🗞 Sam Altman’s Cash Aid Study: Testing Universal Basic Income in AI Era 💸

🔎 The Latest on the AI Frontier:

• Sam Altman’s Cash Aid Study: Testing Universal Basic Income in AI Era 💸

• Nvidia's China Strategy: Developing Export-Compliant AI Chips 🖥️

• Apple's Open-Source AI: New Models Rival Industry Leaders 🍎

• Google's AI Save Feature: Enhancing Search with Personalized Overviews 🔍

• LinkedIn's Engagement Push: AI Advice and Games to Boost Daily Use 🔗

• Nebius Emerges: Ex-Yandex Team Aims for European AI Dominance 🇪🇺

• Digital Afterlife in China: AI Avatars Recreate Deceased Loved Ones 📣

💸 Sam Altman leads largest study on no-strings cash aid as tech threatens jobs. Link

• 3-year experiment gave 1,000 lower-income people $1,000/month, finding recipients spent mostly on basics and helped family/friends.

• Study showed slight decrease in work hours, more leisure time, and increased interest in entrepreneurship, especially among Black participants.

• Debate continues on effectiveness of basic income, with supporters arguing it's not a complete solution but can provide stability during economic downturns.

🖥️ Nvidia developing China-compliant version of new Blackwell AI chips amid tightening U.S. export controls. Link

• Nvidia reportedly working on "B20" chip for Chinese market, to be sold through local partner Inspur starting Q2 2025.

• Company's China-specific H20 chip sales growing despite restrictions, with over 1 million units worth $12 billion expected to be sold in 2024.

• Analysts warn H20 could be banned in October's U.S. export control review, potentially through product bans or computing power/memory caps.

🍎 Apple releases open-source DCLM AI models, outperforming some competitors. Link

• New 7B and 1.4B parameter models available on Hugging Face, with 7B model nearing performance of leading open models.

• Models trained using DataComp project's model-based filtering technique for high-quality datasets.

• 7B model achieves 63.7% accuracy on MMLU benchmark, outperforming Mistral-7B and close to Llama 3 and Gemma.

🔍 Google tests 'Save' button for AI Overviews in Search. Link

• New feature allows users to save AI Overviews to their Google Interests section.

• Saved overviews can be accessed in a private collection in the Google Search App.

• When revisiting saved queries, Google shows the date the AI Overview was generated.

• Feature is currently available to users opted into Google Labs, indicating it's in testing phase.

🔗 LinkedIn uses AI and games to boost daily user engagement. Link

• Platform offers AI-powered career advice and games to encourage more frequent visits.

• Aims to increase "daily habit" usage and drive growth as revenue slows.

• Strategy includes attracting younger users, with Gen Z as fastest-growing demographic.

🇪🇺 Former Yandex leaders launch Nebius, aiming to be European AI compute leader. Link

• Nebius emerges from Yandex's non-Russian assets with $2.5 billion in capital and 1,300 employees.

• Company plans to triple GPU capacity in Finland and build new data centers across Europe.

• Positions itself as a public AI infrastructure company, competing with GPU-as-a-service startups.

📣 Chinese firms offer AI avatars to 'resurrect' deceased loved ones. Link

• Companies create digital clones using photos, videos and voice recordings of the deceased.

• Users find comfort in AI replicas, with basic avatars costing ~$30 and interactive versions thousands.

• Ethical concerns arise over potential emotional harm and addiction to digital simulations.

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