AI Roundup 02/23 -> 03/02/2023

Last week's most interesting AI news in <2 minutes

1. Microsoft introduces KOSMOS-1, a transformer-based Multimodal LLM (MLLM), supporting a wide range of perception tasks such as image captioning, visual question answering, and zero-shot image classification (Paper)

2. Meta introduces LLaMA, a 65B-parameter LLM trained on 1.4 trillion tokens, outperforming larger state-of-the-art LLMs like GPT-3 and PaLM-540B on most benchmarks (Meta AI)

3. Nebuly releases ChatLLaMA - the first open-source implementation of Meta's LLaMA that was fine-tuned with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) (Marktechpost)

4. Microsoft and Columbia Univeristy open source LLM-AUGMENTER - a system that augments LLMs knowledge using external knowledge bases and significantly reduces ChatGPT’s hallucinations without sacrificing the fluency and informativeness (Paper)

5. OpenAI releases two news APIs: ChatGPT (powered by GPT-3.5) and Whisper (OpenAI)

6. Anthoropic, an AI company founded by ex-OpenAI employees, has started providing beta access to its LLM API - Claude (TechCrunch)

7. Google researchers develop Spotlight, a multi-task model that addresses diverse Vision-Language UI tasks including widget captioning, screen summarization, and tappability prediction (Google AI)

8. Google AI presents Scaled Q-Learning - a new efficient pre-training method for training Reinforcement Learning agents (Google AI)

9. Google Robotics proposes ROSIE - using text-guided diffusion models for data augmentation for robot learning. These augmentations can produce photorealistic images for learning downstream tasks such as manipulation (Paper's website)

10. MOSS, the Chinese ChatGPT-like LLM, will be open sourced by the end of March (Yahoo!)

11. Google Research and Georgia Tech present InfoSeek - a Visual Question Answering dataset that focuses on asking information-seeking questions (Paper's website)

12. YouTube's new CEO sets to incorporate generative AI features to reinvent video creation (The Verge)

13. Elon Musk is looking to launch a ChatGPT rival after mentioning OpenAI became "a closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft (Forbes)

Last week’s AI Tidbits