ODSC's AI Weekly Recap: Week of May 10th

Every week, the ODSC team researches the latest advancements in AI. We review a selection of the most impactful research, trending open-source projects, and significant startup investments. We carefully curate and share a selection of the most impactful developments, bringing you the insights that matter most to the AI and data science community.

Open Data Science Blog Recap

• Report States OpenAI Will Release Search Engine to Compete Against Google (Source)

• HHS Outlines New Framework for Responsible AI Use in Public Benefits Administration (Source)

• OpenAI Looks to Balance Risks and Model Capabilities (Source)

• Self Driving Startup Wayve Gets $1B Investment (Source)

• TikTok Implements new AI Content Labeling System  (Source)

• Apple is Developing AI Chips in Data Centers According to Report (Source)

• New AI Image Detector Tool Being Developed by OpenAI (Source)

AI News Highlights

• Meet MAI-1: Microsoft Readies New AI Model to Compete with Google, OpenAI

• Tech Giants Intensify AI Investments to Strengthen Connected Economy

• When grief and AI collide: These people are communicating with the dead

• Microsoft and OpenAI launch Societal Resilience Fund

• Red Hat Delivers Accessible, Open Source Generative AI Innovation with Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI

• Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner to Strengthen the World’s Most Popular Large Language Models

• A New Diplomatic Strategy Emerges as Artificial Intelligence Grows

• Microsoft to build AI hub on previously-owned Foxconn land in Wisconsin

• AI could already be in some shows and movies, but studios might not be talking about it

• Google’s Sundar Pichai Lays Out His AI Roadmap

New Trending Open Source Projects

• Scrapegraph-ai- Python Scraper Based on AI

• Close-Circuit Telegram Vision - location tracking with its open-source design and Telegram API integration.

• Skyvern AI - Automate browser-based workflows with LLMs and Computer Vision

• LeRobot - State-of-the-art Machine Learning for Real-World Robotics in Pytorch

• Rustdesk - An open-source remote desktop, and alternative to TeamViewer.

• Efficient Kan - An efficient pure-PyTorch implementation of Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN).

• Kan GPT -The PyTorch implementation of Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs) using Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) for language modeling

New Trending Research From Around The Globe

• Self-Play Preference Optimization for Language Model Alignment - Paper

• Stylus: Automatic Adapter Selection for Diffusion Models - Paper

• DeepSeek-V2: A Strong, Economical, and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Model - Paper

• Is Flash Attention Stable? - Paper

• Why is SAM Robust to Label Noise? - Paper

• MaRDIFlow: A CSE workflow framework for abstracting meta-data from FAIR computational experiments - Paper

• ZleepAnlystNet: a novel deep learning model for automatic sleep stage scoring based on single-channel raw EEG data using separating training - Paper

• OpenESS: Event-based Semantic Scene Understanding with Open Vocabularies - Paper

• DataSP: A Differential All-to-All Shortest Path Algorithm for Learning Costs and Predicting Paths with Context -Paper

• BenthicNet: A global compilation of seafloor images for deep learning applications - Paper

• Health Index Estimation Through Integration of General Knowledge with Unsupervised Learning - Paper

• Pedestrian Attribute Recognition as Label-balanced Multi-label Learning - Paper

• Learning to Compose: Improving Object-Centric Learning by Injecting Compositionality - Paper

• Multi-Modal Data-Efficient 3D Scene Understanding for Autonomous Driving - Paper

• Federated Adaptation for Foundation Model-based Recommendations - Paper

Start-Up Funding News

• Singapore-based Atlan, an active metadata platform crafted for data teams that integrates metadata from diverse sources, raised over $200M in Series C.

• Paris-based Holistic AI, AI provider artificial intelligence models within the technology sector and helps in data analysis, raised over $80M in Series Funding.

• San Francisco-based Rad AI, a developer of software that uses AI to automate radiology report writing, aiming to enhance accuracy and reduce radiologist burnout, raised over $83M in Series B.

• California-based Datology AI, an AI-data curation startup that develops deep learning tools for automatic selection in data training., raised over $57M in Series A.

• New Jersey-based RunPod, a cloud platform designed for GPUs, enabling developers to deploy customized full-stack AI applications, raised over $20M in Seed Funding.

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