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Feb 6, 2024

Techstars-backed Nigerian edtech Klas raises $1M for global scaling of online teaching platform

Posted by in category: education

Nigerian online teaching platform Klas has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding led by Ingressive Capital, with participation from Techstars, HoaQ, and several angel investors.


Klas, a Nigerian-based online education platform serving customers globally, has raised $1 million from Ingressive Capital, Techstars.

Feb 6, 2024

Dexa aims to get more out of podcasts with AI-powered search

Posted by in categories: food, robotics/AI

If you listen to a lot of podcasts, there is a chance you might remember funny tidbits and are wondering… “Wait, who talked about eating fries with sriracha again?” or more serious questions. To look for the answers, you have to first find the podcast and then search through their transcripts. Dexa is trying to make podcast search easier by leveraging AI.

The tool lets you ask questions about a single podcast, like Andrew Humberman’s Huberman Lab podcast in the screenshot below, or query all the podcasts in Dexa’s database — there are currently more than 120 with more being added. The search results will give you an AI-generated summary of the answer along with pointers to podcasts where the participant discussed the topic.

For instance, you can ask questions like “What’s the best way to get more sleep?” and find answers to that from Dexa’s podcast library with timestamped links to those conversations. You can also @mention a specific podcast to narrow down your search results.

Feb 6, 2024

How OLMo From AI2 Redefines LLM Innovation

Posted by in categories: innovation, robotics/AI

The Allen Institute for AI created the Open Language Model, or OLMo, which is an open-source large language model with the aim of advancing the science of language models through open research.


AI2 has partnered with organizations such as Surge AI and MosaicML for data and training code. These partnerships are crucial for providing the diverse datasets and sophisticated training methodologies that underpin OLMo’s capabilities. The collaboration with the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington and Databricks Inc. has also been pivotal in realizing the OLMo project.

It is important to note that the current architecture of OLMo is not the same as the models that power chatbots or AI assistants, which use instruction-based models. However, that’s on the roadmap. According to AI2, there will be multiple enhancements made to the model in the future. In the coming months, there are plans to iterate on OLMo by introducing different model sizes, modalities, datasets, and capabilities into the OLMo family. This iterative process is aimed at continuously improving the model’s performance and utility for the research community.

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Feb 6, 2024

What Is The Best Way To Control Today’s AI?

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

In a famous line over 60 years ago, early AI pioneer Norbert Wiener summed up one of the core challenges that humanity faces in building artificial intelligence: If we use, to achieve our purposes, a mechanical agency with whose operation we cannot interfere effectively…we had better be quite sure…


The answer is a technology known as reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF).

RLHF has become the dominant method by which human developers control and steer the behavior of AI models, especially language models. It impacts how millions of people around the world experience artificial intelligence today. It is impossible to understand how today’s most advanced AI systems work without understanding RLHF.

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Feb 6, 2024

Aptera Motors secures $33M from community for its 400-mile solar EVs

Posted by in categories: solar power, sustainability, transportation

With a 400-mile range and solar capabilities, Aptera’s solar EVs are setting the stage for sustainability and accessibility.


Discover how Aptera Motors achieved $33 million through its community-led Accelerator Program to fuel production for its solar electric vehicle.

Feb 6, 2024

Zaha Hadid Architects release world’s first hydrogen boating stations

Posted by in category: futurism

NatPower H and Zaha Hadid Architects team up for a 100 million euro project, introducing 100 hydrogen refueling stations for pleasure boating.


Explore the future of eco-friendly pleasure boating with Zaha Hadid Architects’ newly released hydrogen refueling stations.

Feb 6, 2024

French hospital trials ‘socially assistive’ robots to help the elderly

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

The Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris in France recently hosted a set of “socially assistive” robots to help lighten the workload for its human staff.


A Scottish advanced artificial intelligence team has helped trial a team of ‘socially assistive’ robots in a Parisian hospital.

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Feb 6, 2024

‘Sand blasting’: Tiny cameras to track Moon’s reaction to NASA landers

Posted by in category: space travel

NASA’s SCALPSS 1.0, aboard Nova-C lander, captures lunar surface changes in 3D during descent, aiding future lunar infrastructure planning.


Dive into lunar dynamics with NASA’s SCALPSS 1.0, providing real-time insights on the Moon’s surface alterations during spacecraft landings.

Feb 6, 2024

China allegedly dispatches ‘world first’ in-orbit AI commercial hypersatellite

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The hypersatellite is allegedly an integrated sensing network satellite that contains a sixth-generation ‘brain system.’


Chinese media claims that Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center has launched the ‘world’s first in-orbit artificial intelligence (AI)’ commercial hypersatellite.

Feb 6, 2024

China’s PLA plots robot drones, ‘James Bonds’ for covert military operations

Posted by in categories: drones, military, robotics/AI

China’s People’s Liberation Army is on the market for robotic special operations robots or UAVs that can operate independently for a long period.


China’s PLA unit 78,092 has publically announced its intention to develop robotic autonomous special operations drones.