US Startup Charging Couples to 'Screen Embryos for IQ'
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Heliospect Genomics is a US startup that offers embryo screening services. The company allows couples to rank up to 100 embryos based on IQ, section, height, risk of obesity, risk of mental illness, and other traits. Its services cost up to $50,000. The company's offers represent an ethical minefiel
Microsoft and OpenAI's Unique Relationship
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Microsoft and OpenAI have a complex relationship where they both need each other but also need to protect themselves. Both companies have hired investment bankers to determine Microsoft's ownership stake in OpenAI once it transitions to a for-profit entity. OpenAI has the ability to terminate the de
State of AI 2024 Report Predictions
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The 2024 State of AI report includes predictions from the previous year, with hits including GenAI integration in Hollywood productions and AI-generated songs topping the charts in Germany. Misses from the report include the absence of major tech IPOs and a global AI governance deal. Air Street Capi
Various updates in the AI industry include VCs investing $3.9B in genAI startups in Q3 of 2024, X updating its privacy policy to allow AI training on user data after November 15, Perplexity seeking a $500M funding round at an $8B valuation, and the U.S. Congress planning to pass an AI bill post-elec
NotebookLM Custom Instructions
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NotebookLM, the Research Assistant from Google Labs has gotten a lot of traffic in recent weeks, and we were all wondering when Audio Overviews might get more choices and customization. Google on Thursday updated the audio summarization feature of its AI note-taking and research assistant with a cus
OpenAI and Microsoft Legal Battle
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The race for AGI is getting complicated in the Altman regions. The two companies each hired investment banks to help answer how Microsoft’s roughly $13.75 billion worth of investments in OpenAI since 2019 will translate after the startup converts from a nonprofit to a for-profit corporation. How muc
Perplexity on Pace to Raise Another $500 Million
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Perplexity has become one of the big winners of the Generative AI movement. They are looking to raise roughly $500 million, with a surprising $9 Billion valuation. SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund 2 invested in Perplexity earlier this year at a $3 billion valuation. It’s not clear when OpenAI’s Se
Mira Murati OpenAI’s Former CTO Will Start a New AI Startup
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Mira Murati, OpenAI’s former CTO, will start a new AI Startup. Mira Murati was at OpenAI for 6.5 years. Murati was reportedly among those, along with ex-OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, who approached the rest of the board prior to Altman’s ouster to express concerns about his behavior. Not mu
Adobe's AI Video Model in Premiere Pro
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Adobe’s AI video model is here, and it’s already inside Premiere Pro
Adobe Teases AI Tools for 3D Scenes, Text Animation, and More
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Adobe teases AI tools that build 3D scenes, animate text, and make distractions disappear
Adobe's Project Super Sonic for Sound Effects
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Adobe’s Project Super Sonic uses AI to generate sound effects for your videos
YouTube Expands AI Audio Generation Tool
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YouTube expands AI audio generation tool to all U.S. creators
Gemini Users Can Generate Images with Imagen 3
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All Gemini users can now generate images with Imagen 3
Meta AI Launching in More Countries
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Meta AI will launch in six more countries today, including the UK
OpenAI Unveils Secret Meta Prompt
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OpenAI Unveils Secret Meta Prompt—And It’s Very Different From Anthropic's Approach
proposes a training method to equip LLMs with thinking abilities for general instruction-following without human-annotated data; uses an iterative search and optimization procedure to explore thought generation which enables the model to learn without direct supervision; thought candidates for each
proposes a new point tracking model and a new semi-supervised training recipe; enables usage of real videos without annotations during training by generating pseudo-labels using off-the-shelf teachers; the approach is simpler in architecture and training scheme leading to better results while using
propose a new collaborative search algorithm to adapt LLM via swarm intelligence; a pool of LLM experts collaboratively move in the weight space and optimize a utility function representing various adaptation objectives; experiments demonstrate that Model Swarms could flexibly adapt LLM experts to a
First-Person Fairness in Chatbots
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studies first-person fairness which involves fairness towards users interacting with ChatGPT; specifically, it measures the biases, if any, towards the users’ names; it leverages a model powered by GPT-4o to analyze patterns and name-sensitivity in the chatbot’s responses for different user names; c
reports that LLMs can acquire knowledge through introspection that cannot be inferred from their training data; suggests that LLMs contain privileged information about themselves that can potentially lead to more interpretable and controllable systems; they report that this introspection ability is
proposes a unified autoregressive framework for multimodal understanding and generation; it decouples visual encoding into independent pathways and leverages a single transformer architecture to improve flexibility and performance on both visual understanding and generation; claims to alleviate trad
Inference Scaling for Long-Context RAG
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uses two strategies to investigate scaling laws for RAG: in-context learning (DRAG) and iterative prompting (IterRAG); finds that RAG performance consistently improves with the expansion of the effective context length under optimal configurations; when optimally allocated, increasing inference comp
a new open agentic framework that enables autonomous interaction with computers through a GUI; Agent S tackles challenges such as acquiring knowledge, planning over long-task horizons, and handling dynamic interfaces; it introduces experience-augmented hierarchical planning which leverages both sear
Model Kinship for Merging LLMs
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proposes model kinship to measure the degree of similarity between LLMs; model kinship is used to build a model merging strategy (Top-k Greedy Merging with Model Kinship) which yields better performance; the authors find that this new criterion can be used to effectively and continuously perform mod
On the Planning Abilities of OpenAI’s o1 Models
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reports that o1-preview is particularly strong in self-evaluation and constraint-following; also mentions that these o1 models demonstrate bottlenecks in decision-making and memory management, which are more pronounced in spatial reasoning; in particular, the models produce redundant action and stru