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TLDR AI 2024-04-01

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01HEADLINES & LAUNCHES

GROK 1.5

xAI announced its next model, with 128k context length and improved reasoning capabilities. It excels at retrieval and programming.

x.ai3 min read

IN ONE KEY A.I. METRIC, CHINA PULLS AHEAD OF THE U.S.: TALENT

China is now producing almost half of the world’s top AI researchers, surpassing the US, with 18% coming from US undergrad institutions. Despite pioneering AI breakthroughs, the US relies heavily on Chinese-born researchers, with Chinese talent making up 38% of top US-based AI professionals. The trend of Chinese researchers staying in China rather than moving to the US could impact global AI leadership dynamics.

nytimes.com5 min read

02RESEARCH & INNOVATION

BUILDING EVALS FOR BUSINESS PROBLEMS

Data, evals, and compute are essential for strong performing AI. This is especially true in enterprises. Evals may be one key moat that allows organizations to improve their AI products.

hamel.dev25 min read

CAPTIONING OUTDOOR SCENES

Researchers have introduced a new approach to understanding outdoor environments, overcoming obstacles like the varying conditions and lack of data that have previously limited advancements.

arxiv.org29 min read

MAKING LANE-CHANGES SAFER IN BUSY TRAFFIC

This paper introduces a control framework that combines AI and predictive models to facilitate smooth and safe lane changes in dense traffic, emphasizing cooperation with nearby drivers.

arxiv.org19 min read

03ENGINEERING & RESOURCES

Sponsored

LEARN HOW TO BUILD GENAI RAG APPS USING AIRBYTE, DATASTAX, AND XKCD COMICS

On April 2 [10], hang out with Airbyte's Bindi Pankhudi and DataStax's Carter Rabasa as they dive into building a GenAI RAG app that can query the xkcd webcomic canon. This fun and interactive livestream [10] will be chock full of code, covering the nitty gritty of: ▪️ Ingesting data at scale from multiple sources

datastax.comSponsor

VOICECRAFT CLONING AND TTS

Zero shot voice cloning and speech generation capabilities in a powerful 700m parameter model.

github.comGitHub repository

INTERRUPTING COW

In natural conversation, people sometimes interrupt or talk over one another. This can be key to quickly coming to a consensus. This AI assistant predicts tokens while the person is talking and if it predicts enough in a row it will interrupt.

github.comGitHub repository

04MISCELLANEOUS

QWEN MOE

Qwen MoE is equivalent in performance to a strong 7B model with 1⁄3 of the activated parameters.

qwenlm.github.io8 min read

HOW AUTONOMOUS RACING IS PUSHING SELF-DRIVING CARS FORWARD

Autonomous racing is advancing AI and machine learning in high-stress conditions, with competitions like the Indy Autonomous Challenge accelerating innovation in vehicle safety. Researchers and students use platforms like F1tenth for algorithm development, pushing the limits of autonomous vehicle capabilities on actual racetracks. These high-speed challenges contribute to a better understanding of machine perception, decision-making, and control systems for real-world traffic applications.

inverse.com4 min read

“THE KING IS DEAD” — CLAUDE 3 SURPASSES GPT-4 ON CHATBOT ARENA FOR THE FIRST TIME

Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus has surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4 for the first time on Chatbot Arena. Chatbot Arena is a leaderboard run by the Large Model Systems Organization, a research organization dedicated to open models. Its site allows visitors to rate outputs from various models, enabling it to calculate the best models in aggregate. While Claude's rise is notable, GPT-4 is now over a year old.

arstechnica.com4 min read