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🛰️ Elon Musk now controls two-thirds of all active satellites
🧠 New AI model can fix its own mistakes
💻 New AI agent will code and deploy your idea for you
⚖️ OpenAI is fighting to keep cofounder Ilya Sutskever's files secret in copyright lawsuit
🎮 Roblox's new AI builds 3D environments in a snap
🚀 Boeing's Starliner returns without astronauts
🎁 + 6 other news you might like
🔮 + 2 handpicked research papers and tools
🛰️ Elon Musk now controls two-thirds of all active satellitesLINK
Elon Musk's company SpaceX now controls nearly two-thirds of all active satellites in Earth's orbit, following the recent launch of the 7,000th Starlink satellite.
SpaceX's Starlink constellation, which began launching satellites in 2019, has expanded to 6,370 active satellites, representing over 62% of operational satellites worldwide.
Starlink aims to eventually deploy up to 42,000 satellites to provide high-speed internet globally, currently serving over three million customers in 102 countries.
🧠 New AI model can fix its own mistakesLINK
AI startup OthersideAI has introduced Reflection 70B, an open-source language model optimized with a technique called "reflection tuning," and plans to release a more advanced model, Reflection 405B, next week.
Founder Matt Shumer asserts that Reflection 70B, built on Llama 3, is currently the most capable open-source model and can rival top proprietary models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4o.
Reflection 70B uses "reflection tuning," a two-stage training method allowing the model to identify and correct its mistakes, aiming to reduce factual inaccuracies and outperform existing models in various benchmarks.
💻 New AI agent will code and deploy your idea for youLINK
Replit's new AI agent allows users to simply describe their app ideas in natural language, and the AI autonomously codes, debugs, and deploys the entire project. Unlike traditional coding assistants, Replit’s AI agent acts like a proactive software developer, understanding the full development lifecycle from code generation to deployment. By leveraging data from millions of developers, Replit's AI can handle complex tasks independently, offering a faster and more accessible way for users to turn their app ideas into reality.
⚖️ OpenAI is fighting to keep cofounder Ilya Sutskever's files secret in copyright lawsuitLINK
OpenAI is fighting to keep cofounder Ilya Sutskever's files private in a lawsuit alleging copyright infringement by using books for AI training.
The dispute involves six current and former OpenAI employees, including Sutskever, whose documents plaintiffs believe are important for the case.
Authors such as George R. R. Martin and David Baldacci are part of the lawsuit, which claims OpenAI unlawfully used their works to train its models.
🎮 Roblox's new AI builds 3D environments in a snapLINK
Roblox will introduce a generative AI tool that enables creators to produce 3D scenes simply by using text prompts, significantly speeding up the scene creation process.
This new AI tool will reduce development time and allow developers, even those with limited 3D art skills, to make detailed environments by tokenizing 3D blocks similar to the way language models handle text.
By open-sourcing this AI model, Roblox aims to democratize the creation of 3D game elements, making it accessible to individual developers and potentially benefiting their competitors as well.
🚀 Boeing's Starliner returns without astronautsLINK
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is returning to Earth without its crew, after autonomously undocking from the International Space Station on September 6th, 2024.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, initially launched to the ISS by Starliner, will now return to Earth with SpaceX's Crew-9 mission in 2025.
The crew's return trip on Starliner was canceled due to thruster issues and leaks, despite initial plans for a shorter mission that started on June 5th, 2024.
Other news you might like
Nvidia's AI GPUs are cheaper to rent in China than in the U.S. — $6 per hour for eight Nvidia A100 GPUs.LINK
OpenAI says 'GPT Next' timelines shared by OpenAI officials are just placeholders.LINK
SpaceX Starship's explosion led to gigantic hole in Earth's ionosphere.LINK
OpenAI's Sora is stuck in research limbo as the company courts Hollywood and policymakers.LINK
WhatsApp will soon allow sending messages to Telegram, Signal.LINK
FTC urged to stop tech makers downgrading devices after you've bought them.LINK
Latest research and tools
Hardware Acceleration of LLMs: a comprehensive survey and comparison of different hardware acceleration techniques for large language models.LINK
Manipulating large language models to increase product visibility: the paper explores strategies for leveraging large language models in marketing to enhance the visibility of products online.LINK
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