AI-led Moonwalk for India's ISRO 🧑‍🚀

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India’s ISRO stole the entire spotlight yesterday with the successful touchdown of its lunar lander on the moon. The scientists were heads-down on technology and let AI steer the crucial phase of the descent, which we will be diving into in today’s edition.Besides, we also have an opensource Llama 2-based LLM by Abacus AI with an impressively large context window, another opensource vision language model, YouTube’s new feature that lets you search a song by just humming, and AI being put to use to enable people with paralysis to communicate using brain signals!

This issue covers:

• Latest Developments 🌍

• Tools of the Trade ⚒️

• Hot Takes 🔥

• AI Meme of the Day 🤡

Read time: 3 mins

Latest Developments 🌍

AI Drives ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 to the Moon 🚀

In a monumental leap for India's space journey, ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 safely touched down on the moon’s surface. The mission utilized AI to guide a host of sensors, cameras, and algorithms, and carry out a series of maneuvers that were crucial for its landing. From mission control to the lunar surface, AI took the driver's seat, ensuring that the mission was a flawless addition to India's cosmic achievements.

Giraffe: The Long Context LLM 🦒

Abacus AI just released Giraffe, an opensource Llama 2-based LLM taking the leap from 4K to an impressive 32K long-context window! Picture an organization feeding larger documents and reaping richer, insightful conversations. The 32K Giraffe can do more complex retrievals with fewer mistakes.

Multimodal Language Model 🖼️

Meet IDEFICS, inspired by DeepMind's Flamingo. This open-access visual language model skillfully handles both images and text, akin to GPT-4. Using open-source models like LLaMA v1 and OpenCLIP, IDEFICS is available in two versions: base and instructed, with both boasting 9 billion and 80 billion parameter options.

Can't Remember That Song? Just Hum It to YouTube 🎤

YouTube is testing a new feature on its Android app that allows users to find songs by humming or singing. Switch from voice search to this new song search, hum for a few seconds, and the app will point you to videos featuring that song. Currently, it's only available to a select group of Android users.

Paralyzed Woman Speaks through AI 🧠🗣️

Researchers at UCSF enabled a paralyzed woman to talk through a digital version of herself using brain signals! They planted tiny electrodes in her brain that read her thoughts for speech and expressions, making those slow eye-tracking gadgets look outdated.

Tools of the Trade ⚒️

• Euphoria AR: Allow your customers to virtually try on a range of products using AR, and boost sales and customer confidence.

• Meshy: 3D generative AI toolbox for effortlessly creating 3D assets from text or images, along with 3D texturing.

• Hypergro: Short video creation and management platform with a dynamic dashboard, collaboration tools, real-time tracking, and monetization support.

• Query Vary: Helps developers design, test, and optimize prompts for LLMs at scale, offers prompt variation generation, performance statistics, and more.

• OpenCopilot: Opensource AI copilot to assist your product by interacting with users, calling APIs, offering customer support, and executing complex flows.

Hot Takes 🔥

• the point of language is coordination. who is using AI to solve really hard real world coordination problems? ~ roon

• While autonomous agents took off in popularity, we found they were often unreliable for work, inefficient, and unsafe. ~ Zach Tratar

Meme of the Day 🤡

That’s all for today!

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