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1. OpenAI Engineers Earning $800,000 a Year Turn Rare Skillset Into Leverage

   The high demand for specialized AI engineers has placed OpenAI's team in a position of significant bargaining power, with top earners receiving total compensation approaching $800,000. This leverage was recently showcased when a threatened employee walkout led to the reinstatement of CEO Sam Altman, emphasizing the strategic necessity of such skilled workers in AI innovation.

2. Off/Script launches an app to create and buy AI-designed fashion

   Off/Script has launched a mobile app co-founded by Jonathan Brun and Justine Massicotte that enables anyone to design, share, and potentially sell AI-generated fashion and product concepts. Users can vote on product mock-ups, with popular designs being funded, manufactured, and shipped by the company, which collaborates with a network of over 1,000 manufacturers. The app includes a generative AI design studio that uses Stable Diffusion and ControlNet to help both novice and expert designers create and visualize their ideas.

3. US chip export ban is hurting China’s AI startups, not so much the giants yet

   The U.S. chip export ban is more of an obstacle for China's AI startups than for large companies, as tech giants like Baidu had stockpiled chips in anticipation of trade tensions, ensuring their operations continue smoothly for the foreseeable future. Meanwhile, smaller firms face difficulties due to limited access to high-performance chips, potentially leading to industry consolidation as they seek alternatives or face acquisition.

4. Businesses, tech groups warn EU against over-regulating AI foundation models

   Industry representatives and digital associations in Europe have cautioned that stringent regulations on AI foundation models proposed by the European Union could suppress innovation and compel startups to move out of the region. They suggest that the EU's upcoming AI legislation should focus on transparency requirements rather than extensive regulation. Furthermore, they argue that the current copyright framework is sufficient to address AI-related issues, thereby negating the need for new, AI-specific copyright rules.

5. Formula 1 hopes AI will help it figure out if a car breaks track limits

   Formula 1 is testing an AI system to help officials determine if a car has crossed track boundaries, aiming to minimize manual reviews of such incidents. The AI uses Computer Vision technology to analyze track limit breaches and is expected to reduce the number of manual checks to about 50 per race.

AI Repos

1. openai / whisper

   Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model. It is trained on a large dataset of diverse audio and is also a multitasking model that can perform multilingual speech recognition, speech translation, and language identification.

2. MrNeRF / awesome-3D-gaussian-splatting

   A curated list of papers and open-source resources focused on 3D Gaussian Splatting, intended to keep pace with the anticipated surge of research in the coming months.

3. oobabooga / text-generation-webui

   A Gradio web UI for Large Language Models.