🧠 Neuralink Connects Minds to Machines

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Neuralink has successfully implanted its brain chip in two patients and now wants to connect it to a robotic arm. This is a step toward "not just digital freedom, but physical freedom.”

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What are on FIRE 🔥

• 🤖 AI and The R&D Revolution

• 🌟 AI Highlights

• 💸 Daily AI Fundraising

• 📚 AI Sources From AI Fire

• 🏅 AI Tools

• ⚡ 5 AI Quick Hits

• 📊 AI Chart

• 💼 4 AI Jobs

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AI INSIGHTS

🤖 AI and The R&D Revolution

In 2023, McKinsey predicted that a third of sales across major industries (worth $30 trillion over five years) will come from new products. Companies are investing heavily in R&D, with £71 billion spent in the UK and an estimated $886 billion in the US in 2022. The report shows that AI is revolutionizing the research and development process across multiple stages:

Key takeaways:

• AI is transforming product development, helping companies create better products faster by providing rapid insights and design alternatives.

• Companies that don't adopt AI risk becoming obsolete, similar to businesses that ignored the internet in its early days.

• Data quality is critical - sloppy data entry can cause significant problems when implementing AI-driven research and development strategies.

• The future of innovation is "human plus AI", where technology assists rather than replaces human creativity and decision-making.

• AI can potentially reduce time to market by up to 40%, increase product performance by 15-60%, and boost workplace productivity dramatically.

Why it matters: Drawing from Lenovo's approach, true innovation comes from deeply listening to customers and employees. By using AI to understand their needs and experiences, companies can create meaningful products that solve real problems and connect with people.

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TODAY IN AI

AI HIGHLIGHTS

🧠 Neuralink launches trial testing brain chip's ability to control robotic arm for "not only digital freedom but physical freedom."

♟️ Google launches AI-driven chess platform Imagen 3 alongside Gemini Advanced during World Chess Championship with unique piece generation.

🛡️ Bluesky seeks user consent mechanisms while acknowledging limited control over third-party data usage.

🎮 Musk says he's going to launch an "AI game studio" at his xAI startup to make games great again!

🚀 A group of ex-Google, Meta, and Stripe leaders launched a new startup, /dev/agents, with $56M to transform AI agents.

DAILY AI FUNDRAISING

Cradle raised $73M to expand its AI-driven protein design platform and lab. The funding will help accelerate biotech, reduce experimental costs, and support their goal of empowering a million scientists.

AI SOURCES FROM AI FIRE

NEW EMPOWERED AI TOOLS

1. 🎲 Agentplace is the platform for creating interactive AI websites and apps

2. 🧩 FAANG builds your custom AI interviewer "Buddy"

3. 🎨 Nfig AI is an API for AI Agents to browse, click, and do tasks on the web

4. 💡 Agora is an AI search engine for e-commerce products.

5. 🛠️ KushoAI is AI-written API tests inside Google Sheets

AI QUICK HITS

1. 🤖 Inflection AI shifts focus to enterprise tools (Link)

2. 🎓 Google launches the London AI Campus (Link)

3. 🎶 AI creates unique, never-before-heard sound (Link)

4. 🌍 Mistral plans US expansion to challenge AI giants (Link)

5. 🎙️ ElevenLabs iOS app now can generate a podcast from almost all content (Link)

AI CHART

Today, we got two important updates:

• QwQ 32b is a 32-billion parameter reasoning model that outperforms o1 in some cases, and it’s open source (Apache 2, Open Weights).

• Runner H is an agent-based model that seems to beat all others in accuracy, speed, and can even perform tasks like web search.

This leads to two possibilities:

• Start-ups and Chinese models might be catching up to major players like OpenAI and Anthropic, meaning we could get new developments as open source, and smaller companies could continue competing with the big names, keeping us excited with daily surprises.

• OpenAI and others might be far ahead, secretly working on big innovations, and the gap is still large, waiting for the right moment to release their breakthroughs.

Either way, both outcomes are great for the community. Today could be a turning point, bringing good things for us all.

AI JOBS

• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: PhD Intern – AI/Graph Theory for Power Systems (Link)

• University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA): California Technology/AI/Privacy Law Reporter (Link)

• PayPal: AI Security Architect (Link)

• Jobs via Dice: Gen AI Architect (Link)

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