Microsoft Copilot for Finance is out

Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and unfair business practices, and is asking for OpenAI to revert back to open source, and to share all it's research for the benefit of humanity.

He's arguing they have already achieved AGI, and are thus outside the scope of the agreement with Microsoft, which only applies to pre-AGI tech.

What can LLMs do in and for games? NPCs, narratives, game mastering, playing, level generation, new game mechanics... player modeling?

Researchers presented "Large Language Models and Games: A Survey and Roadmap".

New Resource: Foundation Model Development Cheatsheet for best practices

250+ resources & tools for:
1. sourcing data
2. documenting & audits
3. environmental impact
4. risks & harms eval
5. release & monitoring

Multimodal ArXiv: A Dataset for Improving Scientific Comprehension of Large Vision-Language Models

Presents:
-ArXivCap, a million-scale figure-caption dataset from arxiv papers
- ArXivQA, a QA dataset generated by prompting GPT-4V based on arxiv figures.

Paper here.

Intel's NPU Acceleration Library goes open source — Meteor Lake CPUs can now run TinyLlama and other lightweight LLMs.

Anthropic announced the Claude 3 model family

The family includes three state-of-the-art models in ascending order of capability:

Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Opus.

Each successive model offers increasingly powerful performance, allowing users to select the optimal balance of intelligence, speed, and cost for their specific application.

Claude 3 was trained on synthetic data (“data we generate internally”).

Fairly clear that compute is the bottleneck given that parameter count and data can be scaled.

Bytedance introduced Diffusion Protein Language Models (DPLM), a new suite of discrete diffusion-based protein language models

With versatility in both generative and predictive tasks, DPLM is poised to set the new SOTA in protein language models, excelling across a spectrum of benchmark tasks.

The Stable Diffusion 3 paper released for mutuals with an interest in such things.

A new article "Creative Flow as Optimized Processing: Evidence from Brain Oscillations During Jazz Improvisations by Expert and Non-Expert Musicians."

This is the first neuroimaging study to isolate the neural correlates of the flow experience during a creative production task, in this case, jazz improvisation. Flow is not hyperfocus. It results from an expert brain network plus release of executive control.

Very cool data analysis from Paradigm showing the breakdown of Ethereum's state.

ERC20s make up 27% of total state, while ERC721s make up 21.6%. Accounts total 14.1%.

XEN makes up 3.5% of Ethereum's state, which is more than any other single protocol.

Andrew Ng: we will control and steer superhuman AI, so if we want humanity to survive and thrive we should develop AI "as fast as possible"

It’s a big! First-of-its-kind supplement clinically proven to slow effects of aging in dogs available at LeapYears.com

The world’s 4 biggest cloud firms, Amazon AWS, Microsoft, Google and Meta will spend a record high US$200 billion on capex in 2025, citing the Wells Fargo Investment Institute, up from $140 billion in spending last year.

MindSpeaker BCI has built its “MindSpeaker+MindClick”

The integrated product concept enables improving communication for patients and elderly suffering from speech disorders via in-ear EEG sensing.

MindSpeaker builds Alternative and Augmentative Communication products. This product will address patients with speech paralysis (dysarthria).

What if you and your friends could see through each other’s eyes all at once?

Researchers revealed that elephantnose fish might really do this kind of group sensing with their electro-location sensory system.

A 7B-parameter DNA language model trained on 2.7M prokaryotic genomes can perform generation and prediction at the DNA, RNA, and protein levels.