📣 Hello! Welcome to our Sunday digest, featuring the most exciting AI news from the 33rd week of 2024.

MAIN NEWS

🕊 xAI Has Launched Grok-2. Elon Musk's company introduced a new model that outperformed Claude 3.5 in tests and is close to GPT-4o. The new model is available to X users with a premium subscription.

👮‍♂️ Grok-2 is nearly censorship-free. Its built-in Flux image generator allows users to create images that would be impossible with Google's Gemini or OpenAI's DALL-E.

STARTUP

🦄 AI that Understands the 3D World. World Labs, a startup by Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li, has raised $100 million in investment, valuing the company at over $1B just four months after its founding.

TO READ

📱 Google Introduces Gemini Live Voice Assistant. It supports live dialogue and can work with Google apps, creating playlists, mapping routes, and finding information.

🍓 Strawberry X-Files. There’s a buzz on X about the potential release of Strawberry — a secret AI project from OpenAI set to be a breakthrough toward AGI.

📱 A Story of Satya Nadella: The CEO who transformed Microsoft into the world's most valuable company by investing in AI development.

🏓 Google DeepMind Trains Robot to Play Ping-Pong. The robot defeated 13 out of 29 players of varying skill levels in a tournament.

🐶 AI Cares for Your Dog's Health. Minitailz is a smart collar to monitor your dog's health and whereabouts.

📱 AI Brings Sculptures to Life: Mexico City's "Sensitive Sculptures" exhibition showcases ceramic figures with sensors and AI, enabling them to interact and fall in love.

TO LISTEN

🪸 Let's Save Coral Reefs with AI. The "Calling in our Corals" project allows you to listen to and assess the sounds of coral reefs, boosting marine ecosystem monitoring.

Have a great end to your week ☀️

#AIweek | @hiaimediaen