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📌 Musings and Readings “OpenAI Scale Ranks Progress Toward ‘Human-Level’ Problem Solving” (Bloomberg) “Mixture of A Million Experts” paper (DeepMind) 👏 Deals Polystyvert, a Montréal-based clean tech company focusing on recycling and purifying plastic waste to produce premium materials, has raised $16m in financing. Command Zero, a TX-based startup building an AI-powered

📌 Musings and Readings “The Only App That Always Wins the Battle for Your Attention” (WSJ) “AI Work Assistants Need a Lot of Handholding” (WSJ) “Data curation via joint example selection further accelerates multimodal learning” (Deepmind) “Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size” (Google) “CriticGPT, a model based

📌 Musings and Readings Youtube updated its user privacy complaint process to include generated content by AI. (Link) “SoftBank CEO says AI that is 10,000 times smarter than humans will come out in 10 years” (CNBC) “AI took their jobs. Now they get paid to make it sound human” (BBC)

📌 Musings and Readings “The AI bill that has Big Tech panicked” (Vox) “AI ‘might take over’ one day if it isn't developed responsibly, Geoffrey Hinton warns (CBS) “Technique improves the reasoning capabilities of large language models” (MIT) 👏 Deals Jump, a Salt Lake City-based startup automating administrative tasks for

📌 Musings and Readings Perplexica is looking to challenge Perplexity as the open-source alternative (link) Meta Announces Plans to Use Facebook and Instagram Posts to Train AI (link) Microsoft says AI feature that captures screenshots on new PCs will be off by default after backlash (link) Alice in Wonderland: Simple Tasks

📌 Musings and Readings Google DeepMind released Med-Gemini, a family of multimodal models fine-tuned and specialized for medicine. (technical paper) Amazon Q, a generative AI assistant for business and developers, has launched. (AWS) Reinforcement Learning Problem Solving with Large Language Models (technical paper) An AI-controlled fighter jet took the Air Force