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A practical guide to building private AI voice typing on Windows using Handy and Foundry Local, with local transcript post-processing and no cloud upload.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The winner of the 2024 Innovator of the Year by MIT Technology Review is Shawn Shan’s work on copyright protection against generative AI. Glad to see security and privacy technologies are used to protect artists’ rights. Many unfiltered models are traded on the dark web. How should we regulate these models to prevent misuse? A…
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OpenAI released a new model called “o1” or “Strawberry” last week, which significantly improves reasoning capabilities. The AI community is still evaluating the model, but initial results suggest that its reasoning abilities might elevate the AI game to a new level. If you are developing an Agent-based application and want to see how it performs…
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In this issue of AI Security newsletter, I particularly like the the work by OctoAI where they conducted experiments of using small model for specific tasks. Their work shows that, with enhanced prompt and fine-tuning, small models can outperform large models in certain tasks, such as PII redaction. Devansh and Eric Flaningam’s analysis of AI…
