Robots, Hollywood Scared, New Models, and more!

Why Hollywood is running scared from OpenAI's new Sora product

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Matthew Berman
February 27, 2024

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Want to contribute to the AI community in a big way? Karpathy’s tutorial could be the best place to start. Build the GPT tokenizer from scratch and learn the complexities of tokenization from the first principles. Could figuring out a way to remove tokenization entirely be the secret to progress?

In a groundbreaking alliance, tech giants Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, and Jeff Bezos are fueling the rise of Figure AI’s humanoid robots, ushering in a new era of innovation. However, even as excitement mounts, Tyler Perry’s recent decision to pause an $800M studio expansion after encountering OpenAI’s Sora underscores the profound impact of AI on our future.

  • Figure AI’s Humanoid Robots: Figure AI, the humanoid robot company, attracts $675 million in funding from Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, and Jeff Bezos.

  • Tyler Perry Scared of AI: Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion on Hold After Seeing OpenAI’s Sora, saying “Being told that it can do all of these things is one thing, but actually seeing the capabilities, it was mind-blowing”

  • Google Gets Reddit’s Data: Google and Reddit are deepening their partnership with a new Cloud deal, integrating AI capabilities via Vertex AI to enhance Reddit's search and other features. The partnership aims to make Reddit's content more accessible across Google products, facilitated by Google's access to Reddit's Data API for more efficient, real-time content use.

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Check out the latest AI projects that launched this week!

The Best Open-Source Coding Model

Introducing Phind-70B – closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster

https://www.phind.com/blog/introducing-phind-70b

Gemma: Introducing new state-of-the-art open models

Gemma is a family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models built from the same research and technology used to create the Gemini models.

blog.google/technology/developers/gemma-open-models

Mistral AI releases new model to rival GPT-4 and its own chat assistant

Mistral is a cutting-edge GPT4 competitor that performs well and is only lightly censored.

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large/

GitHub - deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Math

Contribute to deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Math development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Math

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New AI Research Papers

  • MobileLLM: Optimizing Sub-billion Parameter Language Models for On-Device Use Cases.

  • Orca-math: Unlocking the potential of SLM in Grade School Math.

  • Genie: Taking any image and making it “playable” like a video game.

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