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Thursday 5 November

Nvidia Open Models Help Developers Accelerate Science And Engineering

AI-generated summary Nvidia has developed a portfolio of seven open AI models that are utilized across various industries for applications including agentic services, vision reasoning, and robotics. According to the publication, these models help companies accelerate workflows such as Dassault Systèmes using Nemotron for computer-aided engineering design and Siemens using Cosmos for factory agents.

AI-designed vaccine provides complete protection against diverse bird flu variants

AI-generated summary A University of Cambridge and DIOSynVax Ltd team developed an artificial intelligence-guided bird flu vaccine that provided complete protection against diverse variants in animal trials. Published in Cell Reports Medicine, the study showed the new vaccine outperformed existing government-stockpiled vaccines that protected only about half of the tested animals.

20VC x SaaStr: OpenAI Cuts to $1.25 Trillion, Anthropic’s Growth Goes From 12x to 2x, and Why Agents Are an Existential Risk to DoorDash

AI-generated summary Alphabet shares experienced significant market pressure after financial results showed a drop in free cash flow and slower growth for Google Search. Anthropic reported quarter-over-quarter growth slowing from roughly 100 percent to about 50 percent according to its quarterly S-1 amendment.

Also covered by AI Stock Wire

Google shouldn’t be pressuring schools to use its AI

AI-generated summary Google has incorporated its Gemini chatbot into Classroom and integrated search with AI, presenting schools with an all-or-nothing choice. Google says its Guided Learning product provides more than a year of typical learning progress in just eight weeks in tests.

Also covered by Ars Technica
Earlier: Google will let schools disable its AI tools, but not without sacrificing Search

Go deeper into Intelligence Index v5 with the full presentation from last week's launch event in San Francisco We intro…

AI-generated summary The publisher shared the full presentation from last week's launch event in San Francisco detailing Intelligence Index v5. The event introduced the Progress Index and outlined upcoming evaluations spanning 3D reasoning and robotics.

Earlier: Announcing Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5

Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base with 280 billion parameters as an open-source foundation model

AI-generated summary Baidu has released the ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base open-source foundation model featuring a mixture-of-experts architecture with 280 billion parameters. According to Baidu, the model competes with similarly sized open foundation models in reasoning, code, and long-context tasks.