Meta’s Future in AI, Microsoft’s Expansion in Asia, an AI-Powered Asteroid Detector, and More AI News.

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4 min readMay 3, 2024

Meta Sees Free Models as its Future (Source)

Business solutions company, Conduent has announced a new partnership with Microsoft (Source)

A new report shows that Apple is busy poaching AI talent from rivals such as Google (Source)

The U.S. government is actively engaging with top executives from major tech companies and industries to fortify national infrastructure against AI-driven threats (Source)

Researchers from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have discovered how some images linger in our memories while others fade away. (Source)

Microsoft is moving with a major expansion of its footprint in Southeast Asia by committing to investing $2.2 billion over the next four years to develop new cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Malaysia (Source)

A new AI-powered algorithm has enhanced our ability to detect asteroids, uncovering more than 27,000 previously unnoticed space rocks within existing telescope images. (Source)

AI News Highlights

A new technique can be used to predict the actions of human or AI agents who behave suboptimally while working toward unknown goals.

Google and Microsoft Cushion Their AI Capital Pains

Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO

Georgia Tech embraces artificial intelligence with new “digital sandbox” that will equip students with resources in the age of AI

U.S. Government Needs to ‘Get It Right’ on Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI faces complaint over fictional outputs

Maps developed with artificial intelligence confirm low levels of phosphorus in Amazonian soil

Texas lawmakers studying the impact of artificial intelligence

US-China AI Meeting May Hold Key to Unlocking Global Business Potential

Chicago Tribune, and other major newspapers accuse artificial intelligence companies of stealing content

Trending New Open Source Projects

  • Perplexica — an AI-powered search engine. It is an Open source alternative to Perplexity AI
  • EasyEdit — An Easy-to-use Knowledge Editing Framework for LLMs
  • Laravel-Open-Source-Projects — A Web Artisan list of categorized OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS built with Laravel PHP Framework.
  • NetCoreCMS — A modular theme-supported Content Management System developed using ASP.Net Core 2.0 MVC. Which is also usable as a web application framework.
  • Drifty — An open-source Interactive File Downloader System built with Java
  • ChatGPT app mobile — open-source chat application developed with .NET MAUI, employing OpenAI technologies to replicate functionality similar to ChatGPT. The application generates chat responses using these OpenAI technologies.
  • ML-Project-Drug-Review-Dataset — an innovative machine learning project that utilizes patient reviews with many other attributes to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of drugs.
  • Tracecat — An open-source alternative to Tines / Splunk SOAR. Build AI-assisted workflows, orchestrate alerts, and close cases fast.
  • executorch — On-device AI across mobile, embedded, and edge for PyTorch

New Trending Research From Around The Globe

  • DrBenchmark: A Large Language Understanding Evaluation Benchmark for French Biomedical Domain — Paper
  • CatLIP: CLIP-level Visual Recognition Accuracy with 2.7x Faster Pre-training on Web-scale Image-Text Data — Paper
  • Revisiting Text-to-Image Evaluation with Gecko: On Metrics, Prompts, and Human Ratings — Paper
  • 3SHNet: Boosting Image-Sentence Retrieval via Visual Semantic-Spatial Self-Highlighting — Paper
  • Process Mining Embeddings: Learning Vector Representations for Petri Nets — Paper
  • Software Vulnerability Prediction in Low-Resource Languages: An Empirical Study of CodeBERT and ChatGPT — Paper
  • Harnessing the Power of Multiple Minds: Lessons Learned from LLM Routings — Paper
  • Model Quantization and Hardware Acceleration for Vision Transformers: A Comprehensive Survey — Paper
  • Covariant spatio-temporal receptive fields for neuromorphic computing — Paper
  • CrossMatch: Enhance Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation with Perturbation Strategies and Knowledge Distillation — Paper
  • AdaMoLE: Fine-Tuning Large Language Models with Adaptive Mixture of Low-Rank Adaptation Experts — Paper
  • UWAFA-GAN: Ultra-Wide-Angle Fluorescein Angiography Transformation via Multi-scale Generation and Registration Enhancement — Paper
  • Learning to Compose: Improving Object-Centric Learning by Injecting Compositionality — Paper
  • UCB-driven Utility Function Search for Multi-objective Reinforcement Learning — Paper
  • TFPred: Learning discriminative representations from unlabeled data for few-label rotating machinery fault diagnosis — Paper

Start-Up Funding News

California-based Blaize, an AI computing platforms company that develops products for the automotive, smart vision, and enterprise computing markets, raised $242M in Private Funding.

San Francisco-based Traceable, an API security company that helps to mitigate risks and optimize the value derived from their APIs for customers, raised $110M in Series Funding.

California-based Inhabitr, an AI-powered end-to-end furnishing solution for commercial real estate, raised over $31M in Series B Funding.

Pennsylvania-based Invent Analytics, a provider of AI-based inventory and pricing optimization solutions for retailers and FMCG companies, raised over $24M in Series B Funding.

London-based Jigsaw, a builder of diagrams, allows users to both visualize and manipulate the complex underlying data., raised over £12M in Series AFunding.

New York-based Trovo Health, a user of AI technology to provide comprehensive healthcare solutions, raised $15M in Seed Funding.

San Francisco-based Metabrain, creator of brain interfaces to bridge the gap between humans and technology., raised over $34M in Series Funding.

India-Based Niqo Robotics, an AI-powered robotics solutions provider empowering small farm holders, raised over $16M in Series B Funding

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