Amazon x Claude AI
Plus Google's Latest AI Invention...
Jelani Abdus-Salaam
September 03, 2024
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OpenAI and Anthropic will share their models with the US government
OpenAI and Anthropic will share their AI models with the U.S. government before public release to enhance safety and help identify potential risks. The companies signed agreements with the U.S. AI Safety Institute to provide access to major new models prior to and after their release.
This collaboration aims to assess safety concerns and mitigate issues associated with AI technology
The U.S. AI Safety Institute will provide feedback on potential safety improvements
These agreements come as AI companies face increasing regulatory scrutiny, with California recently passing a broad AI regulation bill
Ask Claude: Amazon turns to Anthropic's AI for Alexa revamp
Amazon is revamping Alexa with Anthropic's powerful Claude AI to create a more capable voice assistant called "Remarkable Alexa," set to launch in October for a monthly fee. The company turned to Claude after its own in-house AI models struggled to match the performance of modern chatbots like ChatGPT.
Amazon plans to charge $5 to $10 per month for Remarkable Alexa, while still offering the basic "Classic" Alexa for free.
Initial versions of the new Alexa using Amazon's own AI were slow to respond, taking up to 7 seconds to acknowledge prompts.
Remarkable Alexa aims to provide shopping advice, carry out complex requests, and act as a supercharged home automation hub.
Google develops GameNGen: World first AI model that predicts next frame of a live shooter game, playable at 20 fps
GameNGen is the first game engine powered entirely by a neural model, enabling real-time interaction with complex environments at high quality. It can interactively simulate the classic game DOOM at over 20 frames per second on a single TPU, with next frame prediction achieving a PSNR of 29.4, comparable to lossy JPEG compression. Human raters have difficulty distinguishing short clips of the actual game from the simulation
GameNGen is trained in two phases: an RL-agent learns to play the game with recorded training sessions, then a diffusion model is trained to produce the next frame based on past frames and actions
Conditioning augmentations enable stable auto-regressive generation over long trajectories
It achieves real-time performance of over 20 FPS on a single TPU while maintaining high visual quality
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Google develops GameNGen: World first AI model that predicts next frame of a live shooter game, playable at 20 fps (link)
Meta releases new research, Transfusion to Predict the Next Token and Diffuse Images (link)
Andrew Ng posted a viral tweet, explaining, rapid price drop of GPT-4 (79% YoY) due to Open model availability (link)
AIs are now paying other AIs with crypto (link)
Major websites block Apple's AI because they would rather not give away their content for free (link)
Tesla Plans Robotaxi Reveal at California Warner Bros. Studio (link)
LTM-2-mini sets new record for AI context processing, handling 10 million lines of code (link)
OpenAI gives developers more control over AI assistants (link)
New York Times writer exposes how AI models can be fooled by invisible text on websites (link)
Amazon hires the founders of AI robotics startup Covariant (link)
AI could help identify high-risk heart patients (link)
Introducing AI’s long-lost twin: Engineered intelligence (link)
1X Unveils NEO: A Humanoid Robot for the Home (link)
OpenAI reportedly booked TSMC's A16 process for manufacturing AI chips (link)
Lindy 2.0 introduces an AI automation platform for building customizable AI agents without coding (link)
Google DeepMind’s podcast, hosted by Professor Hannah Fry, offers exclusive insights from leading AI researchers (link)
Ask Claude: Amazon turns to Anthropic's AI for Alexa revamp (link)
Customizable AI tool developed at Stanford Medicine helps pathologists identify diseased cells (link)
Accenture report finds that 95% of workers see value in working with generative AI (link)
‘Emotion AI’ may be the next trend for business software, and that could be problematic (link)
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