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Anthropic Launches $100M Startup Fund
Anthropic, a leading AI research company, has teamed up with venture capital firm Menlo Ventures to launch the Anthology Fund, a $100 million initiative. As reported by Bloomberg, TechCrunch, and others, this fund aims to accelerate AI innovation by supporting early-stage startups. The focus is on developing applications and infrastructure solutions based on Anthropic’s technology. Read more
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Anthropic Brings Claude AI App to Android
Anthropic has released its Claude mobile app for Android users, the company announced on Tuesday. The release of the generative AI tool on the Google Play Store comes two months after the launch of the Claude app for iOS in May. Read more
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Google Launches Its AI-Powered Video Tool
Technology giant Google on Monday rolled out the beta version of its new generative AI-powered video creation tool, Google Vids, to select users of its Workspace application suite for businesses. Read more
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New Giant Protein Language Model
EvolutionaryScale, a frontier AI research lab, has unveiled ESM3, a groundbreaking generative AI model for protein design that simulates millions of years of evolution to create novel proteins, potentially revolutionizing fields from drug discovery to environmental sustainability. Read more
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OpenAI’s 5 Steps to AGI
OpenAI has reportedly presented a five-step roadmap to track its progress towards achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). This milestone could revolutionize the field of artificial intelligence and potentially surpass human capabilities across various domains. As reported first by Rachel Metz from Bloomberg, this roadmap outlines the key steps and metrics OpenAI will use to measure… Read more
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If We’re Living in a Simulation, Can AI Help Set Us Free?
Are we living in a simulation? Roman Yampolskiy, a noted AI safety researcher and author of “AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable,” is pretty sure we are. “I know never to say 100%, but [the chances of us living in a simulation are] pretty close to that,” he told Lex Fridman during a recent interview for Fridman’s… Read more
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AI Reads Images from Thoughts
Recent advancements in artificial intelligence have enabled researchers to reconstruct images from human brain activity, effectively “reading” visual thoughts. This groundbreaking technology combines sophisticated AI models with neuroimaging techniques like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to interpret and recreate visual experiences based on brain scans. While still in early stages, this intersection of neuroscience and… Read more
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Apple to take up observer role on OpenAI board
The arrangement is part of an earlier partnership between the firms that will see Apple integrate OpenAI services with its products. Apple will receive an observer role on OpenAI’s board as part of an earlier agreement with the firm, Bloomberg said on July 2. Read more
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Runway Gen-3 Opens to Public
Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha model, now publicly accessible as of July 1, 2024, represents a significant leap in AI-driven video generation. Available to anyone with a paid subscription starting at $12 per month, this advanced model offers high-fidelity, consistent, and controllable video creation from text, image, or video prompts, making it an invaluable tool for filmmakers,… Read more
