AI Weekly Roundup
August 24, 2024
🚀 Top Stories
Microsoft's Controversial "Recall AI" Coming in October Microsoft plans to release its new Recall AI search feature to Windows Insider Program members with Copilot+ PCs. This feature captures screenshots, allowing users to search for previously viewed information. Due to privacy concerns, it will be disabled by default and come with enhanced security measures.
Salesforce Unveils AI Agents for Sales Salesforce introduced two autonomous AI-powered sales agents: Einstein SDR Agent and Einstein Sales Coach Agent. These tools aim to accelerate growth through automation and personalization, offering 24/7 support and freeing human sales teams to focus on high-value tasks.
OpenAI Allows GPT-4 Fine-tuning OpenAI now permits fine-tuning of GPT-4 and is offering it free for up to 1 million tokens daily throughout September. This opens up new possibilities for customizing the powerful language model for specific use cases.
Microsoft Releases Phi-3.5 Model Family Microsoft introduced Phi-3.5, a new family of language models including Mini-instruct (3.8B parameters), Vision-instruct (4.2B parameters), and MoE (42B parameters). The Phi-3.5-MoE variant outperforms Llama 3.1 8B and competes with GPT-4o mini across various benchmarks.
💡 AI Innovations
Nvidia and Mistral's Laptop-Ready AI: The Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B model can run efficiently on laptops and PCs, offering high accuracy with a smaller footprint.
AI Breakthrough in Solar Tech: Researchers developed NES-VMC, an AI-based method for accurately calculating excited states of atoms and molecules, potentially leading to improvements in solar cells, LEDs, and lasers.
Boston Dynamics' Atlas Robot: A new video showcases the Atlas robot performing push-ups, demonstrating advancements in dynamic movement control.
🛠️ New Tools & Updates
Midjourney launched a web interface and restored free trial images.
Google increased the max PDF page upload size to 1,000 pages or 2GB in Google AI Studio and the Gemini API.
AI21 Labs unveiled Jamba 1.5, a multilingual AI model with a 256,000 context length.
Anthropic added LaTeX rendering support to Claude, improving mathematical equation display.
💼 Industry Moves
Google appointed a former Character.AI founder as co-lead of its AI models.
Google DeepMind employees urged the company to end military contracts.
That's all for this week! Stay curious and keep exploring the fascinating world of AI.