Strange Daily Issue #10

OpenAI makes a power move by launching EnterpriseGPT, and open source platform Hugging Face raises a massive funding round valuing it at $4.5B

Welcome to your bi-weekly bulletin of the latest in AI, technology, and creativity. Some big moves this week from AI giants, as OpenAI makes a power move by launching EnterpriseGPT, a privacy-first, enterprise-grade version of GPT-4, and open source platform Hugging Face raises a massive funding round which values it at $4.5B. 

Latest news

• OpenAI launches EnterpriseGPT, a privacy-first, SOC-2-compliant version of its popular LLM [Link]

• Meta announces its own code-writing tool Code Llama, built on top of its Llama 2 large language model, to generate new code and debug human-written work [Link]

• Hugging Face raises $235M from prominent tech players, including Salesforce, Google, Amazon, NVIDIA [Link]

• Yahoo Mail launches AI tools, including AI-based search and writing assistant, and a ‘Shopper Saver’ tool that finds unused gift cards, discount codes, and store credits for users [Link]

🤝 Partnerships

• LG partners with Amazon to bring the Amazon Luna cloud-based game streaming service on its smart TVs [Link]

• Restaurant chain IHOP partners with Google Cloud: Enhancing online ordering with an AI-powered food ordering recommendation engine [Link]

• Alphabet’s Wing partners with Walmart for drone deliveries in Dallas [Link]

🎓 Recent Academic Papers

• From words to worlds: Exploring video narration with AI multi-modal fine-grained video description [Link to abstract/full-text]

• MIT researchers developed an AI technique that enables a robot to develop complex plans for manipulating an object using its entire hand [Link to abstract/full-text]

• Apple and UC Santa Barbara collaborate on an an end-to-end network for detailed 3D reconstructions from posed images [Link to abstract/full-text]

• Meet TADA, a powerful AI approach for converting verbal descriptions into expressive 3D avatar [Link to abstract/full-text]

• Hugging Face introduce AutoGPTQ: An easy-to-use LLMs quantization package with user-friendly APIs based on GPTQ algorithm [Link to abstract/full-text]

🔧 Cool Tools and Experiments

• Figma introduces Jambot, a ChatGPT-powered AI assistant for its whiteboard platform FigJam [Link]

• Moonwalkers: AI-powered shoes to accelerate walking speed up to 11km/h [Link] 

• Google enhances its Pixel-exclusive Recorder app with AI-powered summarization capabilities [Link]

• Food delivery platform DoorDash introduces AI-powered voice ordering service for restaurants [Link]

💰 Latest Startup Fundings

• Generative AI image startup Ideogram launches with $16.5M in seed funding by a16z and Index Ventures [Link]

• Irreverent Labs secures strategic investment by Samsung Next: Bringing its AI video generation technology to Samsung device users globally [Link]

• Sequoia Capital-backed AI-generated video company Tavus raises $18M in Series A funding at a $80M post-investment valuation, five months after closing its seed round [Link]