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Insights, news and reflections on a rapidly evolving world.
Open NotebookLM turns PDF into podcasts by leveraging Meta's LLaMa 3.1 405B and MyShell AI's MeloTTS. OpenAI o1 becomes the first AI to pass the Mensa test, ahead of predictions by 19 years. Meta AI introduces new LLM evaluators that improve performance by 13% without relying on human annotations. Hugging Face launches Hugging Chat for Mac.
Maarten Grootendorst has released his new book "Hands-On Large Language Models" with over 250 color visuals. I bought it! Meanwhile, the AIatMeta team unveiled SAM 2, a powerful computer vision model for image and video segmentation, optimized for Mac and iPhone. Also coming is Vchitect-2.0, a new text-to-image engine that promises great things.
FutureHouse launches PaperQA2, a game-changing AI agent for scientific research. This tool can find, analyze and synthesize scientific papers, outperforming even experienced researchers. Among its capabilities: citation exploration, information extraction, and formulation of accurate answers.
