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At Davos, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says Superintelligence Labs delivered its first high-profile AI models internally this month and the models are "very good" (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-n<…

Pixel 10a: Google legt sein Mittelklasse-Smartphone neu auf
Google legt mit dem Pixel 10a sein Mittelklasse-Smartphone neu auf. Die neue Generation ist mehr Feinschliff als Revolution.
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Military models Canadian response to hypothetical American invasion (Globe and Mail)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-military-models-canadian-response-to-hypothetical-american-invasion/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p47#a260120p47

Toxic metals found in bananas after Brazil mining disaster #plantbased

Toxic metals found in bananas after Brazil mining disaster
Researchers investigating crops grown in soil contaminated by the 2015 mining disaster in Brazil discovered that toxic metals are moving from the earth into edible plants. Bananas, cassava, and cocoa were found to absorb elements like lead and cadmium, with bananas showing a potential health risk for children under six. Although adults face lower immediate danger, scientists warn that long-term exposure could carry cumulative health consequences.

Adobe launches Firefly Custom Models in public beta, letting users train AI image generators on their own assets; the custom models are private by default (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/897243/adobe-firefly-ai-custom-models-ima…

Adobe’s AI image generator can now be trained on your own art
Adobe is launching customizable AI image generators that can mimic specific artistic styles and character designs.

#TGIQF: Das Quiz rund um die MIR
Am 19. Februar 1986 begann mit dem Start des ersten Moduls die Reise der Raumstation Mir ins All. Ohne sie wäre die ISS nicht möglich gewesen. Dazu ein Quiz!

A look at South Korea's Independent AI Foundation Model competition, which aims to find the best homegrown AI models, in a bid to compete with the US and China (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

Anthropic details the "Assistant Axis", a pattern of neural activity in language models that governs their default identity and helpful behavior (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/assistant-axis

The assistant axis: situating and stabilizing the character of large language models
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Open models will largely lose if they keep chasing closed frontier AI models; instead, open models should serve as complementary tools to closed agents (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects AI)
https://www.interconnects.ai/p/the-next-phase-of-open-models

What comes next with open models
Markets, capabilities, cope, and bewilderment in the industrialization of language models.

Sources: Applied Compute, which lets companies customize models with their own data, is in talks to raise funding at a $1.3B valuation, up from $500M in October (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/applied…

Applied Compute, Founded by Ex-OpenAI Researchers, in Talks for $1.3 Billion Valuation
Applied Compute, a startup founded by three former OpenAI researchers that helps companies customize models with their own data, is in talks to raise new funding at a $1.3 billion valuation, including the investment, according to four people with knowledge of the discussions. The funding would ...