Falcon 180B, Retool AI for visual development of custom AI apps, Open Interpreter, AI Film Festival AI-powered backpack and more
Greetings and welcome to this week's AI Brews for a concise roundup of the week's major developments in AI.
In today’s issue (Issue #30):
AI Pulse: Weekly News & Insights at a Glance
AI Toolbox: Product Picks of the Week
AI Skillset: Learn & Build
🗞️🗞️ AI Pulse: Weekly News & Insights at a Glance
🔥 News
Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi has released Falcon 180B - a large language model with 180 billion parameters, trained on 3.5 trillion tokens. It's currently the largest openly available model, and rivals proprietary models like PaLM-2. Falcon 180B is 2.5 times larger than Llama 2 and was trained with 4x more compute. It is available for both research and commercial use [Details].
Meta AI released Belebele, a first-of-its-kind multilingual reading comprehension dataset spanning 122 language variants, enabling direct comparison of how well models understand different languages [Details].
Meta AI has published Code Llama’s research paper with more information on training, evaluation results and safety [Paper].
Open Interpreter, an open-source, locally running implementation of OpenAI's Code Interpreter hit 6K+ stars in just 24 hours after launching v0.1. Crossed 10K stars now [Details].
Retool, the low-code platform for building internal tools has launched Retool AI, for faster building of custom AI apps, workflows and chatbots visually or with code [Details].
Artificial Intelligence Film Festival (AIFF) announced by Expo City Dubai with submissions open until December 1 [Details].
OpenAI’s first developer conference will be in San Francisco on November 6, with registration for in-person attendance opening soon [Details].
Researchers have developed an AI model to predict the odor profile of a molecule, just based on its structure [Details].
AI Grant announced the startups accepted into the second batch of AI Grant [Details].
IBM announced new family of generative AI foundation models, named Granite. Granite.13b.instruct and Granite.13b.chat use a Decoder architecture and are more efficient than larger models, fitting onto a single V100-32GB GPU [Details]
Microsoft has filed a patent for an AI-powered backpack design with smart sensors. Wearers will benefit from AI enhanced object identification and analysis, nearby device interaction, and be able to gain contextual insights [Details].
Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) has launched its new supercomputer named MSU-270 with a peak computational power of 400 'AI' PetaFLOPS, that will be used for various AI and high-performance computing (HPC) applications and for training large AI models [Details].
Anthropic, has launched a paid version of its Claude chatbot in the US and UK, priced at $20/ £18 per month [Details].
X’s privacy policy confirms it will use public data to train AI models [Details].
Hugging Face has launched Training Cluster As a service, letting users train their large model on the Hugging Face GPUs cluster [Link].
Zoom's Generative AI Assistant, Zoom IQ gets rebranded as Zoom AI Companion with new capabilities [Details].
🔦 Weekly Spotlight
Inside Elon Musk's Struggle for the Future of AI by Walter Isaacson [Link].
How generative AI helped train Amazon One to recognize your palm [Link].
Why Meta’s Yann LeCun isn’t buying the AI doomer narrative [Link].
TinyLlama project: an open endeavor to pretrain a 1.1B Llama model on 3 trillion tokens [link].
🔍 🛠️ AI Toolbox: Product Picks of the Week
Boolvideo: Turns your creatives into cinematic quality short videos with AI.
Audionotes Pro: an AI-based note taking tool and assistant that converts your unstructured voice notes voice notes and unstructured text notes into structured text summaries, helps you create content and chat with your notes.
Deepen: AI Therapy app that lets you delve deep into your emotions, track and monitor your mood and gain insights.
Snipo: a browser extension for AI-powered video note-taking - turns video lessons into Notion notes and flashcards.
📕 📚 AI Skillset: Learn & Build
ChatGPT, Midjourney, Firefly, Bard, DALL-E, AI Crash Course (Free) on Udemy [Link].
Behind the prompt: Prompting tips, by a prompt engineer at Anthropic, for Claude.ai [YouTube Link].
Understanding and Applying Text Embeddings with Vertex AI - new free course on DeepLearning.ai [Link].
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