ODSC’s AI Weekly Recap: Week of March 22nd

4 min readMar 25, 2024

Open Data Science Blog Recap

In a new study by MIT researchers have taken a major step at providing AI with a human-like peripheral vision. (Source)

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has announced its intentions to establish a monumental $40 billion AI fund. (Source)

Nvidia has introduced its latest AI chip, the B200 “Blackwell.”, it boasts an impressive capability of performing tasks up to 30 times faster than its predecessors. (Source)

The U.S. Justice Department’s top prosecutor in San Francisco, Ismail Ramsey, has announced a crackdown on fraudulent activities by tech startups, especially those in the artificial intelligence sector. (Source)

AI News Highlights

Opinion: Why doctors shouldn’t use artificial intelligence to send messages to patients

Digital humans: the relatable face of artificial intelligence?

Opinion: Artificial intelligence will radically improve health care, but only if managed carefully

Artificial intelligence algorithms for understanding the determinants of oral health

YouTube requiring users to label content that includes artificial intelligence

Digital stethoscope uses artificial intelligence to help doctors detect heart valve problems

DOJ launches whistleblower pilot program and cracks down on artificial intelligence misuse

Amid Rumors of a Deal With Rivian, Apple Acquired This Artificial Intelligence (AI) Start-Up Instead

The era of the AI home broker approaches

SEC Charges Two Investment Advisers with Making False and Misleading Statements About Their Use of Artificial Intelligence

Former Google employee: How a ‘code red’ meeting and ChatGPT led execs to take ‘shortcuts’ in Gemini AI launch

Psychology Today: Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness

FDA Publishes New Artificial Intelligence & Medical Products White Paper

The UAE Is on a Mission to Become an AI Power

USF to launch AI college, the first in Florida

10% of US workers are in jobs most exposed to artificial intelligence, White House says

New Trending Research From Around The Globe

The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Identifying Depression and Anxiety: A Comprehensive Literature Review- Paper
Talk like a Graph: Encoding Graphs for Large Language Models — Paper
Quiet-STaR: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Think Before Speaking — Paper
LightM-UNet: Mamba Assists in Lightweight UNet for Medical Image Segmentation- Paper
Cappy: Outperforming and Boosting Large Multi-Task LMs with a Small Scorer — Paper
WorkArena: How Capable Are Web Agents at Solving Common Knowledge Work Tasks? — Paper
UniTS: Building a Unified Time Series Model — Paper
Scattered Mixture-of-Experts Implementation — Paper
GenAudit: Fixing Factual Errors in Language Model Outputs with Evidence — Paper
Extreme Compression of Large Language Models via Additive Quantization — Paper
Uni-SMART: Universal Science Multimodal Analysis and Research Transformer — Paper
Chronos: Learning the Language of Time Series — Paper

Start-Up Funding News

California-based Foundry, a public cloud supported by an orchestration platform designed to simplify the utilization of AI computing resources, raised over $80M in Series A.

California-based Hippocratic AI, which aims to develop the first Large Language Model (LLM) specifically designed for healthcare, prioritizing safety and accuracy, raised $118M in Series A.

California-based Profluent Bio, an AI-first protein design company, raised $44M in Series Funding.

China-based Baiying Technology , a Big data and artificial intelligence technology service providers, raised CN¥320M in Series Funding.

Israel-based NeuReality, a semiconductor start-up that designs AI-as-a-service infrastructure, raised over $59M in Series Funding.

Texas-based Agora Data, an AI-driven platform for subprime auto finance, connecting dealerships with capital markets to improve operations, raised over $460M in Private Funding.

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