| | | | | | One of the authors of Google’s ‘Attention is All You Need’ paper, which led to the development of the Transformer model powering ChatGPT and Claude alike, is now back with Google. And your friendly AI Human, Amit Raja Naik, would like to bring this to your ‘attention’. | | | | | | | | | | | | Meanwhile, OpenAI is asking for ‘attention’ | | | | | OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman has taken an extended leave of absence, alongside John Schulman, who has left to join Anthropic, and Peter Deng, highlighting ongoing leadership changes within the company. “I’m taking a sabbatical through the end of year. First time to relax since co-founding OpenAI 9 years ago,” said Brockman, highlighting that the mission is far from complete; they still have a safe AGI to build. Meanwhile, Schulman announced his intentions of joining Anthropic, stating, “This choice stems from my desire to deepen my focus on AI alignment and to start a new chapter of my career where I can return to hands-on technical work.” Further, he clarified, saying “To be clear, I’m not leaving due to lack of support for alignment research at OpenAI. My decision is a personal one, based on how I want to focus my efforts in the next phase of my career.” So, it looks like Schulman left the company while remaining in their good books. Sam Altman thanked Schulman for his contributions to OpenAI, calling him “a brilliant researcher, a deep thinker about product and society, and mostly, you are a great friend to all of us,” reminiscing about their first meeting in 2015, where Schulman laid out much of OpenAI’s initial strategy in just 15 minutes. However, the reason for Deng leaving the company remains unknown. It is most likely that he’s planning to start his own AI venture, given his passion and experience in building products like ChatGPT. | | | | | | | | | Shazeer’s return has definitely got Google employees rejoicing. “Absolutely delighted to welcome my longtime Google colleague Noam Shazeer back to Google!” said Jeff Dean, Google Deepmind’s chief scientist. Similarly, others from Deepmind followed suit in welcoming Shazeer back. “Welcome back Noam Shazeer to Google! It'll be a great time working together again since 2018. Let's take Gemini which is #1 and continue expanding the limits of its capabilities,” said Dustin Tran, research scientist at Google Deepmind. In a new arrangement, Google will pay a licensing fee to Character.AI for its models. Around 30 of Character.AI's 130 staff members, specialising in model training and voice AI, will join Google to advance its Gemini AI initiatives. Interestingly, Character.AI recently introduced Character Calls, allowing users to engage in two-way voice conversations with their favourite characters, like Michael Jackson, Sherlock Holmes, or Albert Einstein. “It's like having a phone call with a friend,” the company said. “So this also means that google is getting into the ‘ai companion’ market to compete with openai's ‘her’ lol,” one user posted on X in response. Character.AI allows users to create their own chatbots, defining their personalities, traits, and backstories. These characters can be based on real people, fictional characters, or entirely new creations. This is similar to what Meta AI is doing by introducing customised AI characters across its social media platforms. Meta recently introduced AI Studio, a new platform that allows users to create, share, and discover custom AI characters without needing technical skills. | | | | | | | | | Recently, Google DeepMind’s latest model, Gemini 1.5 Pro’s experimental version, 0801, claimed the top spot in Arena, surpassing GPT-4o and Claude-3.5 with an impressive score of 1300. It also achieved first place on the Vision Leaderboard. It excels in multilingual tasks and delivers a robust performance in technical areas like maths, hard prompts, and coding. This version of Gemini 1.5 Pro is available for early testing and feedback in Google AI Studio and the Gemini API, where developers can try it out. “Very impressed with the extraction capabilities from images and PDFs. It does feel super close to what GPT-4o gives in terms of vision capabilities and what Claude 3.5 Sonnet gives me on code generation and PDF understanding/reasoning,” said DAIR.AI co-founder Elvis Saravia. “The new Gemini model can execute code and is quite ‘sharp.’ We might see it become the first competitor to the Code Interpreter,” said Ethan Mollick, assistant professor at Wharton. He further said that, while experimenting with it for data analysis, some capabilities seemed odd, like the fact that it couldn’t access files unless they are uploaded each time. “Nevertheless, it seems promising so far,” he said. Most recently, Google also upgraded its free-tier Gemini model with 1.5 Flash, which brings improvements in quality and latency, with especially noticeable enhancements in reasoning and image understanding. The tech giant also expanded the context window in Gemini Advanced, quadrupling it to 32K tokens. Following in the footsteps of its competitor OpenAI, Google has announced improvements to Gemini 1.5 Flash, reducing input costs by up to 85% and output costs by up to 80%, effective from August 12, 2024. Apart from focusing on the LLMs, Google entered the SLM scene as well by releasing Gemma 2. This new model outperformed GPT-3.5 on the Chatbot Arena leaderboard and is optimised for efficient deployment across a wide range of hardware, from edge devices to robust cloud environments. Leveraging NVIDIA’s TensorRT-LLM library optimisations, it supports deployments in data centres, local workstations, and edge AI applications. Enjoy the full story here. | | | | | | | Indian Engineers are a Different Breed | | | | | | | It is often said that Indian techies are stealing jobs across the globe, but the reason is much more than just outsourcing and cheap labour. The reason is that Indian techies are more dedicated when working and ready to work overtime without hesitation. A week ago, Roshan Patel, the founder and CEO of Arrow Payments, shared a conversation he had with his employee. Patel asked if the employee would like a break as he’d been working nonstop for quite a while. To his surprise, the engineer replied, “I don’t need a break sir. My body is a vessel for the company to find product market fit.” Read the full story here. | | | | | | | | | AI Forum, AIM & NVIDIA Present: Masterclass on Optimizing RAG Models for Enterprise-Grade Accuracy | | | | | | | AI Forum for India, in partnership with AIM & NVIDIA, is set to host an insightful workshop on August 9, focusing on the optimisation of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) models to achieve enterprise-grade accuracy. This virtual workshop, scheduled from 3:00 to 4:30 pm IST, aims to provide participants with advanced techniques and best practices for enhancing the performance of RAG models. | | | | | DECODE: Operational Excellence—Improving Customer Experience with GenAI | | | | | | | Join us for an insightful webinar on August 10th at 3 PM IST, featuring industry leaders Kiran Kuppili and Bala Natarajan, as they discuss the transformative impact of generative AI on operational excellence and customer experience. | | | | | Navigating Digital Transformation: An Exclusive Webinar by Singapore Management University | | | | | | | Digital transformation is critical for survival in today’s rapidly evolving world—join Singapore Management University's webinar, "Digital Transformation: What Could Be More Important Than Technology?", led by expert Dr. Kiruthika Ramanathan, to explore transformative technologies, essential skills, and strategies for personal and professional growth. | | | | | | | | | Cypher 2024 marks a significant expansion as it celebrates its 8th edition by branching out to the USA in addition to its already established presence in India. Browse through the links below to learn more about the different editions of Cypher 2024. These links will guide you to comprehensive event information, including agendas, speakers, registration details, and more. | | | | | Enjoying Sector 6 (formerly AIM Daily XO)? Share it with colleagues or friends – they can sign up here. We love hearing from our readers! Have thoughts on our new format? Questions, comments, or ideas are always welcome. If there’s a specific topic in AI or analytics that you're curious about, tell us! Reach out to us at info@analyticsindiamag.com. Stay tuned for more insights in our next edition!
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