Apple's AI Breakthrough, Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku, Waabi's Copilot4D & More
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Welcome to another edition of AI Fridays! Here are the AI stories that spiked our interest this week.
🍏 Apple researchers achieve breakthrough in Multimodal AI.
🤖 Anthropic launches Claude 3 Haiku, a faster and more affordable innovative AI model.
🏎️ Waabi introduces Copilot4D, a foundation model for self-driving cars.
🧠 Introducing RAG 2.0.
🚀 NLX® announces $15 million in Series A funding.
Apple Achieves Breakthrough in Multimodal AI (🔗 Read Paper)
Apple researchers have unveiled groundbreaking methods for training large language models (LLMs) on both text and images, paving the way for more powerful and flexible AI systems.
Their research, detailed in a paper titled "MM1: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training," demonstrates the effectiveness of combining different types of training data and model architectures to achieve state-of-the-art performance on various AI benchmarks.
Notably, the study emphasizes the importance of scaling visual components and optimizing image encoders for enhanced model performance. This breakthrough comes as Apple intensifies its investments in artificial intelligence, aiming to leverage AI capabilities in products like Siri, Messages, and Apple Music.
Anthropic Introduces Claude 3 Haiku (🔗 Read Paper)
Anthropic launches Claude 3 Haiku, an innovative and faster AI model available for Claude Pro subscribers and accessible through the API.
This new release promises unparalleled speed and affordability, coupled with cutting-edge vision capabilities and robust performance on industry benchmarks. Designed with enterprise applications in mind, Haiku revolutionizes the way businesses handle large datasets and execute time-sensitive tasks like customer support.
Haiku's pricing model, featuring a 1:5 input-to-output token ratio, ensures cost-effectiveness for enterprises dealing with lengthy prompts and documents. Plus, Claude 3 Haiku prioritizes security, undergoing rigorous testing and boasting multiple layers of defense to safeguard against harmful outputs and ensure data integrity.
Introducing RAG 2.0 (🔗 Read Paper)
Contextual AI Team introduces RAG 2.0, a cutting-edge approach designed to revolutionize AI for enterprise-grade performance.
This innovative system, unlike its predecessors, optimizes every component end to end, leading to state-of-the-art performance on various industry benchmarks. With Contextual Language Models (CLMs) at its core, RAG 2.0 outperforms existing RAG approaches and open-source models, promising significant advancements in generative AI for enterprise applications.
The team invites enterprises to join the waitlist and explore the potential of RAG 2.0 in unlocking the full power of generative AI for their organizations.
Copilot4D: Foundation Model for Self-Driving Cars (🔗 Read Paper)
Waabi introduces Copilot4D, a groundbreaking foundation model designed to revolutionize the way intelligent machines interact with and understand the physical world.
Unlike conventional AI models, Copilot4D is purpose-built to reason in three-dimensional space and the fourth dimension of time, enabling remarkable capabilities for real-time engagement in dynamic environments. Leveraging recent advancements in Generative AI, Copilot4D learns by predicting future observations based on continuous LiDAR data, bridging the gap between language and the physical world.
Through a sophisticated 3-stage architecture, including a LiDAR tokenizer, foundation model, and LiDAR renderer, Copilot4D forecasts how scenes will evolve, empowering autonomous vehicles, robotics, and more to make proactive decisions with unparalleled efficiency and safety.
NLX Raises 15M Series A (🔗 Read Paper)
NLX® celebrates a significant milestone with the announcement of $15 million in Series A funding, led by Cercano and joined by Comcast Ventures, Thayer Ventures, and HL Ventures. This investment underscores NLX's commitment to revolutionizing customer experiences for large and enterprise brands through cutting-edge AI technology. Andrei Papancea, NLX's CEO, emphasizes the importance of personalized, practical customer touchpoints grounded in AI innovation.
Leveraging generative AI and cloud software, NLX delivers exceptional customer experiences tailored to meet the scale, complexity, and compliance needs of enterprise brands like Red Bull and Copa Airlines. Lauren Glatter from Cercano and Ryan Chou from JetBlue Ventures express excitement about NLX's innovative approach and its potential to redefine the customer experience landscape.
With a global deployment spanning 90 countries and over 65 languages and locales, NLX is poised to continue its market expansion and deliver even more groundbreaking capabilities.
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