The Daily Index — Tuesday, January 28, 2025 · TLDR Index

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DEEPSEEK SURPASSES CHATGPT AS APP STORE'S TOP APP

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techcrunch.com · 3 min

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LINKEDIN CO-FOUNDER RAISES $25 MILLION TO TAKE ON CANCER WITH AI

Reid Hoffman launched Manas AI, a startup using AI to accelerate cancer drug discovery. The company raised $25 million in seed funding and partnered with Microsoft. Manas AI focuses on breast cancer, prostate cancer, and lymphoma and aims to expand to other diseases.

qz.com · 2 min

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QWEN 2.5 VL

The next set of vision language models from Qwen. Qwen2.5-VL is a versatile visual AI model that excels in multiple areas: recognizing objects and analyzing visual elements like texts and charts, acting as an interactive visual agent for tool control, processing lengthy videos with event detection capabilities, performing precise object localization through various formats, and generating structured data outputs for business applications like finance and commerce.

qwenlm.github.io · 12 min

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CHAIN OF RAG

Reasoning models can now be trained to iteratively do retrieval. This is similar in spirit to the work shown in the Operator system. Interestingly, it leads to a substantial improvement, although it's not clear what the true FLOP controlled gain looks like.

arxiv.org · 30 min

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BRAINGUARD: PRIVACY-PRESERVING BRAIN DECODING FRAMEWORK

BrainGuard introduces a collaborative training framework for reconstructing perceived images from multisubject fMRI data while safeguarding privacy.

arxiv.org · 14 min

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IF EVEN 0.001 PERCENT OF AN AI'S TRAINING DATA IS MISINFORMATION, THE WHOLE THING BECOMES COMPROMISED, SCIENTISTS FIND

NYU researchers discovered that poisoning just 0.001% of an LLM's training data with misinformation can lead to widespread errors, posing serious risks in medical applications. The study, published in Nature Medicine, found that even corrupted LLMs perform similarly to non-corrupted ones on standard benchmarks, making such vulnerabilities hard to detect.

futurism.com · 3 min

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US TIGHTENS ITS GRIP ON AI CHIP FLOWS ACROSS THE GLOBE

The U.S. introduced new AI export controls, capping chip exports to most countries while exempting 18 allied nations, to maintain AI leadership and restrict China's access. Major cloud providers like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon can seek global authorizations under these rules. Industry players like Nvidia have criticized the regulations as overreaching.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 5 min

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AI MISTAKES ARE VERY DIFFERENT THAN HUMAN MISTAKES

AI systems like LLMs make fundamentally different mistakes from humans, often erring randomly and with unwarranted confidence. To address this, we need new security systems and methods to manage AI errors beyond existing human-error correction techniques. Focus areas include aligning AI behavior to human-like error patterns and developing unique mistake mitigation strategies tailored for AI.

spectrum.ieee.org · 7 min

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GOOGLE FOLDS MORE AI TEAMS INTO DEEPMIND TO 'ACCELERATE THE RESEARCH TO DEVELOPER PIPELINE'

Google is consolidating its AI teams, including those working on AI Studio and Gemini APIs, under Google DeepMind to speed up AI development.

techcrunch.com · 2 min

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OPENAI APPOINTS BLACKROCK EXEC TO ITS BOARD

OpenAI has appointed Adebayo Ogunlesi, a senior managing director at BlackRock, to its board of directors.

techcrunch.com · 2 min

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OPENAI'S AI REASONING MODEL 'THINKS' IN CHINESE SOMETIMES AND NO ONE REALLY KNOWS WHY

OpenAI's o1 model sometimes processes reasoning tasks in languages like Chinese even when queries are in English.

techcrunch.com · 4 min