ODSC’s AI Weekly Recap: Week of May 3rd

• Meta Sees Free Models as its Future (Source)

• Business solutions company, Conduent has announced a new partnership with Microsoft (Source)

• A new report shows that Apple is busy poaching AI talent from rivals such as Google (Source)

• The U.S. government is actively engaging with top executives from major tech companies and industries to fortify national infrastructure against AI-driven threats (Source)

• Researchers from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have discovered how some images linger in our memories while others fade away.  (Source)

• Microsoft is moving with a major expansion of its footprint in Southeast Asia by committing to investing $2.2 billion over the next four years to develop new cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Malaysia  (Source)

• A new AI-powered algorithm has enhanced our ability to detect asteroids, uncovering more than 27,000 previously unnoticed space rocks within existing telescope images.  (Source)

AI News Highlights

• A new technique can be used to predict the actions of human or AI agents who behave suboptimally while working toward unknown goals.

• Google and Microsoft Cushion Their AI Capital Pains

• Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO

• Georgia Tech embraces artificial intelligence with new “digital sandbox” that will equip students with resources in the age of AI 

• U.S. Government Needs to ‘Get It Right’ on Artificial Intelligence

• OpenAI faces complaint over fictional outputs

• Maps developed with artificial intelligence confirm low levels of phosphorus in Amazonian soil

• Texas lawmakers studying the impact of artificial intelligence

• US-China AI Meeting May Hold Key to Unlocking Global Business Potential 

• Chicago Tribune, and other major newspapers accuse artificial intelligence companies of stealing content

Trending New Open Source Projects

• Perplexica - an AI-powered search engine. It is an Open source alternative to Perplexity AI 

• EasyEdit - An Easy-to-use Knowledge Editing Framework for LLMs

• Laravel-Open-Source-Projects - A Web Artisan list of categorized OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS built with Laravel PHP Framework.

• NetCoreCMS - A modular theme-supported Content Management System developed using ASP.Net Core 2.0 MVC. Which is also usable as a web application framework. 

• Drifty - An open-source Interactive File Downloader System built with Java

• ChatGPT app mobile - open-source chat application developed with .NET MAUI, employing OpenAI technologies to replicate functionality similar to ChatGPT. The application generates chat responses using these OpenAI technologies.

• ML-Project-Drug-Review-Dataset - an innovative machine learning project that utilizes patient reviews with many other attributes to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of drugs.

• Tracecat - An open-source alternative to Tines / Splunk SOAR. Build AI-assisted workflows, orchestrate alerts, and close cases fast. 

• executorch - On-device AI across mobile, embedded, and edge for PyTorch 

New Trending Research From Around The Globe

• DrBenchmark: A Large Language Understanding Evaluation Benchmark for French Biomedical Domain - Paper

• CatLIP: CLIP-level Visual Recognition Accuracy with 2.7x Faster Pre-training on Web-scale Image-Text Data - Paper

• Revisiting Text-to-Image Evaluation with Gecko: On Metrics, Prompts, and Human Ratings - Paper

• 3SHNet: Boosting Image-Sentence Retrieval via Visual Semantic-Spatial Self-Highlighting - Paper

• Process Mining Embeddings: Learning Vector Representations for Petri Nets - Paper

• Software Vulnerability Prediction in Low-Resource Languages: An Empirical Study of CodeBERT and ChatGPT - Paper

• Harnessing the Power of Multiple Minds: Lessons Learned from LLM Routings - Paper

• Model Quantization and Hardware Acceleration for Vision Transformers: A Comprehensive Survey - Paper

• Covariant spatio-temporal receptive fields for neuromorphic computing - Paper

• CrossMatch: Enhance Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation with Perturbation Strategies and Knowledge Distillation - Paper

• AdaMoLE: Fine-Tuning Large Language Models with Adaptive Mixture of Low-Rank Adaptation Experts - Paper

• UWAFA-GAN: Ultra-Wide-Angle Fluorescein Angiography Transformation via Multi-scale Generation and Registration Enhancement - Paper

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

• UCB-driven Utility Function Search for Multi-objective Reinforcement Learning - Paper

• TFPred: Learning discriminative representations from unlabeled data for few-label rotating machinery fault diagnosis - Paper

Start-Up Funding News

• California-based Blaize, an AI computing platforms company that develops products for the automotive, smart vision, and enterprise computing markets, raised $242M in Private Funding.

• San Francisco-based Traceable, an API security company that helps to mitigate risks and optimize the value derived from their APIs for customers, raised $110M in Series Funding.

• California-based Inhabitr, an AI-powered end-to-end furnishing solution for commercial real estate, raised over $31M in Series B Funding.

• Pennsylvania-based Invent Analytics, a provider of AI-based inventory and pricing optimization solutions for retailers and FMCG companies, raised over $24M in Series B Funding.

• London-based Jigsaw, a builder of diagrams, allows users to both visualize and manipulate the complex underlying data., raised over £12M in Series AFunding.

• New York-based Trovo Health, a user of AI technology to provide comprehensive healthcare solutions, raised $15M in Seed Funding.

• San Francisco-based Metabrain, creator of brain interfaces to bridge the gap between humans and technology., raised over $34M in Series Funding.

• India-Based Niqo Robotics, an AI-powered robotics solutions provider empowering small farm holders, raised over $16M in Series B Funding

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