ODSC’s AI Weekly Recap: Week of September 27th
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
DOD Urged to Accelerate AI Adoption Amid Rising Global Threats (Source)
Anthropic Eyes $40 Billion Valuation in New Funding Round (Source)
Meta to Launch AI Celebrity Voices from Judi Dench, John Cena, and Other Celebrities (Source)
Celebrities Fall Victim to ‘Goodbye Meta AI’ Hoax as Fake Privacy Message Goes Viral (Source)
FTC Launches Operation AI Comply to Tackle Deceptive AI Practices (Source)
AI News Highlights
James Cameron Joins Stability AI Board of Directors
Cangrade Introduces AI Copilot Jule — Talent Decisions with Generative AI
US nuclear plants won’t power up Big Tech’s AI ambitions right away
Tech Firm Says It Will Fund Moviemakers If They Use Its AI Tools
Meta unveils cheaper VR headset, AI updates and shows off prototype for holographic AR glasses
Microsoft to spend $1.3B in Mexico on cloud, AI tech
Visa bolsters financial crime prevention portfolio with Featurespace deal
Blackstone confirms $13B investment in Britain for AI data center
Unleash Innovation at the NVIDIA AI Hackathon at ODSC West 2024
Trending New Open Source Projects
zml — A high-performance AI inference stack built for production
fragaria — A powerful and flexible Chain of Thought (CoT) reasoning API that leverages various Language Model (LLM) providers
de_project — A step-by-step instructions to create a production-ready data pipeline
ademamix-optimizer — A Keras implementation of AdEMAXMix Optimizer Topics
ollama-toolkit — The Tollama Toolkit is a collection of powerful tools designed to enhance your experience with the Ollama project, an open-source framework for deploying and scaling machine learning models
New Trending Research From Around The Globe
EnIGMA: Enhanced Interactive Generative Model Agent for CTF Challenges — Paper
Making Text Embedders Few-Shot Learners — Paper
Towards Underwater Camouflaged Object Tracking: An Experimental Evaluation of SAM and SAM 2 — Paper
Whisper in Medusa’s Ear: Multi-head Efficient Decoding for Transformer-based ASR — Paper
LTNtorch: PyTorch Implementation of Logic Tensor Networks — Paper
INT-FlashAttention: Enabling Flash Attention for INT8 Quantization — Paper
Programming Every Example: Lifting Pre-training Data Quality like Experts at Scale — Paper
Explicitly Modeling Pre-Cortical Vision with a Neuro-Inspired Front-End Improves CNN Robustness — Paper
VPTQ: Extreme Low-bit Vector Post-Training Quantization for Large Language Models — Paper
Zero-shot forecasting of chaotic systems — Paper
Start-Up Funding News
San Francisco-based Supabase, an open-source Firebase alternative that provides a full PostgreSQL database, raised $80M in Series C Funding
San Francisco-based UJET, a provider of AI-powered cloud contact center solutions that focus on enhancing customer experiences specifically for smartphone users, raised $76M in Series D Funding
California-based Harmonic, developer of a mathematical reasoning engine designed to tackle complex mathematical problems using AI technology, raised $75M in Series A Funding
Denver-based Torq, an AI-first security hyper-automation company that provides a no-code automation platform designed to enhance security operations, raised $70M in Series C Funding
San Francisco-based Distyl AI, developer of a generative artificial intelligence platform to increase AI readiness and develop comprehensive AI-based solutions, raised $20M in Series A Funding
ODSC West’s Keynote Speakers!
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