ Automate LinkedIn outreach with AI

The Rundown: Zapier Central allows users to create personalized email drafts based on LinkedIn profiles in seconds with AI, automating your outreach process.

Step-by-step:

1. Go to Zapier Central and create a new assistant.

2. Set up instructions for drafting emails based on LinkedIn profiles.

3. Install the Zapier Central Chrome extension.

4. On a LinkedIn profile, click the Zapier Central icon and select your assistant.

5. Type a brief instruction like "Create a draft about my product for this user", review the generated draft, and customize as needed.

Pro tip: Experiment with different instructions to refine your assistant's outputs to personalize it before sending.

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🧠 Learn from OpenAI and Meta AI experts

The Rundown: The AI Conference is bringing together industry leaders with speakers from Stability AI, OpenAI, Meta, and the Pentagon — offering expert insights into AI’s impact across different industries.

At the conference, you’ll experience:

• 2 days of content with more than 75 speakers across 3 different tracks

• An expo showcasing top AI companies’ innovations

• AI applications in healthcare, enterprise, defense, and more

• A live AI startup competition judged by VCs

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AI RESEARCH

🧪 AI spots cancer earlier than ever

Image source: Midjourney

The Rundown: Researchers recently developed an AI tool called AINU that can differentiate cancer cells from normal cells and detect early stages of viral infection, by analyzing high-resolution images of cell nuclei.

The details:

• AINU uses a convolutional neural network to analyze images captured by STORM microscopy, which offers nanoscale resolution.

• The AI can detect structural changes in cells as small as 20 nanometers, 5,000 times smaller than a human hair's width.

• AINU also detected viral infections (herpes simplex virus type-1) just one hour after infection by observing subtle changes in DNA packing.

• The tool can accurately identify stem cells too, which could accelerate stem cell research without relying on animal testing.

Why it matters: Yesterday, researchers revealed an AI tool to help with early dementia detection, and now AI is detecting cancer cells at a nanoscale level. Clinical applications may be years away, but AI healthcare breakthroughs like AINU are only accelerating — and will dramatically revolutionize scientific research in the coming years.

NEW TOOLS & JOBS

Trending AI Tools

• 🛠️ NVIDIA NIM Agent Blueprints - Helps enterprises build their own generative AI apps

• 🔖 PackPack - Manage bookmarks and online content with AI

• 💃 Viggle - Bring a character to life with AI motion transfer

• 📈 GoMarble Ad Analyzer - Analyze ads for performance insights

• 🗣️ SpeakHints - Real-time AI speech copilot for any situation

New AI Job Opportunities

• 🚙 Waymo - Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Real Time Simulation

• 📐C3 AI - AI Solution Architect/Senior AI Solution Architect

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• 👨‍🔬 Tempus - Data Architect, NEXT Cardio

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Google released Custom Gems for Gemini Advanced users and improved image generation with its Imagen 3 model across Gemini products.

SoundHound AI partnered with MUSC Health to deploy an AI agent for streamlining patient appointment management and access.

Cerebras Systems launched an AI inference tool, challenging Nvidia with claims of better performance and lower pricing.

Klarna reduced the number of employees it needs to handle customer queries and resolution time on those queries from 11 to 2 minutes with AI.

CoreWeave launched Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPUs, becoming the first cloud provider to offer the advanced AI infrastructure.

Midjourney teased an upcoming hardware launch with “multiple efforts in flight”, but details are not yet available on the specifics of the launch.

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OpenAI is reportedly set to reveal 'Project Strawberry' this fall, potentially marking its biggest leap yet in AI reasoning capabilities.

With promises of solving complex problems beyond any current LLM, are we finally about to find out what Ilya saw? Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• OpenAI prepares ‘Project Strawberry’

• Google launches trio of new models

• Create an AI prompt optimizer GPT

• AI tools help early dementia detection

• 6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

OPENAI

🍓 OpenAI prepares ‘Project Strawberry’

Image source: Midjourney

The Rundown: OpenAI researchers are preparing to launch a new AI model, code-named Strawberry (previously Q*), that demonstrates superior reasoning capabilities in solving complex problems, according to a new report via The Information.

The details:

• Project Strawberry could be integrated into ChatGPT as soon as this fall, marking a significant leap in AI intelligence.

• Given extra “thinking” time, Strawberry can tackle subjective topics and solve complex puzzles like the New York Times Connections.

• OpenAI is using Strawberry to generate high-quality training data for another secretive upcoming LLM, reportedly code-named Orion.

• The new AI model could enhance OpenAI’s development of AI agents, potentially automating multi-step tasks more effectively.

Why it matters: If Strawberry lives up to the leaks, it could mark a significant leap in AI reasoning capabilities, potentially advancing OpenAI towards Stage 2 of its five-level roadmap to AGI. With ChatGPT reported to gain these capabilities this fall, we’re likely on the verge of seeing the next major wave of AI disruption.

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The Rundown: HubSpot’s free guide helps non-technical entrepreneurs leverage AI for substantial business growth, turning complex tech into actionable business strategies without the need for coding skills.

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• Understand large language models without technical jargon

• Implement AI for immediate business growth with actionable strategies

• Master prompt engineering through practical examples

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GOOGLE

✨ Google launches trio of new models

Image source: Google DeepMind

The Rundown: Google just released three new experimental Gemini 1.5 models, including a compact 8B parameter version, an improved Pro model, and an enhanced Flash model — all available for developers on Google AI Studio.

The details:

• Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B is a smaller, faster model that can handle text, images, and other data types efficiently for super quick responses while processing a lot of information.

• The updated Gemini 1.5 Pro model is now better at writing code and understanding complex instructions.

• An improved Gemini 1.5 Flash model offers overall enhancements, performing better on Google’s internal tests across various tasks.

• The upgraded Gemini 1.5 Pro model now ranks as #2, and the new Gemini 1.5 Flash ranks as #6 on the Chatbot Arena leaderboard.

Why it matters: While OpenAI is leaving everyone waiting, Google has been shipping out constant upgrades and new features to its AI offerings. These new enhancements give Gemini 1.5 Flash big improvements overall and Gemini 1.5 Pro new upgrades in math, coding, and responding to longer prompts.

AI TRAINING

🤖 Create an AI prompt optimizer GPT

The Rundown: OpenAI’s Custom GPTs allow premium users to create AI assistants that can optimize prompts for other AI creative tools such as Midjourney for AI image generation or Gen-3 for AI video generation.

Step-by-step:

1. Log into your ChatGPT Plus account and click "Explore GPTs", then click "Create".

2. Name your GPT and add a brief description.

3. In the Instructions, paste: "User is using an AI video generator called [Tool Name]. You need to craft a perfect prompt for the topic they ask by following the prompting guide below. The prompt needs to follow the format provided in the guide."

4. Test your GPT in the preview panel, then click "Create" to finalize and choose sharing options.

Hot tip: Add a complete prompting guide for your chosen AI tool (e.g. Runway’s Gen-3 prompting guide)

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AI RESEARCH

💭 AI tools help early dementia detection

Image source: Midjourney

The Rundown: Scientists from the Universities of Edinburgh and Dundee are launching a massive AI-driven study of over 1.6 million brain scans to develop tools for early dementia prediction and diagnosis.

The details:

• The project, called NEURii, will use AI and machine learning to analyze CT and MRI scans from Scottish patients over the past decade.

• Researchers aim to create digital tools for radiologists to assess dementia risk during routine scans.

• The study will match image data with linked health records to identify patterns associated with dementia risk.

• With global dementia cases projected to reach 153 million by 2050, this research could significantly impact early intervention and treatment development.

Why it matters: This week alone, we've seen AI developing new cancer drugs, 3D printing lifelike human organs, and now creating tools for early dementia detection. As AI rapidly advances in healthcare, we're accelerating into a new era of personalized medicine and preventative care.

NEW TOOLS & JOBS

Trending AI Tools

• 💬 Theysaid - Turn single-questions into conversational AI surveys

• ✍️ Unriddle - Read and write research papers faster with AI

• 🎨 SuperCraft - Collaborative canvas for designing physical products

• 📅 Clockwise - AI-powered calendars for better time management

• 😘 Discopixel Face Animator - Create instant AI-generated expressions for any face, on any photo

• 👕 Kolors Virtual Try-On - Virtual try-on experience for personalized fashion

New AI Job Opportunities

• 🤝 Cohere - Partner Programs and Enablement Manager

• 🧑‍💻 Sanctuary AI - Director, Product Development & Management

• 🎯 C3 AI - AI Solution Manager/Senior AI Solution Manager - Generative AI

• 📣 Notable - Head of Product Marketing

QUICK HITS

Apple announced a September 9 event where it’s expected to debut the iPhone 16 with new generative AI features.

Elon Musk endorsed California’s Senate Bill 1047, which would require safety testing for large AI models, breaking with other tech leaders who oppose the regulation.

Amazon plans to launch a delayed AI-powered Alexa subscription in October, featuring “Smart Briefing” AI-generated news summaries.

xAI released new Grok features for premium subscribers, including image generation suggestions and improved model selection in the iOS app.

Anthropic announced the full release of its Artifacts feature for all Claude users, including mobile apps, after millions were created in its test phase.

Fourier Intelligence unveiled GR-2, a next-gen humanoid robot with swappable batteries, advanced hand dexterity, and a sleek design, in a CGI teaser.

Nvidia released NIM Agent Blueprints, a catalog of customizable AI workflows to help enterprises build and deploy generative AI applications.

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Arizona State University is opening its doors to AI, integrating ChatGPT into over 200 projects across its campus.

From AI writing coaches to virtual patient simulators, is this a glimpse into what the future of education might look like? Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• ChatGPT teams up with ASU

• Discovering new drugs with AI

• How to use Midjourney ‘Erase‘

• AI can 3D print lifelike human organs

• 6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

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OPENAI

🎓 ChatGPT teams up with ASU

Image source: Midjourney

The Rundown: OpenAI’s ChatGPT is headed to Arizona State University (ASU), where the university is integrating the AI assistant into over 200 projects across teaching, research, and operations.

The details:

• ASU is using ChatGPT Edu, a version designed for universities with enhanced privacy and security features.

• The university also launched an ‘AI Innovation Challenge’ for faculty and staff, receiving an overwhelming demand for using ChatGPT to maximize teaching, research, and ops.

• Key projects include an AI writing companion for scholarly work, 'Sam' (a chatbot for med students to practice patient interactions), and AI-assisted research recruitment.

• The partnership has inspired other institutions like Oxford and Wharton to pursue similar collaborations.

Why it matters: While some schools are attempting to resist AI, ASU is embracing ChatGPT to make learning more personalized and to prepare students for an increasingly AI-driven job market. As education continues to change in the age of AI, case studies like this will be instrumental in shaping the future of academia.

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🚀 Small models, big results with OctoAI

The Rundown: OctoAI empowers engineers to leverage small open-source models like Llama 3.1-8B, outperforming GPT-4o and dramatically reducing costs for enterprise tasks.

Learn how to:

• Apply advanced prompt engineering techniques to slash expenses

• Use parameter-efficient fine-tuning for optimal performance

• Achieve GPT-4o quality with Llama 3.1-8B at a fraction of the cost

• Implement these strategies in your own projects

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ACTFOUND

🧪 Discovering new drugs with AI

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The Rundown: Scientists from China and the U.S. just developed ActFound, a new AI model that outperforms existing methods in predicting drug bioactivity, potentially accelerating and reducing costs in drug development.

The details:

• ActFound combines meta-learning and pairwise learning to overcome common limitations in AI drug discovery, like small datasets and incompatible measurements.

• The model was trained on 35,000+ assays (metal ore breakdowns) and 1.6 million experimentally measured bioactivities from a popular chemical database.

• In tests, ActFound outperformed nine competing models and showed strong performance in predicting cancer drug bioactivity.

Why it matters: ActFound could significantly speed up drug development by accurately predicting compound properties with less data and lower costs than traditional methods. While still in early stages, AI breakthroughs like this are the lesser-talked about developments that could end up saving millions of lives.

AI TRAINING

🖼️ How to use Midjourney ‘Erase‘

The Rundown: Midjourney’s new web editor allows users to make targeted changes to AI-generated images using the ‘Erase’ tool — no Discord account required.

Step-by-step:

1. Visit Midjourney's website and log in.

2. Generate your initial image using the Imagine Bar.

3. Open the image you want to edit and click on the "Editor" button.

4. Make your edits: modify the prompt, use the erase tool to remove areas, and adjust the canvas size if needed.

5. Click "Submit" to generate your edited image variations.

Pro tip: When erasing, always remove more rather than less. This gives Midjourney more flexibility to generate new elements in your image!

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 🧠 Learn from OpenAI and Meta AI experts

The Rundown: The AI Conference is bringing together industry leaders with speakers from Stability AI, OpenAI, Meta, and the Pentagon — offering expert insights into AI’s impact across different industries.

At the conference, you’ll experience:

• 2 days of content with more than 75 speakers across 3 different tracks

• An expo showcasing top AI companies’ innovations

• AI applications in healthcare, enterprise, defense, and more

• A live AI startup competition judged by VCs

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AI RESEARCH

🖨️ AI can 3D print lifelike human organs

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The Rundown: Researchers at Washington State University recently developed an AI technique called Bayesian Optimization that dramatically improves the speed and efficiency of 3D printing lifelike human organs.

The details:

• The AI balances geometric precision, density, and printing time to create organ models that look and feel authentic.

• In tests, it printed 60 continually improving versions of kidney and prostate organ models.

• This approach significantly reduces the time and materials needed to find optimal 3D printing settings for complex objects.

• The technology also has potential applications beyond medicine — for example, in the computer science, automotive, and aviation industries.

Why it matters: With cheaper, lifelike 3D-printed human organs, medical students could better practice for surgery before operating on actual patients. Beyond medicine, this AI technique could help reduce manufacturing costs for a variety of things like smartphones, car parts, and even airplane components.

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Trending AI Tools

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• 💻 Cursor - AI-powered IDE for efficient pair-programming

• 🤖 Seven24 - Capture client audio feedback and transforms it into actionable tasks

• 💬 AIMLAPI - Access various AI models with a single AI API

• 💡 Google AI Studio Prompt Gallery - Prompt ideas for chatting with AI efficiently

• 🎒 Gauth - AI homework helper with live tutor support

New AI Job Opportunities

• 🎨 HubSpot - Content Manager and AI Strategist

• 🧠 SuperAnnotate - Partner ML Solutions Engineer

• 💼 Mistral AI - Enterprise Account Executive

• 📈 Writer - Data Analyst

QUICK HITS

Anthropic published system prompts for its Claude AI models, revealing instructions on behavior, capabilities, and personality traits.

Inflection AI partnered with Data Transfer Initiative, enabling Pi users to export conversations and announced plans to cap free usage while focusing on enterprise AI.

Pharia released Pharia-1-LLM-7B, an open-source model optimized for German, French, and Spanish that excels in domain-specific applications.

IBM previewed Spyre, a new AI accelerator chip for IBM Z mainframes, designed to scale enterprise AI workloads with clustering capabilties.

Hugging Face and Google Cloud just partnered up to release optimized Deep Learning Containers for building AI with open models on Google Cloud infrastructure.

OpenAI hired former Meta executive Irina Kofman to lead strategic initiatives, focusing initially on AI preparedness and safety.

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China unveiled a whopping 27 new humanoid robots at the 2024 World Robot Conference, with Tesla's Optimus as the sole foreign competitor.

Can Tesla and the U.S. maintain its lead in the humanoid race, or will the first affordable, commercially available robot come from overseas? Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• China is coming for Tesla Optimus

• Grok-2 improves speed, accuracy, transparency

• How to use Ideogram for generating images

• AI learns to plan better without humans

• 5 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

AGIBOT

🤖 China is coming for Tesla Optimus

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The Rundown: At the 2024 World Robot Conference in Beijing, Chinese companies showcased 27 humanoid robots alongside Tesla’s Optimus, signalling China’s ambition to dominate the industry.

The details:

• Chinese tech firms unveiled 27 humanoid robots at the expo, with Tesla’s Optimus being the only foreign competitor present.

• AGIBOT, founded by a Huawei alumnus, presented robots powered by large language models (LLMs) for industrial use and customer service.

• Other notable entries included Astribot’s S1 robot assistant capable of writing calligraphy and playing musical instruments, and Galbot’s wheeled robots for food delivery and retail tasks.

• Despite the impressive showcase, experts note that technological hurdles and high costs still create challenges for Chinese manufacturers.

Why it matters: China may be slightly behind in the AI race against the U.S., but it’s clear the country is committed to dominating the humanoid robotics race. With a whopping 27 China-based humanoid robots demonstrating a wide-range of use cases at the event, commercially available humanoids may be coming sooner than most expect.

TOGETHER WITH CODESIGNAL

🗣️ Codesignal’s AI conversation simulator

The Rundown: CodeSignal recently launched an innovative AI conversation simulator, designed to help you practice important work conversations to make sure you’re ready for real-world scenarios.

You can:

• Choose the type of conversation you want to work on (job interviews, team management, client communication, etc.)

• Run through a full voice chat role-play with an AI partner.

• Get instant customized feedback from Cosmo, your AI tutor

Give it a try and transform your communication skills.

XAI

⚡️ Grok-2 improves speed, accuracy, transparency

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The Rundown: xAI’s Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini just made major improvements — doubling the model’s speed in the mini version and showing increased accuracy in both models, just days after its beta launch.

The details:

• Grok-2 mini is now twice as fast as it was previously, thanks to a rewritten inference stack using SGLang.

• Both Grok-2 and its mini version have become slightly more accurate due to reduced quantization error, according to one xAI employee.

• Additionally, both Grok-2 models are now part of the LMSYS Chatbot Arena leaderboard for increased transparency, with Grok-2’s larger model ranking #2 and surpassing Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

• Grok-2 excels particularly in math, where it ranks #1 and performs at a state-of-the-art level in hard prompts, coding, and instruction-following.

Why it matters: From being founded only ~18 months ago, to creating an LLM ranked third in the world, it’s safe to say that xAI has the entire AI community mind blown. This not only makes Grok-2 a top contender in the AI race but also intensifies competition, potentially accelerating advancements across the industry.

AI TRAINING

🎨 How to use Ideogram for generating images

Image source: The Rundown / Ideogram

The Rundown: Ideogram 2.0, the latest state-of-the-art AI image generator, excels at creating images that include text — opening new possibilities for use cases like thumbnails, posters, newsletter graphics, memes, and more.

Step-by-step:

1. Head over to Ideogram’s website and Sign up. You’ll get free credits to try the image generator without a credit card.

2. Click "Describe what you want to see" and enter a detailed text prompt for your desired image.

3. Customize settings like aspect ratio, AI model (choose 2.0), and style (Realistic, Design, 3D, or Anime).

4. Click "Generate" to create four AI-generated images based on your prompt!

Pro tip: Experiment with different prompts and settings to discover its full potential and create unique visuals for your projects!

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The Rundown: Defined.ai recently partnered with a leading consumer electronics company to revamp its Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) AI models, addressing performance issues, demographic biases, and lack of diversity in responses.

Defined.ai’s solution delivered:

• Immediate access to large-scale, ethically-collected spontaneous speech data

• High-fidelity transcriptions with diverse age, gender, and accent distributions

• Data sourcing for responsible AI that avoids legal and reputational risks associated with web scraping

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IBM

📝 AI learns to plan better without humans

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The Rundown: IBM Research and Cornell University recently created AutoToS, a system that teaches AI to solve complex planning problems at 100% accuracy — without needing a human to check its work.

The details:

• AutoToS is like a smart tutor for AI, helping it learn how to break down and solve tricky problems step-by-step.

• The system uses clever tests to check the AI’s work, pointing out mistakes and showing examples of how to do better without human interferance.

• This approach seems to work equally as well for smaller and larger models.

• AutoToS succeeded in teaching AI to solve complex puzzles, including classic problems like arranging blocks and solving Sokoban, a box-pushing game.

Why it matters: Right now, it’s difficult to trust AI agents to completely autonomously perform actions on your behalf, but AutoToS is solving complex tasks at a 100% accuracy. If this system works in the real world, it’s the next big step in creating more reliable AI assistants.

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Trending AI Tools

• 🗣️ Adobe Express Animate from Audio - Upload any audio and animate characters with AI

• 📄 Paperguide - Manage and understand research papers easier

• 🚀 fleak - Build serverless APIs in minutes

• 💡 Kraftful 3.0 - Strategize your product with AI-powered insights

• 🪄 Finegrain Image Enhancer - Enhance low-resolution images

New AI Job Opportunities

• ✍️ The Rundown - Writer/Editor

• 🤖 OpenAI - Residency - Model Behavior

• 💻 Palantir - Software Engineer, New Grad

• 📊 Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Language Data Scientist

QUICK HITS

Mark Zuckerberg and Spotify’s Daniel Ek advocated for Europe to embrace open-source AI, warning against complex regulations hindering innovation.

Google AI Studio released a native prompt gallery featuring long context, multi-model inputs, and structured outputs for enhanced AI development.

Anthropic supported California’s AI regulation bill after changes were made, saying its benefits likely outweigh its costs for advanced AI development.

Fetch.ai launched Innovation Lab in San Francisco with a $10 million fund to support early-stage AI agent startups.

Google appointed former Character.AI founder and long-time Google researcher Noam Shazeer as co-lead of its Gemini AI model development.

Imagination Technologies abandoned standalone NPUs, integrating AI capabilities into GPUs instead and securing $100 million in financing.

Chinese companies reportedly bypassed U.S. AI chip export restrictions by accessing banned technologies through Amazon Web Services’ cloud platform.

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Salesforce is launching two AI agents that help sales teams autonomously engage with leads and provide personalized coaching.

With 24/7 support, automated repetitive tasks, and AI-powered insights, are we headed into a new era of sales? Let's get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• Salesforce unveils AI agents for sales

• Nvidia and Mistral make laptop-ready AI

• Turn PDFs into interactive dashboards

• New AI breakthrough in solar tech

• 6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

SALESFORCE

🧠 Salesforce unveils AI agents for sales

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The Rundown: Salesforce just introduced two fully autonomous, AI-powered sales agents, Einstein SDR Agent and Einstein Sales Coach Agent, designed to help sales teams accelerate growth through automation and personalization.

The details:

• Einstein SDR Agent engages with inbound leads 24/7 to answer questions, handle objections, and book meetings.

• Einstein Sales Coach Agent helps salespeople rehearse pitches and offers real-time suggestions during calls.

• The agents both leverage Salesforce’s CRM data and external data uploaded via Data Cloud to generate accurate, contextually relevant responses.

• The agents will be generally available in October, with more details expected to be released at Dreamforce conference in September.

Why it matters: By integrating AI agents into existing platforms, Salesforce is lowering the barrier for AI adoption in business processes. These agents offer 24/7 support and automate repetitive tasks like qualifying leads and booking meetings, freeing human sales teams to focus on high-value tasks and potentially close more deals.

TOGETHER WITH LAMBDA

🧠 Use Hermes 3 for free with Lambda Chat

The Rundown: Trained on Lambda’s 1-Click Cluster, Nous Research’s free-to-access, open-source Hermes 3 is the first full-parameter fine-tune of Meta’s Llama 3.1 405B model with exceptional reasoning capabilities.

With Hermes 3, you can:

• Tackle complex tasks from strategic decision-making to creative writing

• Access the model through Lambda’s new Chat Completions API or Lambda Chat interface

• Run the model on a single node or scale to a multi-node 1-Click Cluster

Try Hermes 3 for free through lambda.chat or Chat Completions API.

NVIDIA

💻 Nvidia and Mistral make laptop-ready AI

Image source: The Rundown / Ideogram

The Rundown: Nvidia and Mistral just released Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B, a highly accurate small language model that can run efficiently on laptops and PCs.

The details:

• The model uses optimization techniques like pruning (removing certain weights) and distillation (retraining the pruned model on a small dataset) to achieve high accuracy with a smaller footprint.

• These optimizations resulted in up to 40x cost savings in terms of raw compute during training.

• Laptops and PCs can run the model locally for faster and more secure interactions with AI.

• Minitron 8B leads nine language-driven AI benchmarks for similarly sized models from language understanding to reasoning and coding.

Why it matters: AI models that are small enough to run locally on laptops and PCs means less reliance on cloud services, improved data privacy, and faster responses. As this tech evolves, we could soon see advanced AI in everything from smartphones and watches to home appliances.

AI TRAINING

📊 Turn PDFs into interactive dashboards

The Rundown: Using AI-powered coding and Replit (an online integrated development environment), you can transform any PDF into a dynamic, interactive dashboard with this simple AI workflow.

Step-by-step:

1. Upload your PDF to an AI chatbot (e.g., ChatGPT or Google Gemini)

2. Request a Python script for an interactive dashboard using Plotly Dash.

3. Copy the AI-generated Python code and create a new Python project on replit.com.

4. Paste the code into Replit and run the code in Replit to generate your interactive dashboard.

Hot tip: If you’re using Claude, you can enable the Artifacts feature and simply prompt it to “create an interactive dashboard from this PDF“ to get a similar result

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🫐 See, dream, achieve with Very Berry Visualizer

The Rundown: Very Berry Visualizer, ZAP’s sweetest flavor, helps you turn workflow diagrams into automated processes — making your automated visions a reality with minimal effort.

Leverage Very Berry Visualizer to:

• Create connected processes and transform diagrams into automated workflows

• Design and collaborate on workflows

• Enhance productivity with AI visualization

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AI RESEARCH

☀️ New AI breakthrough in solar tech

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The Rundown: Researchers just developed a new AI-based method called NES-VMC that can accurately calculate the excited states of atoms and molecules, a challenge in physics and chemistry that previously delayed improvements in solar tech.

The details:

• NES-VMC (natural excited states variational Monte Carlo) accurately predicted quantum excited states on systems ranging from single atoms to benzene-sized molecules.

• The method outperforms leading computational chemistry techniques, often achieving chemical accuracy.

• Excited states are crucial for understanding light-matter interactions, key to improving solar cells, LEDs, lasers, and more.

• NES-VMC overcomes long-standing challenges in physics and chemistry that have hindered progress in these fields.

Why it matters: This AI-driven breakthrough could lead to more efficient solar cells, brighter LEDs, and more powerful lasers. The ripple effects could be dramatic: lower electricity costs, improvements in phone and laptop battery life and displays, faster fiber-optic internet, and so much more.

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Trending AI Tools

• 🇪🇸 D-iD AI Video Translate - Instant multilingual videos with lip synced translation

• 🎨 Ideogram 2.0 - AI image generation with state-of-the-art text details

• 🎥 EVF-SAM-2 - Prompt-to-segmentation in videos

• 🤖 AgentQL - Painless data extraction and web automation

• ✅ Eppo - Run advanced A/B tests seamlessly

• 📝 Life Note - Journal with the greatest minds in human history

New AI Job Opportunities

• ✍️ The Rundown - Writer/Editor

• 👩🏻‍🔬 Sanctuary AI - Expert Scientist - Dexterous Manipulation

• 🧠 DeepL - Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

• 🔬 Meta - Fundamental AI Research Scientist, NLP

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Boston Dynamics posted a new video of its Atlas robot doing push-ups, showcasing advancements in dynamic movement control.

AI21 Labs unveiled Jamba 1.5, a multilingual AI model series with 256,000 context length and permissive licensing for smaller organizations.

Krea AI added Flux 1, an advanced text-to-image AI model, to its platform with 3-minute free generations for non-subscribed users.

Perplexity AI is reportedly planning to introduce advertising on its AI-powered search platform by Q4 of 2024.

Anthropic launched LaTeX rendering support for Claude, enabling the AI chatbot to display mathematical equations and expressions consistently.

Google DeepMind employees urged the company to end military contracts, citing concerns over AI use in warfare and surveillance.

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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

The next generation of AI image creation is here with Ideogram 2.0, and it’s more accessible than ever at 40 free images per day.

With better text generation, realistic hands, enhanced colors, and more — the practical use cases for AI image generation just expanded dramatically. Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• Ideogram 2.0 launches with major upgrades

• xAI releases Grok 2 in early beta

• Create your own AI Clone

• Disney AI brings robots to life

• 6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

IDEOGRAM

🎨 Ideogram 2.0 launches with major upgrades

Image source: Ideogram

The Rundown: Ideogram just released version 2.0 of its advanced text-to-image model with major upgrades and new features, including five new image styles, an iOS app, a beta API, and over 1 billion public Ideogram images.

The details:

• Ideogram 2.0 offers five image styles: General, Realistic, Design, 3D, and Anime.

• The Realistic style convincingly resembles photographs with dramatically improved textures for human features like hands and hair, a pain point for previous image generation models.

• The Design style also significantly improves text rendering, allowing users to create greeting cards, t-shirt designs and more.

• Ideogram offers a free tier that allows users to generate around 40 images, or 10 prompts a day at no charge.

Why it matters: Ideogram 2.0 consistently renders high-quality images with near perfect human hands and text — which is an instant ‘AI giveaway’ in other AI image generators. This makes the model the new gold standard for use cases like memes, newsletter images, YouTube thumbnails, posters, and more.

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🌊 High-performance, low-cost AI with TensorWave

The Rundown: TensorWave cloud harnesses AMD’s Instinct MI300X to deliver unmatched price-to-performance for large language models, outpacing competitors like Nvidia’s H100B.

You’ll be able to:

• Handle increasingly complex and memory-hungry LLMs with ease

• Run massive models like Llama 3.1 405B on a single node

• Leverage TensorWave’s inference caching for smoother enterprise-scale operations

• Achieve superior performance at a fraction of the cost

Click here to learn more and supercharge your AI workloads.

XAI

🔥 xAI releases Grok 2 in early beta

Image source: The Rundown

The Rundown: xAI has begun rolling out early beta access for Grok 2, a powerful new AI model that leverages real-time data from X and uses Flux.1 to generate relatively unfiltered AI images.

The details:

• Grok 2 is now available to a select group of premium X users in early beta mode.

• The model can access and use real-time information from X, setting it apart from ChatGPT and other LLMs.

• Grok 2 offers two modes: regular and “fun” mode, with the latter providing a more distinctive and entertaining personality.

• When gathering and summarizing news, Grok 2 can reference specific tweets, a capability that cannot be found in ChatGPT or Claude.

Why it matters: Grok 2’s biggest advantage against other top-tier AI chatbots like ChatGPT is its ability to access real-time information from X and provide unfiltered responses. And with Grok 3 rumoured to be coming at the end of 2024, xAI has proven itself as a serious competitor in the LLM race — in a very short period of time.

AI TRAINING

👋 Create your own AI Clone

The Rundown: RenderNet's Narrator feature allows busy founders and creators to quickly create AI clones of themselves and create realistic videos narrating any script.

Step-by-step:

1. Sign up for a free RenderNet account on their website.

2. Select "Try Narrator" from the main dashboard and upload a video file of yourself speaking.

3. Select an AI voice, and input your script. You can also upload a custom audio file with your own original voice directly.

4. Click 'Generate' to generate your AI clone video 🎉

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• Superior latency performance, outpacing competitive models

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• Enhanced efficiency and cost-effectiveness with the innovative Mamba-Transformer architecture

• Options for private deployments, customization, continuous pre-training, and fine-tuning

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DISNEY

🤖 Disney AI brings robots to life

Image source: Disney Research

The Rundown: ETH Zurich and Disney Research scientists have developed an AI system that can generate realistic, physics-based movements for virtual characters and robots from simple text or image inputs.

The details:

• The system uses a two-stage approach: first, it learns a latent representation of motion from a large dataset, then trains a control policy using reinforcement learning.

• It can handle a diverse range of motions, from simple walking to complex acrobatics, outperforming previous methods in accuracy and generalization.

• The AI adapts to physical constraints, allowing it to transfer motions to real robots while maintaining balance and style.

• Disney released a video showcasing one robot trained on the new two-stage AI technique dancing and getting pushed around while staying on its feet.

Why it matters: This AI system bridges the gap between animation and robotics, helping humanoids move more naturally and adapt better to new situations. With personal robots coming as soon as 2025 and the rapid pace of AI and robotics advancements, we might be coexisting with robots sooner than most people realize.

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Trending AI Tools

• 🎨 MolyPix - Generate easy-to-edit graphic designs from text

• 🎬 LTX Studio Character Animation - Full character dialogue control and face motion capture for AI-enhanced filmmaking

• 🤖 Hermes 3 - Open-sourced AI model optimized for reasoning

• 👨‍💻 Zed - High-performance, multiplayer code editor

• 🤝 micro1 - AI recruitment engine for meeting top engineers

• ⚡sleekflow - Automate customer interactions with personalized conversational workflows

New AI Job Opportunities

• 🎯 C3 AI - AI Engagement Director, Federal

• 🤝 Siena - Customer Success Manager

• 🌐 OpenAI - Partner Solutions Architect

• 📡 Waymo - Radar Software Engineer

QUICK HITS

Midjourney opened its web-based AI image editor and new tools to everyone with free trials for new users to test it out.

McAfee released AI-powered deepfake detection software for select Levono PCs to protect users from AI-generated scams.

Best Buy introduced AI-powered delivery tracking with minute-by-minute updates to meet rising customer expectations for transparency.

MIT CSAIL researchers developed an AI assistant that oversees teams to align roles and beliefs in an effort to improve collaboration.

Groq launched a new API for a distilled version of OpenAI’s Whisper text-to-speech model that is 240 times faster and significantly cheaper.

California and Google drafted a $300 million, 5-year partnership to fund in-state newsrooms and AI initiatives, including a $40 million annual “AI Innovation Accelerator”.

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