Today:

• DARPA's AI Dogfight: F-16 vs. Human

• OpenAI's New Enterprise Grade for API customers

• OpenCRISPR-1 Unveils, AI Enhances Genetics

• Microsoft Launches Phi-3 Model

• Adobe Enhances AI with Firefly Image 3

• Perplexity AI Hits $1 Billion Valuation

• Multimodal AI Powers Ray-Ban Meta Glasses

DARPA BOMBSHELL "AI-piloted F-16 engaging in dogfights against humans" | ANDURIL, Midjourney Random

The U.S. Air Force has successfully conducted tests with AI-controlled aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base, California. An AI agent piloted an X-62 VISTA in a simulated dogfight against a human-piloted F-16, demonstrating the capability for safe, autonomous air combat. This milestone was part of DARPA’s Air Combat Evolution program, aimed at developing AI-driven autonomy for air combat. 

The tests showed rapid progress, moving from AI installation to live demonstration within a year, and involved extensive software updates across multiple test flights. Safety pilots were present but intervention was unnecessary, marking significant advancements in autonomous military technologies.

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OpenAI shrugs off Meta’s Llama 3 ascent with new enterprise AI features

OpenAI isn't sweating Meta's Llama 3's rise in AI popularity. Instead, it's upping its game with new features for its GPT-4 Turbo model. OpenAI's latest move includes beefing up security with Private Link and Multi-Factor Authentication. Their Assistants API now handles 500 times more files, making it a powerhouse for custom models. Projects allow organizations to partition tasks securely. 

Plus, new cost management features offer discounts and faster results for batch processing. OpenAI aims for a more user-friendly enterprise AI experience, countering competitors like Llama 3 and Mistral.

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Generative A.I. Arrives in the Gene Editing World of CRISPR

A fresh A.I. breakthrough shakes up gene editing, akin to ChatGPT's poetry prowess. Profluent's tech, inspired by ChatGPT's methods, crafts DNA editing blueprints, promising a swift, precise healthcare future. Leveraging CRISPR, it mimics nature's mechanisms but births new ones. OpenCRISPR-1, a product of this innovation, opens a new era, free for all to tinker with. 

Though it's early days, the potential is vast, hinting at personalized treatments and quicker medical breakthroughs. Yet, ethical concerns linger, cautioning against misuse. While the road ahead is uncertain, the possibilities are vast, ushering in a new frontier in healthcare.

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Microsoft Phi-3: Tiny language model, huge implications for enterprise AI adoption

Microsoft unveils Phi-3, a compact 3 billion parameter language model rivaling larger counterparts like GPT-3.5 in capabilities but at a fraction of the cost. Following Phi-1's debut, the Phi series progresses with notable achievements in coding and reasoning tasks. Azure AI now hosts Phi-3, empowering businesses with cost-effective natural language processing. Eric Boyd emphasizes Azure's role in enabling generative AI applications while maintaining affordability. 

Phi-3's development prioritizes responsible AI principles, ensuring data integrity and safety. Optimized for NVIDIA GPUs, Phi-3 boasts efficient attention mechanisms, promising high performance on commodity hardware. Its launch signifies a leap in democratizing large language models, essential for AI-driven business innovation.

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Adobe Photoshop gets new AI image generation features with Firefly Image 3 upgrade

Adobe Photoshop is upgrading with Firefly Image 3, introducing a new Generate Image feature. This AI-driven enhancement promises higher-quality image generation, better detail, and variety. Notably, it's trained on licensed and public domain content, ensuring copyright compliance. The new Generate Image feature creates images from text prompts, setting it apart from existing features like Generative Fill. 

Generative Fill also receives upgrades, including control over outputs, background editing, creating variations, and enhancing detail. These advancements aim to streamline creative processes in Photoshop, garnering significant user interest. Are you excited about these AI additions to Photoshop? Share your thoughts!

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AI Search Startup Perplexity Valued at $1 Billion in Funding Round

Perplexity AI, a startup rivaling Google with its AI-powered search engine, secures $63 million in funding, valuing the company at over $1 billion. Led by investor Daniel Gross, backers include luminaries like Stanley Druckenmiller and Jeff Bezos. Founded less than two years ago, Perplexity offers an AI chatbot that delivers accurate search results and has gained traction, processing 75 million queries in the US this year. 

With a focus on precision, Perplexity targets businesses with a new enterprise version priced at $40/month. Despite competition from tech giants, Perplexity's agile approach and accuracy stand out in the evolving AI landscape.

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The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses have multimodal AI now

The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, now equipped with multimodal AI, offer a blend of convenience and occasional quirks. Initially lacking this feature, they've since caught up, allowing users to process various types of information like photos, audio, and text. Despite the recent flop of the Humane AI Pin, these glasses show promise. While not flawless, they excel in tasks like identifying objects and providing information. 

However, they have limitations, like difficulty in zooming. Yet, their integration with familiar tech like smartphones and their comfortable design make them practical for everyday use, especially outdoors. Overall, they represent a step towards mainstream acceptance of wearable AI.

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🧠RESEARCH

Phi-3 Technical Report: A Highly Capable Language Model Locally on Your Phone

Phi-3 Technical Report introduces phi-3-mini, a 3.8 billion parameter language model trained on 3.3 trillion tokens, performing comparably to larger models like Mixtral 8x7B and GPT-3.5. It's designed for phone deployment, trained on a scaled-up dataset from phi-2, emphasizing robustness, safety, and chat format. Larger models, phi-3-small and phi-3-medium, show even greater capabilities.

The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions

The paper discusses vulnerabilities in Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-3.5 due to prompt injections and jailbreaks, allowing malicious prompts. They propose an instruction hierarchy to prioritize instructions, aiming to ignore lower-priority ones. Testing on GPT-3.5 shows increased robustness against attacks, with minimal impact on standard abilities.

How Good Are Low-bit Quantized LLaMA3 Models? An Empirical Study

The paper assesses the performance of Meta's LLaMA3 models when quantized to low bit-widths, crucial for resource-limited settings. Despite impressive performance of LLaMA3, quantization to 1-8 bits reveals significant degradation, especially at ultra-low bit-widths. The study underscores the need for bridging performance gaps in low-bit quantization for future LLM developments, aiding practical applications.

Hyper-SD: Trajectory Segmented Consistency Model for Efficient Image Synthesis

The paper introduces Hyper-SD, a novel framework for efficient image synthesis, addressing limitations in current diffusion model distillation methods. Hyper-SD synergistically combines trajectory preservation and reformulation, maintaining near-lossless performance during step compression. It incorporates human feedback learning and score distillation, achieving state-of-the-art performance across inference steps.

FlowMind: Automatic Workflow Generation with LLMs

The paper presents FlowMind, an automatic workflow generation system utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT. FlowMind addresses limitations in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) by enabling spontaneous task handling. It employs a generic prompt recipe grounded in reliable APIs, mitigating hallucinations and ensuring data integrity. FlowMind simplifies user interaction and feedback, demonstrating success in finance tasks with NCEN-QA dataset.

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AI Developers Agree to New Safety Measures to Fight Child Exploitation

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