AI Brews

AI Brews is a weekly newsletter focused on the latest developments in artificial intelligence, targeting AI engineers, founders, and enthusiasts. It covers advances in models and applications across text-to-video, code generation, drug discovery, natural language processing, and generative AI, with additional insights into AI regulations, economic impacts, and education.

Generative AI AI Regulations and Ethics AI in Healthcare Natural Language Processing AI in Software Development AI Education and Skill Building Economic Impacts of AI AI in Media and Entertainment AI for Automation and Productivity

The hottest Substack posts of AI Brews

And their main takeaways

Emu Video Edit , General game-playing AI agent, fully autonomous AI software engineer, DeepSeek-VL, Robotics Foundation Model, and more

17 implied HN points • 15 Mar 24
🕹 Technology AI Generative models Robotics Natural Language Processing
  1. DeepSeek-VL is a new vision-language model for real-world applications with competitive performance.
  2. Cognition Labs introduces Devin, the first fully autonomous AI software engineer, capable of learning, building, and deploying apps.
  3. The European Parliament approved the Artificial Intelligence Act, which bans certain AI applications including biometric categorization and emotion recognition in specific contexts.

Meta's V-JEPA vision models, OpenAI's Sora video model, Gemini 1.5 Pro with 1 million tokens context, Reka Flash, Largest text-to-speech AI model and more

32 implied HN points • 16 Feb 24
🕹 Technology AI Language Models Multimodal models Text-to-Speech
  1. OpenAI introduced Sora, a text-to-video model capable of creating detailed videos up to 60 seconds long with vibrant emotions.
  2. Meta AI unveiled V-JEPA, a method for teaching machines to understand the physical world by watching videos, using self-supervised learning for feature prediction.
  3. Google announced Gemini 1.5 Pro with a context window of up to 1 million tokens, allowing for advanced understanding and reasoning tasks across different modalities like video.

Mistral Large, vocal expressive avatar videos, Generative virtual worlds, Reliable text rendering and Magic Prompt, DJ Mode, AI-powered film making and more

17 implied HN points • 01 Mar 24
🕹 Technology AI Generative models
  1. Mistral introduced new models like Mistral Large with top-tier reasoning abilities and Mistral Small optimized for latency and cost.
  2. Alibaba introduced EMO, a framework that generates expressive vocal avatar videos from a single reference image and vocal audio.
  3. Ideogram launched Ideogram 1.0, a text-to-image model focused on state-of-the-art text rendering and a Magic Prompt feature to assist with prompting.

Calude 3 Opus, Train a 70b language model at home, Firewall for AI, Fast 3D Object Generation from Single Images, multimodal foundation model for any-to-any search tasks, and more

12 implied HN points • 08 Mar 24
🕹 Technology AI Models Open Source Tools Partnerships
  1. New advanced AI models like Claude 3 are being introduced with enhanced features and capabilities, outperforming previous models on various benchmarks.
  2. Innovations in AI technology include tools like a fast 3D object generation model from a single image and a multimodal foundation model for diverse search tasks.
  3. Developments in AI also focus on enabling training large language models at home, creating AI firewalls for protection, and making AI tools more accessible and efficient.
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Screenshots to Code Dataset, Multi Motion Brush in Gen-2, Open-source AGI, AI system that solves complex geometry problems, AI in drug discovery and more

22 implied HN points • 19 Jan 24
🕹 Technology AI Open Source Code generation Drug Discovery Artificial General Intelligence
  1. Google DeepMind's AlphaGeometry AI system solves complex geometry problems at human Olympiad level.
  2. Codium AI's AlphaCodium improves code generation in LLMs with test-based iterative flow.
  3. Meta is working on open-source AGI and Microsoft Research made progress in AI-driven drug discovery.

GPT Store, text-to-3d in under 10 seconds, DeepSeekMoE 16B, jailbreaking advanced LLMs, LLaVA-ϕ, Microsoft's open-source agent framework, and more

12 implied HN points • 12 Jan 24
🕹 Technology AI Language Models Open Source AI Tools
  1. OpenAI launched the GPT Store for finding GPT models and a revenue program for GPT builders.
  2. DeepSeek released DeepSeekMoE 16B, a large language model with 16.4B parameters trained from scratch.
  3. Microsoft Research introduced TaskWeaver, an open-source agent framework to convert natural language requests into executable code.

Meta's New AI model, Generating websites and 3D textures using natural language, economic potential of Generative AI and more

20 implied HN points • 16 Jun 23
🕹 Technology AI Generative AI Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Big Data
  1. Meta AI introduces a new Image Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture model that excels in computer vision tasks and is open-sourced.
  2. McKinsey's report highlights the economic potential of generative AI, estimating it could add trillions annually across various use cases.
  3. EU lawmakers pass regulations for AI systems, requiring review of generative AI like ChatGPT before commercial release and banning real-time facial recognition.

100K context windows, Stable Animation SDK, Airtable AI, Google's massive AI updates, Transformers Agent and more

17 implied HN points • 12 May 23
🕹 Technology AI APIs Models Learning
  1. Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude can now handle 100K tokens and outperforms in complex question synthesis
  2. Stability AI released a Stable Animation SDK for creating animations from text or inputs like images or videos
  3. Airtable launched Airtable AI allowing users to utilize AI in workflows without coding, such as auto-categorizing feedback

ChatGPT for finance.Text-to-3D cinematic-quality digital humans. ChatGPT-like Language Model from Stability AI.

17 implied HN points • 21 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Generative AI Language Models Virtual reality Artificial Intelligence
  1. Stability AI released an open-source language model called StableLM trained on a large dataset.
  2. Synthesis AI developed text-to-3D technology to create cinematic-quality digital humans.
  3. Nvidia introduced Video Latent Diffusion Models for high-resolution text-to-video generation.

Any-to-Any Generative AI Model, Generative AI for 3D game development, Mobile app Development from Text, Context Window of 1 Billion+ tokens, Bark on Discord and more

2 HN points • 07 Jul 23
🕹 Technology AI Generative AI Game Development Mobile Apps Open Source
  1. Microsoft Research introduces a novel generative model that can create any combination of output from any input modalities.
  2. MoonlanderAI launches a generative AI platform for building immersive 3D games using text descriptions.
  3. Bark on Discord now provides text-to-audio capabilities, offering realistic multilingual speech and various audio outputs.