Space Economy, Open Source Wearable, And When We Stop Finding New Music

A few links and news from around the AI world.

Summer

Apr 26, 2024

Morning y’all!

It’s Friday and it’s time to take a good weekend for ourselves, breathe in deeply, and appreciate what you’ve got!

I know that’s what I’m doing this last weekend in April. Time is flying!

※\(^o^)/※

— Summer

There’s a lot of attention on the space economy and AI is taking a center stage around it. I love to look at the stars but I spend more time thinking about our present challenges than I do decades or even centuries away.

Turn any webpage into structured data using LLMs. An open source project too.

Snowflake has released Artic, an enterprise-grade LLM that delivers top-tier performance in SQL generation, coding, and instruction-following benchmarks at a fraction of the cost. They’ve got some open source libraries too.

Kickstarter project for an open source wearable AI device. It’s got 230 backers thus far so their campaign is still trying to take off. 29 days to go.

An interesting thought-piece about AI and musical tastes and when we may stop finding new music altogether. It did make me think for a moment about my own preferences and how they really haven’t changed that much, if at all.

Langtail looks very useful for working with AI infrastructure.

Seems like a new or young project but I was impressed with what I saw.

This warning label had me giggle:

WARNING: These models WILL sound bad to a lot of people. The goal is not create pleasant sounding music, but to spark creativity by using the weird sounds of Neural Codecs for music production and sampling!

Enjoy that.

An AI superpower via Saudi Arabia? It definitely doesn’t feel an impossibility these days especially because I see so much money being poured into it.

Chinese tech firm SenseTime just launched SenseNova 5.0, a major update to its large model — featuring capabilities that beat GPT-4 Turbo across nearly all key benchmarks, and that’s saying something.

A bit more technical but they’ve got a good series on YouTube covering a number of intense topics. Have at it.

Synthesia released Expressive Avatars that was neat to review but still not perfect. Even their demo video shows how the “gap” is still there. But, it’s going to close.