🏆 AI to dominate—what to expect from CES 2024

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Today’s Top Stories:

1. 🏆 AI to dominate—what to expect from CES 2024

2. 💊 AI drug discovery receives more funding

3. 📲 ChatGPT to become Android’s default assistant?

4. 😮 AI model trained on the world’s fastest supercomputer?

5. 💨 Experts shocked at the pace of AI development

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🏆 AI to dominate—what to expect from CES 2024

Our Report: AI is expected to dominate this year’s CES 2024 event. For those unacquainted, CES is “the world’s biggest tech event” and will be hosting the likes of Microsoft, Google, LG, Sony & many more.

🔑 Key Points:

• With generative AI projects receiving significant funding last year— surging to $23.7B—numerous companies are planning to showcase gadgets integrated with AI, with the event running from January 9th to 12th.

• Regarding specific products, Bosch will speak on AI and cybersecurity, NEC will unveil AI software for mobile devices to assess human vitals, automakers will focus on "hyper-personalized" experiences using AI & AWS will discuss AI's role in reducing production costs in the automotive industry.

• PC and smartphone manufacturers—along with chipmakers like Intel, AMD & NVIDIA—will discuss AI's potential for new revenue streams beyond just AI models, and into the realm of personal computing.

🤨 Why you should care: CES 2024 showcases the pervasive role of AI in consumer technology, signaling a shift towards increasingly intelligent and personalized gadgets. When will AI become commonplace in our everyday tech? Would you actually use it on a day-to-day basis?

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MEDICINE

💊 AI drug discovery receives more funding 

• Isomorphic Labs (a spin-out of Google DeepMind), has secured strategic partnerships for AI-driven drug discovery.

• These deals are valued at around $3B, with a combined $83.5M in upfront payments, and a further $2.9B in incentives.

• Isomorphic aims to revolutionize drug design by accurately predicting protein structures—which is essential for developing new treatments for various diseases.

There’s unlimited potential at the intersection of AI & medicine—we can’t wait to see what’s uncovered in the next 10, 20, or 30 years.

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SMARTPHONES

📲 ChatGPT to become Android’s default assistant?

• Recent code developments in the ChatGPT app suggest that it could soon be set as the default digital assistant (rather than manually setting it through a browser).

• This integration would allow easier and more direct access to ChatGPT, similar to Google Assistant via voice commands)

• Additionally, a new feature under development is a Quick Settings tile, aiming to simplify launching ChatGPT's assistant mode.

SUPERCOMPUTERS

😮 AI model trained on world’s fastest supercomputer?

• Researchers trained an AI model (similar to ChatGPT) on the Frontier supercomputer, utilizing only 3,072 out of its 37,888 GPUs (extremely efficient).

• The process involved training an LLM with one trillion parameters and managing the required 14 terabytes of memory.

• The team's success demonstrated optimal scaling efficiencies, highlighting the potential for AMD hardware in high-performance computing.

• This reinforces Frontier's status as the world's fastest supercomputer, predominantly powered by AMD technology.

SURVEYS

💨 Experts shocked at the pace of AI development

• A recent survey of AI experts reveals their astonishment at the rapid progress in AI development over the past year.

• The study, involving 2,778 noted AI researchers, indicates a general consensus of acceleration in AI advancements.

• The survey also highlights that a larger group supports faster progress.

• This shift in perception among AI experts suggests an AI-driven automated future is approaching more rapidly than anticipated.

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