🤖 xAI’s Grok-1.5 Can See?!

PLUS: AI Drones Threaten Energy Markets, Stressed About Finals?

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James Roesser
April 16, 2024

Welcome back AI enthusiasts!

In today’s AI Report:

  • 👀xAI’s Grok-1.5 Can See?!

  • 🪖AI Drones Threaten Energy Markets

  • 🎓Stressed About Finals?

  • 🛠5 Trending Tools

  • 💰Venture Capital Updates

  • 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

XAI

👀xAI’s Grok-1.5 Can See?!

Image Source: Cleverson Oliveira/Mcom

Elon Musk’s xAI announced Grok-1.5V, the startup’s first-generation multimodal model that can process visual information.

Key Details:

  • Grok-1.5V offers multi-disciplinary reasoning and can process visual information like documents, science diagrams, charts, screenshots, and photographs.

  • xAI also created the “RealWorldQA” benchmark to measure spatial real-world understanding. For example, a user might ask an AI model which object is larger in an image.

  • Grok-1.5V outperformed OpenAI’s GPT-4, Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus, and Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro on zero-shot setting (i.e., performing tasks without being trained on any examples) and chain-of-thought prompting (i.e., encouraging language models to explain their reasoning).

Why It’s Important:

  • xAI’s Grok-1.5V enhances current conversational chatbot offerings with impressive vision upgrades such as “RealWorld QA” to highlight spatial relationships in images.

  • All high-quality data could be exhausted by 2026. So, Big Tech companies are searching for synthetic data and real-world video to continue training their AI models.

  • xAI’s competitive edge is that Tesla provides a vast library of real-world video through their Full-Self Driving (FSD) initiatives.

AI ON THE BATTLEFIELD

🪖AI Drones Threaten Energy Markets

Image Source: sergejf/Russian Oil Tankers/Flickr

Ukraine launched a series of drone attacks on Russia’s oil refineries, forcing 670,000 Barrels per Day (BPD) of refining capacity to shut down.

Key Details:

  • Ukraine is leveraging AI-enabled drones to help weapon systems navigate unknown terrain, avoid jamming, and maximize strike precision.

  • The AI-enabled drones have struck 18 Russian oil refineries this year, with a combined capacity of 3.9 billion PBD.

  • Earlier this month, Ukraine hit Russia’s Taneco oil refining complex, located over 1,300 kilometers, or 800 miles, from the frontlines.

  • Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is continuing to boost domestic weapon production, explaining: “We’ll produce a million drones. We’ll do everything to make it so.”

Why It’s Important:

  • U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has urged Ukraine to stop the attacks on Russian energy infrastructure out of concern for raising crude oil prices and instability in global energy markets.

  • Ukraine’s use of AI-enabled drones highlights the affordability and effectiveness of autonomous weapons compared to traditional warfare. These drones also use onboard AI systems to identify and lock onto targets without the pilot’s input.

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AI TIPS

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💰VENTURE CAPITAL UPDATES

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  • API startup Noname Security is nearing a $500M deal to sell itself to Akamai.

  • Tabs raises $7M to enhance an AI-driven accounts receivable platform.

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