AI News - September 18, 2023

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We're excited to bring you this week's roundup of the most fascinating AI news, updates, and breakthroughs! Grab a cup of your favorite beverage, sit back, and explore the incredible world of AI with us.

🔥 Top AI Stories of the Week

1. Google’s Deepmind discovers that LLMs can optimize their own prompts in a technique called Optimization by Prompting. [Link]

2. Meta is building out its cloud servers with new NVidia H100 GPUs to train a new chatbot to rival ChatGPT. [Link]

3. Microsoft, Google, and MIT collaborate to convert all of Project Gutenberg’s books into Audiobooks using AI text-to-speech tools. [Link]

4. Massive increase in job listings for Generative AI skills. [Link]

5. Apple Computer is incorporating AI into all of its products. The Apple Watch now includes a new four-core ‘neural engine’ which increases Siri’s accuracy by 25%. [Link]

6. New multimodal LLM ‘Next-GPT’ released by researchers at the University of Singapore. [Link]

7. Stability AI launches Stability Audio, a text-to-sound LLM. [Link]

8. Adobe announces new AI updates with Adobe Creative Cloud for applications like Photoshop and Illustrator. [Link]

9. Microsoft Research announces RAIN, an LLM that will align itself with your goals without fine-tuning. [Link]

10. NASDAQ receives SEC approval to create a new AI-based order type, Dynamic Mid-Point Extended Life Order. [Link]

11. ChatGPT successfully diagnoses a boy in pain that had seen 17 doctors in three years with no results. [Link]

12. Coca-Cola uses AI to create a new flavor, Coca-Cola Y3000 Zero Sugar. [Link]

13. OpenAI opens an office in Dublin, Ireland. [Link]

14. InfoSys, India’s second-largest IT services company, signs a 2 billion USD contract with an unnamed strategic partner to deliver AI-based services. [Link]

15. Coqui announces XTTS, an open text-to-speech foundation model. [Link]