Meta researchers develop a LLM to predict the structures of 617M+ metagenomic proteins; the model is less accurate than DeepMind’s AlphaFold, but ~60x faster (Ewen Callaway/Nature)

Anil Ananthaswamy / Nature:
DeepMind unveils DeepNash, an AI agent that matches human experts in the board game Stratego by combining game theory and model-free deep reinforcement learning  —  Anil Ananthaswamy is the author of Through Two Doors at Once, among other books.  His next is on the mathematics of machine learning.

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review:
DeepMind uses its AlphaTensor AI to quickly solve a matrix multiplication problem by building a custom TensorGame board game, beating a 50-year-old record  —  The new version of AlphaZero discovered a faster way to do matrix multiplication, a core problem in computing that affects thousands of everyday computer tasks.

James Vincent / The Verge:
Google details an AI model trained on 400+ languages with the largest “coverage seen in a speech model” and plans to expand to the 1,000 most spoken languages  —  Google has announced an ambitious new project to develop a single AI language model that supports the world’s “1,000 most spoken languages.”

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Google Cloud launches Medical Imaging Suite, a tool set for healthcare professionals that uses AI to scan medical images with faster and more accurate diagnoses  —  Google Cloud is bringing its expertise in vision-based artificial intelligence to the healthcare industry with the launch of its new Medical Imaging Suite today.

Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
A look at The Managerial Revolution, a 1941 book that predicted the rise of the “managerial class” over capitalists and may help explain Elon Musk’s Twitter  —  The long shadow of James Burnham’s The Managerial Revolution.  —  Since the launch of the so-called “Twitter Files” …

Matthias Bastian / The Decoder:
Meta AI and Papers with Code unveil Galactica, an open source LLM for generating literature reviews, wiki articles, lecture notes, and more on scientific topics  —  Midjourney / DALL-E 2 prompted by THE DECODER  —  Online journalist Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER.