Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, January 13, 2025
5-minute weekly must-read on data science and artificial intelligence news, funding, and research, curated by Joyce Shen.
Topic
Venture Capital
A collection of 30 issues
Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, May 13, 2024
📌 Musings and Readings
Contributors' concerns over OpenAI and Stack Overflow partnership (link)
TikTok automates labeling of AI Generated Content (TikTok)
“AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of all of life’s molecules” (Google)
AlphaFold Server - prediction tool for researchers to understand interaction of proteins and other molecules.
Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, April 22, 2024
📌 Musings and Readings
Llama 3 (Meta’s technical blog). It’s worth reading if you are technical.
I like how aggressive Meta has become in launching new open source models and embedding (no pun intended) Llama 3 model to power its apps. I started testing Meta AI in Instagram this
Groupthink
The market is volatile, and people are "taking risks off the table." If you watch major financial news channels, you hear this a lot in the past few days. Today, I heard commentator say that a major correction is good, and they were expecting it. I have several
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.
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
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