ODSC’s AI Weekly Recap: Week of August 30th

4 min readSep 3, 2024

Every week, the ODSC team researches the latest advancements in AI for this AI Weekly Recap. We review a selection of the most impactful research, trending open-source projects, and significant startup investments. We carefully curate and share the most impactful AI news & developments, bringing the insights that matter most to the AI and data science community. Subscribe to get this as a newsletter sent to your inbox every Friday!

Open Data Science AI News Blog Recap

Meta’s Ad Business Thrives with AI Innovations (Source)

Ridley Scott Reverses Views on AI for “Gladiator II” (Source)

Bernard Arnault’s Aglaé Ventures Boosts AI Portfolio with Strategic Investments (Source)

OpenAI Introduces Advanced Version of Codex (Source)

ESA’s CubeSat Launches to Revolutionize Earth Observation with AI (Source)

California Revises AI Legislation Amid Industry Pushback (Source)

Context-Aware AI PINNACLE is Pushing the Limits of Protein Analysis (Source)

AI News Highlights

NASA’s New Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer Is A Man On A Mission

Here’s how people are actually using AI

OpenAI Releases Upgraded Coding Test for AIs

Amazon’s AI Spending Plans Keep Stock From Joining Tech Rebound

New Nvidia research shows AI can predict local weather

Wyoming mayoral candidate doubles down on wanting AI to run a city

Epic Systems is building more than 100 new AI features for doctors and patients. Here’s what’s coming

Google’s AI ‘Reimagine’ tool helped us add wrecks, disasters, and corpses to our photos

Mark Zuckerberg and Daniel Ek on why Europe should embrace open-source AI

An ‘AI Scientist’ Is Inventing and Running Its Own Experiments

Editorial: Why California should lead on AI regulation

Regulators are focusing on real AI risks over theoretical ones. Good

How artificial intelligence is transforming logistics

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New Trending Open Source Projects

The AI Scientist is a comprehensive system for fully automatic scientific discovery, enabling Foundation Models such as Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform research independently.

LongWrite creates 10,000+ Word Generation From Long Context LLMs

Parsera is a lightweight Python library for scraping websites with LLMs

Omni Engineer is a console-based tool that integrates AI capabilities into your development process.

Comandi v0.02 is a comprehensive AI-Powered command-line Interface for programming assistance, error debugging, and command translation

Llamacoder is an open-source Claude Artifacts that generates small apps with one prompt

Deep Live Cam is a real-time face swap and one-click video generation with only a single image

Teable is an open source no-code next-gen Airtable alternative database built on Postgres

New Trending Research From Around The Globe

Imagen 3 — Paper

The Vizier Gaussian Process Bandit Algorithm — Paper

xGen-MM (BLIP-3): A Family of Open Large Multimodal Models — Paper

SZTU-CMU at MER2024: Improving Emotion-LLaMA with Conv-Attention for Multimodal Emotion Recognition — Paper

AIR: Analytic Imbalance Rectifier for Continual Learning — Paper

LongVILA: Scaling Long-Context Visual Language Models for Long Videos — Paper

AdaRank: Disagreement-Based Module Rank Prediction for Low-rank Adaptation — Paper

Start-Up Funding News

New York-based Grafana Labs, an open-source software platform built to support monitoring, visualization, and metric analytics, raised $270M in Series D Funding
Virginia-based DEFCON AI, a transportation, logistics, supply chain, and storage company, raised $44M in Seed Funding
Los Angeles-based Grafana Labs, an open-source software platform built to support monitoring, visualization, and metric analytics, raised $270M in Series D Funding
Beijing-based 51World, Asia’s leading digital twin technology company, raised CN¥200 in a Series Funding
New York-based Truck Tools, a construction AI platform that automates construction workflows for project managers, superintendents, and executives, raised $20M in Series A Funding
Seattle-based Talus Bio, a drug discovery biotech startup that develops drugs targeting undruggable transcription factors using AI, raised over $11M in Seed Funding

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