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Today’s top AI Highlights:

1. Habitat 3.0: Towards Socially Intelligent Robots

2. OpenAI’s Valuation to a Soaring $80 Billion

3. Eureka! GPT-4 for a New Spin on Robot Learning

4. HyperAttention: Long-Context Attention in Near-Linear Time

5. From Text and Images to 3D in < 1 minute

& so much more!

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Latest Developments 🌍

Towards Socially Intelligent Robots 🏠

Researchers at FAIR take a significant leap toward the development of socially intelligent robots, introducing Habitat 3.0 along with a suite of innovative tools and datasets. The aim is to create AI agents that interact with their environment, collaborate with humans, and assist them in both digital and physical realms.

Key Highlights:

• Habitat 3.0: The advanced simulator supporting both robots and humanoid avatars fosters human-robot collaboration in everyday tasks, facilitating the training of AI agents for efficient household management and assistance.

• Habitat Synthetic Scenes Dataset: With over 18,000 objects across 466 semantic categories in 211 scenes, this high-quality dataset enables effective training of navigation agents, demonstrating better generalization.

• HomeRobot: FAIR's affordable home robot assistant hardware and software platform allows open-vocabulary mobile manipulation (OVMM), enabling the robot to efficiently navigate diverse household environments, manipulate various objects, and perform tasks.

OpenAI: San Francisco's Most Valuable Startup 🤑

OpenAI is currently in negotiations for a groundbreaking deal that could potentially value the company at an astonishing $80 billion or more, nearly tripling its valuation within a span of less than six months.

The deal involves a tender offer led by venture firm Thrive Capital, enabling OpenAI to become one of the most valuable start-ups in the world, behind companies like ByteDance and SpaceX.

GPT-4 for a New Spin on Robot Learning 💫

NVIDIA has introduced Eureka, an AI agent leveraging GPT-4 to autonomously develop reward algorithms for training robots in complex tasks. Eureka has successfully trained a robotic hand to perform intricate pen-spinning tricks, , among various other tasks matching human performance levels.

Key Highlights:

• Eureka's generated reward programs outperform expert human-written ones on more than 80% of tasks, resulting in an average performance improvement of over 50% for the robots.

• The AI agent utilizes the GPT-4 to write software code for reinforcement learning without requiring task-specific prompting or predefined reward templates.

• Eureka’s AI algorithms are available for experimenting using NVIDIA Isaac Gym, a physics simulation reference application for reinforcement learning research.

Accelerating AI: Long-Context Models 5x Faster ⏩

HyperAttention is an approximate attention mechanism to address the computational hurdles posed by the complexities of long contexts in LLMs. This solution comes as a practical and efficient approach to mitigate the quadratic time complexity, significantly enhancing the efficiency of transformer models.

Key Highlights:

• HyperAttention introduces two parameters that measure the max column norm in the normalized attention matrix and the ratio of row norms in the unnormalized attention matrix after the removal of large entries, effectively capturing the intricacies of the problem.

• HyperAttention's modular design seamlessly accommodates the integration of other fast low-level implementations, such as FlashAttention, to optimize speed and performance.

• It outperforms current methods, showcasing a 50% faster inference time in models like ChatGLM2 on a 32k context length, with a slight increase in perplexity, and delivering a remarkable 5-fold speedup.

Tools of the Trade ⚒️

• Meshy-1: Create 3D models from text and images in under a minute, along with a wider range of artistic styles and high-definition texture resolutions upto 4K.

• Verba: An open-source platform for building RAG applications, letting you to query and interact with your data through advanced search techniques and efficient semantic caching.

• Gradio-Lite: A JavaScript library for serverless execution of Gradio apps entirely within your web browser using Pyodide, eliminating the need for server-side infrastructure.

• Tusk: AI tool for product teams to automate front-end tasks, generate code from Jira to production, and let product managers to make changes without coding.

• Eagle Bot: A web navigation platform featuring a custom chromium browser, advanced chat capabilities, integration with various AI models, and cross-platform automation for enhanced user experience.

Hot Takes 🔥

• AI both lowers the floor and raises the ceiling for creativity - few breakthroughs have such an impact on both sides of the spectrum of talent ~ Scott Belsky

• if you’re not on the verge of getting fired are you really taking enough research risk ~ roon

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