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BIG TECH & STARTUPS

WITH VIDS, GOOGLE THINKS IT HAS THE NEXT BIG PRODUCTIVITY TOOL FOR
WORK (4 MINUTE READ) [4]

Google's new Vids app can create collaborative shareable videos for
things people do at work. The app makes making videos as easy as
making slides - no video production is required. Users line up assets
inside the app and edit it all into a finished video. They can choose
to do all of this themselves or ask Google's Gemini AI to build
storyboards, write scripts, read the scripts aloud using
text-to-speech, and create images to use in the video. People with
access to the video can add comments, leave notes, and make edits.
Vids will launch in public beta this summer.

INTEL'S GAUDI 3 GOES AFTER NVIDIA (3 MINUTE READ) [5]

Intel gave the first architectural details of its Gaudi 3
third-generation AI processor at Vision 2024 this week in Phoenix,
Arizona. Gaudi 3 is made up of two identical silicon dies, each with a
central region of 48 megabytes of cache memory, joined by a
high-bandwidth connection, surrounded by four engines for matrix
multiplication and 32 programmable units called tensor processor
cores. It produces double the AI compute of Gaudi 2 using 8-bit
floating-point infrastructure. It also provides a fourfold boost for computations using the BFloat 16 number format.

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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

META CONFIRMS THAT ITS LLAMA 3 OPEN SOURCE LLM IS COMING IN THE NEXT
MONTH (3 MINUTE READ) [6]

Meta plans to release an initial version of its next-generation Llama
3 large language model within the next month. The company will release
a number of different models with different capabilities and
versatilities during the course of the year. Llama 3 will be able to
answer a wider range of questions compared to its predecessor,
including questions regarding more controversial topics. Meta has not
released any details about the model's size, but it is expected to
have about 140 billion parameters - the biggest Llama 2 model has 70
billion.

GABE NEWELL'S NEURAL INTERFACE COMPANY UPDATED ITS WEBSITE (2 MINUTE
READ) [7]

Starfish, a neural interface company co-founded by Gabe Newell,
recently updated its website, indicating that its team is working hard
on its brain-computer solutions. The company is developing minimally
invasive one-dimensional implants for neuromodulation and neural
recording. Newell's interest in the field goes back to at least 2021,
when he brought up the idea of using brain-computer interfaces for
gaming. Valve has previously worked to create open source software to
allow developers to understand signals coming from people's brains.

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PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

GOOGLE LAUNCHES CODE ASSIST, ITS LATEST CHALLENGER TO GITHUB'S
COPILOT (5 MINUTE READ) [8]

Google's Gemini Code Assist is an enterprise-focused AI code
completion and assistance tool. It was previously offered under the
now-defunct Duet AI branding which became generally available in late
2023. Code Assist is both a rebrand and a major update. It uses Gemini
1.5 Pro, which has a million-token context window. Code Assist will be available through plug-ins for popular editors like VS Code.

CHRONON (GITHUB REPO) [9]

Chronon is a platform that allows organizations to power AI/ML
projects without needing to worry about orchestration by abstracting
away the complexity of data computation and serving for AI/ML
applications. It can perform batch and streaming computation, scalable backfills, low-latency serving, and more. Chronon can utilize all of
the data within an organization.

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MISCELLANEOUS

BEEPER WAS JUST ACQUIRED BY AUTOMATTIC, WHICH HAS BIG PLANS FOR THE
FUTURE OF MESSAGING (3 MINUTE READ) [10]

Beeper, the company that attempted to launch an app that let Android
users use iMessage a few months ago, has been acquired by Automattic,
the giant that owns WordPress. As part of the deal, Beeper is opening
up its messaging app, which attempts to corral all messaging services
into one inbox, to everyone across platforms, and shutting down its
waitlist for good. Automattic's CEO says that messaging will be the
next big pillar of the company. Its team intends to replace a lot of
messaging methods with an open-source system.

APPLE PLANNING TO OPEN LARGE OFFICE IN MIAMI (1 MINUTE READ) [11]

Apple is leasing an office building in the Miami area. The 45,000
square feet of space, located at The Plaza Coral Gables, is still
under construction. Apple is also planning to open a new retail store
at the Miami Worldcenter in the heart of the city. Multiple tech
companies have expanded to South Florida, including Amazon and
Microsoft.

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QUICK LINKS

GOOGLE'S NEW ARM-BASED CPU WILL CHALLENGE MICROSOFT AND AMAZON IN
THE AI RACE (2 MINUTE READ) [12]

Google's new Arm-based CPU, Axion, will be used to support Google's
AI workloads before it rolls out to Google Cloud business customers
later this year.

BUILDING RELIABLE SYSTEMS OUT OF UNRELIABLE AGENTS (24 MINUTE READ)
[13]

It's possible to build reliable systems out of AI models by writing
simple prompts, building an eval system to do prompt engineering and
improve performance in a principled way, deploying AI systems with
good observability, investing in Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG),
and fine-tuning models using data gathered from the process.

OPENAI MAKES GPT-4 TURBO WITH VISION AVAILABLE TO DEVELOPERS TO
UNLOCK NEW AI APPS (2 MINUTE READ) [14]

GPT-4 Turbo with Vision allows developers to call on a single model
for both text and image processing.

LIFEHACKS (9 MINUTE READ) [15]

This post contains a list of 130 tips and mindsets for living a
better life.

THE THREAT TO OPEN SOURCE COMES FROM WITHIN (11 MINUTE READ) [16]

The fragile balance of open source will be disrupted if the community
comes to believe that maintaining that balance is more trouble than
it's worth.

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