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In today’s AI Report:

  • 🦺Elon Musk’s xAI Supercomputer Project

  • 🧊Google’s ā€œAI Overviewsā€ Meltdown

  • šŸ“ŠByteDance’s G-DIG Method for Data Selection

  • šŸ› 5 Trending Tools

  • šŸ’°Venture Capital Updates

  • šŸ’¼Who’s Hiring?

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šŸ—žRECENT NEWS

XAI

🦺Elon Musk’s xAI Supercomputer Project

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Elon Musk’s xAI startup reportedly plans to build a massive supercomputer to support Grok-1.5 and future AI projects.

Key Details:
  • The supercomputer will leverage over 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to develop trillion-parameter language models and accelerate AI workloads.

  • Musk refers to the supercomputer as the ā€œGigachad of Compute,ā€ planning to partner with Oracle and have it operational by Fall 2025.

  • Musk aims to leverage the supercomputer to build expansive GPU clusters to improve parallel processing tasks.

  • Parallel processing refers to breaking down complex calculations involved in training AI models into smaller, independent chunks that can be tackled simultaneously.

  • By clustering multiple GPUs together, xAI achieves a significant boost in processing power, allowing future AI projects to be trained on larger datasets in a shorter period of time.

  • The supercomputer will train future iterations of Grok-1.5: xAI’s latest open-source conversational chatbot that showcases enhanced reasoning capabilities and can process longer and more complex prompts up to 128K tokens.

Why It’s Important:
  • AI models thrive on data. The more data an AI model is trained on, the better it performs. However, processing and analyzing massive datasets strains traditional computational resources.

  • Greater computing power allows AI models to handle vast amounts of data efficiently, leading to more accurate AI models with faster processing and analysis.

GOOGLE

🧊Google’s ā€œAI Overviewsā€ Meltdown

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Google’s new ā€œAI Overviews,ā€ a feature that provides AI-generated summaries at the top of Google Search results, is facing backlash after generating bizarre and inaccurate summaries.

Key Details:
  • ā€œAI Overviewsā€ rolled out last week after the Google I/O 2024 developer conference. It was added above standard Google Search results to offer more streamlined access to answers.

  • ā€œAI Overviewsā€ started generating false and misleading summaries such as suggesting eating rocks, recommending running off a cliff, and supporting smoking while pregnant.

  • Google spokeswoman Lara Levin stated that the vast majority of ā€œAI Overview queries resulted in high-quality information. Many of the examples we’ve seen have been uncommon queries.ā€

Why It’s Important:
  • Google is reportedly working on manually disabling ā€œAI Overviewsā€ for specific Google Search results involving medical questions, recipe ideas, and committing crimes.

  • Earlier this year, Google Gemini’s image generation tool refused to depict historically accurate results of Vikings, Nazis, and the Pope.

  • ā€œGoogle doesn’t have a choice right now.ā€ Google analyst Thomas Monteiro at Investing Group said. ā€œCompanies need to move really fast, even if that includes skipping a few steps along the way.ā€

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AI RESEARCH

šŸ“ŠByteDance’s G-DIG Method for Data Selection

Large Language Models (LLMs) are impressive general-purpose AI tools. However, they need fine-tuning with instructions to excel at specific tasks, like language translation.

The quality and variety of instructions used to fine-tune the LLM are crucial for its success. Poor or repetitive instructions won’t lead to optimal language translation.

To solve this issue, ByteDance researchers developed G-DIG: a method that utilizes gradient-based techniques to select high-quality and diverse instruction data for LLMs.

G-DIG analyzes how instructions influence the LLM during the training process and identifies high-quality instructions that positively impact the AI model’s language translation performance.

G-DIG ensures a variety of influences by creating clusters of instructions based on how they affect the LLM and selecting a representative sample from each cluster.

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šŸ’°VENTURE CAPITAL UPDATES

  • Elon Musk’s xAI secures a $6B Series B to take on OpenAI.

  • SoftBank plans to invest nearly $9B into high-growth AI companies.

  • Rows raises a $8.7M Series A to expand its cloud-based, AI-powered spreadsheet app.

šŸ’¼WHO’S HIRING?

  • VecFlow (San Francisco, CA): Full-Stack, Backend, ML Engineering Intern, Summer 2024

  • Tesla (Palo Alto, CA): Self-Driving AI Engineer Intern, Fall 2024

  • Nimble (Redwood City, CA): Software Engineer Intern, Fall 2024

  • Gatekeep (New York, NY): AI Software Engineer, Fashion App, New Grad

  • Waymo (Bellevue, WA): Software Engineer, Computer Vision/Deep Learning

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