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Sunday Links: Scaling walls, Agent payments, and model brain scans

Here are the most interesting AI links I stumbled across this week: * 44 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2024. If you're tired of AI funding announcements, here are some of the largest in one convenient list. You can probably consider these to be

Sunday Links: The Death and Rebirth of Search, Robot Art, and Open Source Military AI

Web search will change dramatically, and OpenAI will buy chat.com. Military open-source and Robot Art hit the headlines.

Saturday Links: Spark, Data Namecalling, and Notebook Inception

Self reverencing AI/ML Notebooks, English language app builders and a lot of Monkeys.

Sunday Links: Self Driving Cars, Watermarking, and the need for safety with Bots

Waymo raises more money, uncontrolled bots can be dangerous, and Notebook LM might be the future of content.

Saturday Links: Multi-Agents, Reasoning, and Fairness

Multi-agent systems are coming, but there are some lessons to learn from the past.

Sunday Links: Nobel prizes, grounding, and icebergs

Two nobel prizes for AI, grounding via open source facts and, surprisingly, an Iceberg.

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Friday Links: Sovereign LLMs, Agents and Protein Synthesis

Covering the fate of sovereign LLMs, protein synthesis and agent models.

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Saturday Links: Smart Glasses, Novelty, and Stochastic Parrots

Are LLMs creative? Is OpenAI's new model really reasoning? and Meta's glasses strategy is on point.

Saturday Links: Pins, Agents, and our Digital Souls

Saturday Links: Pins, Agents, and our Digital Souls

Saturday Links: Safe driving, SaaS replacement, and AGI

After a refreshing holiday break, it's back to work and back to posting (thank you for your patience!). Much has happened in the past few weeks, so I'll be doing a bit of triage and catch up. Here is the first batch of links: * Human drivers

Friday Links: Copyright, weird AI video, and fuzzy cameras

Here are this week's links. I'll be on a break next week, so unfortunately, there will be no posts. However, I'll be back again in the first week of September. I wish everyone happy holidays! * Artists Score Major Win in Copyright Case Against AI

Saturday Links: Claude prompt caching, ML as pachinko, and Google Assistant

Links covering everything from caching to Google's new assistant.

AI data contracts, content and search dilemmas

On July 1st, Reddit updated its Robot.txt files to exclude crawling of the site by anyone other than those with commercial agreements or for non-profit/education purposes. What are the lessons for content sites on the open web?

Friday Links: JSON, Agents, and the future AI Maintainers

Here are this week's links. * Github launches the ability to run and test AI Models. Github has retained its developer-friendly credentials despite having been owned by Microsoft for a long time now. This week saw the launch of the ability to run a wide range of AI models

Sunday Links: Data workflow, Video Magic, and AI Autumn Leaves

Here are this week's AI links: * Netflix Open Sources Maestro, a Next-Gen Data Workflow Engine. Another example of big industry players releasing powerful open-source. Maestro is a highly scalable data orchestration layer for AI/ML systems. This isn't as headline-grabbing as an LLM, but still very

Sunday Links: Meta, Risk, and Model Collapse

This week, Meta almost dominates the headlines with its continuing push in open source and a model that is now officially "risky" in the EU. Let's get into the links: * Open Source AI Is the Path Forward. On Tuesday, Meta's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, published

Saturday Links: Small models, embedding tuners and EU regulation

Here are this week's links: * More Small Languages Models: Arcee AI lands $24M Series A. I've written about the emergence of Small Language Models before. Acree focuses on task-specific narrow LLMs in a particular domain. The models are around 7B parameters and can also be mergers

Sunday Links: Five steps to AGI, return on investment and rabbit holes

Happy Sunday, and here are this week's AI links: * OpenAI's five-step ladder to AGI (is nonsense). From all the rumors about a possible ChatGPT 5, it does seem like it might be a major innovation, and my guess would be that it will include some symbolic

Sunday Links: Training sets, $2B AI traders and the Chevron doctrine

Happy 4th of July week if you're in the US (and possibly in the UK!). This week's post is very late due to travel; my apologies. Still, here are the week's links (just three this week - back to normal service next weekend!): * IBM

Saturday Links: AI self-reflection, compilers and critics

Here are this week's AI links: * The AI developer... A great step-by-step analysis post by Marie Brayer of Fly Ventures on the progress towards Code writing AI in its many forms. AI and code generation go hand in hand because you have a perfect execution environment against which

Saturday Links: Consultancy revenue, minimal code and Go

Here are this week's links. A bit less Apple, a bit more machine learning. * Accenture says strong AI demand to power 2024 revenue growth. AI consulting is definitely paying off right now, with Accenture projecting over $2B of generative AI-related revenue in 2024 and making a hiring push.

Sunday Links: Parrot, Apple AI AI, and building LLMs

A little later again due to travel during the week, but here are this week's links: * CodeParrot: An AI-powered tool that Transforms Figma Files into Production Ready Code. One of the more widely talked about this week is Parrot, which takes Figma (interface code design) files and turns

Sunday Links: AI Trillions, Ontologies and Weather Balloons

A little late again this week after a lot of travel. Here are the most interesting links I came across: * NVIDIA's Market cap. In other news, NVIDIA's market cap rose to over $3Trillion this week, briefly overtaking Apple. NVIDIA crossed the $1T mark in May 2023

Sunday Links: $6B for another foundation model, bots, and more publisher licensing

It's a little late this weekend, but maybe this will help you kick off your Monday. Here are this week's links: * Perplexity is rolling out report creation. Perplexity is still my go-to web search tool despite Google bringing Gemini into play for search summaries (see below

Saturday Links: AlphaFold3, The SEO Storm and Mapping LLM Concepts

Here are this week's links: * AlphaFold 3 now predicts how proteins interact. Google's AlphaFold project is already one of the best examples of using AI to understand the biological world. Versions 1 and 2 were able to predict possible protein folding configurations, which was a major