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• Colossus AI cluster online, expansion planned

• OpenAI unveils ChatGPT-5 humanoid robot

• MiniMax releases new AI video generator

• 5 New AI Tools

• Latest AI Research Papers

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Colossus 100k H100 training cluster online and will double to 200K in few months, from xAI

In just 122 days, Elon Musk's xAI team successfully brought the Colossus 100k H100 training cluster online. This system, powered by 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, now holds the title of the world's most powerful AI training setup. The rapid deployment and immense scale of Colossus have established a new industry benchmark.

The project was a collaborative effort with Nvidia, Dell, and other major tech partners, with Dell CEO Michael Dell expressing pride in his company's contribution. Expansion plans are already in place to add 50,000 H200 GPUs, promising enhanced performance and energy efficiency. This advancement positions xAI to accelerate AI model development across various applications, including autonomous vehicles and robotics.

Cathie Wood, CEO of Ark Invest, praised the accomplishment and hinted at more significant announcements ahead. Read more.

New humanoid robot unveiled: 1X NEO Beta

1X Robotics, in collaboration with OpenAI, has introduced the Neo Beta, a humanoid robot featuring advanced movement and agility. The robot integrates bioinspired actuators, enabling fluid and human-like motion, ideal for delicate tasks.

Equipped with a sophisticated vision system, Neo beta can interact with its environment in real time, enhancing situational awareness. Safety is prioritized with a soft exterior, ensuring gentle interactions, particularly in elderly care. The robot's adaptive learning through machine learning algorithms allows it to improve its locomotion and adjust to various environments.

Neo beta’s tendon-driven force control system supports precise manipulation and significant strength, making it suitable for tasks involving lifting. Neo beta is poised to be a valuable long-term assistant in homes and healthcare facilities. Read more.

Video-01 AI video generator from MiniMax is the latest Sora challenger from China

Chinese AI startup MiniMax has rolled out Video-01, an AI model that turns text prompts into high-resolution videos. Video-01 creates clips at 1,280 x 720 pixels and 25 frames per second, though they're capped at a brief six seconds—soon to be extended to ten. The videos, still unmistakably AI-crafted with a touch of oversaturation, offer styles ranging from anime to CGI.

Free access is available on MiniMax’s website with mobile registration, and developers can tap into an API. Despite limited details on its inner workings, Video-01 has sparked interest, especially after MiniMax secured $600 million in funding, drawing backing from giants like Alibaba and Tencent. Read more.

Etcetera: Stories you may have missed

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AI inference benchmark: Nvidia dominates with Blackwell architecture

Venezuela's newest news agency says AI anchors protect reporters amid government crackdown 

Scientists Make ‘Cyborg Worms’ with a Brain Guided by AI

Table-augmented generation shows promise for complex dataset querying, outperforms text-to-SQL

Clearview AI hit with its largest GDPR fine yet as Dutch regulator considers holding execs personally liable

OpenAI Japan shares vision for much more powerful "GPT Next" coming in 2024

Salesforce to acquire AI voice agent firm Tenyx, joining AI talent race

Anthropic and Pietro Schirano created a new Quickstarts repo to help developers quickly build AI app

NaNoWriMo is in disarray after organizers defend AI writing tools

Altera’s Project Sid: 1,000 AI Agents Build Societies with Economy, Culture, and Government

Benchmark Finds Sonnet 3.5 Leads Overall, Llama Excels in Go, GPT-4 Turbo Tops Java and Ruby

Ligo Launches Open-Source AlphaFold3: A Leap in Protein Prediction and Biotech

Apple Event 2024: iPhone 16, Apple Intelligence and all the other expected 'Glowtime' reveals

DeepMind's GenRM improves LLM accuracy by having models verify their own outputs

Copilot+ features are coming in November to AI PCs powered by Intel and AMD’s latest chips

The Nvidia AI antitrust investigation is ‘escalating,’ reports Bloomberg

Big Tech ‘Clients’ of Jacob Wohl’s Secret AI Lobbying Firm Say They've Never Heard of It

📄 VisionTS: Visual Masked Autoencoders Are Free-Lunch Zero-Shot Time Series Forecasters

📄 CoRe: Context-Regularized Text Embedding Learning for Text-to-Image Personalization ​​

📄 OLMoE: Open Mixture-of-Experts Language Models  

📄 LongRecipe: Recipe for Efficient Long Context Generalization in Large Language Models

📄 LinFusion: 1 GPU, 1 Minute, 16K Image

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