1. SanctuaryaI unveiled the seventh generation of its general purpose robot Phoenix. The latest generation robot and its AI control system, Carbon™, draw even closer to that of a person, with wide ranging improvements to both the hardware and AI software. The announcement comes less than 12 months after Sanctuary AI’s sixth generation robot.
The changes include:
Increased uptime, making robots more available for training and data capture
Increased build and commissioning speed, allowing us to bring more units online faster
Reduced bill of materials, lowering the cost of manufacture
Significant hardware improvements, increasing range of motion in the wrists, hands, and elbows, and increasing hand durability
Further miniaturized hydraulics, reducing the weight, power consumption, and complexity with increased hardware and software measures that exceed specified safety standards
Improved visual acuity and tactile sensing, leading to higher-fidelity data to train the AI control system
The time it takes for new tasks to be automated has gone from weeks to less than 24 hours, marking a major inflection point in task automation speed and autonomous system capability
2. XAI is close to raising $6 billion at a valuation of $18 billion. Venture Capital Firms like Sequoia are among the investors.
3. Chinese firm SenseTime launched a new LLM. It can beat GPT-4 Turbo across nearly all key benchmarks. The ~600 billion parameter model features a 200k context window and was trained on over 10TB of largely synthetic data.
SCMP – SenseTime’s shares gained as much as 36 per cent after the company launched the latest iteration of its SenseNova large language model.
China now has over 200 domestically made AI models.
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