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AI News - July 17, 2023

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Tools you can use

  1. Stability AI launches Stable Doodle, a sketch-to-image tool that converts a simple drawing into a dynamic image. [Link]

  2. Anthropic has launched Claude 2, their ChatGPT rival to the US and UK. Claude 2 has a 100K long context size, as compared to ChatGPT-4’s 8K long context window. [Link] [Link]

  3. Google rolls out major updates to Bard. Bard now available in the EU. [Link] [Link]

  4. Runway, an AI based content generator, is valued at 1.5 billion USD after raising 140 million USD in series C funding round. Investors include Google and NVidia. [Link] [Link]

News

  1. Shopify announces Sidekick, an AI assistant for entrepreneurs. [Link]

  2. United Nations warns of privacy risks over AI powered neurotechnology. [Link]

  3. Israel using AI to plan its military missions and select targets. [Link]

  4. Lightning Labs unveils tools that allow Large Language Models to send and receive bitcoins. [Link]

  5. Elon Musk launches OpenAI rival xAI. [Link]

  6. Objaverser creates a massive data set of over 800 thousand annotated 3-D objects that can be used to train LLMs. [Link]. Zero123-XL released using this dataset to allow 3d images to be generated from 2d pictures. [Link]

  7. Pano AI, an AI startup that detects wildfires nearly doubles its Series A funding from 20 million to 37 million USD. [Link]

  8. KPMG investing two billion USD into Microsoft’s AI Stack. [Link]

  9. Amazon announces a new AWS Generative AI Innovation Center to allow AWS customers to successfully build and deploy new AI solutions for business. [Link]

  10. New York State passes new AI hiring law to force employers to reveal how they are using AI in their hiring decisions. [Link]

  11. China mandates that AI must follow the core values of ‘Socialism’ [Link]

Articles

Meta has open sourced their LLM, LLaMa. But how does this challenge the dominance of AI titans Google and OpenAI? And what does this mean for the future of AI development?