ODSC’s AI Weekly Recap: Week of July 19th
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
- Meta to Withhold New AI Model from European Union Amid Regulatory Concerns (Source)
- Is AI Going to Change the Beauty Industry? (Source)
- OpenAI’s Strawberry Aims for Advanced Reasoning Capabilities (Source)
AI News Highlights
OpenAI Releases GPT-4o Mini, a Cheaper Version of Flagship AI Model
Will K-pop’s AI experiment pay off?
How Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Became Tech’s Steely Eyed A.I. Gambler
OpenAI nears “reasoning”-capable AI
Jefferies names ‘yet-to-be discovered AI play’ in Taiwan, giving it 42% upside potential
Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI
Trump’s FDA commissioner on regulating AI
Hacker group says it leaked Disney data over the company’s ‘approach to AI’
Shipping giant CMA CGM signs AI deal with Google
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New Trending Open Source Projects
The LivePortrait project on GitHub enables the generation of animated, life-like portraits from still images using deep learning techniques
The Claude-Engineer OS project enhances the Claude AI model with tools for fine-tuning and customization and features an interactive CLI for easy model management, deployment, and optimization.
The MergeKit OS project is gaining significant attention for its ability to merge pretrained large language models, enabling the creation of more robust and versatile models with better performance and lower costs.
The GPT-PDF OS project allows users to efficiently, query, summarize, and extract information from PDFs
The Kolors project is a large-scale text-to-image generation model based on latent diffusion and trained on billions of text-image pairs. The model claims to excel in visual quality vs others
The ESM (Evolutionary Scale Modeling) project from EvolutionaryScale features ESM3, a frontier generative model for biology. ESM3 can jointly reason across sequence, structure, and function of proteins, making it highly versatile for biological research
New Trending Research From Around The Globe
How Control Information Influences Multilingual Text Image Generation and Editing? — Paper
ProcTag: Process Tagging for Assessing the Efficacy of Document Instruction Data — Paper
LMMs-Eval: Reality Check on the Evaluation of Large Multimodal Models — Paper
Data-Juicer Sandbox: A Comprehensive Suite for Multimodal Data-Model Co-development — Paper
VLMEvalKit: An Open-Source Toolkit for Evaluating Large Multi-Modality Models — Paper
GRUtopia: Dream General Robots in a City at Scale — Paper
Scaling Diffusion Transformers to 16 Billion Parameters — Paper
Start-Up Funding News
Austin Texas-based Saronic, a provider of naval and maritime forces with the most intelligent Autonomous Surface Vessels available., raised $175M in Series B
London-based Huma, a health platform used for remote patient monitoring and biological data gathering for preventative healthcare, raised $75M in Series D
California-based DreamBig Semiconductor, provider of Chiplet platform with SMARTNIC/DPU solutions for AI, data centers, and storage acceleration, raised $75M in Series B
New York-based Stanard Bots, creator of advanced automation solutions, including the RO1 robot, to help businesses streamline their operations, raised $63M in Series B
Thailand-based Amity Solutions, a software company that offers employee engagement solutions for chatbots, AI platforms, and customers, raised $60M in Series C
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