Monday Byte [9]

Monday Byte: 8 Bits of information to kick start your week

AI Generated: A robot in space looks at the Earth being hit by a cosmic ray

Hi there! 👋

On this edition:

1. Sam Altman, OpenAI and Q* - a thrilling story that just keeps getting more and more exciting 🍿🤖

   1. What is OpenAI Q*? The mysterious breakthrough that could ‘threaten humanity’ (Digital Trends)

      1. Sam Altman trumps OpenAI’s board and is back at the lead of one of the most powerful teams in AI of our time. 😎

      2. Did OpenAI achieve AGI? - Let’s understand hands-on what is Q* and how you can use it 👷🏗️

2. Musk keeps on moving forward trying to connect humans and machines 🧠💻

   1. Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain implant startup, quietly raises an additional $43M (Tech Crunch)

      1. While the rest of the World is focused in Sam Altman and OpenAI, Elon Musk keeps on hustling in the shadows. 💰

3. Russia is falling behind in AI: Vladimir Putin is not happy about it… 😠🇷🇺

   1. Putin says West cannot have AI monopoly so Russia must up its game (Reuters)

      1. During the Artificial Intelligence Journey 2023 international AI and machine learning conference in Moscow, Putin pushed hard for a much more ambitious Russian strategy for the development of AI: “You cannot ban something - if we ban it then it will develop somewhere else and we will fall behind“. 🚀

4. Anthropic keeps on fighting in the battle of the LLMs 🌦️

   1. Introducing Claude 2.1 (Anthropic)

      1. With a context window of 200K tokens (GPT-4 and Mistral 7b only have 128K), Claude can now process “roughly 150,000 words, or over 500 pages of material“ 🤯

5. GPT-4, Claude, Mistral & Co: Learn all about LLMs from one of the GOATs 🐐

   1. [1hr Talk] Intro to Large Language Models (Andrej Karpathy via YouTube)

6. Stability AI unveils Stable Video Diffusion 🤩

   1. Generative Models by Stability AI (GitHub)

      1. You can now create a video out of an image! Try it now! 🤯

7. AI keeps on pushing the limits: Create a webpage out of a simple screenshot 📸

   1. screenshot-to-code (GitHub)

      1. With this repo you can leverage on the power of GPT-4 Vision and convert a screenshot into a working web page... too much work? - You can also just paste the URL of the website you want to clone and make it your own in seconds 🌠⚡️⭐️

8. Earth was just hit by the second most powerful cosmic ray ever known 🌎

   1. Super high energy particle falls to Earth; its source a mystery (Digital Trends)

      1. The last time that something similar happened, scientists were so in awe that it called it the “Oh-My-God particle“.

      2. This new and little less powerful cosmic ray “had an energy of 2.4 x 1020eV, which is millions of times the energy of the particles produced in a particle collider”. Despite the enormous power of these particles, no one seems to have a clear idea on where do they come from 😱

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