AIR#50 - April 23, 2024

Good morning, AI enthusiasts! As the digital dawn breaks, today's edition of AIR: The AI Recon is packed with the freshest picks from the AI orchard, ready to juice up your day with a blend of innovation, controversy, and a dash of future-gazing. At the top of the agenda, we're diving into the deep end with Intel's Gaudi 3, a behemoth in the AI chip market that's promising to shake things up with its 128GB HBM2e muscle, poised to give NVIDIA a run for its money. This story isn't just about chips; it's about the power play in the AI infrastructure arena, where the stakes are as high as the data rates.

In a parallel universe where code meets creativity, Anthropic's unveiling of a comprehensive prompt library is turning heads and keyboards. This isn't just another tool in the developer's kit; it's a revolution in task automation and creativity, promising to make the interaction with AI as seamless as the code that runs it. As businesses and personal users alike look for ways to streamline their workflows, Anthropic's library stands at the crossroads of innovation and practicality, ready to redefine how we approach AI-assisted tasks.

And for those who like their AI news with a side of cutting-edge research, the FPGA architecture paper by Andrew Boutros et al. is stirring the pot in deep learning circles. This piece isn't just for the tech-savvy; it's a glimpse into the future of AI development, where flexibility meets efficiency in the quest for smarter, faster inference across devices. So, as you sip on your morning brew, let these stories be your guide to the ever-evolving landscape of AI, where every breakthrough is a step towards a future that's as exciting as it is unpredictable. Let's dive in!

Business

Google's Official Guide to Mastering Gemini Prompts
Google launches "Prompting guide 101" for Gemini, revealing 4 key factors for crafting effective prompts: persona, task, context, format. Aim for 21 words.

Google Struggles Against Rising AI-Generated Spam Flood
Google battles AI-generated spam flood, risking user migration and ad revenue as spam content now makes up 10% of search hits.

AI's Thirst: China's Data Centers to Surpass South Korea's Water Consumption by 2030
By 2030, China's AI-driven data centers may use more water than South Korea, highlighting a growing environmental concern.

AI-Powered Product Metrics Visualization Simplified
AI now simplifies product metric visualization, saving time and offering precise insights for better decision-making.

PostHog and Langfuse Launch Public Beta for Enhanced LLM Analytics
PostHog & Langfuse launch beta for LLM analytics, enhancing insights with event debugging, HogQL updates, and more. Dive into data like never before!

Engineering

[Paper] FPGA Architecture for DL: Trends and Future Directions by Andrew Boutros et al.
FPGA architectures evolve for deep learning, blending reprogrammability with hardware execution for efficient DL inference across devices.

[Paper] Google's RecurrentGemma: A Leap Beyond Transformers with Griffin Architecture
Google's RecurrentGemma, using Griffin architecture, outperforms Transformers in efficiency and language processing with fewer tokens.

Anthropic Launches Comprehensive Prompt Library for Diverse Tasks
Anthropic unveils a vast prompt library for both business and personal tasks, revolutionizing task automation and creativity.

🔥 [Github] Dify: Open-Source Platform for Building LLM Apps with Visual Workflows
Dify launches on GitHub, revolutionizing LLM app development with an easy-to-use platform that speeds up the journey from prototype to production.

🔥 Intel Unveils Gaudi 3: A Game-Changing 128GB HBM2e AI Chip
Intel's Gaudi 3 AI chip leaps ahead with 128GB HBM2e, targeting AI inference & training markets, promising lower costs vs NVIDIA.

[Github] Apple's HUGS: Human Gaussian Splats for Animatable 3D Reconstruction - CVPR 2024
Apple's HUGS project, debuting at CVPR 2024, revolutionizes 3D animation with neural radiance fields from single videos.

[Paper] VideoGigaGAN: Achieving Detail-Rich Video Super-Resolution at 8× Upsampling
VideoGigaGAN revolutionizes video upscaling, achieving 8× super-resolution with unparalleled detail and temporal consistency.

[Github] Fonction-Labs/yt-chat: Summarize YouTube Videos and Chat with a Bot
Fonction-Labs releases yt-chat on GitHub, a tool to summarize YouTube videos and chat about them using AI bots.

[Github] AviSoori1x's seemore: Pure PyTorch Vision Language Model
AviSoori1x launches seemore: a PyTorch-based vision language model, blending image processing and NLP from scratch. Dive into AI creativity!

[GitHub] cognee: Enhancing LLM Determinism with Knowledge Graphs
cognee on GitHub: Revolutionizing AI with deterministic LLM outputs & knowledge graphs. Open-source for more predictable AI. #AIRecon

Llama-3 Hits Top-5 on Arena Leaderboard: AIatMeta's Open Model Dominates
Llama-3 by AIatMeta storms into top-5 on Arena, outshining larger models with its 70B & 8B variants. A new open model king!

[Github] HuggingFace JAT: Train Multitask Deep RL Agents Online
HuggingFace's JAT enables online training for multi-task Deep RL Agents, revolutionizing AI multitasking capabilities.

Chat with Meta's Open-Source Llama 3 AI: More Than Just a Chatbot
Meta's Llama 3 isn't just any chatbot. It writes, codes, solves puzzles, and more. Ready to name your pet or chat about anything?

[Github] ZenModel: Golang Framework for Agentic LLM Apps
ZenModel launches on GitHub: A Golang framework for crafting LLM apps with dynamic, agent-like workflows. Perfect for developers aiming to build smarter applications.

Academic

[Paper] The Landscape of Emerging AI Agent Architectures: A 2024 Survey
New survey reveals AI agents' advancements in reasoning, planning, and tool use, outlining future design considerations for robust systems.

[Paper] Expanding the Horizons of In-Context Learning: From Few-Shot to Many-Shot
New study expands in-context learning from few-shot to many-shot, showing significant gains in AI tasks, and explores effective Reinforced and Unsupervised settings.

Debunking the Myth: LLM Agents Can't Autonomously Exploit One-Day Vulnerabilities
LLM agents can't autonomously exploit new vulnerabilities; success hinges on web searches and existing public exploits, not emergent AI capabilities.

AI Outperforms Humans Across Most Benchmarks: Stanford HAI Report Reveals
Stanford HAI report: AI now outpaces human skills in most benchmarks, signaling an era where we need new tests to gauge AI advancements.