☕️ A Teamswap Between Tech Giants

Microsoft recruits the co-founder of Google DeepMind, Mustafa Suleyman, to lead its new AI division, Microsoft AI, to bring his insights to further improve Copilot. On the other end, Stability AI sees another key departure, GitHub introduces an AI-powered code-scanning autofix feature, and researchers unveil an AI tool for predicting post-surgery complications in breast cancer patients. Join us at AI Tangle as we untangle this week's happenings in the world of AI.

Google DeepMind co-founder joins Microsoft as the new lead of an AI division

After leading a $1.3 billion round in funding for Inflection AI, Microsoft acquired the co-founder of Google DeepMind and Inflection AI Mustafa Suleyman as the head of a new division called Microsoft AI, announced chief executive of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, in a blog post. "This infusion of new talent will enable us to accelerate our pace yet again," wrote Nadella.

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Mustafa Suleyman left Google back in 2022 to found Inflection AI with Karen Simonyan, a co-founder and scientist of Inflection AI who will also be joining the Microsoft AI division as chief scientist, along with several more employees from Inflection AI. Microsoft AI aims to unite Microsoft's consumer AI efforts such as its Copilot chatbot and the new Bing browser, with a focus on further improving Copilot, the company's consumer products, and more research.

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The lead of Stability AI's scientific and research team is saying goodbye to the company

Another setback for Stability AI as the firm's scientific and research team leader, Robin Rombach, departs from the company. Rombach joined the London-based startup in 2022 and played a crucial role in developing the company's standout image generation model, namely Stability Diffusion. Rombach's departure is one of many of Stability AI's dwindling headcount, as the startup has lost several key players in the past 12 months, including its CTO, VP of product, VP of engineering, and many more.

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GitHub supercharges code development with a tool to automatically fix security vulnerabilities

GitHub, one of the world's most renowned developer platforms, recently announced its new AI-powered code-scanning autofix feature for finding and fixing security vulnerabilities during the coding process. Combining the real-time capabilities of GitHub Copilot and CodeQL, the company's semantic code analysis engine, the company promises that the feature will cover more than 90% of alert types in the programming languages it supports. GitHub's code-scanning autofix feature is now available in beta for GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) members.

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Researchers have developed a new AI tool to predict side effects in breast cancer patients

An international team of researchers, scientists, and medics have developed an AI tool that can figure out how likely a breast cancer patient is to experience complications post-surgery. The technology was trained to predict lymphoedema up to three years after surgery and radiotherapy using data from 6,361 breast cancer patients, boasting an overall predictive accuracy of 73.4%, with trials underway in the UK, Netherlands, and France.

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Tennessee becomes the first state to sign legislation to protect musicians and artists from AI

Fittingly dubbed the ELVIS Act, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed legislation to protect the work of musicians and other artists alike from being misused by artificial intelligence. The bipartisan bill passed by the General Assembly unanimously, promising to create a new civil action by which people can be held liable if they publish or perform an individual's voice without permission. Luke Bryan, an American country music star, chimes in to praise the new state legislation, stating that it's "an amazing precedent to set."

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Cohere, an AI foundation model startup, targets a $5 billion valuation

Founded by ex-Google researchers, like CEO Aidan Gomez, Canadian AI startup Cohere is reportedly in talks to raise $500 million in funding, eyeing a valuation of $5 billion after raising $220 million and rising to a $2.2 billion valuation in June of 2023, according to Reuters. The company develops foundation models similar to ChatGPT by OpenAI, such as its Command-R conversational model, which Cohere debuted a week prior, aiming to make its models available through its partnership with Oracle and other cloud providers.

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Microsoft leads the front of Inflection AI's $1.3 billion round of funding

Tech giant Microsoft leads a $1.3 billion investment in Inflection AI, a firm specializing in the development of "more personal AI," with the development of Pi (or "Personal intelligence"), the bread-and-butter digital companion by Inflection, designed for tailor-made interactions. The funding fuels Inflection's ambitious project to construct the world's largest AI cluster, featuring 22,000 of Nvidia's H100 Tensor Core GPUs, and continue sustaining Inflection's Pi AI model.

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