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DeepMind has made AlphaFold 3, its Nobel Prize-winning AI tool, open-source, allowing scientists everywhere to use it. With fresh minds now exploring its potential, could this lead to the next big breakthrough in biology?
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AI MODEL
🤖 An Open Model That Out-perform GPT-4o
Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen has launched new AI coding models, including a top 32B version that performs as well as GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet on major tests, and it’s fully open-source.
Key takeaways:
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct competes with GPT-4o, leading in code tasks like generation, repair, and reasoning.
With six model sizes (0.5B to 32B), it offers flexibility, covering a wide range of development needs.
It performs well in over 40 languages, achieving top scores in multi-language repair and generation benchmarks.
Licensing includes Apache 2.0 and Qwen-Research, enhancing its usability across the community.
Integrations with Cursor and Artifacts scenarios add practical value for code assistants and visual artifact creation.
Why it matters: Qwen2.5-Coder series brings a strong, open-source alternative to the AI coding space, empowering developers with state-of-the-art, multi-size models and enhancing coding accessibility and performance in practical applications.
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RYSE and Shine: Don’t Sleep On This Smart Home Company
Ring 一 Acquired by Amazon for $1.2B.
Nest 一 Acquired by Google for $3.2B.
Smart home companies have seen some spectacular exits, yielding massive returns for early investors, yet one category in this burgeoning industry has eluded adoption - Smart Shades. High prices and complex installation procedures have prevented the mass adoption of smart shades despite their benefits, and one company is set to change that.
RYSE is the tech firm poised to dominate this category (growing at an astonishing 55% annually), and their public offering of shares priced at just $1.75 has opened. Existing shareholders have seen their shares grow by over 20X, and their products have just launched in over 100 Best Buy stores.
Retail distribution was the main driver behind the acquisitions of both Ring and
Nest, and RYSE’s exclusive deal with Best Buy resembles that which led Ring and Nest to their billion-dollar buyouts.
TODAY IN AI
AI HIGHLIGHTS
🧬 Google DeepMind releases Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold3's code for academic use which predicts protein structures and empowers large research organizations, small labs, and independent researchers to find new treatments.
🎙️ Lex Fridman just dropped a new interview with Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei! They chat about AI safety, AGI possibly arriving by 2026-2027, and insights from researcher Amanda Askell and co-founder Chris Olah.
🤖 Tech giants OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta and Anthropic rush to create new internal benchmarks and tests for intelligence.
🛠️ OpenAI is working on the code execution sandbox feature for ChatGPT Canvas! It’ll start with support for Python, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
🤖 OpenAI president Greg Brockman returns from a three-month sabbatical amid executive departures and $157 billion valuation milestone.
🚀 A senior lawyer’s $8,000 worth of legal brief work can now be done in just 5 minutes for $3 using AI API credits (OpenAI’s Chief Product Officer shared this example at Ray Summit 2024).
DAILY AI FUNDRAISING
Writer, a generative AI startup, raised $200M at a $1.9B valuation to expand its enterprise platform, attracting clients like Mars and Uber, amid rising VC interest in AI innovation.
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🤖 Tasking AI is a developer-friendly cloud platform for building and running LLM agents for AI-driven apps.
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💼 THEO makes AI truly understand your unique business nuances
🖼️ Minimox helps craft minimalist logos
📷 Mood Paper converts your mood into stunning wallpapers using AI.
AI QUICK HITS
🚀 Top 6 AI Marketing Trends to Transform Your 2025 Business (Link)
💉 AI detects blood pressure and diabetes from short videos (Link)
🎸 Jerry Garcia’s AI voice now reads books and articles (Link)
🤖 People underestimate AI like they did steel (Link)
💻 Amazon offers free computing power to AI researchers (Link)
AI CHART
People with disabilities are more positive about AI at work than those without disabilities.
Frequent AI Use: 41% of employees with disabilities use AI to communicate and solve problems, more than their non-disabled peers.
Gender and Regional Insights: Globally, men with disabilities are slightly more optimistic, but Brazilian women with disabilities are the most optimistic about AI.
They even have a stronger demand for AI training: One-third would consider leaving if they don’t receive enough AI training—higher than those without disabilities. Over half seek AI skills outside of work, showing a gap in employer-provided training.
Generational Gaps in AI Access and Accommodations
Younger Workers Face More Barriers: Gen Z and Millennials with disabilities see more obstacles to accessing AI skills than older workers.
Low Workplace Support for Gen Z: Only 36% of Gen Z feel their workplace has made enough adjustments for their needs, lower than other generations.
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