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Hey Edge Family, happy Thursday! Big news from The White House today, $20 million up for grabs!
Here’s The Breakdown:
💎 𝟛 Tools to Give You The Edge
🚨 𝟚 AI Updates: $20 Million AI challenge & Google’s IDX
💻 𝟙 Practical Use of AI: “Mirage”
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💎 𝟛 Tools to Give You The Edge
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🚨 Breaking AI News
The Biden administration has announced a new AI Cyber Challenge to incentivize innovation in using AI for cybersecurity defense. With a guaranteed $20 million in total prize money🤯.
The event is sponsored by OpenAI, which endorsed the event today on Twitter (Tweet here). Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft are also AI leaders sponsoring the event. The competition tasks hackers with leveraging AI to protect critical U.S. infrastructure from cyber risks.
Qualifying rounds start in spring 2024, with finals in 2025, where teams can win up to $4 million. The government is requiring all solutions to be open source, which will enable them to make AI systems widely adoptable for key American systems.
What do you think? Is this a good move by the US Gov?
Google is exploring how its AI can streamline software development through Project IDX, a “new cloud-based integrated development environment.”
It’s built on Visual Studio Code, and IDX integrates Google's Codey programming AI to provide coding assistance features like smart autocomplete and a chatbot for queries.
IDX competes with similar AI coding tools from GitHub, Amazon, and others. But by building IDX, Google aims to showcase its AI's potential to enhance productivity across the coding workflow, from writing higher-quality code faster to contextual code actions.
🔎Extra Insights🔍
🏝 AI Powers Decentralands Metaverse
Decentraland adds interactive AI NPCs for a more lively metaverse. NPCs have diverse, customizable personalities/backstories. Seen as more immersive than current options. (Full article here)
🏋️♂️ W&B Raises $50M for LLMOps, Generative AI
Weights & Biases raised $50M to expand its “LLMops” platform, valuing the startup at $1.25B. It builds developer tools for managing and scaling enterprise LLMs. “LLMops” requires more exploration than traditional coding. The funding will grow its platform long-term despite slow current enterprise LLM adoption. (Full article here)
🇬🇧 Britain Appoints AI Summit Leaders
The UK appointed tech entrepreneur Matt Clifford and ex-diplomat Jonathan Black to lead preparations for its global AI summit this fall. They will rally leaders, firms, and experts. UK PM Rishi Sunak aims to position the UK as an AI regulatory leader. (Full article here)
💻 Real Life Use Cases
Midjourney Prompt:
Midjourney v5.2 creates amazing images this image is called “Mirage”
Use or modify this prompt to get stunning still shots
🔏 Copy and paste the prompt below ⏬ (Credit)
solitude, woman, sci-fi, future, blue glow color, orange, photograph --ar 3:2 --s 220Here are the results ⬇️
Daily Definition
LLMops
'LLMops' stands for 'Large Language Model operations per second.' In the realm of AI, speed and efficiency are crucial. Just like a car's performance can be measured in miles per hour, AI models are evaluated based on how many operations they can perform in a second.
An 'operation' here refers to the basic calculations (like additions and multiplications) the model performs. The more operations a model can do in a second, the faster it can process information and generate responses.
Think of LLMops as a speedometer for AI. It helps researchers and developers gauge how quickly a language model can think and respond. When we hear about advancements in AI hardware or optimizations in software, a boost in LLMops often signifies that our AI models can work more rapidly and efficiently.
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