Lore Issue #48: Pentagon Plans Vast AI Fleet to Counter China

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• Imbue raised $200M to build AI models that can ‘robustly reason’. Formerly known as Generally Intelligent, the company is now valued at over $1 billion (Link)

• Inceptive raised $100M to design “biological software” like vaccines and drugs with generative AI (Link)

• Chip startup d-Matrix raised $150M from investors including Microsoft and Temasek (Link)

• Enfabrica raised $125M to build networking hardware to drive AI workloads (Link)

• Air Street Capital raised $121M to invest in AI startups (Link)

• Ibex Medical Analytics raised $55M for AI-powered cancer diagnostics (Link)

• Pahdo Labs raised $15M for its anime-inspired game world and UGC platform (Link)

• Druid raised $30M for its conversational AI platform for enterprises (Link)

• Clara Analytics raised $24M for insurance claims optimization (Link)

• Ello raised $15M to bolster child literacy with its AI reading coach (Link)

• ELSA raised $22.5M for its English learning platform and AI tutor (Link)

• Mindtrip raised $7M for its AI trip planner (Link)

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Meta sets GPT-4 as the bar for its next AI model

Meta is actively acquiring AI training chips and expanding data centers to create a chatbot to compete with OpenAI's GPT-4. They plan to kick off the training of this new language model in early 2024, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pushing for it to be freely available for companies to use in developing AI tools.

Meta faces heavy competition in the generative AI space, with Apple reportedly dumping millions of dollars daily into its own “Ajax” AI model.

Pentagon Plans Vast AI Fleet to Counter China Threat

The Pentagon plans to deploy a comprehensive AI-driven network of drones and autonomous technologies within two years to address security threats from China and other rivals.

“Imagine distributed pods of self-propelled [autonomous] systems afloat, powered by the sun and other virtually limitless resources, packed with sensors aplenty, enough to give us new, reliable sources of information in near-real-time” — Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks

Self-publishers must declare if content sold on Amazon’s site is AI-generated

Authors that self-publish ebooks on Amazon are now required to disclose if content is AI-generated (but not if only AI-assisted). This announcement was made on Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) forum, and the company stated that authors will be asked about the AI origin of their content when publishing or editing a title.

Other news

• Adobe, others join voluntary US scheme to manage AI risk (Link)

• Microsoft president and Nvidia chief scientist to testify in Senate AI hearings (Link)

• New benchmark tests speed of running AI models (Link)

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• Camb: Dub your content in 78 languages (Link)

• Neiro: Create AI avatars (Link)

• Decktopus: AI-powered presentation generator (Link)

• Clipdrop by Stability AI: An ecosystem of apps, plugins & resources for creators (Link)

• Glean: AI-powered workplace search across all your company's apps (Link)

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• OpenAI’s first developer conference is happening on Nov. 6 in San Francisco (Link)

• Large-Scale Automatic Audiobook Creation (Link)

• NExT-GPT: Any-to-Any Multimodal LLM (Link)

• When Less is More: Investigating Data Pruning for Pretraining LLMs at Scale (Link)

That's it!

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-Nathan Lands

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