What Caught My Eye This Week - #1
Each week, I'll bring you the most relevant and insightful tech stories, saving you time and keeping you informed.
Microsoft announced a new Quantum Computing chip called Majorana 1
Microsoft has unveiled Majorana 1, a groundbreaking quantum computing chip, heralded as a "transistor moment" for the field due to a significant physics and fabrication breakthrough.
This innovation paves the way for million-qubit quantum computers, a scale deemed essential for tackling real-world, utility-scale problems previously out of reach.
Is it useful or commercial? Not yet. It’s more like a scientific breakthrough.
My taken aways: While the architecture is promising, realizing the full vision of million-qubit systems will require overcoming significant scalability and manufacturing challenges that lie ahead. We should know more in next two years, previously people think it may take more than a decade.
AI
Animate Anyone 2: High-Fidelity Character Image Animation with Environment Affordance
Link: https://humanaigc.github.io/animate-anyone-2/
Animate Anyone 2 excels in creating character animations that realistically interact with their environments.
It achieves seamless integration of characters into scenes and generates convincing interactions with objects. The method is capable of handling diverse and complex motions while maintaining character consistency and plausible environmental context.
Open Euro LLM
Link: https://openeurollm.eu/
Europe's leading AI companies and research institutions combine their forces and expertise to develop next-generation open-source language models in an unprecedented collaboration to advance European AI capabilities, the OpenEuroLLM project
EU is now planning to fund their own LLM projects.
Helix
Link: https://www.figure.ai/news/helix
Helix is a new AI model called Helix that lets humanoid robots understand language and see to perform actions, like a person.
It's the first to control the entire upper body of two robots working together and can pick up almost anything it hasn't seen before, just by being told in simple language. This makes robots much easier to teach new skills and useful for complex tasks in homes.
MUSE
Link: https://huggingface.co/microsoft/wham
Microsoft just dropped MUSE a Generative AI Model for Gameplay.
MUSE is a Microsoft AI model that generates realistic and varied gameplay visuals and actions from the game Bleeding Edge.
It can help game developers with creative exploration by producing consistent game sequences and simulating different gameplay scenarios, including world behavior and player actions.
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Tanka
Link: https://www.tanka.ai/
Tanka, is a AI Messenger that can be integrated with WhatsApp, Slack, Telegram and Gmail, Tanka learns from your past chats to deliver context-rich AI Smart Replies, to-dos and insights.