Ioannis Antonoglou, a former AI researcher at Google DeepMind, has departed the company to launch an AI agent startup with two former colleagues, Sherjil Ozair and Misha Laskin, The Information reports. The trio has begun fundraising for their venture, which could potentially compete with startups like Adept and Imbue in the AI agent field. AI agents use technology similar to conversational AI chatbots, such as ChatGPT, to perform complex tasks like booking flights or researching business competitors. According to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, this is a direction Google is also exploring with its Bard chatbot. For Google Deepmind, it's another high-profile AI departure. Recently, three researchers left the company to start a generative AI lab for images and music. Other AI startups led by Google alumni include Character AI, Mistral, Sakana AI, and Reka AI.
Nomic AI has released an open-source embedding model called Nomic Embed that outperforms OpenAI's Ada-002 and text-embedding-3-small models on both short and long-context tasks. The model is fully reproducible, auditable, and supports a context length of 8192. Nomic Embed outperformed its competitors on the Massive Text Embedding Benchmark (MTEB) and the LoCo Benchmark, but fell short on the Jina Long Context Benchmark. Model weights and full training data are published for "complete model auditability". Nomic Embed is also available via the Nomic Atlas Embedding API with one million free tokens for production workloads and via the Nomic Atlas Enterprise offering for enterprises.
Common Sense Media, a leading US advocacy group for children and families, has announced a partnership with OpenAI. The goal is to harness the full potential of AI for youth and families and minimize the risks. The collaboration will begin with the creation of AI guidelines and educational materials for parents, educators, and youth, as well as a selection of family-friendly GPTs in the GPT Store, based on Common Sense's ratings and standards.
"Humans are tool users and we better teach people to use the tools that are going to be out in the world. To not teach people to use those would be a mistake."
