AI Edition - It's AI Time - 205 [06-11-2024]

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 205

OpenAI's o1 model leaked on Friday and it is wild

OpenAI's o1 model shows significant improvements in reasoning and accuracy over GPT-4, with capabilities in image analysis and web tools. The full version is expected to bring substantial advancements in AI and multimedia processing. An official release is anticipated soon after the U.S. Presidential election.

AI for Startups 

Microsoft and a16z advocate for collaboration between Big Tech and Little Tech to foster AI innovation and competition. They support open-source AI and have proposed policy ideas to support startups and equalize opportunities in the AI economy. Their joint focus is on creating a robust, competitive ecosystem that leverages AI to drive economic growth and innovation.

Meta's former hardware lead for Orion is joining OpenAI 

Caitlin Kalinowski is joining OpenAI to lead its robotics and consumer hardware efforts. OpenAI is reviving its robotics team to integrate AI into physical devices and collaborate on new AI hardware projects. Kalinowski's role will focus on partnerships to advance OpenAI's multimodal AI in hardware.

AI's Social Skills to Help Humans 

Constrained Human-AI Cooperation (CHAIC) is a challenge designed to assess how well AI agents can cooperate with humans facing physical limitations.

More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI

Over a quarter of new code at Google is now generated by AI, showing the technology's critical role in the company's operations.

Meta is using more than 100,000 Nvidia H100 AI GPUs to train Llama-4

Unlike closed models from other companies, Llama-4's open-source approach allows for widespread collaboration, with some commercial restrictions.

Wonder Dynamics now lets you go straight from multi-camera video to fully animated 3D scene 

Wonder Dynamics launched a tool that automates converting videos into fully editable 3D scenes.

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