The First AI Scientist, FactoryOps, and Will You Marry a Chatbot?

Tools, links, and news in the artificial intelligence space.

Morning y’all!

Today is August 13th and 13 is my favorite number — what does that mean? It means that today should be a good day. I mean, why not?

Sometimes you just have to manifest the good stuff and intentionally decide to ignore the bad and apparently this is a skill you can actually develop. Let’s get to it.

Vercel has a meaningful overview of how they suggest building and scaling AI applications including some obvious reminders like clean data and pre-training and fine-tuning your LLM(s) in the most cost-effective way.

Side note: I have used Vercel and I haven’t been upset with their service.

Sakana, a Tokyo-based team, has introduced the first “AI Scientist” which can automonously conduct research. I’m not sure about the fish image but it’s cool.

MIT Review has an overview of how folks are really using AI including AI companions which can become “addictive intelligence,” an interesting angle.

But not everyone shares the negative perspective as Replika’s CEO says that it’s entirely okay if we end up marrying these chatbots.

Cosine is doing some victory laps right now as their new AI software engineer is blowing through the benchmark scores.

A 10% increase over the previous leader isn’t a small thing.

Jupitrr can allow you to create instant B-roll visuals for marketing videos.

Guidewheel just raised $31m for AI-powered FactoryOps. Neat!

Microsoft has teamed up with ANZ, a banking service, to train thousands of leaders in AI adoption through it’s new Immersion Center.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has invested $500m to support AI-driven life science projects in its research community.

Ragie, a San Francisco-based AI data ingestion, index, and retrieval platform, raised $5.5 million in seed funding. Cool website.

Your AI command centre for managing all your AI-related product needs.

And that’s it folks! Have a great rest of your day!

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— Summer