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🔥 Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model
Genie 2 by Google DeepMind creates diverse 3D environments for training AI agents, enhancing interactive experience prototyping.
🔥 AI helps researchers dig through old maps to find lost oil and gas wells
AI is aiding researchers in locating undocumented oil and gas wells using historical maps, enhancing environmental safety and methane monitoring.
🔥 Show HN: Open-Source Colab Notebooks to Implement Advanced RAG Techniques
A GitHub repository offers advanced techniques for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, aiding developers and researchers.
Test Driven Development (TDD) for your LLMs? Yes please, more of that please
A workshop on using Test Driven Development for reliable GenAI applications, focusing on automated testing and CI integration.
Automated reasoning to remove LLM hallucinations
AWS introduces Automated Reasoning checks in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails to prevent LLM hallucinations and ensure factual accuracy.
AI Stole the Joy of Programming
AI's efficiency in programming tasks diminishes the joy of problem-solving, leaving developers feeling unfulfilled.
Show HN: Amurex – A cursor like copilot for meetings but also open source
Amurex is an open-source AI meeting copilot that enhances productivity with real-time suggestions, summaries, and follow-ups.
Anduril Partners with OpenAI to Advance US AI Leadership and Protect US Forces
Anduril and OpenAI partner to enhance U.S. military AI capabilities, focusing on countering aerial threats and ensuring national security.
Pinecone integrates AI inferencing with vector database
Pinecone enhances its vector database with AI inferencing, improving retrieval accuracy and simplifying GenAI application development.
LegalEagle: I'm Begging You, Stop Hiring AI Lawyers [video]
LegalEagle warns against hiring AI lawyers, emphasizing the importance of human insight in the legal profession.
Supabase AI Assistant v2
Supabase Assistant v2 launches with enhanced features for schema design, SQL writing, debugging, and data insights in Postgres.
Show HN: ESM C, setting a new state of the art for protein language models
ESM Cambrian sets a new standard in protein language models, enhancing biological understanding through unsupervised learning.
Google Introduces A.I. Agent That Aces 15-Day Weather Forecasts
Google's DeepMind unveils GenCast, an AI that delivers accurate 15-day weather forecasts, outperforming traditional methods.
Lawsuit claims UnitedHealth AI wrongfully denies elderly extended care
A lawsuit claims UnitedHealth's AI wrongfully denies elderly patients extended care, potentially affecting thousands and costing billions.
Your AI is writing bad docs because it lacks context
AI can enhance code documentation by using static analysis for context, ensuring clarity and relevance in generated docs.
Probabilistic weather forecasting with machine learning
GenCast, a new ML-based weather forecasting model, outperforms traditional methods by providing faster, more accurate probabilistic forecasts.
Show HN: Build Live AI and RAG Pipelines in Minutes with YAML Templates
Pathway offers YAML templates for quickly building high-accuracy AI and RAG applications, enhancing data processing efficiency.
Stanford misinformation expert accused of using AI to fabricate court statement
Stanford's Jeff Hancock faces accusations of using AI to fabricate citations in a court statement regarding deepfake legislation.
Stanford misinformation expert admits to ChatGPT 'hallucinations' in court
Stanford's Jeff Hancock admits to using ChatGPT for a court declaration, resulting in fabricated citations and regret over errors.
Three senior Ex-DeepMind researchers about to open OpenAI's Zurich Office
Three ex-DeepMind researchers, including Xiaohua Zhai, are set to open OpenAI's Zurich office.
Motion Prompting: Controlling Video Generation with Motion Trajectories
Motion Prompting enables video generation control using motion trajectories, allowing for diverse interactions and effects.
Sam Altman lowers the bar for AGI
Sam Altman predicts AGI will arrive sooner but have less impact than expected, shifting OpenAI's definition and expectations.
First impressions of the new Amazon Nova LLMs (via a new LLM-bedrock plugin)
Amazon's new Nova LLMs, launched at AWS re:Invent, offer competitive pricing and multi-modal capabilities, challenging Google Gemini.
OpenAI's 12 days of 'shipmas' include Sora and new reasoning model
OpenAI announces a festive "shipmas" with daily reveals, including the Sora text-to-video tool and a new reasoning model.
Google's DeepMind tackles weather forecasting, with great performance
Google's DeepMind's GenCast AI outperforms traditional weather models, achieving high-resolution forecasts with reduced computational costs.
Late Takes on OpenAI O1
OpenAI's o1 model emphasizes longer reasoning for complex tasks, raising concerns about alignment and interpretability in AI.
Day 4 – Don't use Forsyth-Edwards Notation to play chess with LLMs
Using Forsyth-Edwards Notation (FEN) for chess with LLMs is ineffective due to their difficulty in precise counting and aggregation.
Show HN: Guard – LLM agent that scans your AWS account for misconfigs
Guard is an AI tool that scans AWS accounts for misconfigurations, providing real-time detection and actionable security insights.
OpenAI teases 12 days of mystery product launches starting tomorrow
OpenAI announces a "12 days of OpenAI" event starting December 5, teasing new AI product launches and features daily.
How Notion used Palette to reduce typing latency by 15%
Notion improved typing and load performance by 15-20% using Palette, enhancing user experience through better performance insights.
OpenAI's active user count soars to 300M people per week
OpenAI reaches 300M weekly users, aiming for 1B in a competitive AI market against Anthropic and xAI.
AI-generated memes that roast your repo
RepoRoast lets users create AI-generated memes that humorously critique their GitHub repositories.
Show HN: Neon Model Context Protocol Server
Neon Model Context Protocol Server enables LLMs to manage databases via natural language commands, enhancing database interactions.
Amazon Q Developer can now automate code reviews
Amazon Q Developer now automates code reviews, documentation, and unit tests, enhancing software development efficiency.
PrankCaller: AI-Powered Celebrity Voice Prank Calls for Endless Entertainment
AI-powered prank calls let users create hilarious celebrity voice calls easily, using realistic voice cloning technology.
I asked 15 LLMs a question about my novel
The author tests 15 LLMs on reading comprehension of his novel, revealing varying accuracy in responses about a character's death.
MotionFix: Text-Driven 3D Human Motion Editing
MotionFix introduces a dataset for text-driven 3D human motion editing, enabling model training and evaluation.
Key leaders behind Google's NotebookLM are leaving to create their own startup
Key leaders from Google's NotebookLM are leaving to launch a stealth startup focused on user-friendly AI products.
CosmOS: an AI operating system built for a universe of connected devices [video]
CosmOS is an AI operating system designed for a network of interconnected devices.