AI News - April 20, 2024

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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. Meta releases its latest open weights LLM, LLama-3. [Link]

  2. Microsoft introduces VASA-1, an application to generate real time faces and voice from an image and an audio clip. [Link]

  3. OpenAI opens their first office in the Pan-Asian region in Japan. [Link]

  4. The U.S military has successfully conducted their first jet fighter dogfight between AI and human pilots. [Link]

  5. Boston Dynamics unveils it’s new, electrified, version of its humanoid robot Atlas. [Link]

  6. Intel builds Hala Point, the world’s largest neuromorphic computer system at Sandia National Laboratories. [Link]

  7. Google consolidates its Deepmind and internal AI research teams under the Deepmind umbrella. [Link]

  8. CEO of pharmaceutical company Moderna claims that AI will allow researchers to understand most diseases within three to five years. [Link]

  9. Meta introduces Megalodon, a new large language model to supplant the Transformer Neural Network. [Link]

  10. Even computer mice manufacturers are now getting into the AI space. Logitech releases its new AI enabled mouse. [Link]

  11. GPT-4 can now diagnose and suggest treatments for eye disorders as well as human doctors. [Link]

  12. Samsung Corp. develops superfast DRAM chips for onboard AI devices. [Link]

  13. Brave, the privacy focused web browser startup releases AI answer engine. [Link]

  14. Greg Isenberg, CEO of Late Checkout predicts AI girlfriends will become a one billion USD business. [Link]

  15. NVidia and partner Foxcomm expect results this year for AI factories. [Link]