🤖 OpenAI Adds New Fine-Tuning Options

PLUS: AGIBOT Unveils New Humanoid Robot Family, Disney Uses AI for Virtual Characters

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In today’s AI Report:

  • 🔧OpenAI Adds New Fine-Tuning Options

  • 🦾AGIBOT Unveils New Humanoid Robot Family

  • 📦Disney Uses AI for Virtual Characters

  • 🛠5 Trending Tools

  • 💰Venture Capital Updates

  • 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

OPENAI

🔧OpenAI Adds New Fine-Tuning Options

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OpenAI added new fine-tuning options for GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”), allowing developers to customize the AI model for specific use cases.

Key Details:
  • Developers can now fine-tune GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”), which involves training the AI model on a specific dataset to improve its performance on particular tasks.

  • The new fine-tuning options are available to all OpenAI Plus users, and developers can train up to a million tokens daily for free until September 23, 2024.

  • Tokens are the smallest units of data used by AI models to process and generate text. Similarly, we break down sentences into words or characters.

  • A tokenizer is a specific program that converts raw text into tokens. You can experiment with OpenAI’s GPT-4 tokenizer here.

Why It’s Important:
  • Last week, AI firm Cosine was granted early access to fine-tune GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”). Then, the company produced “Genie,” a fully autonomous software engineer.

  • With free fine-tuning options now available for GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”) for all developers, prepare for a new wave of more complex AI assistants.

AGIBOT

🦾AGIBOT Unveils New Humanoid Robot Family

Image Source: AGIBOT/ South China Morning Post (SCMP)

Chinese robotics startup AGIBOT unveiled a family of five new humanoid robots to challenge Elon Musk’s Tesla Optimus offerings.

Key Details:
  • AGIBOT’s family of five new humanoid robots includes:

    1. Expedition A2: an interactive service robot built for customer-facing environments like reception desks.

    2. Expedition A2-W: a flexible manufacturing robot built for industrial settings to grab, place, and handle objects.

    3. Expedition A2-Max: a heavy-duty robot built for arranging and stacking goods onto pallets for transportation, storage, or shipping.

    4. Lingxi X1: a fully open-source, smaller, more agile robot tailored for home care tasks like fetching items.

    5. Lingxi X1-W: a wheeled version of the Lingxi X1 designed for healthcare applications to assist with physical therapy.

  • AGIBOT’s five new humanoid robots are wheeled or biped to mimic how humans move to assist with household chores or streamline industrial operations.

Why It’s Important:
  • AGIBOT also developed Integrated Data-System for Embodied AI (AIDEA): an AI framework that develops datasets of robot interactions with objects, environments, and humans.

  • AIDEA extracts relevant information to improve humanoid robot algorithms, making them adapt to new situations more smoothly.

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AI RESEARCH

📦Disney Uses AI for Virtual Characters

Image Source: “VMP: Versatile Motion Priors for Robustly Tracking Motion on Physical Characters”/ETH Zurich, Switzerland/Disney Research, Switzerland

Disney Research scientists developed an AI system that generates realistic movements for virtual characters or robots from simple text descriptions.

The AI system leverages a two-stage technique:

  1. Stage One: Creates compressed motion data that captures the essential features of a character’s movements or robot’s actions.

  2. Stage Two: Learns how to generate appropriate actuator commands (i.e., a character’s digital infrastructure or a robot’s joints) based on the compressed motion data to control the character’s movements or robot’s actions.

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💰VENTURE CAPITAL UPDATES

  • Sequoia Capital explores AI’s $600B question, “Where is all the revenue?”.

  • Eppo raises a $28M Series B to grow its app, website, and AI experimentation business.

  • Opkey, an AI-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform, secures a $47M Series B.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

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