Links Justin Sends 4/18

Happy Friday everyone!

This week has been crazy busy for AI announcements, ranging from NATO adopting cutting-edge Palantir AI Systems to AI now enabling us to communicate with dolphins and horses better than ever before. As well as new frontier and small model launches.

Checkout all the updates below 👇️ 

🛡️ Palantir Implementing AI into NATO: Palantir is integrating their Maven smart system into NATO, enhancing military operations through advanced AI-powered intelligence and decision-making.

🇺🇸 NVIDIA Building US-Based AI Supercomputers: NVIDIA announced they're building AI supercomputers entirely in the US, with their new Blackwell chips in production at an Arizona plant.

🐬 Google’s Dolphin Communication AI: Google DeepMind trained DolphinGemma to decode dolphin communication from acoustic databases, revealing fascinating insights into dolphin interactions.

⚛️ General Matter Reviving Nuclear Fuel Production: General Matter aims to restart US-based nuclear fuel production to power AI-driven energy demands, essential for the industry's growth.

🚀 AMD ROCm 6.4 Update: AMD released ROCm 6.4, delivering plug-and-play inference containers for their GPUs, significantly enhancing scalability for AI.

🧠 OpenAI Releases GPT-4.1: OpenAI introduced GPT-4.1, alongside Mini and Nano versions, signaling improvements in coding, instruction-following, and context management.

🌐 AMD Open-Sources INSTELLA: AMD unveiled INSTELLA, a 3-billion-parameter open-source language model, fostering broader collaboration within the AI community.

☁️ Azure Integrates GPT-4.1 Models: Microsoft swiftly integrated OpenAI’s new GPT-4.1 series into Azure OpenAI service, enhancing their AI offerings.

🎥 Kling AI 2.0 Master Video Generation: Kling AI released Kling 2.0, widely recognized as a leading model for high-quality video and image generation.

🐎 AI Understanding Horse Communication: AI technology is decoding horse body language, providing insights into their unspoken communication, following similar work done previously with dolphins.

📧 Notion Mail Launch: Notion introduced an AI-powered email inbox, streamlining email management and enhancing productivity.

🧩 Groq Compound Beta AI: Groq announced Compound Beta, an AI system capable of web search and code execution, marking Groq's first step toward agentic AI.

📹 Gemini Launches Veo2: Gemini rolled out Veo2, a sophisticated text-to-video generation model, available to Gemini Advanced users.

📂 Grok Studio Document Editing: Grok introduced Grok Studio, competing with ChatGPT’s advanced document editing capabilities.

📸 OpenAI Image Library: OpenAI released a dedicated image library feature for ChatGPT, streamlining image creation and sharing.

💻 OpenAI Codex CLI: OpenAI launched Codex CLI, an open-source, terminal-based coding agent akin to Anthropic’s Claude Code.

🤖 HuggingFace Open-Source Humanoid Robot: HuggingFace began sales of Reachy 2, a modular, open-source humanoid robot intended for advanced AI research and practical applications.

⚡️ Microsoft’s 1-Bit BitNet Model: Microsoft introduced BitNet, an energy-efficient 1-bit LLM achieving comparable accuracy to traditional models with significantly reduced resource requirements.

🚨 O3 Model Hallucinations: Early tests show O3, OpenAI’s latest reasoning model, frequently hallucinates actions, raising critical concerns about reliability.

🌍 Browseruse Extraction Layer Update: Browseruse released a major update improving extraction capabilities for web agents.

📚 TogetherAI's OpenDeepResearch: TogetherAI introduced OpenDeepResearch, an open-source AI tool for comprehensive research reports, including multi-hop search, reasoning, and multimedia content generation.

Have a great weekend and Easter!

-Justin

aka the guy with great AI links

Co-founder & Head of Technology @ BetterFutureLabs

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