Top 10 AI News #weekly
Tülu 3 covers everything from choosing which topics you want your model to care about — for instance, downplaying multilingual capabilities but dialing up math and coding — to taking it through a long regimen of data curation, reinforcement learning, fine-tuning and preference tuning, to tweaking a bunch of other meta-parameters and training processes that I couldn’t adequately describe to you. The result is, hopefully, a far more capable model focused on the skills you need it to have.
Lightricks, the Israeli company behind the viral photo-editing app Facetune, is launching an ambitious effort to shake up the generative AI landscape. Today, the company announced the release of LTX Video (LTXV), an open-source AI model capable of generating five seconds of high-quality video in just four seconds. By making its video model freely available, Lightricks is directly aiming at the growing dominance of proprietary AI systems from tech giants like OpenAI, Adobe and Google.
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1) Amazon Invests an Additional $4 Billion in AI Firm Anthropic.
Amazon.com Inc. is investing an additional $4 billion in artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, boosting its stake in one of OpenAI’s chief rivals.
2) AI chip startup MatX, founded by Google alums, raises Series A at $300M+ valuation, sources say.
AI startup Enfabrica raises $115 million, plans to release chip next year.
Coca-Cola is facing backlash online over an artificial intelligence-made Christmas promotional video that users are calling “soulless” and “devoid of any actual creativity.”
The AI-made video features everything from big red Coca-Cola trucks driving through snowy streets to people smiling in scarves and knitted hats holding Coca-Cola bottles. The video was meant to pay homage to the company’s 1995 commercial “Holidays Are Coming,” which featured similar imagery, but with human actors and real trucks.
Business spending on generative AI surged 500% this year, from $2.3 billion in 2023 to $13.8 billion, according to data released by Menlo Ventures on Wednesday.
The report also found that OpenAI ceded market share in enterprise AI, declining from 50% to 34%. Anthropic doubled its market share from 12% to 24%. The results came from a survey of 600 enterprise IT decision-makers from companies with 50 or more employees, per the report.
While Nvidia commands tens of billions of dollars in AI chip spending every quarter, there are a good deal of companies and investors who believe there is room for other winners in the AI infrastructure market, whether it’s for chips at the edge or in data centers.
Nvidia may face larger threats in the forms of AMD and, to a lesser extent, Intel, as well as its largest cloud partners—Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud—who are building their own AI chips among other homegrown silicon efforts.
H, the Paris startup founded by Google alums, made a big splash last summer when, out of the blue, it announced a seed round of $220 million before releasing a single product.
But the company has kept swimming, and today it’s announcing its first product: Runner H, an “agentic” AI aimed at businesses and developers across tasks like quality assurance and process automation. It’s built atop the startup’s own, proprietary “compact” LLM based on just 2 billion parameters.
Runner H will initially focus on three specific use cases: robotic process automation (RPA), quality assurance, and business process outsourcing.
When Brandon Contino and co-founder Dan Chi were developing Four Growers’ produce-harvesting robots, they practically lived in a greenhouse for an entire year. They coded at a small desk tucked in the back corner and discovered that fertilizer bags can be comfortable beds.
“We actually started just running everything off a laptop, and I would be there in the row coding. [Chi] would be making changes mechanically,” Contino, now CEO, told TechCrunch. “We’d run it then we’d make code changes, we’d redevelop, we’d go back in and run it again. So, it was a very fun time just living at the farm basically.”
The result was Four Growers, which builds robots designed to autonomously harvest plants in greenhouses. The robots are programmed to identify produce at the right level of ripeness — which varies depending on a farmer’s needs — by using multiple stereo cameras to see the crops and help maneuver the robot’s arms around nonripe fruit on the vine. The tech currently works with tomatoes and will be commercially available to harvest other crops like cucumbers in the near future, Contino said.
OpenAI released a free online course designed to help K-12 teachers learn how to bring ChatGPT, the company’s AI chatbot platform, into their classrooms. Created in collaboration with the nonprofit organization Common Sense Media, with which OpenAI has an active partnership, the one-hour, nine-module program covers the basics of AI and its pedagogical applications.
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This Week's Summary
This week in AI saw significant moves on open-source efforts, enterprise adoption, and corporate investments. AI2 unleashed Tülu 3 to democratize AI model training, while Lightricks unveiled LTX Video to take on big tech with open-source video generation. Enterprise AI spending saw a staggering increase of 500% to $13.8B, with Anthropic picking up market share. Amazon increased its AI investment with a $4B investment in Anthropic, and new chip startups for AI arrived to take on Nvidia. From Cursor's new Composer agent to OpenAI's educational initiatives, the week showcased AI's expanding influence across industries.
