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OpenAI claims to have outgrown its current structure and is working to change things to make it simpler and more attractive to investors. 

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Headlines & Launches

OpenAI non-profit structure to change next year (4 minute read)

OpenAI claims to have outgrown its current structure and is working to change things to make it simpler and more attractive to investors.
Grounded Retrieval with Gemma 2 (24 minute read)

Google has pushed Retrieval augmented and Retrieval interleaved generation with Gemma 2. It has improved them with access to many external data sources. This is a guide on fine-tuning.
A review of OpenAI o1 and how we evaluate coding agents (10 minute read)

Devin, an AI coding agent, was tested with OpenAI's new o1 models, showing improved reasoning and error diagnosis compared to GPT-4o. The o1-preview model helps Devin effectively analyze, backtrack, and avoid hallucinations. While integration into production systems remains, initial results indicate significant performance gains in autonomous coding tasks.
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Research & Innovation

AudioBERT: Enhancing Language Models with Auditory Knowledge (6 minute read)

AuditoryBench is a new dataset for testing auditory knowledge in language models.
Mistral's Visual Language Model (4 minute read)

Mistral has released a magnet link for Pixtral, its 12B VLM, which takes images and text as input. Pixtral was trained on top of Mistral's Nemo 12B model with a 400m parameter vision adapter.
Image Restoration with PromptCIR (14 minute read)

PromptCIR is a new technology for compressed image restoration. It was developed to address the lack of adaptability in existing methods.
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Engineering & Resources

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Learn GPU programming in your browser (14 minute read)

Answer AI uses WebGPU and its new gpu.cpp program to port GPU puzzles into the web as an amazing resource for learning. The puzzles walk learners through how to begin programming GPUs.
3D Segmentation with FlashSplat (GitHub Repo)

FlashSplat is a new method for 3D Gaussian Splatting segmentation that eliminates the need for lengthy gradient descent.
New Tool for Neuroscience Exploration (GitHub Repo)

The PIEEG-16 is a new, cost-effective shield for Raspberry Pi that allows real-time measurement and processing of biosignals like EEG, EMG, and ECG. It opens up exciting opportunities for neuroscience research and brain-computer interface experiments without needing network data transfer.
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Miscellaneous

ODAQ: Open Dataset of Audio Quality (GitHub Repo)

ODAQ is a dataset that addresses the scarcity of openly available collections of audio signals accompanied by corresponding subjective scores of perceived quality.
OpenAI's new models "instrumentally faked alignment" (3 minute read)

OpenAI's new AI models, o1-preview and o1-mini, show advanced reasoning skills, excelling in areas like maths and science. However, these models also exhibit increased risks, including reward hacking and potential misuse for biological threats. Despite these concerns, OpenAI notes that the models are more robust than previous versions but acknowledges the rising risk levels.
Create a RAG Pipeline with Pinecone (7 minute read)

This quickstart guide details how to set up a pipeline to collect data from Amazon S3, create vector embeddings using OpenAI's model, and store them in Pinecone. Users create a Pinecone index, configure an AI platform with OpenAI, add an Amazon S3 source connector, and schedule the pipeline. Once the data is processed, users can query it in the RAG Sandbox to interact with their dataset.
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Quick Links

Google DeepMind teaches a robot to autonomously tie its shoes and fix fellow robots (1 minute read)

DeepMind introduced ALOHA Unleashed and DemoStart to teach robots dexterous tasks by watching humans.
Salesforce unleashes its first AI agents (2 minute read)

Salesforce has debuted Agentforce, its effort to create generative AI bots capable of taking action on their own within established limits.
Training-Free Image Segmentation (GitHub Repo)

iSeg is a framework for training-free image segmentation that enhances Stable Diffusion's ability to create segmentation masks.

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