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In the world of AI, there are always exciting developments happening. This week, we bring you a roundup of the most notable news:
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A test for AGI is getting close to being solved, but it points to flaws in the test's design rather than a breakthrough. Amazon is establishing a new R&D lab in San Francisco focused on building "foundational" capabilities for AI agents. OpenAI's video generator, Sora, is now available to most ChatGPT Pro and Plus subscribers, while those in Europe are out of luck. China has opened an antitrust probe into Nvidia's acquisition of Mellanox. Yelp has released AI-powered review insights to analyze sentiment and highlight categories. Google has signed a deal to spin up carbon-free power for data centers. Reddit has debuted Reddit Answers, a conversational AI feature. X (formerly Twitter) has a new image generator, Aurora, tuned for photorealistic rendering.
Research paper of the week:
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A team from Ai2 and UC San Diego has created an AI model that can predict 100 years of climate patterns in 25 hours. Called Spherical Dyffusion, it starts with basic climate science knowledge and applies transformations. It can run on modest hardware and has limitations, but the researchers plan to refine it. Ai2 also released the second generation of its climate-modeling AI, Climate Emulator.
Model of the week
Sora is getting attention, but a new video-generating model from MIT CSAIL and Adobe Research is potentially more exciting. Called CausVid, it can start playing videos as it generates them, providing a preview. The researchers plan to release an open source implementation soon.
Grab bag:
The group that leaked access to Sora last November has published essays explaining their actions. They wanted to denounce the exploitation of creatives for R&D and PR. As they wrote in a post, "We called on artists to think beyond proprietary systems and the limitations of prompting a model mediated by big tech."
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