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Good morning! Here's your AI Trends dose, the newsletter that's the daring test pilot pushing AI, tech and innovation to new heights.

Today's high-octane flight plan includes the AI Index unveiling 2023's wildest AI trends from the stratosphere 📈🤖, a historic robotic dogfight where AI takes to the skies 👨‍✈️, and a close encounter with the turbulence around "open source" AI that may not be so open after all 🔓🤖.

Strap in and prepare for takeoff as we soar through the latest developments!

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China's AI Challenger Outguns GPT-4 Turbo 🇨🇳💥🤖

Get ready AI enthusiasts, because SenseTime has just dropped a bombshell - the SenseNova 5.0 large model! This latest iteration packs a serious punch with major upgrades across linguistic, creative, scientific, and even multimodal capabilities.

SenseNova 5.0 has been turbo-charged with over 10TB of training data, enabling deeper comprehension and snappier responses. Its advanced mixture of experts allows for massive 200,000 token context windows during inference. From creative writing to mathematical modeling, this model is a true renaissance AI.

😱 Warning: SenseNova 5.0 may cause severe cases of model envy among its competitors!

But that's not all - SenseTime also unveiled their industry-leading "Cloud-To-Edge" full stack product matrix. This lets the SenseNova model run on everything from smartphones to enterprise rigs. Speed demons will love the 78 words/sec generation on flagship devices.

As Dr. Xu Li stated, SenseTime remains laser-focused on advancing the "Knowledge, Reasoning, Execution" trifecta. True to its mission, SenseNova 5.0 is already powering smart productivity apps like the WPS Office suite and financial utilities at Haitong Securities. The model's fresh multimodal skills even enable next-gen auto experiences in Xiaomi's smart vehicles.

The AI revolution marches on, and SenseTime is leading the charge into an AGI-enabled future with mind-blowing text-to-video capabilities on the horizon. Keep your eyes peeled for stunning AI-generated video content coming soon!

Sanctuary AI Ushers in Robotic Renaissance 🤖✨🔭

Robotic wizards Sanctuary AI have pulled the veil off their highly anticipated 7th-generation Phoenix robots, and they are truly a marvel to behold. This latest iteration brings human-like intelligence several strides closer.

The Gen 7 Phoenix boasts vastly improved dexterity with an enhanced range of motion in those nimble wrists, hands, and elbows. But it's not just about flexibility - these bots significantly level up their uptime, visual perception, and tactile sensing for sustained operation on complex tasks.

😱 Humans beware - the rise of our robotic Phoenix overlords may be nigh!

Perhaps most mind-blowing is the 50x speedup in task automation Sanctuary has achieved. What once took weeks can now be handled in under 24 hours as the Phoenix system rapidly learns new skills. This marks a major inflection point in AI capabilities.

Other key enhancements include faster manufacturing ramp-up, reduced costs, miniaturized hydraulics, and stringent safety compliance. It's a true robotic renaissance!

As Sanctuary AI CEO Geordie Rose puts it, "We believe [Gen 7] is the most closely analogous to a person of any available [robot]...a critical step on the path to artificial general intelligence." The boundless potential of advanced general robots is unfolding before our eyes.

With their blistering pace of innovation, Sanctuary AI is sprinting towards the AGI finish line. Buckle up as these Canadian trailblazers usher in a new era of human-level robotic intelligence!

Adobe Cracks the Code on AI Video Upscaling Magic 🧙‍♂️🎥✨

Get ready to have your mind blown, because Adobe just pulled a serious rabbit out of their AI hat. The wizards in their research labs have conjured up VideoGigaGAN - a generative AI model that can upscale blurry videos by up to 8x their original resolution!

This sorcery is no mere parlor trick. Conventional AI upscaling methods either introduce weird artifacts to video or lack fine detail. But VideoGigaGAN somehow manages to sidestep those pitfalls, delivering crispy high-res results without any "AI weirdness."

🔮 It's like having the video upscaling crystal ball we've all been wishing for!

Under the hood, VideoGigaGAN cleverly combines the strengths of generative adversarial networks (GANs) and other upscaling tech. GANs are amazing at upgrading still images but struggle with consistent video quality. Adobe's approach avoids those flickering, distorted GAN nightmares.

The examples speak for themselves - high-res details like skin texture and wrinkles look almost unnervingly natural. You'd never suspect AI magic was involved if you didn't know better.

Of course, this is just a research preview for now. Adobe hasn't committed to making the AI upscaler available in Creative Cloud...yet. But it's a tantalizing glimpse at what cutting-edge generative AI can do for video.

From augmented reality to Hollywood blockbusters, VideoGigaGAN could upend how we think about capturing, editing, and Post-producing video and film. The boundaries of what's "real" keep blurring thanks to Adobe's magical AI innovations!

AI Bites 🍪

$6B Funding Inbound for Musk's xAI Valuation Skyrockets to $18B 🔋⬆️

AI Pays Dividends: Microsoft's Revenues Soar 💹📈🤖

Worldcoin Doubles Down on OpenAI Alliance: Shrugs Off Regulators 🌍🤝🤖

Meet OpenELM: Apple's Svelte AI for On-Device Wizardry 📱✨🤖

It's Official - Tesla Is an AI Company, Says Musk 🏭🤖✅

Watch this, thank me later... 👀

So how much does it cost to make an iPhone?

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