ODSC’s AI Weekly Recap: Week of March 15th

5 min readMar 15, 2024

Open Data Science Blog Recap

The European Union (EU) has leaped AI regulation by passing a first-of-its-kind AI regulatory act. (Source)

A new analysis by marketing and consulting firm 360iResearch, sees the global artificial intelligence supercomputer market is projected to surge by double digits (Source)

Stanford Health Care, the institution is looking to launch a new AI-powered application, DAX Copilot, an AI tool designed to enhance the entire clinical documentation process lifecycle. (Source)

DeepMind has introduced Genie, a model that transforms brief descriptions, sketches, or photos into playable 2D platform video games. (Source)

PyRIT, the Python Risk Identification Tool, is a new open-access automation framework designed to upend how security professionals and machine learning engineers assess the robustness of foundation models and their applications against potential threats. (Source)

According to a recent study by IMARC Group, that is shedding light new light on AI and health, it is revealing an anticipated compound annual growth rate, or CAGR of 43.52% from 2024 to 2032.(Source)

AI News Highlights

U.S. Must Move ‘Decisively’ to Avert ‘Extinction-Level’ Threat From AI, Government-Commissioned Report Says

How the A.I. That Drives ChatGPT Will Move Into the Physical World

Pentagon seeks low-cost AI drones to bolster Air Force: Here are the companies competing for the opportunity

Geisel School of Medicine Students Introduce Artificial Intelligence to Preclinical Education

Elon Musk: Grok Will Become Open-Source AI Model

This Computer Scientist Seeks a Future Where AI Development Values Copyright

Apple is planning to use artificial intelligence to optimize App Store ads

Thomson Reuters Has $8 Billion in ‘Financial Firepower’ for AI Investment

Artificial intelligence identifying new potentially deadly COVID-19 variants

AI voice acting is changing modding, and it’s killing one of the best parts of the scene: The amateur voice actor with a cheap headset mic

Morgan Stanley names a head of artificial intelligence as Wall Street leans into AI

High school students in Colorado explore limits of artificial intelligence, design their own AI models

US spearheads first UN resolution on artificial intelligence — aimed at ensuring equal access

Oracle Unveils New AI Capabilities for Finance and Supply Chain

Justice Department Focuses on Artificial Intelligence Assisted Crime

Trending New Open Source Projects

OK-Robot is a zero-shot modular framework that effectively combines the state-of-art navigation and manipulation models to perform pick and place tasks in real homes. It has been tested in 10 real homes on 170+ objects and achieved a total success rate of 58.5%.
Hyperdiv is a framework for rapidly developing reactive browser UI apps in Python, with built-in components, terse immediate-mode syntax, and minimal tool boilerplate.
Evo is a biological foundation model capable of long-context modeling and design. Evo has 7 billion parameters and is trained on OpenGenome, a prokaryotic whole-genome dataset containing ~300 billion tokens.
Fuzzy Search is a Multilingual frontend library for searching objects with ids (entities) by their names and features (terms). A query takes usually well below 10 ms and powered by n-grams with a novel approach of character sorting.
kubetail is a Web-based, real-time log viewer for Kubernetes. Viewing application logs in a containerized environment can be challenging. Kubetail solves this problem by providing an easy-to-use, web-based interface that allows you to view all the logs for a set of Kubernetes workloads (e.g. Deployment, CronJob, StatefulSet) simultaneously, in real-time.
Ente is a fully open-source, end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos. It is built with TypeScript and has recently gained 4,210 stars.
Conductor is an event-driven orchestration platform that is open-source. It is written in Java and has gained 835 stars recently.
Fabric is an open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI. It provides a modular framework for solving specific problems using a crowdsourced set of AI prompts that can be used anywhere.

New Trending Research From Around The Globe

Generative artificial intelligence will transform the way we design and operate chemical processes, argues Artur M. Schweidtmann. — Paper
Algorithmic progress in language models — Paper
Artificial intelligence and illusions of understanding in scientific research — Paper
Multistep Consistency Models- Paper
ELLA: Equip Diffusion Models with LLM for Enhanced Semantic Alignment — Paper
TripoSR: Fast 3D Object Reconstruction from a Single Image- Paper
How Far Are We from Intelligent Visual Deductive Reasoning? — Paper
MathScale: Scaling Instruction Tuning for Mathematical Reasoning — Paper
Dialect prejudice predicts AI decisions about people’s character, employability, and criminality — Paper
DeepSeek-VL: Towards Real-World Vision-Language Understanding — Paper
RAT: Retrieval Augmented Thoughts Elicit Context-Aware Reasoning in Long-Horizon Generation — Paper
Is Cosine-Similarity of Embeddings Really About Similarity? — Paper
Model Card for C4AI Command-R — Paper
SaulLM-7B: A pioneering Large Language Model for Law — Paper
Teaching Large Language Models to Reason with Reinforcement Learning — Paper

Start-Up Funding News

Virginia-based Zephyr AI, a leader in cutting-edge algorithms for advancing human health, raised over $129M in Series A.

California-based Together AI, a cloud-based platform designed for constructing open-source generative AI and infrastructure for developing AI models, raised over $228M in Series funding.

California-based Bear Robotics, manufacturers of self-driving indoor robots to assist employees on daily tasks that can ease their workload, raised over $175M in Series C.

Chicago-based Ocient , a hyper-scale data analytics company that allows organizations to unlock value by analyzing petabyte to exabyte scale data sets, raised over $114M in Series B.

San Francisco-based Unstructured Technologies, an open-source data transformation platform to preprocess natural language data for machine learning services, raised $65M in Series B.

San Francisco-based NanoNets, user of artificial intelligence to automate back-office processes within the financial services sector, raised over $40M in Series B.

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