Artificial Skin That Can Regenerate, Sam Altman's New $100B Project, Reducing Carbon Footprint Of AI, & More!
Welcome to the AI Search newsletter. Here are the top updates in AI this week.
OpenAI expands its Custom Model program
OpenAI is enhancing its Custom Model program to assist enterprise clients in creating tailored generative AI models for specific use cases, domains, and applications. Custom Model allows companies to collaborate with OpenAI researchers to optimize models for specific domains. OpenAI has introduced assisted fine-tuning and custom-trained models to further enhance performance. Assisted fine-tuning utilizes advanced techniques to improve model performance on specific tasks, while custom-trained models are built with OpenAI's base models and tools for clients needing deeply fine-tuned or domain-specific models.
Sam Altman's plan to take over the world
OpenAI is only one of many highly influential projects that Sam Altman is working on. Learn more about his other moonshot projects, including Stargate, a $100B supercomputer data center, and Helion energy, which is researching nuclear fusion.
Reducing the carbon footprint of AI without compromising effectiveness
Excessive energy consumption of AI servers could consume as much energy as entire countries. A new study demonstrates that it is possible to reduce the carbon footprint of AI models without compromising their effectiveness. By selecting energy-efficient models from the start, significant energy savings can be achieved during both the model's training and deployment phases. The researchers provide a benchmark collection of AI models that perform at the same level while using less energy, offering a "recipe book" for AI professionals to make more environmentally friendly choices in model development.
Murf AI
Introducing Murf, the most versatile AI text-to-speech generator. Create studio-quality voice overs in minutes using lifelike AI voices suitable for podcasts, videos, presentations, and more. Choose from 120+ text to speech voices in 20+ languages, with the ability to add video, music, or images and sync them to the voiceover.
Artificial skin that can regenerate skin and transmit sensation
Researchers have created a revolutionary human-implantable tactile smart bionic artificial skin that can restore lost tactile sensations caused by nerve tissue damage due to burns, skin diseases, or trauma. Unlike traditional artificial skin, which focuses solely on skin regeneration, this new technology combines biocompatible materials and electronic devices to deliver tactile functions by detecting pressure changes through crack-based tactile sensors within a hydrogel composed of collagen and fibrin. These sensors convert pressure changes into electrical signals using a wireless powered pressure-frequency modulation (WPPFM) circuit, which are then transmitted to the nerves via tactile nerve interfacing electrodes, allowing patients to regain their sense of touch.
Sam Altman no longer owns OpenAI Startup Fund
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman no longer has ownership or control of the venture capital fund associated with the company, as per new filings with the SEC. Control of the fund has been transferred to Ian Hathaway, who has been involved in managing the fund since its launch in 2021. The OpenAI Startup Fund, which operates like a typical corporate venture capital fund but with unique governance, had reported total commitments of $175 million as of last May, including support from Microsoft.
Kits AI
Kits.AI is AI platform designed specifically for modern creators in the music industry. It offers a variety of powerful tools to generate, customize, and share artificial voices. Users can alter their voices using AI models of famous artists’ voices licensed from a library. Its advanced AI engine can generate melodies and harmonies, and even suggest instrumentation based on user inputs. This unique blend of AI voice generation and training tools enables musicians and producers to transform their inspiration into reality.
'Smart swarms' of tiny robots show herd mentality
Researchers are exploring the concept of collective movement inspired by natural herd mentality in light-powered particles with adaptive time delay. This behavior, seen in ecosystems such as schools of fish, has led scientists to investigate the development of "smart swarms" of microscopic robots that can work together as a coordinated group. By incorporating adaptive time delay into these swarms, the researchers have observed increased responsivity without compromising robustness. This innovative approach, enabled by an optical feedback system, could have applications in enhancing the efficiency of autonomous drone fleets and enabling vehicles to navigate together autonomously.
Avatars as effective as real humans in training
New research suggests that digital humans could be just as effective as real humans in providing ergonomics training online. The study compared the outcomes of training provided by digital humans to conventional online training and found that both methods resulted in improved knowledge of ergonomics and decreased musculoskeletal discomfort among remote workers.