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🤖 Tesla’s Humanoid Robot
PLUS: Microsoft Launches a Powerful Small Language Model
James Roesser
December 15, 2023
Welcome back AI enthusiasts!
In today’s AI Report:
🦾Tesla’s Humanoid Robot
🚀Microsoft Launches a Powerful Small Language Model
🛠5 Trending Tools
💰Venture Capital Updates
💼Who’s Hiring?
Read Time: 3 minutes
🗞RECENT NEWS
TESLA
🦾Tesla’s Humanoid Robot
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Tesla recently showcased Optimus Gen-2, an autonomous humanoid robot capable of performing unsafe, repetitive, or tedious tasks.
Key Details:
Optimus Gen-2 added major speed, dexterity, and balance upgrades, enhancing mobility by 30%.
Tesla added tactile sensors to the fingers, allowing Optimus to manipulate objects with greater precision and control. For example, the demonstration video displayed the robot handling an egg.
Additional features include a flexible neck, integrated electronics, and joint position encoders that aim to mimic natural human movements.
Why It’s Important:
During Tesla’s Q1 2022 earnings call, Elon Musk said: “People don’t realize the magnitude of the Optimus robot program. Optimus will ultimately be worth more than the self-driving car business.”
In the future, robots will replace most manual labor jobs and present opportunities to extract critical resources and generate energy in space. The Optimus program could be the key to creating a post-scarcity era for humanity.
🩺 PULSE CHECK
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MICROSOFT
🚀Microsoft Launches a Powerful Small Language Model
Image Source: Ryder/Bloomberg/Getty Images
Microsoft researchers launched Phi-2, a 2.7 billion-parameter model designed to run on phones or laptops and provide complex reasoning and language understanding.
Key Details:
Phi-2 showcases state-of-the-art performance among base language models with less than 13 billion parameters.
Phi-2 leverages model scaling and training data curation to outperform language models up to 25X larger, like Google’s 3 billion-parameter Gemini Nano 2.
This Small Language Model (SLM) prioritizes “textbook-quality” data, including synthetic datasets like science, daily activities, and theory of mind.
Phi-2 is available to test in the Azure AI Studio Model catalog.
Why It’s Important:
Phi-2’s compact size allows researchers to isolate variables for mechanistic interpretability, safety improvements, or fine-tuning experimentation on tasks.
Phi-2 has yet to undergo instruction fine-tuning. Consequently, the AI model struggles to adhere to the nuanced instructions provided by users.
🛠TRENDING TOOLS
🥪Munch transforms long-form videos into short clips for YouTube Shorts, TikTok, or Instagram.
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⚙️Delphi clones you to scale your expertise and availability.
🔊Krisp improves the productivity of online meetings with voice clarity tools and a meeting assistant.
💬Wonderchat builds ChatGPT-powered chatbots in minutes, trained on your website links and PDF files.
💰VENTURE CAPITAL UPDATES
💼WHO’S HIRING?
Machina Labs (Los Angeles, CA): Software Engineering Intern, Summer 2024
Hugging Face (Remote): Machine Learning Engineer Intern, Alignment, Summer 2024
Coinbase (Seattle, WA): Integrations Engineer Intern, Summer 2024
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