A ton of AI and Robotics developments this week. Big announcements from Microsoft, Anthropic, Wayve, Cover, OpenAI, Meta, Google DeepMind, Runway, Hedra, ElevenLabs, and Unitree. Here's everything that happened and how to make sense out of it:

What I Read This Week… Alibaba's large language model, Qwen, is currently ranked as the number one open-source model on Hugging Face's LLM Leaderboard, outperforming competitors such as Meta's Llama 3 70B and Mistral AI's Mixtral 8x22B. What is driving Qwen’s performance?

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Immigration has economic potential but it lies in raising the average human capital of the population, not in meeting current labour needs. The sooner we *relearn* this lesson, the better. Thanks to Campbell Clark for his excellent column in today's Globe. 👉theglobeandmail.com/politics/opini…

It’s hay time in MB.

We completed our 3rd WORKSHOP OF APPLIED ECONOMICS between 22-23 August 2024

I had the pleasure of leading a great two-day workshop for the faculty on NLP and Large Language Models at SMU! #NLP #AI #MachineLearning @SMUHalifax

Stanford's "Reinforcement Learning" by Emma Brunskill (Spring 2024) 📽️ Lecture Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=… 🗒️ Course Website: web.stanford.edu/class/cs234/CS…

Check out Dynamic Nonparametric Smoothing Visualization app that I developed for my students: jzmtko-yigit-aydede.shinyapps.io/app_folder/ 🔍 Experiment with smoothing methods 📈 Real-time animations of data smoothing 💡 Bridging theory & practice in AI/ML #AI #MachineLearning #DataScience #ShinyApp

Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to innovate at novastroms.ai! #AI #AgenticAI #DataAnalytics #Innovation #MachineLearning

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Forthcoming in December: My second book with Dr. Yuksel—Causal Inference & Machine Learning in Economics, Social & Health Sciences (Routledge). It bridges ML for prediction with causal inference for policy evaluation. Pre‑order: routledge.com/p/book/9781032… #CausalInference

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