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• CES Highlights Nvidia’s Supercomputing Advances

• OpenAI Delays Agents Amid Risks

• Anthropic Nears $60B Valuation

• Microsoft Commits $3 Billion to India

• Trump Unveils $20B Data Centers

CES Highlights Nvidia’s Supercomputing Advances

At CES 2025, Nvidia showcased groundbreaking innovations across gaming, robotics, self-driving cars, and personal AI. Highlights include the RTX 50 Series GPUs, Cosmos robotics platform, Drive Hyperion for autonomous vehicles, and Project Digits, a $3,000 desktop AI supercomputer. With partnerships like Toyota and advancements in AI tools, Nvidia solidifies its shift from gaming to AI leadership, promising transformative impacts on industries like automation, manufacturing, and AI accessibility.

OpenAI Delays Agents Amid Risks

OpenAI's delay in launching computer-using agents stems from security concerns, particularly the risk of "prompt injection" attacks where AI models can be manipulated to follow malicious instructions. These agents, designed to automate tasks like online shopping or data editing, could be exploited to compromise user data. Despite the cautious approach, OpenAI is reportedly set to release its agent software soon, potentially as early as this month, aiming to balance innovation with robust safeguards.

Anthropic Nears $60B Valuation

Anthropic is reportedly finalizing a $2 billion funding round, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, valuing the AI startup at $60 billion. Founded in 2021 by former OpenAI employees, Anthropic is now the fifth-most valuable U.S. startup. Backed by Amazon with $8 billion in investments since 2023, Anthropic’s revenue reached $875 million, driven by business sales of its chatbot, Claude. This follows OpenAI’s recent $157 billion valuation milestone.

Microsoft Commits $3 Billion to India

Microsoft plans a $3 billion investment in cloud and AI infrastructure in India over two years, aiming to position the country as an "AI-first nation." The initiative includes training 10 million Indians in AI skills by 2030 and launching an AI Innovation Network. This follows global tech collaborations, with Amazon committing $12.7 billion to India's cloud sector and the White House strengthening U.S.-India tech partnerships, signaling India's growing role in AI and tech innovation.

Trump Unveils $20B Data Centers

President-elect Donald Trump announced a $20 billion investment by Hussain Sajwani, founder of DAMAC Properties, to build data centers across the U.S. The facilities will focus on supporting AI and cloud technologies in eight states. While the initiative mirrors ambitious tech projects like the CHIPS Act, skepticism remains due to past unfulfilled promises. This move highlights growing calls for enhancing U.S. infrastructure amid the AI sector's rapid expansion.

🧠RESEARCH

STAR: Spatial-Temporal Augmentation with Text-to-Video Models for Real-World Video Super-Resolution

The STAR framework enhances real-world video super-resolution by integrating text-to-video models, addressing temporal consistency and artifact issues. It uses a Local Information Enhancement Module to refine spatial details and a Dynamic Frequency Loss to improve fidelity. STAR outperforms existing methods, delivering realistic, temporally consistent results across synthetic and real-world datasets.

BoostStep: Boosting mathematical capability of Large Language Models via improved single-step reasoning

BoostStep improves large language models' mathematical reasoning by addressing granularity mismatches in in-context learning examples. It aligns step-by-step reasoning with relevant examples and introduces a "first-try" strategy to reduce irrelevant noise. BoostStep enhances reasoning accuracy, integrating seamlessly with Monte Carlo Tree Search, achieving significant performance gains on mathematical benchmarks.

METAGENE-1: Metagenomic Foundation Model for Pandemic Monitoring

METAGENE-1, a 7-billion-parameter transformer model, is pretrained on 1.5 trillion metagenomic DNA/RNA base pairs from wastewater samples. It captures diverse genomic data for pandemic monitoring and pathogen detection. Using tailored tokenization, METAGENE-1 achieves state-of-the-art results in genomic benchmarks, enabling advancements in biosurveillance and early health threat detection.

Auto-RT: Automatic Jailbreak Strategy Exploration for Red-Teaming Large Language Models

Auto-RT is a reinforcement learning framework for automated red-teaming of large language models, uncovering vulnerabilities with advanced attack strategies. It uses Early-Terminated Exploration and Progressive Reward Tracking to streamline strategy optimization. Auto-RT improves detection efficiency, uncovering more vulnerabilities with 16.63% higher success rates than existing methods, enhancing LLM security testing.

Dispider: Enabling Video LLMs with Active Real-Time Interaction via Disentangled Perception, Decision, and Reaction

Dispider revolutionizes video large language models by enabling real-time interaction through disentangled Perception, Decision, and Reaction modules. It processes video streams, identifies optimal interaction moments, and provides asynchronous responses without interrupting monitoring. Dispider excels in long-duration video tasks, outperforming previous models in streaming scenarios with timely, accurate, and efficient interactions.

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