Last Week in AI - #129 - AI Clippy, lots of AI funding, Ernie 3.5, RoboCat, AI act, Adobe AI...

Our 129th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ (https://lastweekin.ai/) Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai (mailto:contact@lastweekin.ai) Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:05:40) These 'A.I. humans' are letting gamers modify their voices in real time (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/21/voicemod-ai-humans-let-gamers-modify-their-voices-in-real-time.html) (00:07:48) New Clippy app gives us a taste of AI in Windows 11 (https://www.xda-developers.com/clippy-ai-windows-11/) (00:10:40) ChatGPT on iOS now comes with Bing built-in (https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/27/23776006/chatgpt-ios-app-bing-search) Applications & Business (00:11:50) Junk websites filled with AI-generated text are pulling in money from programmatic ads (https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/26/1075504/junk-websites-filled-with-ai-generated-text-are-pulling-in-money-from-programmatic-ads/) (00:14:28) AI startups buck funding winter, grow share in ’23 (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/ai-startups-buck-funding-winter-grow-share-in-23/articleshow/101266372.cms) (00:18:35) The TSA will use facial recognition in over 400 airports (https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/1/23781040/the-tsa-will-use-facial-recognition-in-over-400-airports) (00:20:18) OpenAI Chooses London for Its First Corporate Office Outside US (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-28/openai-opening-london-office-after-sam-altman-s-around-the-world-tour?sref=b0SdE1lu&tpcc=nleyeonai) (00:21:24) Unity shares rise 12% after company announces A.I. marketplace (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/27/unity-stock-up-12percent-after-company-announces-ai-marketplace.html) (00:22:40) Fundings Inflection lands $1.3B investment to build more ‘personal’ AI (https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/29/inflection-ai-lands-1-3b-investment-to-build-more-personal-ai/) Runway, a startup building generative AI for content creators, raises $141M (https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/29/runway-a-startup-building-generative-ai-for-content-creators-raises-141m/) Typeface, which is building generative AI for brands, raises $100M at a $1B valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/29/typeface-which-is-building-generative-ai-for-brands-raises-100m-at-a-1b-valuation/) Celestial AI raises $100M to transfer data using light-based interconnects (https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/28/celestial-ai-raises-100m-to-transfer-data-using-light-based-interconnects/) Gleamer, which provides AI software for radiologists, raises $29.5M (https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/28/gleamer-which-provides-ai-software-for-radiologists-raises-29-5m/) Parrot, an AI-powered transcription platform that turns speech into text, raises $11M Series A (https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/20/parrot-ai-a-transcription-platform-that-turns-speech-into-text-raises-11m-series-a/) (00:26:45) Acquisitions Databricks Strikes $1.3 Billion Deal for Generative AI Startup MosaicML (https://www.wsj.com/articles/databricks-strikes-1-3-billion-deal-for-generative-ai-startup-mosaicml-fdcefc06) Meituan buys founder’s months-old ‘OpenAI for China’ for $234M (https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/29/meituan-buys-founders-months-old-openai-for-china-for-280m/) As the generative AI craze rages on, Ramp acquires customer support startup Cohere.io (https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/26/as-the-generative-ai-craze-rages-on-fintech-ramp-acquires-ai-powered-customer-support-startup-cohere-io/) Nvidia Acquired AI Startup That Shrinks Machine-Learning Models (https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/nvidia-acquired-ai-startup-that-shrinks-machine-learning-models?rc=tuauap) Projects & Open Source (00:30:51) Unraveling GPU Inference Costs for Fine-tuned Open-source Models V/S Closed Platforms (https://mlops.community/unraveling-gpu-inference-costs-for-fine-tuned-open-source-models-v-s-closed-platforms/) Research & Advancements (00:33:48) Researchers From LinkedIn And UC Berkeley Propose A New Method To Detect AI-Generated Profile Photos (https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/06/24/researchers-from-linkedin-and-uc-berkeley-propose-a-new-method-to-detect-ai-generated-profile-photos/) (00:35:35) China's Baidu claims its Ernie Bot beats ChatGPT on key tests as A.I. race heats up (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/27/baidu-claims-its-ernie-bot-beats-openais-chatgpt-on-key-ai-tests.html) (00:38:47) LeanDojo: Theorem Proving with Retrieval-Augmented Language Models (https://leandojo.org/?utm_source=marktechpost-newsletter.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=ai-news-baidu-challenges-gpt-theorem-proving-llms-motiongpt-more-ai-updates-june-28-2023-edition) (00:40:21) Self-Improving Robots: Embracing Autonomy in Robot Learning (http://ai.stanford.edu/blog/self-improving-robots/) (00:41:48) RoboCat: A self-improving robotic agent (https://www.deepmind.com/blog/robocat-a-self-improving-robotic-agent)...