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đ§ŹGoogle DeepMind Open-Sourced âAlphaFold 3â
đ¶MIT CSAIL Researchers Train Robot Dogs in Virtual Worlds
đExtract Insights From PDFs
đ Trending Tools
đ°Funding Frontlines
đŒWhoâs Hiring?
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GOOGLE DEEPMIND
đ§ŹGoogle DeepMind Open-Sourced âAlphaFold 3â
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Google DeepMind unexpectedly open-sourced âAlphaFold 3â for academic use, potentially accelerating scientific discovery and drug development.
Key Details:
âAlphaFold 3â is an AI model that predicts the structure and interactions of all of lifeâs molecules by analyzing a broad spectrum of Biomolecules.
Biomolecules are chemical compounds found in living organisms. Theyâre the building blocks of life and perform essential functions in living organisms.
Important Biomolecules include DNA, RNA, and Ligands (i.e., a small molecule, ion, or protein that binds to the DNA Double Helix).
âAlphaFold 3â boasts a 50% improvement in predicting how medications interact with proteins in the human body. The AI model has also mapped over 200 million protein structures.
Now, academics and researchers can access âAlphaFold 3â for academic use and non-commercial purposes.
Why Itâs Important:
Isomorphic Labs, a digital biology company partnered with Google DeepMind, has already secured over $3 billion in pharmaceutical partnerships to provide commercial access to âAlphaFold 3.â
By visualizing how different molecules interact with shifts in protein structure, scientists can better understand how cells function.
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AI RESEARCH
đ¶MIT CSAIL Researchers Train Robot Dogs in Virtual Worlds
Image Source: MIT CSAIL/âLearning Visual Parkour From Generated Imagesâ/Screenshot
MIT CSAIL Researchers developed âLucidSim,â a framework that trains four-legged robots to navigate the real world using generated images.
Key Details:
âLucidSimâ generates diverse images with detailed physical properties. For example, it captures Newtonâs Laws of Motion to determine the relationships between physical objects and the forces acting upon them.
Then, these diverse images are used to train an AI model to learn Visual Parkour: the ability to navigate complex environments by running, jumping, and maneuvering over obstacles.
Once the AI model is trained on the diverse images generated by âLucidSim,â itâs transferred into a four-legged robotâs Robot Control System (RCS).
RCS enables the four-legged robot to use the AI modelâs learned knowledge to navigate the real world.
âLucidSimâ allowed the four-legged robots to navigate obstacles and chase balls with up to 88% accuracy.
Why Itâs Important:
How do robots learn to jump over boxes autonomously? Currently, Tech Giants rely on digital environments to simulate real-world robotic training. However, these digital environments lack realism.
To address this issue, âLucidSimâ offers a diverse learning environment for robots filled with realism through generated images.
AI TIPS
đExtract Insights From PDFs
Image Source: Anthropic/Claude/Claude 3.5 Sonnet/âFeature Preview, Visual PDFsâ/Screenshot
Anthropic, a research company building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, released a new feature called âPDF Analyzerâ that enables Claude to extract insights from images, charts, or graphs in PDFs. Unfortunately, Itâs only accessible to Pro Users for now.
Claude is a safe, accurate, and secure AI assistant that rivals OpenAIâs ChatGPT.
Hereâs How You Can Access It:
Navigate to Claude here.
Sign up using your Email Address or Google Chrome Profile.
In the bottom left corner, click on your Profile Icon.
Click on âFeature Previews,â select âVisual PDFs,â and toggle it on.
Youâre all set! Now, you can extract insights from PDFs.
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đ°FUNDING FRONTLINES
11x lands a $50M Series B to accelerate the era of digital workers.
GMI Cloud raises an $82M Series A to offer cutting-edge cloud solutions for AI model training.
Cogna Founder Ben Peters secures a $15M Seed Round to build an AI application that writes enterprise software.
đŒWHOâS HIRING?
Numerator (Chicago, IL): Engineering Intern, Summer 2025
Truveta (Seattle, WA): Clinical Data Analyst Intern, Summer 2025
Cytokinetics (San Francisco, CA): AI Data Scientist Intern, Summer 2025
Nvidia (Santa Clara, CA): Developer Technology Engineer, AI, New College Grad 2024
The Aerospace Corp. (Los Angeles, CA): Space Systems Analyst, Early Career
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