Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, September 9, 2024
5-minute weekly must-read on data science and artificial intelligence news, funding, and research, curated by Joyce Shen.
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Entrepreneurship
A collection of 23 issues
Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, September 2, 2024
📌 Musings and Readings
“Microsoft released Phi-3.5-MoE, new model in the Phi family of models.” (Link)
“OpenAI and Anthropic agree to let U.S. AI Safety Institute test and evaluate new models.” (CNBC)
“Atlassian acquires Rewatch as it gets into AI meeting bots.” (TechCrunch)
“Amazon to Hire Covariant Founders to
Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, May 27, 2024
📌 Musings and Readings
“OpenAI to start using news content from News Corp. as part of a multiyear deal” (Link)
“Mapping the Mind of a Large Language Model” (Link). Longer paper here.
“GPT-4o’s Chinese token-training data is polluted by spam and porn websites” (Link)
👏 Deals
Overland AI, a WA-based startup
Observations from Google I/O 2024
I had the opportunity to join Google I/O earlier this week.
To me, the macro theme was applications. How do we apply generative AI to our work and our day-to-day lives? In my view, for the first time, without any reservation, Google showed us the future of those who
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, 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.
Floreo VR - new potential for Autism therapy
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