AI Roundup 11/17 -> 11/24/2022

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

1. Meta unveils CICERO - an AI surpassing human-level performance at diplomacy and negotiation (Meta AI)

2. Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 2.0 which supports new inpainting capabilities, higher resolution image generation, and a Depth-to-Image diffusion model (Company blog)

3. A group of researchers from Weizmann Institute of Science presents SinFusion - a diffusion model trained on a single image or a video capable of generating video extrapolations and variations (Paper's website)

4. Researchers present MinD-Vis - a diffusion model that reconstructs highly plausible images from brain recordings (Paper's website)

5. Sebastian Ruder publishes a comprehensive outlook on the state of multilingual AI across NLP, computer vision, and speech (Blog)

6. Meta AI and researchers from several universities release TART - a multi-task retrieval system that can follow human-written instructions to find the best documents for a given query, outperforming models up to three times larger (Twitter)

7. Multi, a new generative AI startup, releases MultiFlow to easily create, deploy, and iterate on generative AI workflows (Twitter)
   

8. Google is rumored to be working on Pitchfork - an AI model built for "teaching code to write and rewrite itself" by learning programming styles and then writing new code based on those learnings (Paywall - Business Insider)
   

9. The Stanford AI Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM) announces Holistic Evaluation of Language Models (HELM) a new project to "serve as a map for the world of language models" as they grow in popularity (VentureBeat)

10. Researchers from MIT introduce a new multi-task benchmark for evaluating text-to-image models (Paper)

11. Researchers from The Chinese University of Hong Kong propose Uni-Perceiver v2 - a generalist model outperforming all existing generalist models in both versatility and performance (Paper)

12. Nvidia releases Magic3D - a novel text-to-3D model to power its metaverse builder platform Omniverse (Ars Technica)

13. OpenAI's startup fund leads a $5M round in Harvey, an AI startup developing a natural language platform that answers legal questions and performs legal research (TechCrunch)

Last week’s AI Tidbits