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State of AI 2024
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Nathan Benaich's State of AI Report in its 7th year provides a comprehensive overview of AI research and industry trends, including highlights like BitNet and the synthetic data debate. Cerebras is preparing for an IPO, reflecting growth in AI compute. A hackathon hosted by Daily and the Pipecat community focuses on conversational voice AI and multimodal experiences with $20,000 in prizes. Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry were awarded for AI research: Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield for neural networks and statistical mechanics, and Demis Hassabis, John Jumper, and David Baker for AlphaFold and protein structure prediction. Meta released Llama 3.2 with multimodal capabilities, accompanied by educational resources and performance updates. "This recognizes the impact of deep neural networks on society" and "tremendous impact of AlphaFold and ML-powered protein structure prediction" were noted by experts.
not much happened today
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Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield won the Nobel Prize in Physics for foundational work on neural networks linking AI and physics. Meta AI introduced a 13B parameter audio generation model as part of Meta Movie Gen for video-synced audio. Anthropic launched the Message Batches API enabling asynchronous processing of up to 10,000 queries at half the cost. Together Compute released Flux Schnell, a free model for 3 months. New techniques like PrefixQuant quantization and Prompt Caching for low-latency inference were highlighted by rohanpaul_ai. LangGraph added long-term memory support for persistent document storage. Hex-LLM framework was introduced for TPU-based low-cost, high-throughput LLM serving from Hugging Face models. Discussions on AI safety emphasized gender equality in science, and concerns about premature AI regulation by media and Hollywood were raised.
The AI Nobel Prize
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Geoff Hinton and John Hopfield won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on Artificial Neural Networks. The award citation spans 14 pages highlighting their contributions. Zep released a new community edition of their low-latency memory layer for AI agents, emphasizing knowledge graphs for memory. At OpenAI's DevDay, new features like real-time voice API, vision model fine-tuning, and prompt caching with a 50% discount on reused tokens were introduced. Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet was recognized as the best model currently. Reka AI Labs updated their Reka Flash model with enhanced multimodal and function calling capabilities. The GOT (Generic OCR Transformer) achieved 98.79% accuracy on OCR benchmarks. Discussions on open-source AI models highlighted their role in fostering competition and decentralization. Software development insights included the importance of Single Sign-On (SSO), thorough testing, and AI-assisted coding workflows. Ethical and societal topics covered critiques of tax policies and the appointment of France's first Minister of AI.