Nordic Data & AI Weekly: All sorts of "2023 state of AI reports", predictions for 2024, new models and product releases, recent Nordic investment rounds, and all the latest news & resources
Recent funding, news, and resources for builders
Quick reads on value creation
Things to know, whether you are building 🛠 or investing 💰
💡 The 5 biggest AI trends for 2024, according to Forbes - including quantum AI, legislation, ethics, augmented working, and the next generation of generative AI.
📃 A bunch of different “state of AI” reports:
The 2023 state of generative AI in the enterprise report from Menlo VC, surveying 450 enterprise executives, looking at barriers to adoption and opportunities ahead.
The 2023 state of AI report from Retool, surveying 1500 tech people—software engineers, engineering and business leaders, execs, product folks, designers, and more—in a variety of industries to find out what they’re actually using and building with AI.
The state of open source and rise of AI in 2023 from GitHub’s Octoverse report.
⚒️ A few quick resources for getting started building GPTs:
📃 Bill Gates with another lengthy essay about how AI is going to completely change how we use computers, and upend the software industry.
🏆 Leaderboard evaluating how often an LLM introduces hallucinations when summarising a document - OpenAI leads the way, followed by Meta.
Recent AI funding in the Nordics & Baltics
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🇸🇪 Hymdal: AI-supported global venture scouting and due diligence helping early-stage investors find quality startups in foreign geographies. Raised $159k from Antler.
🇫🇮 Resistomap: Biosecurity intelligence platform with advanced models to predict and prevent the outbreak of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Raised $2.1m from Ananda Social Venture Fund, and Gaingels Syndicate (link).
🇪🇪 Haut.AI: AI skin analysis automating the collection of high-quality skin data - helping skincare brands to provide skin testing and build interactive product recommendations on e-commerce platforms. Raised $2.12m from LongeVC, and Grupo Boticario (link).
🇪🇪 Fyma: Using computer vision to deliver comprehensive real-time analysis of video feeds, in order to maximise commercial real estate value generation through better occupancy and human activity analytics. Raised $2.1m from Quadri Ventures, and Second Century Ventures (link).
If there is some relevant Nordic AI news or funding that is missing from this newsletter, feel free to share by replying directly or emailing nordicaiweekly@substack.com and I’ll look to spread the word next week. Thanks!
News from the wider world 🌍 🌎 🌏
🆕 Humane launched the Ai Pin (starting at $699), as it aims to go beyond touch and beyond screens, with the first of what may eventually be a wave of AI wearables providing new experiences and ways of interacting with tech. Here, the demo video, and in TechCrunch.
📣 GitHub is expanding Copilot into a full AI assistant for developers, making it available across GitHub products, and, with Copilot Enterprise, customising AI specifically to internal systems and code.
🆕 Samsung unveiled its AI model Samsung Gauss, consisting of language, code, and image models, and set to be integrated into future Samsung products.
👀 Amazon is reportedly working on a new AI model - called “Olympus” and apparently twice the size of OpenAI's GPT-4 - that could challenge the likes of ChatGPT and Bard.
🇫🇮 🇸🇪 Nordic language models…
Does Europe have a secret weapon to beat Big Tech on GenAI? Finnish company Silo released a new language model with promising signs showing how high quality models trained on less commonly used languages can compete with Big Tech.
AI Sweden released the first large language model for Nordic languages and primarily Swedish, GPT-SW3 - as an open model for businesses and organisations to use in their products and services.
🤔 An informative (and lengthy) look at Nvidia and the GPU gold rush, by John Luttig of Founders Fund.
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