AI Newsletter 108 - AMD to acquire AI software startup in effort to catch Nvidia

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  • AMD to acquire AI software startup in effort to catch Nvidia
  • Rora 2023 Salary Negotiation Report for AI Researchers 2023
  • and State of AI Report 2023

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Marcel Hedman

Key Recent Developments

AMD to acquire AI software startup in effort to catch Nvidia

AMD to acquire AI software startup in effort to catch Nvidia
AMD said on Tuesday it plans to buy an artificial intelligence startup called Nod.ai as part of an effort to bolster its software capabilities.
ReutersMax A. Cherney

Using AI to decode speech from brain activity

Using AI to decode speech from brain activity
Decoding speech from brain activity has mostly benefited from invasive approaches. New research from FAIR shows AI could instead make use of noninvasive brain scans.

AI Ethics & 4 good

🚀 Study employs deep learning to explain extreme events

🚀 Scaling up learning across many different robot types - DeepMind new dataset

DeepMind

🚀Chorus of creative workers demands AI regulation at FTC roundtable

🚀 An AI method to predict cellular responses to genetic perturbation

Other interesting reads

🚀 CS/ Human computer interaction PhD Opportunity Tracker

🚀 Rora 2023 Salary Negotiation Report for AI Researchers

🚀 State of AI Report 2023

🚀 A comprehensive survey of the taxonomy and evolution of multimodal foundation models

Papers

🚀Report on gaps and opportunities for the clinical translation of precision diabetes medicine

🚀Flow Matching for Generative Modeling

🚀Neuromorphic sequence learning with an event camera on routes through vegetation

Cool companies found this week

Compute

Nod.ai - Nod.ai leverage machine learning based methods (Reinforcement Learning in particular) for codegen and auto-scheduling of compute and communication over a heterogeneous set of resources (such as CPUs, GPUs, Accelerators etc).

ML pipelines

Kumo.ai - Automate major steps in the ML lifecycle from raw data ingestion to sustained production deployment

Meta

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Marcel Hedman
Nural Research Founder
www.nural.cc

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