China is competing with Tesla in the robot industry.

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What’s Inside Today’s Newsletter

🪰 Buzz Around AI

😀 AI Recap

🪄 AI Courses

🔹 AI Learning

♨️ What’s Hot In AI

📰 AI News

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🪰 Buzz Around AI

China is competing with Tesla in the robot industry.

At the 2024 World Robot Conference in Beijing, Chinese companies displayed 27 humanoid robots alongside Tesla's Optimus, showing China's determination to lead in this field.

Key Points:

• Chinese tech companies introduced 27 humanoid robots at the event, with Tesla's Optimus being the only non-Chinese robot.

• AGIBOT, a company started by a former Huawei employee, showcased robots using advanced AI for industrial and customer service tasks.

• Other robots included Astribot's S1, which can write calligraphy and play musical instruments, and Galbot's robots designed for food delivery and retail.

• Despite the impressive showcase, experts believe that high costs and technical challenges are still major obstacles for Chinese manufacturers.

Why It Matters:

China is working hard to catch up and possibly surpass the U.S. in the field of humanoid robots. With so many robots shown at the event, commercially available humanoid robots will likely arrive sooner than expected.

Grok-2 just got a serious upgrade, and I’m genuinely impressed.

xAI's Grok-2 and its mini version have made huge strides, doubling the speed of the mini model and boosting accuracy in both, just days after their beta release.

Key Points:

• The Grok-2 mini is now twice as fast, thanks to a completely rewritten inference stack using SGLang. It’s like giving the mini a turbo boost!

• Both versions of Grok-2 are also more accurate, with one xAI employee crediting this to reduce quantization error. It's the little details that count.

• To top it off, Grok-2 models are now featured on the LMSYS Chatbot Arena leaderboard, enhancing transparency. The larger Grok-2 even snagged the #2 spot, outshining Claude's 3.5 Sonnet.

• Grok-2 particularly shines in math, where it’s ranked #1, and it also performs exceptionally well in handling tough prompts, coding, and following instructions. This is cutting-edge stuff.

Why It Matters:

It’s incredible to think that xAI was founded just about 18 months ago, and now they’ve developed an LLM ranked third in the world. The whole AI community is buzzing, and it’s clear that Grok-2 isn’t just keeping up—it’s setting the pace. This kind of leap forward could push the entire industry to evolve even faster, and I can’t wait to see where it goes next.

😀AI Recap

1. Google's AI Studio now includes a new Prompt Gallery for testing "long context, multi-modal (image, video, audio), structured outputs, and more."

   

2. The World Robot Conference in China showcased innovations ranging from winking humanoids to flexible robotic arms, with some costing as little as one-tenth of traditional designs.

3. China and the U.S. recently developed ActFound, a new AI model that may expedite and reduce costs associated with drug development.

4. Washington State University researchers recently developed Bayesian Optimization, an AI technique that dramatically improves 3D printing lifelike human organs.

   

🪄 AI Courses

I've discovered something I just had to share with you all—an opportunity too good to keep to myself!

If you're looking to master AI in 2024, you're in luck.

Daniel Jacobs has curated 4 incredible courses that you can access for FREE.

Here’s a quick rundown:

1. Google AI Courses

Google offers five different courses that dive into generative AI, starting from the basics.

- Solid foundation in AI principles

- Intro to AI fundamentals

- In-depth exploration of generative AI

2. Microsoft AI Course

Microsoft’s course takes you from the basics to more advanced AI concepts.

- Deep learning and neural networks

- Advanced AI topics

- Comprehensive overview of AI basics

3. Introduction to AI with Python (Harvard University)

Harvard is offering a full 7-week course covering the essential AI concepts and algorithms.

- Core AI algorithms and concepts

- Machine learning libraries

- Principles of AI technologies

4. Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT (Vanderbilt University)

This beginner-friendly course from Vanderbilt helps you master the art of writing effective prompts for ChatGPT.

- Basics of effective prompting

- Leveraging ChatGPT

- Customizing ChatGPT outputs

So, which course are you diving into first?

🔹AI Learning

How to Create Product Photo Animations with AI

1. Sign Up on Mojo AI: Head over to the Mojo AI website and sign up to get your tokens.

2. Upload Your Image: Choose your product photo or company logo and upload it to the site.

3. Choose an Animation Style: Click on ‘Use this Image,’ then pick an animation style from the list.

4. Wait for the Animation: Give it a few minutes, and your animated logo or product photo will be ready.

5. Use Your Animation: You can now use your animated image in an Instagram story, reel, on your website, or add some text to make it even more engaging and share it with your audience.

♨️ What’s Hot In AI

The dream we all have like what if we can do different things with our phone is now becoming reality with the new Pixel 9.

It's hitting stores this week, and boy, is it packed with cool AI tricks!

Here's what it can do:

1. Call Notes: It writes down important stuff from your calls. It tells people it's recording, though.

2. Pixel Screenshots: It organizes pictures of important things like tickets. Makes them easy to find later.

3. Pixel Studio: You can make funny stickers of your friends' faces.

4. Gemini Live: You can talk to an AI voice. It's not super realistic, which might be good.

What makes it unique is Reimagine. It lets you add stuff to your photos really easily. For example, you could take a picture of yourself in your backyard, and then add a beautiful waterfall behind you.

In the past, changing photos like this took a lot of skill and time with programs like Photoshop. But Reimagine does it quickly and easily. You don't need to be a computer expert to use it.

📰 AI News

1. YouTube creators whose accounts have been compromised can now use an AI-powered chatbot to recover them.

2. Reclaim, a scheduling tool powered by artificial intelligence, has been acquired by Dropbox.

3. Adobe releases 'Magic Fixup', an AI-driven photo editing tool.

4. Former Character AI CEO Noam Shazeer has been appointed new co-leader of Gemini, the tech giant's largest AI initiative.