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🥟 Chao-Down #171 Google preps release of its Gemini AI to challenge OpenAI, Moderna CEO talks on potential for AI to cure cancer, Salesforce brings conversational AI across Einstein Copilot

🥟 Chao-Down #171 Google preps release of its Gemini AI to challenge OpenAI, Moderna CEO talks on potential for AI to cure cancer, Salesforce brings conversational AI across Einstein Copilot

Plus, an analysis on China's AI and semiconductors and how US sanctions have failed.

September 15, 2023

Google’s about to make a big splash in the generative AI race by releasing Gemini, its new foundation model that aims to rival OpenAI’s GPT-4.

Here’s what we know so far:

Gemini is a collection of large-language models that power everything from chatbots to features that either summarize text or generate original text based on what users want to read like email drafts, music lyrics, or news stories, the report said. It is also expected to help software engineers write code and generate original images based on what users ask to see.

Google is currently giving developers access to a relatively large version of Gemini, but not the largest version it is developing which would be more on par with GPT-4, the report said.

The search and advertising giant plans to make Gemini available to companies through its Google Cloud Vertex AI service.

Google must feel pretty confident given initial feedback especially after CEO Sundar Pichai recently said “I feel very comfortable about where we are” when commenting about Google’s position relative to its competitors.

We’ll have to see when Gemini comes out.

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

China AI & Semiconductors Rise: US Sanctions Have Failed (semianalysis.com)

New benchmark tests speed of running AI models (Reuters)

Moderna CEO on AI’s potential to cure cancer | Semafor

Salesforce embeds conversational AI across the platform with Einstein Copilot (TechCrunch)

Google gives public data project an AI makeover (Semafor)

Google Nears Release of Gemini AI to Challenge OpenAI (The Information)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Securing Large Language Models (LLMs) in Your Organization: Mitigating Security and Privacy Risks (InfoSec Write-ups)

Retrieval Augmented Generation at Planet Scale (Arcus)

Let's Get Personal: Why AI Will Unlock a Massive Market for Online Consumer Services | Andreessen Horowitz (a16z.com)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

Nougat: Neural Optical Understanding for Academic Documents (facebookresearch.github.io)

Scenimefy: Learning to Craft Anime Scene via Semi-Supervised Image-to-Image Translation | MMLab@NTU (yuxinn-j.github.io)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

GPT-InvestAR: Enhancing Stock Investment Strategies through Annual Report Analysis with Large Language Models (arxiv.org)

XPixelGroup/DiffBIR: Towards Blind Image Restoration with Generative Diffusion Prior (github.com)

ResFields: Residual Neural Fields for Spatiotemporal Signals (markomih.github.io)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off - The Verge

At least 5 people have been cured of HIV. Is the pandemic ending? (freethink.com)

Why prices are still going up when companies are spending less (vendr.com)

Andreessen Horowitz saw the future — but did the future leave it behind? - The Verge

X sues Calif. to avoid revealing how it makes “controversial” content decisions (Ars Technica)