ODSC’s AI Weekly Recap: Week of May 10th

Every week, the ODSC team researches the latest advancements in AI. We review a selection of the most impactful research, trending open-source projects, and significant startup investments. We carefully curate and share a selection of the most impactful developments, bringing you the insights that matter most to the AI and data science community.

Open Data Science Blog Recap

• Report States OpenAI Will Release Search Engine to Compete Against Google (Source)
• HHS Outlines New Framework for Responsible AI Use in Public Benefits Administration (Source)
• OpenAI Looks to Balance Risks and Model Capabilities (Source)
• Self Driving Startup Wayve Gets $1B Investment (Source)
• TikTok Implements new AI Content Labeling System (Source)
• Apple is Developing AI Chips in Data Centers According to Report (Source)
• New AI Image Detector Tool Being Developed by OpenAI (Source)

AI News Highlights

• Meet MAI-1: Microsoft Readies New AI Model to Compete with Google, OpenAI
• Tech Giants Intensify AI Investments to Strengthen Connected Economy
• When grief and AI collide: These people are communicating with the dead
• Microsoft and OpenAI launch Societal Resilience Fund
• Red Hat Delivers Accessible, Open Source Generative AI Innovation with Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI
• Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner to Strengthen the World’s Most Popular Large Language Models
• A New Diplomatic Strategy Emerges as Artificial Intelligence Grows
• Microsoft to build AI hub on previously-owned Foxconn land in Wisconsin
• AI could already be in some shows and movies, but studios might not be talking about it
• Google’s Sundar Pichai Lays Out His AI Roadmap

New Trending Open Source Projects

• Scrapegraph-ai- Python Scraper Based on AI
• Close-Circuit Telegram Vision — location tracking with its open-source design and Telegram API integration.
• Skyvern AI — Automate browser-based workflows with LLMs and Computer Vision
• LeRobot — State-of-the-art Machine Learning for Real-World Robotics in Pytorch
• Rustdesk — An open-source remote desktop, and alternative to TeamViewer.
• Efficient Kan — An efficient pure-PyTorch implementation of Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN).
• Kan GPT -The PyTorch implementation of Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs) using Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) for language modeling

New Trending Research From Around The Globe

• Self-Play Preference Optimization for Language Model Alignment — Paper
• Stylus: Automatic Adapter Selection for Diffusion Models — Paper
• DeepSeek-V2: A Strong, Economical, and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Model — Paper
• Is Flash Attention Stable? — Paper
• Why is SAM Robust to Label Noise? — Paper
• MaRDIFlow: A CSE workflow framework for abstracting meta-data from FAIR computational experiments — Paper
• ZleepAnlystNet: a novel deep learning model for automatic sleep stage scoring based on single-channel raw EEG data using separating training — Paper
• OpenESS: Event-based Semantic Scene Understanding with Open Vocabularies — Paper
• DataSP: A Differential All-to-All Shortest Path Algorithm for Learning Costs and Predicting Paths with Context -Paper
• BenthicNet: A global compilation of seafloor images for deep learning applications — Paper
• Health Index Estimation Through Integration of General Knowledge with Unsupervised Learning — Paper
• Pedestrian Attribute Recognition as Label-balanced Multi-label Learning — Paper
• Learning to Compose: Improving Object-Centric Learning by Injecting Compositionality — Paper
• Multi-Modal Data-Efficient 3D Scene Understanding for Autonomous Driving — Paper
• Federated Adaptation for Foundation Model-based Recommendations — Paper

Start-Up Funding News

• Singapore-based Atlan, an active metadata platform crafted for data teams that integrates metadata from diverse sources, raised over $200M in Series C.
• Paris-based Holistic AI, AI provider artificial intelligence models within the technology sector and helps in data analysis, raised over $80M in Series Funding.
• San Francisco-based Rad AI, a developer of software that uses AI to automate radiology report writing, aiming to enhance accuracy and reduce radiologist burnout, raised over $83M in Series B.
• California-based Datology AI, an AI-data curation startup that develops deep learning tools for automatic selection in data training., raised over $57M in Series A.
• New Jersey-based RunPod, a cloud platform designed for GPUs, enabling developers to deploy customized full-stack AI applications, raised over $20M in Seed Funding.

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