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[2024-07-01] Notable Recent AI Links, Monday Edition

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France leads the pack for generative AI funding in Europe | TechCrunch

(Wednesday, June 19, 2024) “Like it or hate it, artificial intelligence — especially generative AI — is the technology story of 2024. OpenAI, with its rollouts of viral services like”

Generative AI Can’t Cite Its Sources

(Wednesday, June 26, 2024) “How will OpenAI keep its promise to media companies?”

Illia Polosukhin On Inventing The Tech Behind Generative AI At Google

(Thursday, June 27, 2024) “Illia Polosukhin is one of the “Transformer 8,” a group that many call the founding fathers of generative AI. They co-wrote a paper at Google in 2017 that es…”

How generative AI could reinvent what it means to play

“AI-powered NPCs that don’t need a script could make games—and other worlds—deeply immersive.”

Cornell transforms generative AI education and clones a faculty member | Cornell Chronicle

“Designing and Building AI Solutions is a new online certificate program, with one-of-a-kind features designed to enhance the learning experience for those that desire to build their own AI products—no coding required.”

[2024-06-27] Notable Recent AI Links, Thursday Edition

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Empowering every scientist with AI-augmented scientific discovery – The Official Microsoft Blog

(Tuesday, June 18, 2024) “At Microsoft, our vision is to empower scientists with the latest breakthroughs in AI to unlock their full creative potential and tackle some of our most pressing challenges. This vision will require bringing the full power of generative AI together with quantum-classical hybrid computing to augment every stage of the scientific method. Whether expanding knowledge…”

CuspAI raises $30M to create a GenAI-driven search engine for new materials | TechCrunch

(Tuesday, June 18, 2024) “The company says its platform functions like a search engine for materials, enabling the fast evaluation of a “vast number of novel structures.””

Embracer Group believes AI will “empower” developers

(Thursday, June 20, 2024) “Game developers have expressed concerns about AI.”

How Amazon Bedrock Helps Build GenAI Apps in Python

(Thursday, June 20, 2024) “In this episode of the New Stack Makers, Suman Debnath of AWS discussed how Amazon Bedrock, a GenAI framework, can accelerate developers’ work.”

Nvidia hints at the future of DLSS for AI-generated textures and NPCs in games

(Monday, June 24, 2024) “At a Computex 2024 Q&A session, Nvidia CEO Huang dropped some tantalizing hints about where the chipmaker is taking DLSS next. Currently, DLSS uses AI to upscale…”

How High-Performance Computing Is Shaping the Future of Quantum and AI | InTechnology | Intel

(Monday, June 24, 2024) “In this What That Means video, Camille talks with James Reinders, a high-performance computing engineer at Intel. They get into how supercomputers came to be…”

AI is in the tire-kicking phase

(Tuesday, June 25, 2024) “Smart companies will experiment with small generative AI applications to gain the skills and confidence to try bolder projects.”

“It Was Astonishing”: How NBC Convinced Al Michaels to Embrace His AI Voice for Olympics Coverage

(Wednesday, June 26, 2024) “The network will use an artificial clone of the legendary broadcaster’s voice to narrate its daily recaps of the summer event. “It was not only close,” he says of the technology, “it was almost 2% off perfect.””

The next entertainment industry strike could be over AI and video games

(Thursday, June 27, 2024) “Hollywood’s video game actors want to avoid a strike, but negotiations between SAG-AFTRA and video game companies have stalled over the use of artificial intelligence.”

Forget AI – quantum computing is the disruptive tech that will really shape Ireland’s future

“It is vitally important that we prepare for the quantum era in order to reap the strategic and economic advantages”

[2024-06-24] Notable Recent AI Links, Monday Edition

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Steam :: Steamworks Development :: AI Content on Steam

(Tuesday, January 09, 2024) “Back in June, we shared that while our goal continues to be shipping as many games as possible on Steam, we needed some time to learn about the fast-moving and legally murky space of AI technology, especially given Steam’s worldwide reach. Today, after spending the last few months learning more about this space and talking with game developers, we are making changes to how we handle games that use AI technology. This will enable us to release the vast majority of games that use it.”

Blog | The Rise of Generative AI in Revolutionizing Game Development

“In this article, we’ll explore the impact of generative AI on game development, the challenges it presents, and how developers can leverage automation tools to navigate this new frontier.”

HPE Unveils NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE: Enterprise AI Ascends

“HPE & NVIDIA debut “NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE” portfolio of co-developed AI solutions aimed at transforming enterprise AI.”

Introducing Claude 3.5 Sonnet

“Introducing Claude 3.5 Sonnet—our most intelligent model yet. Sonnet now outperforms competitor models and Claude 3 Opus on key evaluations, at twice the speed.”

This Week’s Interesting AI Articles (weekly)

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This Week’s Interesting AI Articles

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This Week’s Interesting AI Articles

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My Recent Futurum Group Publications

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This is the first posting. It includes all my Research Notes and Analyst Insights to date. In the future, it will just be what was published during the week.

Quantinuum Announces Breakthroughs for Quantum Computing – The Futurum Group

“Quantinuum paves the way to larger ion trap quantum computing systems by simplifying & multiplexing the control infrastructure for its qubits”

Quantum in Context: Rigetti Q4 2023 Earnings and Other Numbers – The Futurum Group

“Rigetti’™s expenses continue to far outweigh its revenue, though the company has made progress closing contracts with UK and US”

Quantum in Context: D-Wave Q4 2023 Earnings & Other Numbers – The Futurum Group

“D-Wave’™s expenses still far outweigh its revenue; it will need to add customers while demonstrating its annealing approach.”

Quantum in Context: A Qubit Primer – The Futurum Group

“This article introduces the key ideas and concepts of Qubits, the physical instantiation of the units of information in quantum computers.”

Microsoft & Quantinuum Create Real Logical Qubits – The Futurum Group

“Microsoft and Quantinuum announced a significant breakthrough in achieving real logical qubits with error detection and correction.”

UXL to Be an Open-Source Alternative to NVIDIA’™s CUDA? – The Futurum Group

“The NVIDIA CUDA platform will soon have competition from the Unified Acceleration Foundation’™s (UXL’™s) open-source alternative.”

The Case for On-Premises Quantum Computers – The Futurum Group

“Having an IBM Quantum System One at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) raises the profile of installing quantum computing systems onsite.”

Quantum in Context: Quantinuum and the Quest for More 9s – The Futurum Group

“Quantinuum announced a dramatic improvement in error rates that should lead to faster adoption of quantum error-correcting codes.”

Quantum in Context: Government Money Pours into Private Firms – The Futurum Group

“Learn how the Japanese & Australian governments have awarded significant funding to the US-based PsiQuantum & QuEra quantum computer companies”

Quantum in Context: IonQ Announces Q1 2024 Earnings – The Futurum Group

“Get underneath the earnings numbers IonQ announced for the first quarter of 2024. Revenue beat guidance, but bookings are low.”

Quantum in Context: Infleqtion Key to UK Quantum PNT Tech Test – The Futurum Group

“Infleqtion, BAE Systems, and QinetiQ announces the first successful flight test of UK-developed quantum navigation systems.”

Quantum in Context: IBM Extends Qiskit 1.0 via AI Tools – The Futurum Group

“IBM recently announces new features for Qiskit 1.0 which uses AI and GenAI for faster circuit development and execution.”

Rigetti Computing’™s Q1 2024 Earnings and 9 Qubits – The Futurum Group

“Learn about Rigetti Computing’™s earnings in the first quarter of 2024 and fidelity improvements and partnerships around its 9-qubit QPU.”

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