Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6B to take on OpenAI

Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6B to take on OpenAI

Join us in returning to NYC on June 5th to collaborate with executive leaders in exploring comprehensive methods for auditing AI models regarding bias, performance, and ethical compliance across diverse organizations. Find out how you can attend here. Today, Elon Musk’s xAI startup announced a massive $6 billion round of funding. Confirming reports from April, the series B investment comes from the participation of multiple known venture capital firms and investors, including Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (A16z), Sequoia Capital, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and Kingdom Holding, amongst others. Musk said the funding…
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Production-Quality RAG Applications with Databricks

Production-Quality RAG Applications with Databricks

In December, we announced a new suite of tools to get Generative AI applications to production using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). Since then, we have seen an explosion of RAG applications being built by thousands of customers on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.Today, we are excited to make several announcements to make it easy for enterprises to build high-quality RAG applications with native capabilities available directly in the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform - including the General Availability of Vector Search and major updates to Model Serving.The Challenge of High Quality AI Applications As we collaborated closely with our customers to build…
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Sam Altman Ignoring Scarlett Johansson’s Lack of Consent Shows Us Exactly What Type of Person He Really Is

Sam Altman Ignoring Scarlett Johansson’s Lack of Consent Shows Us Exactly What Type of Person He Really Is

It sounds like Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, did something interesting last year: he asked for consent.That's according to the actress Scarlett Johansson, who says Altman reached out to float the idea that OpenAI could use her voice for a new version of its ChatGPT chatbot."He told me that he felt that by my voicing the system, I could bridge the gap between tech companies and creatives and help consumers to feel comfortable with the seismic shift concerning humans and AI," Johannson wrote of the interaction this week. "He said he felt my voice would be comforting to people."Johansson…
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WTF Is With the Pink Pineapples at the Grocery Store?!

WTF Is With the Pink Pineapples at the Grocery Store?!

On a recent trip to Giant Eagle, my local grocery store in Pittsburgh, I noticed something new in the fruit section: a single pineapple packaged in a pink and forest-green box. A picture on the front showed the pineapple cut open, revealing rose-colored flesh. Touted as the “jewel of the jungle,” the fruit was the Pinkglow pineapple, a creation of American food giant Fresh Del Monte. It cost $9.99, a little more than double the price of a regular yellow pineapple.I put the box in my cart, snapped a picture with my phone, and shared the find with my foodie…
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Best Data Annotation Tools for Machine Learning

Best Data Annotation Tools for Machine Learning

Source: AuthorIntroductionJust like having a massive pile of books won't make you a genius unless you read and understand them, a mountain of data won't make a powerful AI if it's not properly labeled.Source: https://x.com/Propellorai/status/1215594158087462912Data annotation involves labeling data points, such as images or text, with relevant information, enabling the algorithms to learn and make sense of the patterns within the data. In simple terms, data annotation helps the algorithms distinguish between what's important and what's not with the help of labels and annotations, allowing them to make informed decisions and predictions. While annotation can be performed manually by humans,…
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Slingshot Aerospace harnessing AI to track suspicious satellites

Slingshot Aerospace harnessing AI to track suspicious satellites

WASHINGTON — When Russia launched the Luch Olymp K-2 geostationary spy satellite in March, analysts expected it would carry out signals intelligence-gathering missions much like its predecessor Luch Olymp-K-1 that has been in orbit since 2014.  Slingshot Aerospace, a space data analytics firm focused on spaceflight safety, this week unveiled data that shows that Russia’s new spy satellite, also known as Luch-2, is conducting operations akin to those of its predecessor Luch-1, raising fresh concerns about espionage in space.  The company’s space tracking software identified multiple maneuvers by Luch-2 that are highly reminiscent of the behavior exhibited by Luch-1, which…
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I’m a boomer who’s about to retire at 59. I’m nervous about retirement because I’ll have less income and too much free time.

I’m a boomer who’s about to retire at 59. I’m nervous about retirement because I’ll have less income and too much free time.

For the last 20 years, I've had the same two alarms set ever weekday — one at 5:15 a.m. and one at 9:17 a.m.As a Texas high school teacher, the 5:15 alarm is really just a formality. After 20 years of early rising, I'm up before the sun with no prompting required. The 9:17 a.m. alarm is also deeply ingrained; it's the official attendance time when I'm required to pause my instruction and take attendance. It's Texas' official "time of record" by which schools are funded on daily attendance.It's the schedule I've followed for two decades. But after this week,…
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Data Mixing Made Efficient: A Bivariate Scaling Law for Language Model Pretraining

Data Mixing Made Efficient: A Bivariate Scaling Law for Language Model Pretraining

arXiv:2405.14908v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models exhibit exceptional generalization capabilities, primarily attributed to the utilization of diversely sourced data. However, conventional practices in integrating this diverse data heavily rely on heuristic schemes, lacking theoretical guidance. This research tackles these limitations by investigating strategies based on low-cost proxies for data mixtures, with the aim of streamlining data curation to enhance training efficiency. Specifically, we propose a unified scaling law, termed BiMix, which accurately models the bivariate scaling behaviors of both data quantity and mixing proportions. We conduct systematic experiments and provide empirical evidence for the predictive power and fundamental…
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Innovation in Europe: exploring the winners of the EIT Awards

Innovation in Europe: exploring the winners of the EIT Awards

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) celebrates the entrepreneurial and societal achievements of its innovators. By highlighting ground-breaking innovations and the teams behind them, the EIT Awards inspire a new generation of entrepreneurs across Europe.  The EIT Awards also showcase how the EIT Community, Europe's largest innovation ecosystem, supports the development of entrepreneurial skills, products and services which address Europe's biggest challenges. The winners of the 2024 EIT Awards were announced at the EIT Summit in Brussels, highlighting the achievements of the most innovative projects within the EIT community in three categories that represent the driving dynamics of…
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Microsoft’s AI chatbot will ‘recall’ everything you do on its new PCs

Microsoft wants laptop users to get so comfortable with its artificial intelligence chatbot that it will remember everything you’re doing on your computer and help figure out what you want to do next.The software giant on Monday revealed an upgraded version of Copilot, its AI assistant, as it confronts heightened competition from big tech rivals in pitching generative AI technology that can compose documents, make images and serve as a lifelike personal assistant at work or home.The announcements ahead of Microsoft’s annual Build developer conference in Seattle centered on imbuing AI features into a product where Microsoft already has the…
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