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Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, April 8, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings Canada to invest $1.8m in AI (WSJ) Nvidia launched FoundationPose - “6D Pose Estimation and Tracking of Novel Objects” (Github) “Long-form factuality in large language models” (Google Deepmind) 👏 Deals Profluent, a Berkeley-based protein design company using AI, raised $35m in financing. Packback, a company focused on

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, April 1, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings Happy first day of April! Readings will resume next week! 👏 Deals Buzz Solutions, a Palo Alto-based company focused on critical energy infrastructure protection, raised $5m in financing. Ascent Platform Corporation, a NYC-based provider of point-of-sale solutions for banks and credit unions, raised $5m in financing. Euno Data,

Nvidia GTC 2024 - Major Themes

In the first 30 minutes of Jensen Huang's keynote at GTC 2024, Jensen outlined the current fundamental concepts and innovations of high performance compute for AI. Must watch for any technologist and anyone who is interested to understand what is happening in AI. In addition to the launch

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, March 25, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings “Evolving New Foundation Models: Unleashing the Power of Automating Model Development” (Sakana AI) Meta’s SceneScript, a model for 3D scene reconstruction (Meta) 01 Light - a precursor to a digital personal assistant. What do you think? (check it out, documentation) “Tennessee becomes first US state with

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, March 18, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings Incorporating Ethics in AI (UC Berkeley) Apple’s multimodal model (link to technical paper) Cognition released Devin, an AI-based software engineer (link) Foundational model for robot development (link) 👏 Deals Vescent, a CO-based startup leasing quantum 2.0 technologies to enable commercialization, has raised $5m in seed financing.

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, March 11, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings Highly anticipated Nvidia GTC Conference is on March 18-21. (Link) The European Union launched the European AI Office that will be responsible for implementing the AI Act. (Link) “Meta is building a giant AI model to power its ‘entire video ecosystem,’ exec says” (CNBC) Claude 3 launched.

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, March 4, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings “Apple Is Playing an Expensive Game of AI Catch-Up” (WSJ) “New AI image generator is 8 times faster than OpenAI's best tool — and can run on cheap computers” (Link) “Here Come the AI Worms” (Wired) “DataDreamer: A Tool for Synthetic Data Generation and Reproducible LLM

What has not changed? The case on Nvidia

It was impossible to open the news before Nvidia's recent earnings and not read some speculations regarding Nvidia earnings. The media portrayed Nvidia earnings as THE indicator for where AI is going. Articles regarding Nvidia earnings read like suspense movies. From the market open on February 20 to

Key considerations when making direct private investments in venture capital

I get this question a lot from friends who are considering making direct investments in startups. I also see this debate playing out in the public square. Having had the opportunity to invest in the private markets in the last 15+ years, my view is that direct investments by individuals

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, February 19, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings "CDAO Launches First DOD AI Bias Bounty Focused on Unknown Risks in LLMs" (U.S. Department of Defense) "Video generation models as world simulators" (OpenAI) "Diagnostic reasoning prompts reveal the potential for large language model interpretability in medicine" (Nature) 👏 Deals Rogo,