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21st August - AI News Daily - Together AI, DeepMind & NVIDIA: Inside August's Explosive AI Developments
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INDUSTRY MOMENTUM: Together AI backs Agents4Science with compute awards for agent research; Bill Gates launches $1M Alzheimer's AI challenge; FactoryAI and METR running comparative AI hackathons plus a $15k coding productivity study; Avataar reports 11x savings with SkyPilot; LlamaCloud powers StackAI's document processing; LangChain x Grammarly NYC meetup; Elicit marks two years on reasoning AI; Qwen urgent patch to v0.35.1; GLM-4.5 on TensorBlock Forge; DSPy and MIPROv2 improving prompts; multi-objective RL for safer red-teaming.
NEW TOOLS: Night Knight (sleep improvement); Jupyter Agent 2 (notebook automation); Deep Agents TypeScript package; Just-RAG (PDF Q&A); AI Bank Statement Analyzer; ChuanhuChat (multi-LLM interface); Higgsfield Soul (consistent AI characters); easier voice agent building.
LLM ADVANCES: Google's Gemma 3 270M; ByteDance's Seed-OSS 36B; NVIDIA's Nemotron Nano V2 (6x faster); evidence-grounded model tops FACTS leaderboard; ComputerRL sets 9B model record on OSWorld; PolyComputing solves 99% of Putnam problems; GPT-5 variants show progress but GPT-5 launch delayed; DeepMind reduces hallucinations by 40%; ARC-AGI-3 benchmark; 20B GPT-OSS praised for agents.
PLATFORM FEATURES: Gemini Live adds visual grounding; Gemini 2.5 Pro in VS Code; Google Photos voice editing; Pixel 10 previews; improved Pixel Watch 4; Claude Code expansion; Perplexity Max Assistant; Runway updates; Google's health coach; Gemini video generation.
EDUCATION: LLM evaluation guides by Hamel Husain; llama.cpp tutorial; DSPy context engineering guide.
DEMOS: Game-specific retrievers outperform generic search; Everlyn AI's realistic video; Google's "Nano Banana" text effects.
DISCUSSIONS: Lowered R&D automation forecasts; domain-specific evaluation advocacy; LeCun urges research beyond LLMs; deep learning interpretability debates; infrastructure driving US capital expenditures; startup GTM strategies; mobile-first AI creative tools.
BUSINESS NEWS: OpenAI's $6B fundraise at $500B valuation; Altman warns of investment bubble; GPT-5 user backlash; GPT-5 Pro ($200/mo) vs ChatGPT Go ($4.60/mo in India); hardware limitations for AI companions.
BIG TECH: Google's security controls, health coach, photo editing, Docs upgrades, education tools; YouTube's age verification; Adobe's Acrobat Studio; Stability AI's SD3; Microsoft's Copilot upgrade and NFL partnership; Nadella warns of "AI psychosis"; ESPN's AI streaming app.
ENTERPRISE: Oracle integrating GPT-5; Oracle-Google Cloud partnership; Salesforce's government AI tool.
SECURITY: Lenovo chatbot vulnerabilities; WitnessAI's red-teaming; $6.3B market for AI deception tools; US Treasury's AML framework; UNESCO's Bhutan training; concerns over AI-generated news.
SOCIAL/HEALTH/EDUCATION: Meta's AI dubbing; YouTube's safety features; clinician AI adoption; Epic's Cosmos AI; AI for provider selection and insurance appeals; elderly care transformation; AI emotional support debates; Microsoft's education report; Grammarly's academic tools; CodeSignal's Cosmo app; workforce trends.
EMERGING AREAS: AI in energy transition; BetterPic's $2.5M for AI imagery; AI-driven Hollywood talent analytics.
