The first Neuralink patient plays in chess with mind
Neuralink just showed the world something pretty wild: a person with a brain-chip implant playing chess and other games just by thinking about it.
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Here’s what happened this week:
First big Apple's AI move
NVIDIA reveals a mind for humanoid robots
The first Neuralink patient plays in chess with mind
Let's dive in.
First big Apple's AI move
When everyone thought Apple was falling behind in AI, they surprised us by introducing their own AI model, MM1, which stands toe-to-toe with giants like Google's Gemini and OpenAI's GPT-4.
Highlights:
MM1 Unveiled: Apple dropped a new paper on MM1, a set of multimodal large language models that mix text and images to train.
Unexpected Openness: For a company that usually keeps secrets, releasing details about MM1 is a big deal.
Powerful Capabilities: MM1's biggest version has 30 billion parameters, making it good at understanding context, reasoning with multiple images, and thinking step-by-step. Apple's researchers have pushed MM1 to top performance in several tests, even with little info to start.
What's Next: Apple's gearing up to show off new AI features at its developer conference, including a smarter Siri, AI-made music playlists, and tools for work apps.
Big Investments: Apple's reportedly spending $1 billion a year on AI and just bought DarwinAI, a company that makes AI faster and smarter.
Why it's important: Apple's move into AI with MM1 and a possible Google team-up shows they're serious about catching up in the AI race. With big investments and new features on the horizon, Apple's setting the stage for some major AI announcements soon.
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NVIDIA reveals a mind for humanoid robots
NVIDIA just pulled the curtain back on Project GR00T, a super smart AI system designed to be the brain for high-tech humanoid robots, helping them pick up skills and deal with real-life stuff.
Highlights:
GR00T's Skills: This AI can get robots to chat, move like us, and learn new tricks.
Robot Buddies: Big names in robots, like Figure and Agility Robotics, are teaming up with NVIDIA to use GR00T.
Cool Tools: NVIDIA also showed off Isaac Sim for training robots in virtual worlds and OSMO, a platform to handle big AI tasks.
Why it's important: Getting AI smarts into robots has been tough, but GR00T is changing the game. This could lead to robots that don't just do tasks but can think and act in ways that seem pretty human.
The first Neuralink patient plays in chess with mind
Neuralink just showed the world something pretty wild: a person with a brain-chip implant playing chess and other games just by thinking about it.
Highlights:
Mind Games: Noland Arbaugh, who can't move from the shoulders down, used his thoughts and the brain chip to move a cursor and play chess.
Easy Surgery: He got the chip in January and said the process was simple, with no side effects on how he thinks.
Gaming Marathon: Arbaugh played chess and Civilization VI online for 8 hours non-stop using the implant.
Next Up, ‘Blindsight’: Elon Musk shared that Neuralink's next big thing aims to help people born blind see again.
Why it's important: Neuralink's live demo is a big deal, showing us that technology connecting the brain to computers is becoming real and useful, not just a cool idea from a sci-fi movie. It reminds us of the positive changes this tech can bring to people's lives.
Other interesting news this week
Google DeepMind partnered with Liverpool FC to develop an model for football
Sam Altman gives an interview Lex Fridman about the future of AI
Apple Is in talks to let Google Gemini power iPhone AI features
Top-5 AI tools this week
Vapi - Build, test and deploy voicebots in minutes (link)
swsh - Easiest way to share photo albums (link)
Devika - Open source attempt at agentic AI software engineer (link)
Podwise - The premier note-taking app for podcast lovers (link)
Anything To JSON - A language model for structured extraction (link)
AI images
AI video
Lil AI Gen - Mind Trip (Music Video) (source)
AI meme
Pick a number between 1 and 99... (source)
Weekly Thread
Weekly Midjourney Prompt
a lion's face drawn from a pencil and ink drawing, in the style of hyperrealistic murals, john mckinstry, dark silver and white, i can't believe how beautiful this is, realistic marine paintings, kevin hill, alena aenami
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