Trends in AI — July 2024

We would like to share with you the latest trends of the AI world, accurately outlined by our partners from Zeta Alpha - Jakub Zavrel & Konstantinos Papakostas. Enjoy!

Within these monthly overviews you can find trending papers, conferences, R&D developments in deep learning models, NLP, search technology, robotics, computer vision, reinforcement learning, autonomous driving, and much, much more!

News Articles

• Stealth AI startup CuspAI raises $30m seed round

• Paris-based AI startup Mistral AI raises $640M

• Apple to ‘Pay’ OpenAI for ChatGPT Through Distribution, Not Cash

• EvolutionaryScale, backed by Amazon and Nvidia, raises $142M for protein-generating AI

• Former head of NSA joins OpenAI board

• OpenAI’s former chief scientist is starting a new AI company

• Etched looks to challenge Nvidia with an ASIC purpose-built for transformer models

• Performances are plateauing, let's make the leaderboard steep again

Model Releases

• Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Sonnet

• Google: Gemma 2

• Microsoft: Florence 2

• NVIDIA: Nemotron 4

• DeepSeek AI: DeepSeek Coder V2

• Shanghai AI Lab: InternLM 2.5