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  • Inflection AI unveils Inflection-2, surpassing Google and Meta in AI performance
  • Meta: System 2 Attention, S2A (is something you might need too) - reduce hallucination of LLMs
  • and Text -to- Video:
    • Adobe Acquire text-to-video platform Rephrase
    • Stability release Stable video diffusion
    • Meta release EMU video: text-to-video generation
  • and more...

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Marcel Hedman

Key Recent Developments

Inflection AI unveils Inflection-2, surpassing Google and Meta in AI performance

Inflection AI unveils Inflection-2, surpassing Google and Meta in AI performance
Inflection AI’s Inflection-2 outperforms Google’s PaLM Large 2 and Meta’s LLaMA 2, challenging OpenAI’s GPT-4.
ReadWriteMaxwell William

What: "Inflection AI, the innovative startup behind the conversational chatbot Pi, has recently unveiled a new AI model, Inflection-2, claiming superior performance over popular models developed by Google and Meta."

The company claim it to be the best model in the world for its compute class.

Key Takeaway: Inflection are the company behind the conversational chatbot, Pi. Already known for its impressive conversational creativity, the release of this new model promises "improved factual knowledge, better stylistic control, and dramatically improved reasoning."

Stability AI debuts Stable Video Diffusion models in research preview

Stability AI debuts Stable Video Diffusion models in research preview
Stability AI plans to use the research preview Stable Video Diffusion to refine both models, rule out present gaps and introduce new features for commercial applications.
VentureBeatShubham Sharma

What: Stability AI, have released their first foundation model for generative video in research preview. With great progress made on generating images from text, it was natural for attention to heavily pivot towards video generation. This news comes in the backdrop of Meta releasing their own video generation model and Adobe acquiring text-to-video platform Rephrase (below).

Meta teases new AI-powered editing tools coming to Facebook and Instagram

Meta teases new AI-powered editing tools for Facebook and Instagram
There’s no word on when these features are expected to roll out.
The Verge
Emu Video
Factorizing Text-to-Video Generation by Explicit Image Conditioning
Meta

AI Ethics

🚀 What is Q* and Q-Learning? OpenAI Could Have Imploded Over AI Fears

🚀 'ChatGPT detector’ catches AI-generated papers with unprecedented accuracy [Nature]

🚀 Adversarial Attacks on LLMs

Other interesting reads

🚀 Adobe reportedly acquires text-to-video AI platform Rephrase

🚀Emu Video: Text-to-Video Generation by Explicit Image Conditioning [Meta]

🚀Igniting Language Intelligence: The Hitchhiker’s Guide From Chain-of-Thought Reasoning to Language Agents

🚀 Introducing Q-Learning

🚀A curated list of Data Science internships

Papers

🚀 White-Box (mathematically interpretable) Transformers via Sparse Rate Reduction

🚀 Meta: System 2 Attention, S2A (is something you might need too) - S2A leverages the ability of LLMs to reason in natural language and follow instructions in order to decide what to attend to.

🚀 [Unreviewed & unfinished paper but interesting concept] Rethinking Attention: Exploring Shallow Feed-Forward Neural Networks as an Alternative to Attention Layers in Transformers

🚀 [Microsoft] Orca 2: Teaching Small Language Models How to Reason

Cool companies found this week

Text to video

Rephrase - Rephrase Studio is a text-to-video generation platform that eliminates the complexity of video production, enabling you to create professional-looking videos with a digital avatar in minutes.

Synthetic Biology

Ginkgo - Synthetic biology augmented by ML

Best,

Marcel Hedman
Nural Research Founder
www.nural.cc

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