Live: Zeta Alpha's Trends in AI - October 2024

Dissecting the current Trends in AI: News, R&D breakthroughs, trending papers and code, and the latest gossip.

This month, we will look ahead to SF Tech Week and the COLM conference. In AI hardware, while Microsoft is looking to build $100B datacenters running on nuclear power, Cerebras is aiming for a $1B IPO valuation, and Bytedance is betting on Huawei chips to train their new model. OpenAI continues with another funding round of $6.5B, despite boiling in drama with its top execs leaving. California’s SB1047 AI Act was vetoed under heavy pressure from the AI industry, while LAION won its copyright infringement lawsuit in the German court. We will cover open-source releases like Llama 3.2, Molmo, Moshi, EMU3, and Qwen 2.5, along with trending research papers like Promptriever, Self-Correction via Reinforcement Learning, Making Text Embedders Few-Shot Learners, and much much more! + the latest updates to the most cited papers in AI.