ODSC’s AI Weekly Recap: Week of October 25th
ODSC AI Weekly Recape Newsletter: 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 AI news & 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 AI News Blog Recap
AI Technology Aims to Assist Doctors in Spotting Fractures on X-Rays (Source)
NVIDIA Fixes Design Flaw in Blackwell AI Chips, CEO Jensen Huang Confirms (Source)
Over 10,500 Artists Sign Open Letter Condemning Unlicensed AI Use in Creative Industries (Source)
Anthropic Unveils Upgraded Claude 3.5 Models (Source)
AI Detectors Wrongly Accuse Students of Cheating, Sparking Controversy (Source)
Microsoft’s Collaboration with Be My Eyes Paves the Way for More Inclusive AI (Source)
AI Efficiency in Financial Markets: Potential for Gains and Volatility (Source)
AI News Highlights
The Terminator: How James Cameron’s ‘science-fiction slasher film’ predicted our fears about AI, 40 years ago
AI-generated images have become a new form of propaganda this election season
AI deepfakes a top concern for election officials with voting underway
TikTok owner sacks intern for sabotaging AI project
Microsoft to roll out new autonomous AI agents next month, fending off challenge from Salesforce
Rupert Murdoch’s news outlets sue Perplexity AI for allegedly engaging in ‘massive freeriding’
Zoom will now use an AI-powered medical notetaker for telehealth visits
Scammers are stealing homes from under their owners’ noses. AI is making it scarily easy.
Meet Hollywood’s AI Doomsayer: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Google Brazil President on the Path Forward for AI
Character AI clamps down following teen user suicide, but users are revolting
Trending New Open Source Projects
lightrag provides simple and fast retrieval augmented generation
f5-tts a fairytaler that fakes fluent and faithful speech with flow matching
o1-engineer is a command line tool designed to assist developers in managing and interacting with their projects efficiently leveraging the power of OpenAI’s API
qwen2-vl is a multimodal LLM series developed by the Qwen team, Alibaba Cloud.
Nexa SDK is a comprehensive toolkit that supports ONNX and GGML models. It supports text generation, image generation, vision-language models (VLM), auto-speech-recognition (ASR), and text-to-speech (TTS) capabilities.
New Trending Research From Around The Globe
SELA: Tree-Search Enhanced LLM Agents for Automated Machine Learning — Paper
Griffon-G: Bridging Vision-Language and Vision-Centric Tasks via Large Multimodal Models — Paper
Blendify — Python rendering framework for Blender — Paper
Altogether: Image Captioning via Re-aligning Alt-text — Paper
3D-Adapter: Geometry-Consistent Multi-View Diffusion for High-Quality 3D Generation — Paper
A Joint Representation Using Continuous and Discrete Features for Cardiovascular Diseases Risk Prediction on Chest CT Scans — Paper
Start-Up Funding News
San Francisco-based Nimble Robotics, an AI robotics and e-commerce fulfillment technology company, automating the processes of picking and packing products, raised $106M in Series C
Seattle-based Carbon Robotics, an AI-powered farming robotics company enhancing efficiency with precision agriculture tools, raised $70M in Series D
Colorado-based Outrider, developer of robotic software and systems to automate logistics hub operations, raised $62M in Series D
San Francisco-based Infinitus Systems, AI healthcare company focused on automating complex phone-based workflows, raised $51.5M in Series C
San Francisco-based Simbe Robotics, builder of automation solutions for shelf auditing and analytics, raised $50M in Series C
Top AI Video
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan Holds Fireside Chat About Artificial Intelligence
Blogs or News to Share?
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