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Al Progress of February, 2023 Week 1 (1 Feb - 7 Feb) by pro_raze

1. Over 1 million researchers have used Deepmind's Alphafold Protein Structure Database
2. Google Al releases the Flan T5 Language Model Collection
3. Meta Al trained blind Al agents that can navigate similar to blind humans
4. ChatGPT Plus announced for $20 per month with waitlist (US only for now) - ChatGPT Users Topped 100 Million in January
5. Microsoft announces Teams Premium powered by GPT-3.5
6. Perplexity Ask (Al Search Engine) available as a Chrome extension
7. Microsoft boosts Viva Sales with new GPT seller experience (integration)
8. AudioLDM Text to Audio Generation available on Huggingface to use
9. Meta releases a 30B param "OPT+IML" model fine tuned on 2000 tasks
10. Google Al Open Sourced Vizier: a scaled blackbox optimization system
11. Dreamix: Video Diffusion Models are General Video Editors
12. SceneDreamer: Generating 3D Scenes From 2D Image Collections
13. SceneScape: Text-Driven Consistent Scene Generation
14. RobustNeRF: Basically improves quality of NeRFs
15. OpenAl's New Paper: A proof of concept for using Al-assisted human feedback to scale the supervision of ML systems
16. Deepmind Paper: Accelerating Large Language Model Decoding with Speculative Sampling (2-2.5x speedup)
17. Amazon Al: Multimodal-CoT outperforms GPT-3.5 by 16% (75.17% -> 91.68%) on ScienceQA and even surpasses human performance
18. Sundar Pichai announced: LaMDA language model within "coming weeks and months"
19. AutumnSynth synthesizes the source code of a 2D video game from seconds of play
20. Nvidia Paper: Enabling Simulated Characters To Perform Scene Interaction Tasks In Natural/Lifelike Manner
21. Poe, a ChatGPT like bot launched from the creators of Quora. They are also making API for it. Currently iOS only.
22. Google invests $300 million in Anthropic Al (Done in 2022, reported now)
23. BLIP-2 demo available on Huggingface: LLM that can understand images
24. Humata.ai launched: Basically ChatGPT for your own files
25. Bing+ GPT integration images leaked
26. Google's new Real-time tracking of wildfire boundaries using satellite imagery
27. LAION AI introduces Open Assistant: Chatbot project that understands tasks, interacts with third-party systems, and retrieve information dynamically (open source)
28. Apple CEO Tim Cook says Al will eventually 'affect every product and service we have'
29. Epic-Sounds: A Large-scale Dataset of Actions That Sound Released
30. announcing stable attribution - a tool which lets anyone find the human creators behind a.i generated images
31. presenting TEXTure, a novel method for text-guided generation, editing, and transfer of textures for 3D shapes
32. -Tune-A-Video available to use and also open sourced (turns Al Generated Images into gifs or videos)
33. Filechat.io now available - ChatGPT for your own data and no limits (with premium tier)
34. BioGPT-Large by Microsoft now available on Huggingface to try
35. Google announces Bard, powered by LaMDA coming soon as an Al conversational service. It will be integrated with Search.
36. Microsoft announces surprise event for tomorrow with Bing ChatGPT expected (Feb 7)
37. Language Models Secretly Perform Gradient Descent as Meta-Optimizers Paper - In-context-learning, the ability for LLMs to learn new abilities from examples in a prompt alone
38. Apple to hold in-person 'Al summit' event for employees at Steve Jobs Theater
39. -Seek Al introduces DeepCuts, the AI SQL app that lets you explore your Spotify data with natural language
40. KickResume's Al Resume Builder can rewrite, format, and grade a resume
41. Introducing Polymath: The open-source tool that converts any music-library into a sample-library with machine learning
42. Microsoft & OpenAI Announce: Bing and Edge + Al: a new way to search starts today