AI Edition - It's AI Time - 214 [15-11-2024]

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 214

Francois Chollet leaves Google:

The creator of Keras and the Arc eval (among many other things) has left Google. He will continue to support the Jax and Keras community while pursuing other endeavors.

ChatGPT Desktop:

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT desktop integrations to rival Copilot.

OpenAI to present plans for U.S. AI strategy and an alliance to compete with China:

OpenAI's AI infrastructure blueprint proposes AI economic zones and partnerships with the U.S. Navy on nuclear power to boost AI-driven economic growth and innovation. The plan includes a North American AI alliance and initiatives similar to the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act to support infrastructure needs. It emphasizes investment in U.S. data centers and energy projects to maintain a competitive edge over China.

Introducing Athene-V2: Advancing Beyond the Limits of Scaling with Targeted Post-training:

Athene V2 is a series of models trained on top of Qwen 2.5 72B. They are specifically tuned for agentic and chat workflows and surpass GPT-4o in a number of critical benchmarks.

Learn to Ride the (AI) Waves or Risk Crashing Into Them:

Ironically, AI is often deployed very unintelligently. FOMO can lead organizations to “throw in” new apps, creating stubborn layers of technical debt.

X Portrait 2:

Bytedance's AI group continues to release some amazing technology. X Portrait 2 is a continuation of its video acting model with improved realism and consistency for actor-to-video.

Create 360° Views from Limited Images:

The MVSplat360 model offers a new way to create realistic 360° views of real-world scenes, even from just a few sparse images.

Brain Tumor Detection:

This paper showcases the top solution for brain tumor segmentation in the BraTS challenge, highlighting how synthetic data can enhance AI models for medical imaging tasks.