AI News - July 21, 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
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Salesforce jumps into the AI Agent space with Einstein, a new service for customer self service. [Link]
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Google reveals Oscar, a new agent-based AI platform to help maintain open source projects. [Link] [Link]
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Chinese company TenCent releases a new AI model, Instantmesh, to render three dimensional models from a static photograph. [Link]
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OpenAI launches GPT-4o mini, a small and more affordable version of GPT-4o that outperforms GPT-3.5 Turbo. [Link]
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Dr. Fei Fei Li, the so called ‘Godmother of AI” founds a new startup called World Labs which is already worth a billion USD. [Link]
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Donald Trump and his allies draft a sweeping AI executive order for military use. [Link]
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Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan says his company will add thousands of AI jobs. [Link]
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Forty percent of Japanese companies have no plans in place to adopt AI. [Link]
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New York based Wiz, an AI cybersecurity company may be acquired by Google for 23 billion USD. [Link]
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Anthropic releases Android app for Claude in bid to take market share. [Link]
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Andrej Karpathy, former head of AI at Tesla Motors, forms Eureka Labs, a startup to power education with generative AI. [Link]
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Menlo Ventures and Anthropic partner to create a one hundred million USD venture capital fund for startups. [Link]
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AI is fueling uncertainty for computer game developers. [Link]
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Microsoft is being investigated by regulators in the United Kingdom over its acquisition of UK developer Inflection. [Link]
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Researchers at MIT have developed an AI model that allows for the prediction of thermal properties of materials. [Link]
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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) shows off its new Ryzen AI chips built on its new Zen 5 chip architecture. [Link]