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It’s Friday, August 25, and today we’re covering the story of Meta that introduces Code Llama, Nvidia’s earnings going through the roof, Britain to hold its first AI safety summit, Film & TV studios offering up to $1 million for AI engineers, and much more.

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🚀 BIG TECH & STARTUPS

Meta is introducing Code Llama, an AI Tool for Coding (2 min read)

Code Llama, a large language model (LLM) that can use text prompts to generate and discuss code. Code Llama is state-of-the-art for publicly available LLMs on coding tasks. It has the potential to make workflows faster and more efficient for developers and lower the barrier to entry for people who are learning to code. Code Llama has the potential to be used as a productivity and educational tool to help programmers write more robust, well-documented software.

Outstanding Nvidia Earnings Confirm the AI Boom Has Longevity (2 min read)

AI stocks have been on fire all year long. And Nvidia (NVDA) – the leader of the AI Revolution itself – just confirmed that AI stocks will stay red-hot for several years to come. The leading chipmaker reported grand-slam earnings results, powered by seemingly unstoppable demand for its AI chips.

Revenues topped expectations by more than 20%. Earnings topped expectations by more than 30%. And management said that in the upcoming quarter, revenues will be about $16 billion – more than the company made during the entirety of 2020. 

🧑‍🚀 SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

Britain to host world’s first AI safety summit (2 min read)

The U.K. government will host the world’s first artificial intelligence safety summit in Bletchley Park, the home of the codebreakers who cracked the code that ended World War II. The government said in a Thursday press release that it would host the meeting to discuss the “safe development and use of frontier AI technology.”

The U.K. is home to several leading companies involved in the research, development and commercial production of AI, including DeepMind, the U.K. AI lab, and Synthesia, a digital media platform that lets users create AI-generated videos.

AI Revolution: Paralyzed Woman ‘Speaks’ via Digital Avatar (4 min read)

Researchers created a groundbreaking brain-computer interface (BCI) that allows a paralyzed woman to communicate through a digital avatar. This advancement marks the first-ever synthesis of speech or facial expressions directly from brain signals.

The system can convert these signals to text at an impressive rate of nearly 80 words per minute, surpassing existing technologies. The study presents a significant leap towards restoring comprehensive communication for paralyzed individuals.

🧠 MISCELLANEOUS

YouTube is figuring out its AI strategy by working with music labels (2 min read)

YouTube is partnering with record labels to establish rules for how AI-generated music is treated on its platform, including monetization opportunities for both companies and creators. Part of YouTube’s plan is a partnership with Universal Music Group (UMG) — one of the largest record labels in the world — to create an AI music incubator, essentially a group of musicians who will “help gather insights on generative AI experiments and research” on the platform.

Film and TV studios post AI jobs with salaries up to $1 million as workers strike (5 min read)

Film and television studios are trying to hire people with expertise in artificial intelligence, even as their writers and actors are out on strike citing the industry’s plans for AI and other concerns.

Six entertainment companies, including Disney, Netflix, Sony and NBCUniversal, have been advertising for at least 26 positions related to AI in recent weeks. The companies are looking to pay many of the potential software developers more than $200,000 a year and, in some cases, far more, the job listings say.

'Moonwalkers': These AI-powered strap-on shoes can make you walk three times faster (1.5 min read)

Imagine being able to make a quick grocery run or walk your dog as fast as if you were on a moving walkway. An American start-up, Shift Robotics, has invented a device designed to be strapped onto your own shoes to boost your walking speed by up to 250 per cent. That’s right, you could be walking at up to 11 km/h, about three times faster than you normally would.

Shift Robotics says that, unlike skating, the Moonwalkers require no skills to learn - it’s genuinely walking. According to the company, the AI adapts to each user’s gait and it takes under 10 steps for the algorithms to learn the user’s walking patterns.