The Daily Index — Thursday, February 6, 2025 · TLDR Index

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SOFTBANK-BACKED BILLIONAIRE TO INVEST $230M IN INDIAN AI STARTUP KRUTRIM

Bhavish Aggarwal is investing $230 million in his AI startup Krutrim to develop LLMs for Indian languages, aiming to raise $1.15 billion in total. Krutrim has open-sourced its AI models and plans to build India's largest supercomputer with Nvidia. The startup has released Krutrim-2, a 12-billion-parameter model, showing strong performance in Indian language tasks and code generation.

techcrunch.com · 3 min

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DEEPSEEK GETS AN 'F' IN SAFETY FROM RESEARCHERS

Cisco tested DeepSeek's open-source model, DeepSeek R1, which failed to fend off all 50 harmful behavior prompts from the HarmBench dataset. DeepSeek's failure rate is the highest among tested LLMs, with other models like Meta's Llama 3.1 and OpenAI's o1 performing noticeably better. The model's susceptibility to attacks, alongside data security concerns, has raised significant scrutiny and criticism.

gizmodo.com · 3 min

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VISION SEARCH ASSISTANT

Vision Search Assistant is a framework that combines Vision Language Models (VLMs) with web agents to improve object recognition, even for unfamiliar images.

cnzzx.github.io · 4 min

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MONST3R: A SIMPLE APPROACH FOR ESTIMATING GEOMETRY IN THE PRESENCE OF MOTION

A great project that can take video as input and estimate geometry and camera motions without any knowledge of camera intrinsics.

monst3r-project.github.io · 4 min

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TOWARDS SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY WITH DICTIONARY LEARNING: EXTRACTING BIOLOGICAL CONCEPTS FROM MICROSCOPY FOUNDATION MODELS

Dictionary learning reveals model interpretability and can discover unknown concepts from scientific data, like cell images. It successfully extracts concepts like cell type and genetic perturbation. A new algorithm, ICFL, combined with PCA whitening, enhances feature selectivity over existing methods.

arxiv.org · 20 min

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GETTING STARTED WITH REAL ROBOTS

Great post from Hugging Face about using its LeRobot framework to control a robotic arm for research and development.

github.com · 21 min

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HOW INDIGENOUS ENGINEERS ARE USING AI TO PRESERVE THEIR CULTURE

Indigenous researchers are using AI and machine learning to build speech recognition models for over 200 endangered Indigenous languages in North America. Initiatives like First Languages AI Reality train Native scientists to ethically handle culturally sensitive data and preserve language. Programs such as Tech Natives and IndigiGenius aim to boost Indigenous representation in tech to preserve cultural heritage through AI.

nbcnews.com · 7 min

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SAM ALTMAN SAYS OPENAI IS GOING TO DELIVER A BEATDOWN ON DEEPSEEK

OpenAI's Sam Altman responded to Chinese startup DeepSeek's R1 model outperforming competitors at lower costs, which created significant turbulence in the tech industry, by pledging to continue heavy investment in compute resources, emphasizing ambition towards AGI. The situation raises questions about the viability of OpenAI's costly approach given DeepSeek's efficient alternatives.

futurism.com · 4 min

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CHINESE AND IRANIAN HACKERS ARE USING U.S. AI PRODUCTS TO BOLSTER CYBERATTACKS

Hackers from China, Iran, and other nations are using AI, specifically Google's Gemini, to enhance cyberattacks, treating it as a tool for boosting productivity rather than creating groundbreaking techniques. Google reports found that groups linked to these countries are leveraging Gemini for research and phishing, with China and Iran being the most active users. Although AI hasn't yet transformed the scale of cyberattacks, both the U.S. and China are heavily investing in AI technologies for future dominance.

msn.com · 5 min

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GEMINI CAN NOW DO MORE COMPLEX DATA ANALYSIS IN GOOGLE SHEETS

Google Sheets' new AI-powered Gemini update provides enhanced data insights, generates charts, and analyzes contextual trends using Python.

engadget.com · 2 min

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DEEPSEEK MIGHT HAVE A TRADEMARK PROBLEM IN THE US

DeepSeek faces a U.S. trademark conflict as Delson Group claimed the "DeepSeek" trademark just before them.

techcrunch.com · 4 min

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CHATGPT'S MOBILE USERS ARE 85% MALE

AI app spending reached $1.42 billion in 2024, with ChatGPT dominating despite competition, leading to a 274% increase year-over-year.

techcrunch.com · 3 min