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Lore #69: Google Announces Gemini Ultra
Nathan Lands
February 07, 2024
Good morning.
This week, Google announced the imminent release of Gemini Ultra, which they say has surpassed GPT-4 in 7 out of 8 benchmarks. I’m excited to try it. Also, this means we’ll probably see GPT4.5 from OpenAI very soon.
Personally, the most exciting news this week was that Nat Friedman’s contest to unlock the secrets of ancient Roman scrolls using AI has already had a major breakthrough.
They’ve made the first part of an over 2,000-year-old scroll on papyrus readable using AI. It’s amazing to think about the world we’re heading into where even secrets we thought were lost to time may be rediscovered with new technologies.
Ambience Healthcare raised $70M to create an “operating system” for healthcare organizations to help clinicians complete administrative work (Link)
Colossyan raised $22M for AI video for workplace learning (Link)
Jua raised $16M to build a foundational AI model for the natural world, starting with the weather (Link)
Synthetaic raised $15M to unlock insights from image data (Link)
Quindar raised $6M for AI-driven satellite management (Link)
Arkeus raised $4.45M to expand its AI-enhanced search & surveillance technology (Link)
Octup raised $4M for operational AI-driven e-commerce platform (Link)
Camb AI raised $4M for its AI dubbing platform (Link)
AudioStack raised €2.9M to scale studio-quality audio production for enterprises (Link)
Sable Bio raised £1.5M for AI drug testing (Link)
OpenHouse raised $1.5M to deliver real solutions to real problems in the home building industry (Link)
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Google announces Gemini Ultra
Google's Gemini Ultra, set for release this Wednesday, has surpassed GPT-4 in 7 out of 8 benchmark tests, marking a significant achievement as the first model to outperform human experts in massive multitask language understanding (MMLU).
OpenAI is exploring the potential risks of large language models (LLMs) aiding in the creation of biological threats. Through a study involving biology experts and students, it was found that GPT-4 might slightly improve the accuracy of creating biological threats, though the effect was not statistically significant. This research is part of a broader effort to develop evaluation methodologies for AI-enabled safety risks, specifically focusing on the misuse potential of AI in biological threat creation.
Roblox launched an AI-powered tool enabling instant text translation for its 70 million daily users across 16 languages. This feature, designed to facilitate seamless communication among players from 180 countries, leverages a custom AI model to translate 2.4 billion daily messages in real-time. This highlights the role of AI in transforming multiplayer gaming into a truly global experience, leading to future developments like live voice translation.
Other news
Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Nat Friedman (@natfriedman)
2:56 PM • Feb 5, 2024
AI-generated fake IDs can now beat security checks
New: inside the underground site where "neural networks" churn out fake IDs
- I tested, made two IDs in minutes
- used one to successfully bypass the identity verification check on a cryptocurrency exchange
- massive implications for crime, cybersecurity
404media.co/inside-the-und…— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox)
2:38 PM • Feb 5, 2024
Text-to-3D becomes almost unrecognizable
It's really blowing my mind how far we've come with text-to-3D. It was only a few months ago we were getting very unimpressive results from tools like Shap-E. Now I can make full on objects that are borderline game ready.
(This is in @MeshyAI BTW)
— Matt Wolfe (@mreflow)
7:22 PM • Jan 31, 2024
DomoAI turns home videos into anime
AI can now turn your old home videos into anime 🪄
(made with @DomoAI_)
— Justine Moore (@venturetwins)
3:55 PM • Feb 5, 2024
Finding your soulmate with ChatGPT?
This guy trained a bot to swipe on Tinder profiles based on his preferences, and then used ChatGPT to message them and set up dates.
He communicated with 5,200+ women - and one year later, he's now engaged to one of them (after ChatGPT suggested he propose).
— Justine Moore (@venturetwins)
6:13 PM • Feb 1, 2024
Find more tools at FutureTools.io.
OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Models (Link)
Dolma: an Open Corpus of Three Trillion Tokens for Language Model Pretraining Research (Link)
BlockFusion: Expandable 3D Scene Generation using Latent Tri-plane Extrapolation (Link)
Specialized Language Models with Cheap Inference from Limited Domain Data (Link)
The updated GPT-3.5 Turbo model is now available.
It comes with 50% reduced input pricing, 25% reduced output pricing, along with various improvements including higher accuracy at responding in requested formats. Happy building! 🏗️
— Logan.GPT (@OfficialLoganK)
6:25 PM • Feb 1, 2024
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