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Advancing AI technology is only possible through super powerful chips. We all know Nvidia is the main leader in the field, but AMD is trying its luck and planning to overthrow their reign!

Here’s what you’ll find today:

• AMD announces new AI chips

• Improving AI agents with “world knowledge”

• Nvidia presents its next-gen AI chips

• Tribeca Film Festival showcases AI-generated short films

• ElevenLabs launches a sound effect model

• And more.

⚡️ AMD announces new AI chips (5 min)

Most companies are looking for ways to tackle Nvidia's dominance in the chip-making industry, and one of them is AMD, which has unveiled its special plan to develop AI chips over the next two years. Announcements include the MI325X accelerator, the MI350 chips, which will be based on a new architecture, and the MI400 series arriving in 2026.

The AI revolution and the urgency to release new applications have driven increased demand for AI chips capable of handling their power. Nvidia has been the biggest player for a while now, but AMD may have what it takes to shift the course of chip-making.

📄 Improving AI agents with “world knowledge” (2 min)

Researchers from Zhejiang University and Alibaba are optimising AI agents with an approach called the "world knowledge model." This method provides more information to agents, such as those based on GPT-4, improving their problem-solving capabilities, similar to how humans use their understanding of the world to develop solutions.

WKM is based on two types of knowledge: "task" and "state." This allows the AI models to constantly learn from successful and unsuccessful problem-solving attempts, gather this information to avoid wrong paths and perform tasks accurately, especially complex or unknown ones.

💥 Nvidia presents its next-gen AI chips (1 min)

Staying committed to speeding up chip development, Nvidia introduced its new AI chip architecture, Rubin, at COMPUTEX Taipei. This upcoming release appears just a few months after the reveal of the company's "Blackwell" model, which will ship later this year.

Rubin is a response to the competitiveness and rapid advancement of the AI landscape, in which Nvidia remains the leader. CEO Jensen Huang is aware of the company's position on this rollercoaster of innovation and is focused on preserving it.

🎥OpenAI's Sora is slightly diving into the film industry, as it has been recently announced that the 2024 Tribeca Festival will showcase a series of short films generated by the AI model. Sora is still unavailable to the public, but the directors who will harness AI for their storytelling were granted early access.

🔊ElevenLabs continues to strive with its audio generation technology, this time with a tool that allows users to create sound effects through prompts. Besides effects, there's also the possibility of generating up to 22 seconds of musical clips. A licensed Shutterstock audio library was used to train the model.

⚡️Quick links

Nvidia’s G-Assist is an AI chatbot that guides you through games and optimizes your PC

A top secret meeting is kicking off in Madrid with the CEOs of Google DeepMind, Anthropic and Microsoft AI

AI training data has a price tag that only Big Tech can afford

OpenAI is making ChatGPT cheaper for schools and nonprofits

Sony Pictures wants to use generative AI to cut movie production costs

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