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YouTube NotebookLM 💻, more OpenAI departures 👋, Self-Explainable AI🤖

OpenAI’s chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a research VP, Barret Zoph, left the company on Wednesday, hours after CTO Mira Murati's departure 

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Headlines & Launches

OpenAI's Research Officer and VP left the company (3 minute read)

OpenAI's chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a research VP, Barret Zoph, left the company on Wednesday, hours after OpenAI CTO Mira Murati announced she would be departing.
The Intelligence Age (6 minute read)

AI is poised to amplify human capabilities, enabling tasks that seem unimaginable today. Through deep learning and increased computational resources, AI will offer advancements like personal assistants, educational tutors, and healthcare advisors. The focus must remain on making AI accessible and mitigating its risks, paving the way for widespread prosperity in the Intelligence Age.
NotebookLM can pull from YouTube (2 minute read)

NotebookLM can now pull audio and video sources and has gained improved sharing of audio artifacts.
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Research & Innovation

Python library generation from scratch (12 minute read)

A cool benchmark for code generation that measures the ability of language models to generate full packages from scratch.
Optimized Quantization with BitQ (14 minute read)

BitQ is a framework that optimizes block floating point (BFP) quantization for deep neural networks on embedded platforms.
Self-Explainable AI (15 minute read)

CaBRNet is an open-source framework designed to address challenges in the field of self-explainable AI.
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Engineering & Resources

AI for Good with Child Mind Institute, Dell Technologies, and NVIDIA (Sponsor)

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Google's Chip RL Models (GitHub Repo)

Google has released new models, training code, and simulators that generate floor plans for chips using RL.
Predicting Street-View Photo Locations (GitHub Repo)

Researchers have introduced a method that accurately predicts the geolocation of street-view photos by matching them with a database of aerial images.
Data Augmentation with LLMs and Diffusion Models (GitHub Repo)

Researchers have introduced a new data augmentation framework that combines large language models and diffusion models to generate diverse yet semantically accurate images in data-scarce scenarios.
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Miscellaneous

How streaming LLM APIs work (4 minute read)

A review of HTTP streaming APIs from various LLM providers revealed common patterns. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Gemini all use POST requests, but their implementations differ slightly in response structure and token usage. This article includes examples and code for consuming these streams with tools like curl, Python's HTTPX, and JavaScript Fetch.
OpenAI just unleashed an alien of extraordinary ability (17 minute read)

OpenAI's new o1 models exhibit significant advancements in reasoning capabilities, outperforming existing models like GPT-4o. By employing a refined reinforcement learning approach and enhanced chain-of-thought training, o1-enhanced models can solve complex math and programming tasks with fewer errors. Despite their strengths, these models still struggle with spatial reasoning and tasks requiring long-term contextual understanding.
AI Can Now Make (Surprisingly Good) Podcasts From Your Writing (7 minute read)

Google's NotebookLM, an advanced AI tool, now includes an "Audio Overview" feature that generates podcasts summarizing user-uploaded content. Users have praised it for its ability to synthesize complex information into engaging audio discussions. Despite limited promotion, the update is lauded as one of the most impressive practical AI applications since ChatGPT.
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Vultr Cloud Alliance: High-Performance AI and HPC with AMD and Vultr (3 minute read)

AMD has partnered with Vultr to integrate AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs into Vultr's cloud infrastructure.
AI Stressing Networks Out? Nvidia and T-Mobile Are Using AI to Fix It (5 minute read)

Nvidia and T-Mobile are using AI to manage rising network traffic due to increased AI usage in 5G environments.
Rabbit's web-based 'large action model' agent arrives on r1 on October 1 (7 minute read)

Rabbit's CEO Jesse Lyu announced an update for the r1 device, introducing a web-based Large Action Model capable of acting as a generalized web agent.
Boston Dynamics' Spot can now autonomously unlock doors (1 minute read)

Boston Dynamics' Spot can now autonomously unlock Assa Abloy's automated doors via Bluetooth.

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