The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 07/22/24

Good morning and welcome back to another edition of The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners.

Last week in AI:

• Trump allies outline an AI executive order, providing an outline of how the former president’s AI strategy if he’s reelected.

• An OpenAI founding member is pursuing a new AI project focused on using generative AI in education.

• US Rep Jennifer Wexton is using an Eleven Labs model of her voice to speak again.

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Top AI Stories of the Week

Trump allies have drafted an AI executive order focused on military development and lessened regulations. Link.

• Trump allies are drafting an executive order titled "Make America First in AI," aiming to promote US leadership in AI technology through military-focused "Manhattan Projects" and by reducing regulatory burdens on AI development​​.

• The proposed framework contrasts with the Biden administration's approach, which emphasizes safety testing and regulation to address potential threats posed by AI​.

• The plan suggests creating industry-led agencies to monitor AI models and secure systems from foreign threats, potentially benefiting tech companies like Palantir, Anduril, and Shield AI.

An OpenAI founding member is starting his own company. Link.

• OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy has announced Eureka Labs, a new AI+Education startup.

• Eureka Labs aims to create an AI-native learning environment where teachers are supported by AI Teaching Assistants to scale high-quality education.

• Their first product, LLM101n, is an undergraduate course that teaches students to build their own AI models.

• This initiative combines Karpathy’s extensive experience in AI and education, aiming to democratize AI education and expand learning opportunities globally​.

US Rep Jennifer Wexton debuted an AI version of her voice. Link.

• The speaker was diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare brain disease that affects walking, balance, eye movements, and swallowing.

• The AI voice clone allows her to address Congress and fix the limitations created by her ailment.

• Eleven Labs developed the model of her voice.

Model Development

OpenAI announces GPT-4o mini. Link.

• OpenAI has introduced GPT-4o mini, a highly cost-efficient small model designed to make AI more accessible and affordable.

• It excels in text and vision tasks, scoring 82% on MMLU and outperforming GPT-4 in chat preferences.

• Priced at 15 cents per million input tokens and 60 cents per million output tokens, it significantly reduces costs compared to previous models.

Mistral releases a new model in collaboration with Nvidia. Link.

• Mistral AI has released Mistral NeMo, a state-of-the-art 12 billion parameter model built in collaboration with NVIDIA, featuring a 128k context length.

• It excels in reasoning, world knowledge, and coding accuracy, making it a strong competitor among similarly sized models.

• The model supports multilingual applications and uses the new Tekken tokenizer, which is highly efficient in compressing various languages.

• Mistral NeMo is available for researchers and enterprises under the Apache 2.0 license, with pre-trained and instruction-tuned checkpoints hosted on HuggingFace.

Microsoft announced an LLM to focused on spreadsheet analysis. Link.

• SpreadsheetLLM is an AI model designed to enhance spreadsheet data analysis and improve enterprise productivity.

• This system enables users to query and manipulate spreadsheet data using natural language, making complex data insights more accessible.

• SpreadsheetLLM aims to automate routine tasks and provide intelligent recommendations, potentially transforming how businesses utilize spreadsheets​.

Robotics

Investment firm Coatue released their “State of Robotics” deck. Link.

• Some of the opinions covered in their article:

• Robotics won't experience a single transformative moment like ChatGPT due to physical constraints and high costs.

• Progress will be gradual with significant advancements and investments over time.

• Challenges like data scarcity and hardware limitations remain, but incremental adoption will lead to productivity gains and new interactions.

Robotics Market Map from Coatue

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