Offering a dive into the five-year archive of 'The State of AI Report' to revisit the most notable headlines and predictions that have appeared in the report, 'The State of The State of AI Report' is a must read for anyone wanting to familiarize themselves with the recent history of AI.
Accenture's latest Technology Vision report focuses on "human by design" technology. Contrasting the limits of non-human technology and the advent of generative AI as an inclusive, potentially revolutionary technology, the report identifies the trends shaping the future of technology.
South Korea-based startup, Rebellions AI closed its successful Series B with $124M; Figure AI is in talks with Microsoft and OpenAI; Eagle-7B is the strongest multi-language open-source LLM to date; The EU AI Act has practically become a law; and other relevant headlines for this week
AI2 is committed to releasing genuinely open-source models. This means that the model, the pre-training data, training code, model weights, training metrics, and all other data related to the models' development will be released under an Apache 2.0 license.
Semron's chips use capacitors with a memory component. The capacitor's heat-reducing capabilities enable the building of multiple layers of capacitors on a chip, yielding a reduced footprint. The memory component diminishes the noise in calculations, accounting for the chips' energetic efficiency.
AlphaCodium is a code generation flow that improves the performance of LLMs without requiring fine-tuning. The flow can be used with closed and open-source models and was released with reproducible code and an evaluation script, enabling reproducible comparisons.
Competera, a startup specializing in developing AI-powered price optimization services for retailers worldwide, recently closed a $3M seed funding round. Competera plans to use the funds to further its AI capabilities, expand its services, and keep up with demand, especially in the US market.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued 6(b) Orders to Alphabet, Amazon, Anthropic, Microsoft and OpenAI; Oracle finally revealed its Cloud Infrastructure Generative AI service; An MIT study concluded that AI is too expensive to replace human workers at the moment; MLflow 2.10.0, and more.
SKY ENGINE AI has just raised $7 million in a Series A funding round led by Cogito Capital Partners. The company is an industry leader in synthetic data generation for computer vision, serving customers such as Scania and Samsung.
AlphaGeometry is an AI system that combines a neural language model and a symbolic deduction engine to solve geometry problems at the level of the average Olympiad gold medalist. It was trained using a novel method for synthetic proof derivation that does not require human-made demonstrations.
The European Parliament recently voted on and approved a resolution to address the concerns surrounding the remuneration inequalities exacerbated by music streaming services. Proposed solutions include the implementation of quotas for European works and the introduction of transparent algorithms.
The World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting took place last week. Among the several topics discussed at the meetings several sessions, two discussions set the pace for much of the week: the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the global economy and the ongoing war in Ukraine.