AI reading for Monday October 28

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3 years after Meta rebrand, and maybe $95b in, little revenue in the metaverse, but Meta has open-source AI going for it, which is nice. - Quartz

Qwen variants are higher on Hugging Face but Llama 3.2 is multimodal and the Nemotron 3.1 variant is top open source model on LMarena.ai, so Facebook has a legit claim to open source leadership.

A gold chain but no more hoodies. - The Guardian

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'Open source' AI models are kind of BS, the license often restricts you from any use that would compete, if you fine-tune or distill a model, you are dependent on upstream training and updates. - euronewsx

Meta released an open version of NotebookLM. - TechCrunch

Maybe I'll try it for an audio version of the SkynetAndChill.com roundup. podcastfy is cool, but would like to get Google Soundstorm working, which generates the more natural NotebookLM voices.

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Meta is developing its own search engine to support its AI effort. - The Information

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With note-taking apps, a lot of meetings that could have been an email...are now an email, which you may or may not read. - Inc.

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Big leak reveals upcoming Google smartphone AI features like on-device video creation, editing images with text instructions, AI assisted super-zoom. - Tom's Guide

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Smart-aleck Microsoft MVP creates AI to translate corporate jargon and frequent rebrandings. - The Register

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In recent milestones, also-ran Grok added multimodality and and an API 🙄 - TechCrunch

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Paper: A lot of people are using ChatGPT but most are just screwing around as opposed to doing real work.

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Sanctions on Russia leak via black market, because how hard is it to ship high-tech gear sold to other countries. - Bloomberg

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Musk says some cars sold as self driving-capable may need hardware upgrades - Electrek

Selling an overhyped pig in a poke is so out of character for him though?

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World’s most advanced robotic warehouse uses robot pickers and packers - YouTube

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A tool to prep for data science and related interviews. - Machine Learning Mastery

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