ODSC’s AI Weekly Recap: Week of October 4th
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
OpenAI Restructuring Sparks Executive Exodus Amid Non-Profit Board Tensions (Source)
South Korea Pledges 65 Trillion Won Investment in AI — Targets Global Top Three Spot by 2027 (Source)
OpenAI Launches Tools to Accelerate Development of AI Voice Assistants (Source)
Celebrities Fall Victim to ‘Goodbye Meta AI’ Hoax as Fake Privacy Message Goes Viral (Source)
Gavin Newsom Vetoes AI Safety Bill Amid Silicon Valley Pressure (Source)
Microsoft Enhances AI Copilot with Voice and Advanced Reasoning Features (Source)
OpenAI Secures $6.6 Billion in Funding from Microsoft, Nvidia Amid Restructuring Plans (Source)
MIT Professor Daron Acemoglu Sounds the Alarm on AI Frenzy (Source)
AI News Highlights
AI start-ups make money faster than software groups of the past
Google to invest $1 billion in Thailand to build a data center and accelerate AI growth
AI and globalization are shaking up software developers’ world
Behind the Curtain: Your personal Ph.D. army
Google Paid $2.7 Billion To Rehire AI Genius To Co-Lead Gemini: Report
Cerebras, an A.I. Chipmaker Trying to Take On Nvidia, Files for an I.P.O.
Microsoft’s mammoth AI bet will lead to over $100 billion in data center leases
Some Top AI Labs Have ‘Very Weak’ Risk Management, Study Finds
Pallet uses AI to bring logistics into the 21st century
The PS5 Pro Proves AI Upscaling Is the Future
How AI is improving simulations with smarter sampling techniques
Google says its AI designs chips better than humans — experts disagree
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Trending New Open Source Projects
Auto_Jobs_Applier_AIHawk is a tool that automates the job application process. Utilizing artificial intelligence, it enables users to apply for multiple job offers in an automated and personalized way.
Sam2 provides code for running inference with the Meta Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2), links for downloading the trained model checkpoints, and example notebooks that show how to use the model.
Void is the open-source Cursor alternative
avante.nvim is a Neovim plugin designed to emulate the behavior of the Cursor AI IDE. It provides users with AI-driven code suggestions and the ability to apply these recommendations directly to their source files with minimal effort.
mindsearch is an LLM-based Multi-agent Framework of Web Search Engine (like Perplexity.ai Pro and SearchGPT)
New Trending Research From Around The Globe
FlashMask: Efficient and Rich Mask Extension of FlashAttention — Paper
ManiSkill3: GPU Parallelized Robotics Simulation and Rendering for Generalizable Embodied AI — Paper
Simple and Fast Distillation of Diffusion Models — Paper
The Conformer Encoder May Reverse the Time Dimension — Paper
OpenMathInstruct-2: Accelerating AI for Math with Massive Open-Source Instruction Data — Paper
shapiq: Shapley Interactions for Machine Learning — Paper
SonicSim: A customizable simulation platform for speech processing in moving sound source scenarios — Paper
Start-Up Funding News
San Francisco-based OpenAI, an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT, raised $6.6B in Venture Round
San Francisco-based Poolside, an artificial intelligence platform that offers foundation concepts and infrastructure, raised $500M in Series B Funding
London-based Dexory, captures real-time insights into warehouse operations using fully autonomous robots and Artificial Intelligence, raised $80M in Series B Funding
California-based Mendaera, a healthcare technology company that focuses on leveraging robotics, AI, and imaging to enhance patient care, raised $73M in Series B Funding
San Francisco-based Crescendo, a provider of a full-stack customer service platform combining the most advanced AI with a global service team, raised $50M in Venture Round
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Top AI Videos
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