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Famed Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator (YC) launched its much-anticipated two-day "Demo Day" event on Wednesday, featuring innovations from its latest cohort, S24. As expected, AI startups took center stage, showcasing their solutions to real-world challenges such as estate planning with Elayne, automating clinical trial data through Baseline AI, and facilitating customs processes for businesses with Passage.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the field of protein design, which involves developing unique proteins with specific characteristics tailored for various applications. This innovative approach holds immense potential, particularly in discovering drug-based therapies to address diseases and in creating sustainable products for homecare, agriculture, and food industries.

Meta AI is making significant strides in the realm of AI-powered photo editing, quickly narrowing the gap with Google. At the Meta Connect 2024 conference held on Wednesday, the tech titan unveiled exciting new features that enable Meta AI to assist users in editing photos and answering questions about shared images.

The data center industry is experiencing a rapid expansion, driven by the surging demand for AI technologies. While these data centers are vital for AI infrastructure, providing the computational power necessary for modern applications, they come with significant challenges: high construction costs, operational expenses, and substantial energy consumption. Many startups are striving to enhance the efficiency and sustainability of data centers, but this task is complex.

Sometimes, a strategic pivot is the best choice for company leaders. Consider Netflix's shift from DVDs to streaming or Corning's transition from manufacturing lightbulbs to touchscreens. Successful startup pivots are numerous and noteworthy.

Announced at Meta Connect 2024 on Wednesday, Meta is unveiling an exciting new virtual reality app called Hyperscape. This innovative app allows users to explore detailed recreations of real-world spaces directly through a Quest headset.

Just a few days ago, OpenAI unveiled its latest generative model, o1. Promoted as a "reasoning" model, o1 processes questions more thoughtfully before providing answers, breaking down problems and verifying its responses.

At the Meta Connect 2024 conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the company is developing an innovative "neural interface" designed to control its upcoming Orion AR glasses. This interface, inspired by technology from CTRL-labs— a brain-machine interface company that Meta acquired in 2019—takes the form of a sleek wrist-worn device. Users can effortlessly navigate apps on the Orion glasses by simply gesturing with the wristband.

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Google is set to introduce advertisements in AI Overviews, the AI-generated summaries it provides for certain search queries. This update will also include links to relevant web pages within some of these summaries. Additionally, Google is rolling out AI-organized search results pages across the U.S. this week.

Jacob Jackson's journey into the world of AI began early in his career. While still a computer science student at the University of Waterloo, he co-founded Tabnine, an AI-powered coding assistant that attracted nearly $60 million in venture capital. After successfully selling Tabnine to Codata in 2019—right during his final exams—Jackson took an internship at OpenAI, where he worked until 2022.

At the Meta Connect 2024 developer conference in Menlo Park on Wednesday, Meta announced the expansion of its AI-driven business chatbots for brands on WhatsApp and Messenger through click-to-message ads.

Artificial intelligence startups are capturing headlines with massive venture capital investments, but there's a separate opportunity for companies developing tools that simplify interactions with data-centric applications like AI. This is especially crucial for organizations still navigating the complexities of legacy data systems.

NASA, IBM, and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory have collaborated to introduce a groundbreaking open-source AI model named Prithvi WxC. This innovative model, pre-trained on 40 years of NASA's Earth observation data, transcends traditional weather forecasting to predict patterns on various scales. Its unique design allows for fine-tuning for global, regional, and local forecasting, making it adaptable to diverse weather studies.

OpenAI is showcasing videos from its AI model, Sora, through selected filmmakers and artists despite the tool not being public. While Sora's potential is highlighted, concerns about bias and "Artistwashing" have emerged, alongside skepticism towards AI in the art community. OpenAI has not disclosed specific training datasets used for Sora.