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13th March 2024

Humanoid robot can do chores and hold conversations

AI startup company Figure, which emerged from stealth mode last year, has unveiled the latest upgrades to its Figure 01 humanoid robot.

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5th March 2024

AI appears to show hints of self-awareness

AI startup Anthropic has announced Claude 3 – its latest family of large language models (LLMs). The most powerful of these can match or outperform OpenAI's GPT-4 and seemed to hint at self-awareness during tests.

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22nd February 2024

Google reveals next-generation AI model

Gemini 1.5 Pro includes a breakthrough in long-context understanding, handling up to 1 million tokens. It can also decipher the content of videos and describe what is happening in a scene.

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17th February 2024

OpenAI launches text-to-video generator

The Internet is abuzz with talk about Sora, a new AI model that brings text-to-video generation to a whole new level.

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7th February 2024

New video of Atlas bipedal robot

Boston Dynamics has released a new video of the Atlas bipedal robot, showing its latest abilities.

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3rd February 2024

AI to disrupt creative jobs in the near future

A new report forecasts widespread disruption in the creative and entertainment industries due to generative AI over the coming three years.

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2nd January 2024

AI finds new antibiotic candidates

MIT has used deep learning to identify a new class of antibiotic candidates, able to kill the methicillin-resistant bacteria Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

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16th December 2023

Neuromorphic supercomputer aims for human brain scale

A new supercomputer in Australia will mimic biological processes to emulate 228 trillion synaptic operations per second – potentially rivalling the human brain.

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6th December 2023

Google's new AI can outperform GPT-4

Google's DeepMind division has today announced its Gemini multimodal language model, which it claims has advanced "reasoning capabilities" and can outperform GPT-4 on a variety of tasks.

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2nd December 2023

Autonomous excavator can build stone walls

An autonomous excavator has been demonstrated in Switzerland. Using sensors, the machine can generate 3D maps of a construction site, localising individual blocks and stones in order to build a wall.

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14th November 2023

NVIDIA announces H200 Tensor Core GPU

The world's most valuable chip maker has officially announced a next-generation processor for AI and high-performance computing workloads, due for launch in mid-2024. A new exascale supercomputer designed specifically for large AI models is also planned.

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7th November 2023

OpenAI's Sam Altman hints at next-generation AI

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and DALL·E 3, held its first developer conference yesterday. In addition to new products and model upgrades, CEO Sam Altman hinted at something much greater that may be arriving soon.

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24th October 2023

New AI chip is 22 times faster

A new edge-based processor called NorthPole has been announced by IBM Research, able to run AI-based image recognition apps 22 times faster than chips currently on the market.

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11th October 2023

50 exaFLOPS supercomputer planned for 2025

Chip designer Tachyum is building a new supercomputing system for AI. This will be based on its 5 nanometre (nm) "Prodigy" Universal Processor chip, delivering more than 50 exaFLOPS of performance.

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20th September 2023

World's first factory for humanoid robots

A new factory will produce the human-centric, multi-purpose robot "Digit" at scale in the U.S.

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25th July 2023

World's largest supercomputer for training AI revealed

Cerebras Systems, in collaboration with G42, has revealed Condor Galaxy – a network of interconnected supercomputers, which together will provide up to 36 exaFLOPs for training AI.

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21st June 2023

AI finds potential anti-aging molecules

A machine learning model has been trained to recognise the key features of chemicals with senolytic activity. It recently found three chemicals able to remove senescent cells, without damaging healthy cells.

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11th June 2023

Robot 'chef' learns to recreate recipes from watching food videos

Researchers have trained a robotic 'chef' to watch and learn from cooking videos, and recreate the dish itself.

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12th May 2023

Wendy's drive-thru to include AI chatbot

American fast food chain Wendy's is testing a new chatbot that can talk with customers, answer questions, and send orders to a kitchen.

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10th May 2023

AI detects Parkinson's disease with 96% accuracy

An algorithm to detect Parkinson's disease, years before the onset of symptoms, has been demonstrated by the University of New South Wales and Boston University. CRANK-MS can achieve 96% accuracy, using neural networks to analyse biomarkers in bodily fluids.

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5th May 2023

AI generates mRNA in just 11 minutes

A new algorithm developed by Chinese company Baidu Research is dramatically faster than prior methods and shown to boost the antibody response of mRNA vaccines by up to 128 times.

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29th April 2023

ChatGPT outperforms human doctors in medical advice

When measured on quality and empathy, OpenAI's ChatGPT is shown to outperform human doctors in responding to patient queries.

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4th April 2023

World's first full-size, self-driving public bus service

Level 4 autonomous buses will begin operation in Scotland next month – the first service of its kind in the world.

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29th March 2023

Should AI be stopped? Experts call for "immediate pause" to research

More than 1,200 scientists and technology leaders have published an open letter calling for research on AI models bigger than GPT-4 to be halted, amid concerns over unknown impacts and risks to society.

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22nd March 2023

New card from Nvidia will accelerate AI

U.S. chip giant Nvidia has launched the H100 NVL, a next-generation hardware accelerator for large language models.

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