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Top AI News Headlines for Friday January 19th
Mark Zuckerberg indicates Meta is spending billions of dollars on Nvidia AI chips
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Today’s Headlines:
Mark Zuckerberg indicates Meta is spending billions of dollars on Nvidia AI chips - Zuckerberg emphasizes AI as the company's primary investment area, reflecting Meta's commitment to developing AGI and open-sourcing its advancements.
The Rabbit R1 will receive live info from Perplexity’s AI ‘answer engine’ - The first 100,000 Rabbit R1 purchases will come with a year of Perplexity Pro.
BMW will deploy Figure’s humanoid robot at South Carolina plant - BMW has not disclosed how many Figure 01 models it will deploy initially. Nor do we know precisely what jobs the robot will be tasked with when it starts work. Figure did, however, confirm that it is beginning with an initial five tasks, which will be rolled out one at a time.
AlphaFold found thousands of possible psychedelics. Will its predictions help drug discovery? - Researchers have doubted how useful the AI protein-structure tool will be in discovering medicines — now they are learning how to deploy it effectively.
Meta is working on Llama 3 and Artificial General Intelligence - Meta is training Llama 3, the next large language model in the Llama series, which is expected to have better capabilities in code generation, reasoning, and planning. The new model aims to raise the bar and join the top tier of LLMs like ChatGPT 4.
Anthropic hits back at music publishers in AI copyright lawsuit, accusing them of ‘volitional conduct’ - In its response, Anthropic argues its “use of Plaintiffs’ lyrics to train Claude is a transformative use” that adds “a further purpose or different character” to the original works, and that the song lyrics are only a ‘miniscule fraction’ of training data.
Forta scores $55M to scale parent-led autism therapy platform - Forta combines AI and LLMs with a 50-hour training course for parents to provide their child with personalized applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy for autism.
RunwayML's Multi Motion Brush animates up to five objects in one image using AI - RunwayML has added Multi Motion Brush to its AI video generator, a feature that allows users to control multiple areas of their video creation with independent movements.
New AI-powered checkout can guess your age and reduce theft - Diebold Nixdorf’s new tech uses computer vision to detect theft, accidental scans, age, and products without barcodes.
Vatican expert calls AI ‘absolutely positive’ as a product of human intelligence - Friar Paolo Benanti, the Vatican’s expert on AI, called the technology “absolutely positive” as the result of human intelligence but warned of ethical implications without proper governance.
Google Responds To Claims Of Google News Boosting Garbage AI Content - Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liaison, said that the way they filtered Google News was by date and not relevancy (relevancy filtering is the default) and that Google can always do better.
Amazon to invest 2 trillion ($13.5 billion) yen in Japan's cloud business amid AI boom - Amazon wants to strengthen its cloud infrastructure by 2027, in an effort to cope with growing demand on the back of the generative artificial intelligence boom. The funds will be used to expand the capabilities of its two data centers in the country, located in Tokyo and Osaka, the Japan unit of Amazon Web Services Inc. said.
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