ODSC’s AI Weekly Recap: Week of July 12th

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4 min readJul 12, 2024

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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 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 Blog Recap

  • Microsoft Backs Away From OpenAI Board (Source)
  • University of Michigan Researchers Using AI to Understand Dogs (Source)
  • SenseTime Unveils SenseNova 5.5 to Combat OpenAI China AI Restrictions (Source)
  • Nicolas Cage is Concerned About AI in Hollywood (Source)
  • Google Pushing Higher Emissions Due to AI (Source)
  • MIT Introduces GenSQL for Database Analysis (Source)

AI News Highlights

California considers unique safety regulations for AI companies, but faces tech firm opposition

Microsoft AI Deal With UAE’s G42 at Risk Over National Security Fears

Google will now generate disclosures for political ads that use AI

AI-Powered Super Soldiers Are More Than Just a Pipe Dream

AI-Driven Behavior Change Could Transform Health Care

Job scams surged 118% in 2023, aided by AI. Here’s how to stop them

Exclusive: U.S. Voters Value Safe AI Development Over Racing Against China, Poll Shows

Two self-driving car guys take on OpenAI’s Sora, Kling, and Runway to be Hollywood’s favorite AI

China leads the world in adoption of generative AI, survey shows

Army Advocates Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence by Soldiers as Other Services Are Hesitant

Scoop: Ted Cruz probes tech money funding Biden AI staff

New Trending Open Source Projects

Beautiify comprises a curated selection of beautifully designed components and animations that can be seamlessly incorporated into any website, elevating its overall UI experience.

DevBrute — A versatile password brute forcing tool designed to tackle a wide range of Social Media accounts and Web Applications. With its robust capabilities, it’s adept at breaking through various security barriers.

Open DBM is a tool for the measurement of digital biomarkers from video or audio of an individual’s behavior.

Thor is a Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery

Pythonista_ForAll is a compiled Repository dedicated to cool python scripts and hacks for everyone

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New Trending Research From Around The Globe

OMG-LLaVA: Bridging Image-level, Object-level, Pixel-level Reasoning and Understanding — Paper
Scaling Synthetic Data Creation with 1,000,000,000 Personas — Paper
MMEvalPro: Calibrating Multimodal Benchmarks Towards Trustworthy and Efficient Evaluation — Paper
Robust Neural Information Retrieval: An Adversarial and Out-of-distribution Perspective — Paper
Gait Patterns as Biomarkers: A Video-Based Approach for Classifying Scoliosis — Paper
Training-free CryoET Tomogram Segmentation — Paper
ANOLE: An Open, Autoregressive, Native Large Multimodal Models for Interleaved Image-Text Generation — Paper

Start-Up Funding News

Pennsylvania-based Skild AI, a startup that develops software to power various robots, raised $300M in Series A

New York-based Hebbia, developer AI agents for financial services firms, raised $130M in Series B

New York-based Captions, an AI-powered creative studio developing a video creation and editing platform for content creation, raised $100M in Series C

Boston-based Gradient AI, which leverages AI to provide risk assessment tools that help underwriters make more accurate and data-driven decisions, raised $36M in Series Funding

New York-based Canoe, develops an AI technology to help alternative investment firms streamline their data management processes, raised $36M in Series C

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