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👓 Meta adds AI to its Ray-Ban smart glasses
🚫 US moves to force ByteDance to sell TikTok
🤖 Tesla could sell Optimus robots by next year
📉 Apple reduces production of Vision Pro due to low demand
❄️ Snowflake launches 480bn-parameter AI to take on OpenAI, Google and Meta
🎁 + 8 other news you might like
🔮 + 8 handpicked research papers and tools
👓 Meta adds AI to its Ray-Ban smart glassesLINK
Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses now include multimodal AI, enabling the device to process diverse types of data such as images, videos, text, and sound to understand the user’s environment in real-time. The AI capabilities allow users to interact with their surroundings in enhanced ways, such as identifying dog breeds, translating signs in foreign languages, and offering recipe suggestions based on visible ingredients. Initial testing of the multimodal AI has shown promise, although it has also revealed some inconsistencies in accuracy, such as errors in identifying certain car models and plant species.
🚫 US moves to force ByteDance to sell TikTokLINK
The US Senate has passed legislation that would require ByteDance to sell TikTok within a year or face a national ban, with President Joe Biden expected to sign it.
The legislation, part of a national security package, aims to address concerns over TikTok's Chinese ownership posing a national security threat.
TikTok has signaled a likely legal challenge against the legislation on First Amendment grounds, emphasizing its impact on free speech and the US economy.
🤖 Tesla could sell Optimus robots by next yearLINK
Tesla plans to sell a humanoid robot named 'Optimus' by 2025, which is currently able to perform simple tasks and is expected to handle more complex duties by year-end. Optimus, described as a 'general purpose, bipedal, autonomous humanoid robot,' will enter a growing market of humanoid robots used in various industries and is considered key to Tesla's long-term financial growth. Elon Musk expressed optimism about the future of humanoid robots in enhancing the economy and mentioned Tesla's efforts to continue developing Optimus despite a recent decline in company profits.
📉 Apple reduces production of Vision Pro due to low demandLINK
Apple is reducing production of its Vision Pro headset for the rest of 2024 due to lower than expected demand, with sales projections adjusted down from up to 800,000 units to around 400,000 to 450,000 units.
Following weaker sales and reduced demand, the launch of a more affordable mixed-reality headset from Apple could be delayed until after 2025, as the company reassesses its Vision Pro strategy.
Despite efforts to boost Vision Pro's appeal, including introducing new features and accessories, lack of key app support and customer dissatisfaction with practicality are contributing to its sluggish sales.
❄️ Snowflake launches 480bn-parameter AI to take on OpenAI, Google and MetaLINK
Snowflake announced Arctic LLM, an enterprise-grade generative AI model designed for generating database code and available under an Apache 2.0 license for free commercial and research use.
Arctic LLM, using a mixture of experts (MoE) architecture, claims to outperform competitors like DBRX and certain models from Meta on coding and SQL generation tasks.
Snowflake aims to integrate Arctic LLM into its platform, Cortex, offering it as a solution for building AI- and machine learning-powered apps with a focus on security, governance, and scalability.
Other news you might like
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Huawei wants to succeed where Microsoft failed, becoming a real threat to iOS and Android.LINK
AI can predict your political beliefs using facial recognition.LINK
Perplexity becomes an AI unicorn with new $63 million funding round.LINK
EU's new right-to-repair rules force companies to repair out-of-warranty devices.LINK
Microsoft's new AI model pulled from internet for being 'toxic'.LINK
Latest research and tools
CoreNet: a deep neural network toolkit designed for training both standard and novel models across various tasks, including foundation models, object classification, detection, and semantic segmentation.LINK
Rabbit R1 source code: exposes the device's core functionality as relying on Playwright scripts instead of artificial intelligence to automate tasks for only four apps without proper security or privacy measures.LINK
Fallout1-ce: a re-implementation of the original Fallout game that ensures compatibility with modern operating systems while incorporating engine bugfixes and quality of life improvements, requiring ownership of the original game for legal play.LINK
Faer-rs: a Rust crate that provides a comprehensive linear algebra library in pure Rust, focusing on portability, correctness, and performance.LINK
Dafny: a programming language and verifier that constantly checks code against specifications, supports a wide range of programming concepts and mathematical proofs, and compiles to multiple languages, designed to reduce late-stage bugs by integrating verification directly into the development process.LINK
Opengist: an open-source, self-hosted alternative to GitHub Gists for storing and managing code snippets within a Git repository, accessible via a web interface or Git commands.LINK
MaxText: a high performance, highly scalable, open-source Large Language Model (LLM) that utilizes Python/Jax for efficient training and inference on Google Cloud TPUs and GPUs, designed for both research and production with the ability to scale from single hosts to large clusters.LINK
Open-Shell: a collection of utilities that reintroduces classic features to modern Windows versions.LINK
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