October 2024

Last week brought several interesting technical advances in the AI and its security sector. The most notable development was Anthropic’s release of the Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Haiku models, featuring groundbreaking computer use capability. In addition to an official announcement, Anthropic also published a demo repository on GitHub to showcase these new feature. Additionally, I…

Mistral introduces two new edge models, featuring improved performancde and  a long context window of 128K tokens. Meta’s FAIR lab has designed a novel training method that enhances LLMs’ reasoning capabilities. These developments highlight two major AI trends: small models optimized for resource-limited devices and improved reasoning in LLMs.  Meanwhile, a new threat has emerged…

In this issue, I particularly enjoyed the article “Generative AI’s Act o1” by Sonya Huang from Sequoia Capital. The article discusses generative AI’s current evolution that shifts from training towards deeper, inference-time reasoning. I can see this article is influenced by my favorite book, “Thinking, Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman. I think the development…

In this issue, I feature two opinions: Shelly Palmer examines AI’s socioeconomic impact, emphasizing its potential to automate many aspects of daily life and its effects on economic productivity. Arthur H. Michel discusses the ethical dilemmas of AI in warfare, highlighting the blurred lines between human and machine actions in military decisions. Both articles offer…