The Global AI Index, Singapore and Optimus.

G’day folks.

2024 has started as quickly as 2023 ended with artificial intelligence accelerating every industry.

I wanted to share a few links that I found the most interesting today.

The Global AI Index.

The Global AI Index by Tortoise is a comprehensive ranking of countries based on their level of investment, innovation, and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI). It is the first of its kind and has been iterated four times since its inception.

The Index uses 111 indicators, collected from 28 different public and private data sources, and 62 governments. These indicators are grouped into seven sub-pillars: Talent, Infrastructure, Operating Environment, Research, Development, Government Strategy, and Commercial. These sub-pillars are further grouped around three main pillars: Implementation, Innovation, and Investment.

Here'‘s a sample of some of the data but highly recommend taking the time to read.

Links

Here’s the quick links of everything I found interesting today.

1. Singapores Rise To Prosperity: The City-State Strategy (link)

2. Secret diplomacy between the US and China on AI safety (link)

3. Elon’s SpaceX and Starship Presentation (link)

4. Bill Gates talks to Sam Altman about AGI (link)

5. Norwegian robotics company 1X raises 100m (link)

6. AI discovers that not all fingerprints are unique (link)

7. Indian data firm order $1 billion worth of H100 GPUs from Nvidia (link)

8. South Korea are building a $470 billion chip making hub (link)

9. NASA and IBM openly release AI model for earth observation (link)

10. New paper details LLM jailbreaks with a 92% success rate (link)

11. Video shows threat and effectiveness of small kamikaze drones (link)

12. Tesla Optimus shows that it can now fold a t-shirt (link)

Catch you on the next one.

Tom