Sign Up | Advertise | Tools | View Online | | | G’day Humans! | A wide range of news stories covering everything from increased competition in AI to robots at an upcoming government summit. | Just another day in the world of AI. | | In today’s AI rundown: | 🧠 Baidu's ERNIE 3.5 outshines GPT-4 💵 Reka ready to roll with $58 million 🦾 UN summit to welcome 50+ robots 🛠️ 5 New AI tools and 3 quick hits
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| | | | BAIDU | |  | Source: Reuters |
| Baidu's just introduced ERNIE 3.5, which trounces GPT-4 in Chinese language tasks and dramatically boosts inference throughput by an astonishing 17-fold compared to ERNIE 3.0. | The model's fresh "plugin" feature promises real-time info generation and enhanced text summarization. That’s in addition to a commitment to open the plugin ecosystem to third-party developers. | According to Dr. Haifeng Wang, CTO of Baidu, “Any applications involving language, text, or code can potentially utilize ERNIE Bot.” | One thing is clear: Baidu's ERNIE 3.5 is gunning for AI domination. |
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| | REKA | |  | Source: Reka |
| Reka, a startup born out of DeepMind, Google, Baidu, and Meta, comes out of nowhere and raises a cool $58 million (led by DST Global Partners and founding investor Radical Ventures) to redefine task-specific large language models (LLMs). | Its flagship product, Yasa, is an easily-customizable multimodal AI assistant, proving that in the AI landscape, personalization is no longer a luxury but a necessity. | Reka founder Dani Yogatama said that Yasa, which is in closed beta, can be easily personalized to proprietary data and applications. | What do you think? Are you bullish on Reka’s future? |
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| | UN SUMMIT | |  | Source: The Next Web |
| Next week, the United Nations is set to host a summit in Geneva where top-tier tech gurus like futurist Ray Kurzweil and DeepMind's COO, Lila Ibrahim, will discuss AI for good. | But it's not just the human attendees making headlines — over 50 robots, primarily from Europe, will be rubbing elbows (or gears) with these tech luminaries. | Expect your dreams (and nightmares) to be populated by this mechanized entourage, but for now, click the link above to learn more about the robots in attendance. | Buckle up, because it looks like the UN is about to become the 'United Robots'. |
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