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- Elon Musk debuts ‘Grok’ AI
- Takeaways from UK’s AI safety summit at Bletchley Park
- OpenAI DevDay: New models and products announced
- and World's largest Arabic LLM
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Marcel Hedman
Key Recent Developments
Five takeaways from UK’s AI safety summit at Bletchley Park
Dan Milmo
Natalie Donovan
What: The UK welcomed leaders from around the world to Bletchley Park, to discuss collaboration around AI regulation from 1st - 2nd November. Outcomes include the Bletchley declaration, signed by 28 countries including the US, EU and China. Additionally, videos have been released of PM Rishi Sunak interviewing Elon Musk for his take on AI safety.
Key Takeaway: Organiser, Matt Clifford remarked about the increased level of agreement from all sides on some of the fundamental risks compared to what would be expected from reading Twitter.
Elon Musk debuts ‘Grok’ AI bot to rival ChatGPT, others
What: Elon Musk's new AI company, competing head on with OpenAI, have released Grok, a new AI bot. OpenAI are moving very fast to plug glaring gaps including (no historical knowledge) so it will be interesting to see what xAI can uniquely add to users' experience.
Example of Grok vs typical GPT, where Grok has current information, but other doesn’t pic.twitter.com/hBRXmQ8KFi
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 5, 2023
OpenAI DevDay: New models and developer products announced
What:
"Today, we shared dozens of new additions and improvements, and reduced pricing across many parts of our platform. These include:
- New GPT-4 Turbo model that is more capable, cheaper and supports a 128K context window
- New Assistants API that makes it easier for developers to build their own assistive AI apps that have goals and can call models and tools
- New multimodal capabilities in the platform, including vision, image creation (DALL·E 3), and text-to-speech (TTS)"
Key Takeaway: A limitation of ChatGPT was only having knowledge until Jan 2022, numerous methods including RAG have been used to supplement this knowledge with additional information from the web. While these techniques remain useful, particularly when working with company private data, this new update brings GPTs knowledge base into 2023 and 3x cheaper. A major milestone!
AI Ethics & 4 good
🚀 Fetal biometry and amniotic fluid volume assessment end-to-end automation using Deep Learning
🚀 Giskard - Scan AI models to detect risks of biases, performance issues and errors. In 4 lines of code.
Other interesting reads
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🚀 AI-Powered LinkedIn Premium Experience to Elevate Your Career
🚀 IBM, which invested in Hugging Face, launches $500M enterprise AI venture fund
🚀 01.AI, led by AI pioneer Kai-Fu Lee, achieves $1B+ valuation in eight months
Papers
🚀AntiFold: Improved antibody structure design using inverse folding
Cool companies found this week
Model Training
Cerebras - Train and fine tune production AI models quickly. In the cloud or on prem.
Security
Hidden Layer - Security platform for AI protecting against adversarial attacks.
CodeGPT powered by LangChain
Introducing CodeGPT, running the @MistralAI 7B model locally in VSCode on an M2 MacBook Pro 🤯
— Daniel San (@dani_avila7) November 4, 2023
In my trials, Mistral 7B surpasses Llama 2 and CodeLlama in both speed and performance.
Feel like giving a try?
You can try it for free! Just download the CodeGPT extension from the… pic.twitter.com/TnfqZFpTDc
Best,
Marcel Hedman
Nural Research Founder
www.nural.cc
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