Today, OpenAI has officially announced GPT-4, the long-awaited fourth generation of GPT natural language processing models.

Scott Condron of Weights & Biases interviews Hazel Savage, CEO of Musiio, about their role, and machine learning's role, in the music industry today.

Scott Condron of Weights & Biases interviews Umesh Sachdev, CEO of Uniphore, about ML in Saas, conversational AI, and emotion analysis AI for video.

Kaggle has announced a $500k prize sponsorship for the Machine Learning Reproducibility Challenge 2022 in the form of GCP credits, spread across 55 prizes.

BigCode's SantaCoder model gives us more than just a shiny new toy - researchers detail all the steps and experimentation it took to create a small yet competitive large language model for code generation.

Meta AI released a new set of open-source NLP models based on OPT, called OPT-IML. These models are fine-tuned on new instruction task benchmark OPT-IML Bench.

Helm.ai has raised $31 million in a series C funding round. They develop L2-L4 autonomous vehicles with unsupervised learning AI.

OpenAI researchers have open-source a highly efficient text-to-3d model called Point-E, which mixes text-to-image and image-to-3d models to great effect.

The Google For India 2022 event has just happened, revealing many new AI projects, including language, accessibility, and more.

OpenAI introduces text-embedding-ada-002, a text embedding model that outperforms existing models and it significantly faster, cheaper, and simpler.

Google and Everyday Robots have come out with a new framework for robotics AI generalization, involved new fast-inference transformer architecture.

Today Meta AI announced data2vec 2.0, an updated framework for training a model in a self-supervised and modality-agnostic way. It is open-source with pre-trained models available.

Meta AI has announced the Video Similarity Challenge with $100k in total winnings. This competitions comes as a sequel to last year's Image Similarity Challenge, both challenges motivated by the spread of harmful content on social media.

NotCo, creator of many plant-based food products, has raised $70 million through a Series D funding round, using the money to push a new B2B platform for the adoption of AI in plant-based food R&D.

OpenAI is working to implement a watermarking scheme for GPT model output using a custom pseudorandom function when choosing from model output candidate tokens.

DeepMind's AlphaCode AI model is being highlighted in Science Magazine this week. Its training on code-competitions led to its progress towards human-level code generation and problem solving.

Einride has raised a total of $500 million through $200 million Series C round as well as $300 in debt financing. They plan to increase adoption of their autonomous trucking infrastructure as they expand through Europe.

Stable Diffusion 2.1 is released, bringing human generation improvements thanks to NSFW filter adjustments on training data. DreamStudio now supports negative prompting.

Weights & Biases today introduces a new free instructional course called Effective MLOps: Model Development. In the course, users learn the importance of MLOps during model development.

PyTorch 2.0 has been released, introducing a new model compiler for model speedups at no extra trouble, and a major move away from C++ and towards a full Python backend.

Generating images with Stable Diffusion is now 80% cheaper through DreamStudio and the Stability AI API.

DeepMind's DeepNash AI model plays Stratego, a game of imperfect information and long-time AI ability target, like an expert. Open-source algorithm R-NaD leads this new advancement.

OpenAI has released a new GPT variant model for dialogue called ChatGPT, current available free to use while in research preview.

Create with Alexa uses machine learning models to generate unique childrens' stories with visuals and audio.

Papers with Code and Meta AI have published a new large language model called Galactica, this time with an edge on scientific understanding and reasoning.

V7 has raised $33 million in a Series A funding round today. They offer tools for automated data labelling and dataset management.

The 36th annual NeurIPS conference has arrived, bringing people across the ML and AI industry together with highlights on the most recent advancements and research.

Meta AI has released a new model designed to play the game Diplomacy. This model shows human-level performance and communication skills within the game.

Meta AI has come out with a new dataset for pinpointing the deficiencies of computer vision models. It's open-source and available for download.

arXiv and Hugging Face have partnered to bring Hugging Face Spaces demos to the research website.

Notion has revealed an upcoming AI tool suite for generating content in the app. Currently in alpha, you can sign up for the waitlist right now.

NVIDIA gave us several announcements today, including the widespread adoption of their newest hardware with partnered companies, and improvements to Omniverse and other software solutions, for HPC-scale scientific and industrial AI applications.

AI-powered workspace app company Mem has announced a $23.5 million funding round led by OpenAI's Startup Fund. Additionally, they announce Mem X out of beta with new tools on waitlist access.

The time for MLPerf results has come again, this time consisting of two training benchmarks and one inference benchmark - showing a claimed performance increase of 5X.

DeepMind has introduced a new dataset for point tracking video in 3D space.

DeepMind is pushing for scholarship applications with new "AI by you" campaign.

BigScience has released a new lineup of finetuned models based on their own BLOOM model as well as Google's MT5 model: BLOOMZ and MT0 respectively. These models are built specifically for human instruction through natural language.

OpenAI has announced that DALL·E is now accessible through a new public API, letting developers bring the image generation tool straight into their own platform.

Today Google showed off a number of new AI projects at AI@ 2022.

Meta AI have released a massive database for metagenomic structure predictions with the use of their own ESM protein structure prediction models.

Version 1.13 of PyTorch was released on Friday, bring many changes including CUDA 11.7 support, better M1 chip support, and more.

Navina has announced a $22 million series B funding round, planning to continue to improve their AI solution for automated patient medical record insights.

BigCode has revealed their first work today, a new 3 TB dataset of permissively licensed code scraped from GitHub, including 30 languages.

Google has released the newest version of the Open Images dataset, bringing a new point-based annotation system as well as a few new data visualizers.

Stock image platform Shutterstock is extending it's partnership with OpenAI to bring DALL·E 2 to the platform. Compensation is promised for involved creators, however it has still reared controversy.

Bing Image Creator brings DALL·E 2 to users for free, and just got it's limited regional release a few days ago.

Meta AI has released SpeechMatrix, a new open-source dataset for textless speech-to-speech model creation. Along with it come numerous pretrained models for translation as well as those used in it's creation.

Jasper AI, a site for easy generative AI content creation, has raised $125 million in a Series A funding round.

Stability AI, the company that brings us Stable Diffusion and many other AI projects, has announced a seed funding round of $101 million.

DeepMind researchers have shown off Compressed Vision, a new pipeline for compressing visual data with AI, showing massive memory efficiency gains.

Google researchers have released a new multilingual, multicultural image captioning dataset called Crossmodal-3600.

Meta AI has revealed what seems to be an updated version of the Habitat Matterport 3D Semantics Dataset, nearly doubling the number of scenes from the original.

Google Cloud Next started today with their keynote presentation. In it, some new AI products were shown off.

DeepMind has revealed AlphaTensor, an extension of AlphaZero which searches for more efficient matrix multiplication algorithms by treating the search process like a game.

Google has revealed Imagen Video, a new text-to-video generation model, coming quickly after Meta AI's recent Make-A-Video reveal.

Today the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy revealed the AI Bill of Rights, a set of principles for the safe and equitable use of AI on the American people.

Meta AI's new library for model inference streamlines inference on NVIDIA and AMD GPUs with performance increases using new fusion techniques.

Polyglot, a team within EleutherAI, has released a set of open-source Korean language GPT models, with prospects towards creating non-English-centric, focused multilingual language models.

A new text-to-video model, Make-A-Video, has been revealed by Meta AI.

DALL·E 2's waitlist is no more. Users can now sign up for immediate use.

A new large language model for code is on it's way thanks to BigCode, a new project by Hugging Face and ServiceNow inspired by BigScience.

TensorStore is Google's solution to managing massive multi-dimensional data arrays efficiently and safely, with build in storage integrations.

OpenAI released Whisper, an open-source multilingual speech transcription and translation model.

NVIDIA's GTC 2022 conference shows off all the latest tech driving AI innovation. From new hardware architecture to AI-enhanced software, today's keynote is full of AI news.

NVIDIA, Arm, and Intel are working together to establish an 8-bit floating point number standard for machine learning.

Google is offering $25M in funding and additional support for organizations looking to tackle the UN Sustainable Development Goals with innovative and scalable AI solutions.

Google researchers have developed LOLNeRF, a model which is able to generate 3D image reconstructions while having been trained on single-view images alone.

MySQL HeatWave comes to Amazon Web Services, giving customers more options for accelerating their MySQL databases with ML.

The PyTorch Foundation is PyTorch's transition to a new era for AI; Meta now sits alongside industry leads to democratize PyTorch's growth and development.

Uber Eats and Nuro have partnered to leverage Nuro's autonomous delivery vehicle solution and bring food delivery to CA and TX locations.

Hebbia offers an AI-powered document search platform, and has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round today.

The results for MLPerf Inference v2.1, including datacenter and edge scales, are in, seeing greater participation than previous rounds.

A new flashy web series about AI's impact on industry by Dataiku called AI & Us has launched with it's first episode about the fashion industry.

DeepMind has introduced a collection of 8 pre-built robots based on real life hardware to their MuJoCo physics simulation software.

Principle Odor Map, a mapping of scents based on molecular structure, pushes new AI research into scent and posits use in mosquito repellant example.

Georgia Tech has been awarded $65 million as part of the $1 billion from government funding to build regional economies with an AI and manufacturing focus.

Applications for the 2023 Meta Research PhD Fellowship Program are open, letter prospective researchers get a chance at funding to support their journey.

NPMP uses motion capture data during training as a basis for realistic movement. This project culminates in an impressive 2v2 AI soccer simulation.

The PyTorch Conference returns December 2nd 2022 as an in-person event.

This new DALL·E 2 feature, called outpainting, lets users use AI image generators to extend a source image, preserving style and context.

AI Test Kitchen will finally be coming to the public, starting with a small access rollout to US users. You can register for access now.

Lightricks' new text-to-image AI lets you create AI generated photos and edit them right in the app.

Stable Diffusion has been released to the public, including a Hugging Face demo internet users can go play with right now.

Zilliz has raised $60 million in an extended Series B funding round today, after opening a Silicon Valley HQ will invest into it's services and open-source projects.

OpenAI is reducing API pricing for their GPT-3 and Embeddings models, up to one third their original price, thanks to improved model efficiency.

ESMFold, Meta AI's horse in the protein folding race, gets a new public model set release that gets comparable results at significantly faster speeds.

Modulate reduces online voice chat toxicity using AI and machine learning. They have raised $30 million in a Series A funding round just announced.

G42 and Abu Dhabi Growth Fund have established a $10 Billion fund for tech companies, including those with a big focus on AI and machine learning.

Google Research has created a new YouTube channel to showcase their most recent research projects in an informative yet approachable video format.

PaLM-SayCan implements Google's PaLM model to drive robots to make useful and feasible actions following user-provided instruction.

A $1.2 billion pact has been signed between Sanofi and Atomwise in an exclusive AI-powered drug discovery deal, starting with $20 million for 5 drug targets.

Meta AI will host the MyoChallenge at NeurIPS 2022. In this challenge, ML models will learn to control an anatomical hand in dexterity and control tasks.

A new text-to-image generation model is coming out, this time without nearly as many restrictions. Stable Diffusion rivals DALL·E 2 and other large-name image generation models while promising much more freedom in what can be generated.

StradVision has raised $88 million to develop low-cost self-driving AI models in the aim of democratizing the industry.

The Habitat Rearrangement Challenge 2022 has kicked off, tasking participants to train a model which can rearrange objects in a simulated environment.

GE Healthcare partners with Nex Cubed to run the 2022 Edison Accelerator Program. Seven finalists have been selected and will work to integrate their AI-powered healthcare solutions to the GE Healthcare Edison platform.

Hyundai Motor Group, a little over a year after acquiring robotics & AI lab Boston Dynamics, has announced a $400 million investment towards opening a Boston Dynamics AI Institute.

Features snippets are getting a number of improvements including the use of an AI model called MUM to determine information consensus and improve featured snippet quality.

OpenAI's new free-to-use Moderation API uses a GPT-based model to ensure that harmful content created by humans or generated by AI is blocked and flagged for review.

Arize AI and Hugging Face have partnered in the goal of making those who want to take advantage of Hugging Face's pre-trained models for transfer learning have a smooth operation with a powerful toolset to identify issues and train effectively.

CleverTap, company for managing user engagement and retention with a variety of tools build on a foundation of AI-powered data insights, has raied $105 million in a Series D funding round announced today.

AIRS Medical supports MRI exams with their competition-winning AI-based SwiftMR technology. Today, they announce a $20 million Series B funding round.

Geek+, company for the automation of warehouse logistics with robotics and AI, has raised a total of $100 million in a series E funding round.

Blender Bot 3 is Meta AI's newest public access model release. This model is a chatbot built on OPT-175B, and shows improvements across the board compared to other AI chatbots.

Craiyon's got an updated model to show off, with fixes to the image encoding/decoding portion allowing for sharper and higher quality images.

Aisera has raised $90 million in a Series D funding round in the aims to create an industry-leading AI-powered user experience platform.

Afresh has raised $115 million in a Series B funding round announced today, aiming to reduce food waste across the US with an AI-powered solution.

Deci has become NVIDIA Metropolis' newest partner, the partnership aims to bring the power of NVIDIA's Metropolis framework into Deci's customers' hands.

Hugging Face's new Private Hub platform lets customers take advantage of Hugging Face's Hub platform while keeping their own data private and secure.

AlphaFold's protein database has expanded from 1 million to over 200 million catalogued protein structures - nearly all proteins known to science.

This year's Google Developer Student Clubs Solution Challenge 2022 comes to a close, showing off the 10 finalists' projects in the Demo Day livestream.

Seedtag, a company pushing the use of AI in contextual advertising, has raised a massive €250 million in a private equity round from Advent International.

Marketing company Cordial, which uses predictive intelligence for expertly targeted customer communication, has raised $50 million in a Series C funding round announced today.

Hugging Face has release a new library supporting the development and inference of Diffusion models.

InfiniteNature-Zero is an improved version of Infinite Nature, both being models for the generation of video based on single input images. The new improvements show higher quality and an improved training process compared to it's predecessor.

Canadian communications network Rogers has put out a statement on network reliability, including mention of $10 billion investment into oversight, testing, and greater use of AI for network reliability.

Cleerly, a company envisioning a world without heart disease, has raised a huge $192 million to do just that with the power of AI.

PlayTorch enables rapid AI app prototyping with ease thanks to intuitive and simple auto-updating in-browser and app duo development setup.

Lighting AI's new Storm Chaser Challenge Series contest has simple participation rules and could win you a $1,000 Visa Giftcard.

DALL·E is entering beta access starting today, and 1 million new waitlisted users will be granted access. A new credit system lets you generate images for free, and full commercial usage is freely granted for all generated images.

Researchers at Meta AI have developed a new PyTorch library called Theseus. This library lets developers implement differentiable nonlinear optimization into any model architecture and application.

Phaidra, company for improving energy efficiency across industries with reinforcement learning, has raised $25 million.

DALL·E 2 has seen improvements for bias mitigation as well and improvements to the safety systems which ensure safe utilization of the model.

Hugging Face Hub is seeing a notification feature get introduced today, clueing users in to user and organization interaction. Additionally, users can now "watch" other users and organizations.

ForSight Robotics has raised $55 million in a Series A funding round to improve eye surgery with robotics and AI platform ORYOM.

NVIDIA's Fleet Command AI management platform is seeing some new features for the focused support on remote location edge AI control and monitoring.

Meta AI's new generative AI project lets users create AI-generated images from text prompts, directed and composed based on a sketch input.

Researchers at Google AI present a framework for model reliability, focusing on model adaptability and deliberate uncertainty. Two Plex models show off what the framework is capable of.

AI21 Labs offers various services for improving the everyday interaction with language, both reading and writing. They've raised $64 million in a Series B funding round in this effort.

Deci, with their AutoNAC platform for increasing AI model development efficiency, has raised $25 million thanks to a Series B funding round announced today.

Researchers at Adobe have come up with a new method to optimize CLIP's grammar understanding, and train a model with greater fine-detail captioning with new dataset.

The long awaited BLOOM has finished training and is ready for use and download by the public. This new model is the largest multilingual languages processing model to date.

Meta AI's newest open-source release will automate the most tedious part of verifying citations on Wikipedia.

New experimental ML model project Mood Board Search can learn the mood of a collection of images and help you find more like it.

NLLB-200 is a model able to translate between 200 languages, including those often neglected. Though the development process posed many challenges, NLLB-200 has released open-source along with many of the tools which were used to make it.

AI is playing a big role in assisting referees at the FIFA World Cup 2022 by automatically detecting offside offenses with a network of tracking cameras and generated 3d scenes.

Facial recognition services provided by Microsoft are seeing restrictions, as well as certain aspects being retired completely.

Google Cloud and H&M Group have partnered to build a solid AI-powered data backend for the popular global clothing company.

Company for AI-based customer retention management platform Retail Rocket has raised €23.2 million and acquired similarly focussed company Sailplay.

Students looking to pursue a computer science research career can apply for Google's CSRMP right now.

PyTorch 1.12 has released, bring a large list of changes and improvements.

Recently revealed company Modular aims to build a platform-agnostic AI development platform using $30 million in Seed funding money raised today.

The results for the MLPref Training v2.0 benchmarking round have arrived, with over 250 performance results reported by 21 different organizations.

HuggingFace has announced Evaluation on the Hub, a quick and easy to use tool to evaluate any model on any dataset available on the Hugging Face Hub.

PicnicHealth, company dedicated to improving medical record access for patients and for the development of disease-specific datasets for research, has raised $60 million in a Series C funding round.

W&B and Run:ai have partnerned together with the support of NVIDIA to bring a complete workflow for machine learning engineers and data scientists.

MT-YOLOv6 has entered the YOLOv5 spinoff scene with surprising speed and accuracy benchmarks.

Amazon has joined the AI code generation race with CodeWhisperer, their solution to help coders generate code quickly to improve productivity.

Elucid, a company offering machine learning powered heart disease diagnosis tools, has raised a total of $27 million through a Series B funding round.

OpenFold hits the ground running with it's version 1.0 release. This ML model is a PyTorch reproduction of Deepmind's AlphaFold, a model built for protein folding.

Have questions about Craiyon, the text-to-image generation tool powered by AI? We're here to answer them.

Google has revealed the newest in text-to-image generation models today with Parti.

The final piece of Meta AI's OPT model lineup has finally arrived, the 66 billion parameter language processing model is available for unrestricted download.

spaCy's now pre-installed in Google Colab, so there's no more need to pip install it.

Version 2.7 of fastai has been released. This update brings Hugging Face Accelerate in to handle distributed training, among other nice changes.

Reddit has acquired the machine learning platform company Spell. The acquisition promises to lead Reddit's ML engineers for enhancing key pieces of the Reddit platform with ML.

Hugging Face has officially partnered with Intel to develop the Optimum Intel library, a library for using Hugging Face Transformers with Intel's Neural Compressor library.

Andrew Ng's new Machine Learning Specialization course is now available on Coursera. Optimized for accessibility to those who want to jump into the ML space, yet still covering all the content you need to know to be successful, this course is a great starting point.

MIT Engineers have developed a modular AI chip system which uses light to communicate between chips rather than wires for more easily performed reconfiguration.

EcoVadis, a company which offers a sustainability management platform for businesses, powered by AI, has raised a huge $500 million in a funding round led by Astorg and BeyondNetZero.

Meta AI researchers have released their work on a new multimodal dataset: MUGEN (Multimodal Understanding and GENeration). The dataset contains 375K fully annotated video-audio-text data for training multimodal models on.

Sonantic, a company developing a platform for AI-powered voice generation with extensive control for expressive speech, is to be acquired by Spotify. The acquisition has a lot of potential to enrich the user experience on Spotify.

Meta AI researchers share their findings regarding advancement in direct speech-to-speech translation models in a blog post today.

A number of new features are being formally announced for Google Cloud Vertex AI. These announcements come from the recent Google Cloud Applied ML Summit 2022.

The first ever Google Developers Machine Learning Bootcamp hosted in Europe will commence soon, so be sure to apply if you're interested. The program covers everything you need to know and helps you transition into an employment position at a company in an ML position.

Global manufacturing company Siemens has acquired AI-based predictive maintenance solution company Senseye. Siemens customer can look forward to utilizing the new services for decreased downtime and increased productivity.

TIFIN has introduced a conversational AI to their Megnifi platform for AI-powered investment. With Magnifi Mentor, gleaming insights personalized to your account is easier than ever.

AI-powered banking insights company Bud has raised a total of $80 million through a Series B funding round solely led by TDR Capital.

Drug discovery AI platform company Owkin has raised $80, partially from a Series B funding round as well as up-front feed for clinical drug trials, all from Bristol Myers Squibb.

DevFest for Ukraine will run June 14 & 15 in support of the millions of Ukrainian people struggling to survive in these dangerous times. The conference will cover three main topics: Android, Web, and AI.

4D imaging radar company Vayyar Imaging has raised $108 million through a Series E funding round, planning to use the money to further their machine learning-powered radar imaging solution to various industries.

Google's annual exploreCSR program for supporting industries to enable student growth in and pursuit of computing careers and research has come around once again, and can be applied for starting today.

Wingfield, company for enhancing the tennis scene with AI-powered analysis at all skill levels, has raised €4 million to build and expand their platform across Europe and the US.

Insilico Medicine, offering an end-to-end stack for AI-powered drug discovery, has raised $60 million through a Series D funding round to continue the fight against disease and illness through ML.

NVIDIA and Oracle sponsored contest for AI development in city planning and healthcare has a quickly approaching deadline. If you're a startup looking to get your foot in the industry door, apply fast.

The finalists for the Gradio Block Party contest have been selected, with a fun range of interactive demos built with Gradio Blocks to explore.

Google has banned the use of deepfaking software in Colab. Whether for ethical concerns or mitigating resource hogging, producing deepfakes has been added to the list of restrictions in the terms of service.

Hugging Face has released a new library for evaluating models and datasets, called Hugging Face Evaluate. It comes with built-in tools for dataset and model evaluation, comparison, and measurement.

Autonomous SOC platform company Devo has raised $100 million in Series F financing to broadly expand operations, including data analysis tools for ML.

Version 0.9 of TorchMetrics features major improvements to the internals of the forward method, bringing run speeds up with no code re-writing requirements.

FarmWise, offering weed-killing services using their AI-powered robot Titan FT-35, have landed $45 million through a Series B funding round announced today.

Researchers at King's College London have created a model and dataset of over 100,000 synthetic 3D brain images with the help of NVIDIA supercomputer Cambridge-1.

A brand new supercomputer born from a collaboration between Hewlett Packard Enterprise and NVIDIA, Champollion, will bring a powerful machine learning hub to French AI researchers.

Deepnote, a platform for collaborative data science workflows, has left it's beta stage. Deepnote is a great platform for managing datasets and machine learning analysis with easily integration with W&B.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has made it clear today that the complexity of the decisions made by credit machine learning models must be sufficiently explainable to be able to be used legally in credit applicant decisions.

Hugging Face has once again worked with Graphcore, bringing transformer models to optimal performance on Graphcore IPUs. Nine new models have been added to the program.

Ayar Labs and NVIDIA are teaming up to push AI computation into light-speed communication frameworks.

Hugging Face has introduced a new community tab to repositories featuring very GitHub-like features with pull requests and discussion easily accessible from the website UI.

Last year Meta AI released a report on their efforts in self-supervised learning, using a new method they coined DINO. Today they've released a collection of demos illustrating the powerful image recognition capabilities of a model trained with it.

Microsoft has expanded availability of it's Azure OpenAI Service preview. You can apply for access starting today.

Google has revealed a text-to-image generation model to rival that of DALL·E 2, generating photorealistic images with remarkable consistency, variety, and accuracy.

Meta AI has released two new datasets created in the hopes of ridding NLP of their problematic biases, as well as sharing a method for creating them and a diverse list of identity descriptors driving it all. And it's all open-source.

AI-powered city routing optimization company NextBillion.ai has raised $21 million through a Series B funding effort led by Mirae Asset Capital.

Included, a company providing AI-powered solutions for diversity, equity, and inclusion, has raised $3.5 million in the aim of helping companies create more diverse workplaces.

Decentralized finance company SingularityNET and SingularityDAO have a goal to bring AI and machine learning to the blockchain. They've raised $25 million from an agreement with LDA Capital Limited to achieve that goal.

The newest release in the IBM ESS line has been released. With the ESS 3500, managing data and datasets for machine learning is easier than ever.

Supply chain analytics company Everstream uses AI and machine learning to protect and streamline supply chain business. Today they have announced a Series A funding round of $24 million.

Heartex, a company offering a platform for an enhanced dataset labelling process, has raised $25 million through a Series A funding round.

TensorFlow version 2.9 has been released, bringing a number of improvements and changes, including new models and optimizers for Keras, Intel processor optimizations, experimental model parallelism utility, and more.

Version 1.12 of PyTorch will be bringing the ability of GPU-accelerated model training for Mac users running Apple silicon machines.

Construction AI company Buildots, using computer vision to analyze construction sites, has raised $60 million through a Series C funding round.

Version 3.0 of Gradio has been released, including ground-up UI changes and new Gradio Blocks for creating interactive ML demos. Hugging Face is holding a contest for users looking to build ML demos with Gradio Blocks.

TorchRL is an open-source library for PyTorch focused on improving the experience of working with and creating reinforcement learning models.

Transportation sector company Optibus has raised $100 million through a Series D funding round, raising the company's valuation to 1.3 billion, making it the first unicorn in the public transportation sector.

Mysterious startup, Inflection AI, has recieved $225 million in equity financing, though the source of the money isn't yet clear.

DeepMind has revealed a 1.2 billion parameter generalized model named Gato. This model is able to perform over 600 tasks, from playing video games to image classification.

Lang.ai, a company offering AI services for gleaming insight from customer service conversations, has announced the completion of a Series A funding round of $10.5 Million led by Nava Ventures.

TIFIN, a company with several services offering AI-powered financial management solutions, has raised $109 million through a Series D funding round led by Motive Partners.

Intel's Habana Labs has announced two new processors at Intel Vision 2022: the Gaudi 2 training processor, a sequel to their Gaudi training processor, and the Greco inference processor, a successor to their Goya inference processor.

Google I/O 2022 has revealed a lot, so here's a full recap of everything machine learning that was talked about. Machine learning really took to lead at Google I/O 2022, so there's a lot to talk about.

NaturalSpeech, a newly developed text-to-speech generation model, has proved itself more human-like than any other existing TTS model.

OncoHost has raised $35 million in a Series C funding round, hoping to continue to expand their machine-learning based cancer treatment system, PROphet.

Brightseed, a company with goals in discovering bioactive plant components for the better health of humanity, has raised $68 million through a Series B funding round led by Temasek Holdings.

Ian Goodfellow, inventor of GAN and now-former director of machine learning at Apple, departs from the company over disagreement with the encroaching return-to-office policy.

Hugging Face, well-known ai company with goals of making the AI space easy and accessable for all, has raised $100 Million through a Series C funding round.

Medical AI startup Imagene has announced the successful funding of $21.5 million through a $3 million Seed round and an $18.5 million Series A funding round.

Google AI has revealed a new framework for reinforcement learning to help robots learn tasks in a safe manner, without a fear of expensive equipment damage or a requirement for constant human intervention.

Version 0.12.16 of the wandb Python library has released with support for Keras SavedModel format and more.

Google I/O is a short week away, so get ready. With announcements and presentations across the whole Google landscape, you won't want to miss it.

Explosion, creator of spaCy and more, has launched a YouTube playlist for short tutorials on their spaCy natural language processing library.

DeepMind recently released a combined visual and language model (a VLM) called Flamingo, capable of a variety of tasks taking text and image input simultaneously.

Meta AI announced the start of the Ego4D Challenge 2022 back in March, and wants to give a heads up to any prospective entrants that the first phase is ending in a month.

Meta AI announced a blog post today that they have released a new set of language models under the name "Open Pretrained Transformer". These models aim to replicate GPT-3 while being freely available for local use and training.

Traceable AI announced their $60 million raise today, thanks to Institutional Venture Partners and additional contributors, to expand their machine learning powered API security service.

Ubiquitous Energy and Citrine Informatics have partnered to further the rapid development of solar panel materials using machine learning.

Accern, offering a No-Code NLP platform, has raised $20 million in funding from Mighty Capital, Fusion Fund, and others. The money will go towards scaling the business and marketing.

deepset has raised $14 million in a Series A funding round led by GV. Additionally, they have announced a new platform for natural language processing, deepset Cloud.

Version 0.7 of Hugging Face's Accelerate feature has been release, bringing a powerful and easy to use new logging API, support for PyTorch FSDP, automated batch size finding utility, and much more.

The most recent update for Explosion's spaCy natural language processing library has been released. The update offers new functionality, language support, and performance increases.

Exafunction plans to bring greater efficiency to deep learning setups with virtualized GPUs thanks to Series A funding round of $25 million led by Greenoaks.

Meta AI has released the culmination of recent research into deep language processing and what they've looked into, towards bridging the gap between language processing in the human brain and AI.

In a round of Series A funding, Finbots.AI has raised $3 Million with plans to expand business and it's ZScore service for enhanding credit score calculation with AI.

Computer vision has been a staple of machine learning for many years, with improvements constantly coming, however, the struggle for interpretting corrupted inputs remains. In a paper by Zhou et al., they explore what makes certain model types better at handling corrupted input.

Terraform Provider Iterative, a new tool by Iterative for extending the capabilities of HashiCorp's Terraform, for optimizing machine learning engineers' cloud experience with automated cloud infrastructure tools.

PyTorch Lightning is holding it's first developer conference this year, promising a dense schedule of activities featuring industry experts.

Microsoft research release paper detailing their work into METRO, a new solution to pre-training accurate large-scale language models at comparably efficient training speeds.

With the aim of pushing global adoption of AI into the medical field of endoscopy, AI Medical Service Inc. has raised $70 million through a Series C funding effort led by SoftBank.

Ayar Labs, producers of cutting edge optical I/O communication products, has rasied $130 in the goal of spreading availability of their products to support computation-heavy industries like AI.

Agile Robotics has announced raising $30 million in a venture funding round. The money will go towards furthering their stake in the global robotics applications and AI landscape.

Hour One, AI tech company, announced raising $20 million in Series A Funding to enhance their Reals digital twin virtual presenter service powered by AI.

StyleGAN is widely used for image generation, and yet-to-be-released paper goes into how it can be best used for generation and modification of full-body human figures.

NVIDIA has announced the HGX H100, a powerful AI supercomputing framework using the power of the H100, a new GPU using the new Hopper architecture.

Singapore-based tech startup Crown Digital has raised $3.7 million to continue developing the use of robotics in everyday food and beverage service.

LabGenius finds drug-discovery speed doubled on Graphcore IPUs compared to GPUs for machine learning model training.

L2P is a newly proposed method for continual learning that shows more success than comparable methods, including rehearsal-based methods.

Chatbot AI, CHAI, uses a combination of a pre-trained language model and offline reinforcement learning training to create more believable task-focussed dialogue between human and machine.

Unlearn.AI has raised $50 million in series B funding to increase research and development in their potentially revolutionary new AI-based Digital Twin service for use in accelerating clinical trials.

The first release-candidate for TensorFlow's version 2.9.0 has been let out to the public.

Fujitsu announced an expansion to their globalized R&D efforts today with new joint research institution FRIPL, stationed in Bangalore, India.

Edge Impule recently announced FOMO, a powerful but small-scale object detection model geared to run on low-power processors at high speeds.

Cerebras' CSoft software update to version 1.2 gives developers using PyTorch and TensorFlow access to their powerful CS-2 systems through Cerebras Cloud.

New version of TorchMetrics introduces speedups, new functionality, and bug fixes.

Google research has released a paper describing a newly released dataset containing ambiguous questions and long-form answers paired to them.

A new paper titled, "Correcting Robot Plans with Natural Language Feedback" written by Pratyusha Sharma et al. explores the utility of natural language processing in helping robots performs tasks more effectively.

NVIDIA has announced a new contest reaching out to creatives and video game enthusiasts to use their powerful Ominverse Machinima app and create shorts to win big prizes.

Union.ai, founded by the engineers behind Flyte (powering Lyft, Spotify, and more), plans to use the $10 million in funding raised by NEA to grow Flyte and upcoming platform Union Cloud.

New laptop release collaboration by Lambda and Razer looks to simplify and quicken the process of machine learning for people on the go.

LimeChat, a company offering AI chat bot services, has raised $4.2 million through funding from capital investors. They aim to further AI chat bot reserach and development, and bring improved services to brands across the world.

Habana Labs and Hugging Face have decided to combine their powers in the aim of making training machine learning models faster and easier.

Google Research has released a paper detailing the power of a new framework, ALX. ALX aims to increase efficiency for large-scale matrix factorization on TPUs.

After a 6 month hiatus, the 57th episode of the PyTorch Developer Podcast has been published, along with plans to continue with a weekly release.

Night vision technology that has been used for decades, but it's always had the limitation of not being able to provide color. A new report seeks to bring color to night vision with the help of deep learning.

NVIDIA's Jetson AGX Orin processor has proved itself worthy by maintaining NVIDIA's lead as the go-to for AI computing. New MLPerf testing rounds using the new processor show clear lead in performance over competitors.

Thanks to the funding of big-name organizations and the leadership of industry names, new AI startup Kumo plans on making leaps in the AI-driven user prediction landscape.

A research paper has been released by Ikechukwu Uchendu et al. describing what they call Jump-Start Reinforcement Learning. This method for reinforcement learning aims to improve the efficiency of initializing reinforcement learning experiments.

OpenAI has officially announced DALL·E 2, an upgraded version of their project DALL·E which was announced last year. DALL·E 2 is a massive leap forwards for the AI image generation and natural language processing sector of machine learning.