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Sutskever leaves OpenAI, Everything from Google’s I/O, Introducing: BioHive-2
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Sthefania
May 15, 2024
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Hello, Starters!
The AI landscape can have some sudden twists and turns that we cannot even expect. As great announcements come, we also see that big departures are happening. What a rollercoaster!
Here’s what you’ll find today:
Ilya Sutskever is officially leaving OpenAI
Google’s I/O was all about AI
Recursion introduces BioHive-2
TII presents Falcon 2 11B
TikTok plans to add AI-driven search results
And more.
Following some of its best days in AI development, OpenAI is now facing a surprising separation as Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever, one of its co-founders, is leaving the company. Alongside him, Jan Leike, a member of Sutskever's Superalignment team, is also resigning.
Sutskever has been a key part of OpenAI's history since its founding in 2015, as well as one of the board members involved in Sam Altman's removal as CEO last November, which has left some unsolved questions in the AI world. Despite this, Ilya's parting was amicable, and Altman and Greg Brockman shared their best wishes for him.
Sutskever will be replaced by Jakub Pachocki, who was working as OpenAI's Director of Research.
🧑💻 Google’s I/O was all about AI (8 min)
As expected, Google's I/O 2024 conference was filled with AI; they even counted how many times it was mentioned (over 120!). The keynote has repositioned Google as one of the main players in the AI race, although many feared that OpenAI's recent moves might overshadow them. However, plenty of their offerings and upgrades are worth checking out.
Some of the most relevant announcements include Veo, an AI model capable of creating 1080p video clips through text prompts, drawing similarities to Sora, and Project Astra, a research prototype for an AI assistant that could challenge GPT-4o. Google has also upgraded its Gemma 2 model by expanding it to 27 billion parameters, and they've joined the compact model frenzy with a nano version of Gemini.
🧬 Recursion introduces BioHive-2 (2 min)
Recursion, a biopharma company, has launched BioHive-2, which appears to be the most powerful supercomputer in the pharmaceutical field. Powered by 504 Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPUs, BioHive-2 is 5x faster than its predecessor, reaching an AI performance of 2 exaflops.
Through this achievement, Recursion can harness AI models to continue research in promising areas of biology, accelerating AI-driven drug discovery, and showcasing how the technology is set to transform the healthcare and biology industry.
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🤖TII has recently introduced Falcon 2, which boasts two versions: Falcon 2 11B, a language model, and Falcon 2 11B VLM, their first multimodal model excelling in vision-to-language capabilities. These open-source models surpass Meta's Llama 3 in several benchmarks and almost match Google's Gemma 7B performance.
🔎Joining the AI-powered search trend, TikTok is currently testing the integration of this technology into its search results page with a new feature called “search highlights.” This feature will utilise ChatGPT to summarise relevant answers to specific queries, such as those related to recipes or products.
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