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Source: Tesla Optimus
Big Takeaway: Tesla AI just released a new video showcasing improvements to their Gen-2 humanoid robot prototype.
Tesla’s goal is to replace humans for unsafe and boring tasks with the autonomous humanoid, Optimus.
Gen-2 shows improved balance and body control, moving in a more natural way compared to Gen-1.
Reduced weight by 22 lbs and now Optimus has a speed boost walking 30% faster than before.
Poll Time! How long until robots are commonplace in the workforce?
Source: Fox Business
Big Takeaway: Yesterday, Meta announced their new multimodal AI being used for Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses.
They are beginning a small US beta trial this week, with a public launch in 2024
The current glasses only have a basic voice-controlled assistant, but the new AI takes advantage of glasses' camera for visual context.
Meta’s CTO showcased a demo answering question on object seen through glasses.
Are you getting these glasses?
🔎Extra Insights🔍
🎨‘Midjourney Alpha’ is officialy here
According to a tweet, Midjourney released their Alpha version for any user who has created 10,000 or more images. (Demo video here)
🏆 This is what top AI Researchers make
This chart shows the average yearly compensation for an AI researcher across top companies. (Chart here)
🦾 Microsoft challenges Google’s Gemini with Phi-2
Microsoft Research announced a new small AI model, Phi-2 with just 2.7 billion parameters. Outperforms Google's new 2.7B parameter, Gemini Nano, on some benchmarks. (Full article here)
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💼 Who’s Hiring in AI
Robust Intelligence is a company that focuses on securing enterprises from AI risk (10 job listings)
Nvidia full-stack computing company and the leading manufacturer of GPUs (1848 job listings)
Shield AI is an aerospace and defense technology focusing on AI drones and aircrafts (47 job listings)
Factory AI is a research company focused on building autonomous coding agents (6 job listings)
OpenAI is a research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose AI benefits all of humanity. (84 job listings)
Hugging Face largest open-sourced AI community. 12 job listings
C3 AI provides enterprise AI applications that meet business-critical needs. 100+ job listings
Runway is an applied AI research company focusing on art. 13 job listings
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