Generative AI Weekly Newsletter — Issue #8
Hey friends,
Welcome to Generative AI Publication’s weekly newsletter, issue #8.
It’s another week packed with huge, exciting news on generative AI space. Some of the highlights are the following:
- Emad Mostaque resigns from Stability AI as CEO.
- Apple announcing their multimodal language model
- Google releases Gemini API to everyone
These are just the biggest headlines — there are lots of other exciting updates in this week’s newsletter. Let’s dive in!
🚀 Top stories of the week
Here’s a quick look at the most exciting AI news of the week.
- xAI Releases Grok-1 by Jim Clyde Monge. Grok is a huge language model with 314 billion parameters, making it the largest open-source model currently available.
- NVIDIA’s Blackwell Architecture flips the next page in AI Super Chip by Gandhi KT. NVIDIA takes a giant leap and training will never be the same.
- Midjourney Releases “Style Reference” Version 2.0 by Jim Clyde Monge. Style reference v2.0 is here with a much more precise understanding of style elements.
- Stable Video 3D Is Here by Jim Clyde Monge. Generate 3D video from a single image with AI.
- Cyber Evolution: Hacking the Emergence of Generative AI Worms by TONI RAMCHANDANI. The integration of generative AI capabilities raises significant cybersecurity concerns, particularly regarding the potential for attackers to exploit generative AI components to launch widespread cyber-attacks within these ecosystems.
🌟 Boosted stories of the week
This week, we’re highlighting these great pieces written by our top contributors.
- Synthetic Intelligence: Shaping the Landscape of Fraud Detection by Kris Naleszkiewicz. This article discusses fraud detection, focusing on the role of synthetic data generation in overcoming common challenges and the practical aspects of implementation.
- NVIDIA Introduces Blackwell — A $40,000 GPU With 208 Billion Transistors by Jim Clyde Monge. The most powerful AI chip in the world is here. Why should you care?
Explore more boosted stories here.
✍️ Editor’s pick
Our editors chose these fascinating articles for you to explore.
- 17 MB AI Chatbot Is Here by Fabio Matricardi. This article guides the reader on how to run and test AI chatbots that are as small as 17MB in weight using Google Colab.
- Altman & Fridman Talk ChatGPT-5, Q*, Musk Lawsuit, AGI, and More by Cezary Gesikowski. Explore these interesting progress in the world of generative AI.
- Arcadia: Put your LLMs to Work — Part I: Setup by Tim Cvetko. This explains the process of developing a platform that enables users to upload their ML models and monetize them by charging for API access.
- Quantum Computing Part 4 by Eric S. Shi 舍予. What are Quantum Neural Networks and Quantum Machine Learning?
- Vector Databases: Bridging the Gap Between Data Complexity and Usability for AI Apps by TONI RAMCHANDANI
Explore more of our editor’s picks here.
💬 Quote of the Week
“The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.” — Edsger W. Dijkstra
That’s all for now! I hope you found something interesting, or at least vaguely useful, in this newsletter. If you have any questions, or ideas for future editions, or want to chat about the fascinating world of AI, then reach out to us in the comments.
Until next time,
Jim
