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WAVEFORMS $40M SEED ROUND

WaveForms is an audio LLM company working to solve the Turing test for audio AI. It raised $40M in seed funding at a $200M valuation. The company was founded by Alexis Conneau, who led the development of ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode.

SORA IS HERE

OpenAI's video generation model has launched and is available to Pro subscribers.

COHERE RELEASES STATE-OF-THE-ART RERANK AI SEARCH MODEL

Cohere released Rerank 3.5, its latest SOTA AI search model, with improved reasoning and multilingual capabilities to help enterprises precisely search complex data. With just a few lines of code, Rerank 3.5 can enable businesses to significantly enhance the relevance of information surfaced within search and RAG systems.

LG'S NEW ON DEVICE LANGUAGE MODELS

LG has trained a suite of small models that perform well on standard benchmarks. Importantly they compare against the Qwen series of models.

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING: AN OVERVIEW

Kevin Murphy has written a modern introduction and overview to Reinforcement Learning in the modern era.

RECONSTRUCT LARGE 3D SCENES

Momentum-GS is a method that enhances 3D Gaussian Splatting for large-scale scene reconstruction.

Abstraction

→ Check out pgai on GitHub [13]: a framework for developing RAG, semantic search, and other AI applications directly in PostgreSQL

OPEN ALIGNMENT

Open Alignment for Transformers (OAT) is a toolkit for aligning language models.

TURNING A SINGLE IMAGE INTO A 360° 3D SCENE

The PanoDreamer method transforms a single image into a complete 360° 3D scene by combining panorama and depth estimation.

STEREO MATCHING WITH MONOCULAR DEPTH INSIGHTS

Stereo Anywhere is a new framework that fuses stereo-matching techniques with priors from monocular depth models, addressing challenges like textureless regions and occlusions.

SALESFORCE AGENTFORCE: LLMS MAY HAVE A KILLER ENTERPRISE APP: ‘DIGITAL LABOR'

Salesforce's new platform, Agentforce, has rapidly gained traction with over 200 deals closed in one quarter, signaling strong enterprise interest in AI agents for sales and customer service. CEO Marc Benioff envisions AI agents leading to a vast, unlimited digital workforce, with plans to deploy a billion AI agents next year. The company foresees increased revenue, largely driven by its AI offerings, and is expanding its sales team to meet the growing demand.

DEEPMIND'S GENCAST AI IS REALLY GOOD AT FORECASTING THE WEATHER

DeepMind's GenCast AI outperforms existing weather forecasting systems, like ECMWF's, with significant improvements in accuracy and efficiency. The diffusion model, trained on 40 years of data, uses probabilistic predictions and requires less computing power than traditional methods. It has some limitations in predicting hurricane intensity. GenCast is open-source and will integrate with Google Earth.

AI HELPS RESEARCHERS DIG THROUGH OLD MAPS TO FIND LOST OIL AND GAS WELLS

Researchers at Berkeley Lab use AI to identify undocumented oil and gas wells by analyzing historical USGS maps. Their AI tool has identified over 1,300 potential undocumented wells across California and Oklahoma. This AI-driven mapping is part of a broader initiative to mitigate methane emissions and hazards from orphaned wells.

MAGEBENCH LEADERBOARD

MageBench has introduced a new benchmark to evaluate multimodal agents' reasoning and planning abilities in scenarios where visual signals are continuously updated.

PLAYSTATION BOSS: AI WILL NEVER REPLACE 'HUMAN TOUCH'

PlayStation's CEO, Hermen Hulst, says that while AI can revolutionize gaming by automating mundane tasks, it will not replace the human touch in game creation.

AI PIN MAKER HUMANE DEMOS AI SOFTWARE FOR CARS, PHONES, AND SMART SPEAKERS

Humane revealed CosmOS, an AI operating system that enhances tech devices with agent-like capabilities.