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Robot w/ animal strides πŸ•οΈ IBM's new LLMS πŸ‘©β€πŸ’» OpenAI's promise πŸ“±

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🧠 AGI and Neuroscience  

Researchers at EPFL trained a robot to gait like an animal to travel complex terrains. This was accomplished using Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL). The main driver was prioritizing fall prevention instead of energy efficiency which was previously thought to be the main goal.

A study from Georgia State University unveils that participants preferred AI-generated responses over those of humans when presented with ethical dilemmas.

The AI Human Brain Mapping (HBM) market uses technologies and methodologies to understand the human brain's structure, function, and connectivity. These methodologies are experiencing rapid growth due to AI. This pushes big companies like Samsung to invest in new research development to build AI systems mimicking human cognitive functions.

πŸ’» AI & Deep Learning

Pegasus-1 is a multimodal language model trained to understand video content through natural language interaction. This is a breakthrough in understanding the challenges faced with complex video data.

DeepSeek-v2, a breakthrough MoE model from China, boasts 236B parameters and efficient inference with a compressed KV cache (~93.3%). Offering a low-cost API ($0.14-$0.28 per 1M tokens after 5M free)

πŸš€ Industry Giants & Startups

Nvidia has announced that it acquired Run:ai for $700 million. Run:ai is an AI Architectural orchestration and management platform known for efficient GPU resource allocation in AI workflows.

IBM released Granite code models - a family of LLMs - tailored for software development tasks. These models range from 3 - 34 billion parameters and are open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license.

OpenAI aims to keep thriving in the AI Sector while respecting creators and content owners. They showcase how they’re aiding content owners to manage usage preferences in AI systems, OpenAI aims to set a standard for the industry by 2025.