Meta’s national security shift

Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

Meta just drew a brand new battle line in the worldwide AI race — and this time, it’s getting literal.

Llama is officially open to government and military use, raising questions on the role of industry and tech in national security. Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• Meta opens Llama AI to U.S. defense sector

• Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 3.5

• Transform meeting recordings into actionable insights

• Physical Intelligence lands $400M for higher robots

• 5 recent AI tools & 5 recent AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

META

🪖 Meta opens Llama AI to U.S. defense sector

The Rundown: Meta just announced it should make its Llama AI models available to U.S. government agencies and defense contractors for national security applications, marking a shift in the corporate’s policy across the military use of its open-source AI.

The main points:

• Meta is partnering with tech and defense firms, including Amazon, Microsoft, Palantir, Lockheed Martin, and Oracle, to bring Llama to government agencies.

• Early use cases include Oracle using Llama to research aircraft docs for faster repairs and Scale AI fine-tuning it for mission planning and threat evaluation.

• The move represents an exception to Meta’s policy, which prohibits using Llama for military, warfare, or espionage.

• The policy shift comes shortly after reports of Chinese military researchers using an older version of Llama 2 to develop defense applications.

• Meta frames the choice as crucial for establishing open standards in AI, arguing that U.S. models should set the inspiration for global AI development.

Why it matters: AI’s infusion into the federal government and military was inevitable, however the timing is interesting given the recent Chinese military reports. This move (alongside OpenAI’s increasing ties to government-related efforts) may also raise polarizing questions on the influence of industry and tech on national security.

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ANTHROPIC

💰 Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 3.5

The Rundown: Anthropic just released its Claude 3.5 Haiku model, offering recent improvements to tool use, reasoning, and coding in comparison with its predecessor — nevertheless it comes with a pricing hike that has drawn criticism from the developer community.

The main points:

• Anthropic introduced 3.5 Haiku in October alongside the platform’s announcement of computer use, beating the previous top model, 3 Opus, on key benchmarks.

• The brand new model’s pricing has increased 4x to $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens, in comparison with $0.25 and $1.25 for Claude 3 Haiku.

• The model also is available in at nearly 7x the fee of similar-sized rival GPT-4o- mini and 13x the fee of Gemini Flash, despite similar benchmark performance.

• Unlike previous versions, the three.5 release launches without image evaluation capabilities but offers an prolonged knowledge cutoff date through July 2024.

• The model is now available via Anthropic’s API, Google’s Vertex AI, and Amazon Bedrock.

Why it matters: The incontrovertible fact that Anthropic’s small but fast model now exceeds the capabilities of the previous generation’s largest model says so much about how briskly things are moving. Conversely, the value hike to ‘reflect its increase in intelligence’ will ruffle feathers — especially given the fee of comparable competitors.

AI TRAINING

📝 Transform meeting recordings into actionable insights

The Rundown: Google Gemini’s audio evaluation feature can routinely extract key information from your small business meetings, providing summaries, motion items, and strategic insights.

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1. Upload your meeting recording to Google Gemini (select Gemini 1.5 Pro 002).

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PHYSICAL INTELLIGENCE

🤖 Physical Intelligence lands $400M for higher robots

The Rundown: AI startup Physical Intelligence just secured $400M in funding led by Jeff Bezos and OpenAI, valuing the corporate at $2.4B because it unveils its π0 (pi-zero) model for general-purpose robot control.

The main points:

• The round brings together tech giants and enterprise firms, with Thrive Capital, Lux Capital, Khosla Ventures, and Sequoia Capital joining Bezos and OpenAI.

• The π0 system goals to create a universal model to grasp natural language commands across any robotic platform.

• Initial demos showcase robots performing complex multi-stage tasks like folding laundry, packing eggs, bussing tables, and more.

• π0 trained on 10k+ hours of dexterous manipulation data and open-source datasets, claiming it’s the biggest pre-training mixture ever utilized in the sector.

Why it matters: One other competitor emerges within the robotics sector — and universal, general-purpose robots may unlock automation across industries where other humanoid robots have been too inflexible and specialized. Plus, physical intelligence will definitely attract the industry’s attention with backing from OpenAI and Bezos.

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Amazon Prime Video released X-Ray Recaps, a brand new AI-powered feature that generates personalized show summaries at any viewing point to maintain viewers up to this point without spoilers.

Hume launched its recent app featuring AI assistants that mix the corporate’s EVI 2 speech-language model with Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Haiku for conversational interactions, emotional reflection, deep questions, and life advice.

Netflix executive Mike Verdu announced that he’s transitioning to a brand new ‘VP of GenAI for Games’ and touted AI as transformational for game development, coming just weeks after the corporate laid off 35 developers from its Team Blue game studio.

OpenAI released a brand new ‘Predicted Outputs’ feature for its GPT-4o models, allowing developers to dramatically reduce response times by providing reference text for tasks like code refactoring and document editing.

Google’s Big Sleep AI agent achieved an AI security research milestone by uncovering a serious safety flaw within the SQLite database system, which specialized testing programs had missed for years.

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See you soon,

Rowan, Joey, Zach, and Alvaro—aka The Rundown Team