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News bits and bytes:

1. Nvidia pumps $1bn into AI start-ups rid­ing on revolu­tion its chips star­ted

Nvidia invested $1 billion in AI startups in 2024, surpassing its 2023 investments, as it seeks to strengthen its role in the AI revolution driven by its GPUs. The company funded 50 startup rounds and corporate deals, primarily in high-computing AI firms that also purchase its chips. Despite scrutiny, Nvidia continues expanding its ecosystem, investing in leading AI players like OpenAI, Cohere, and xAI, while supporting startups through its Inception incubator with preferred pricing on hardware.

2. Invest­ments in digital health have been slow to gen­er­ate returns

Inter­net-driven health obsess­ives were once dis­missed as “cyber­chon­dri­acs”. But med­ical tech is increas­ingly main­stream. Apps track sleep, fit­ness and repro­duct­ive health. The innov­a­tion is impress­ive. But investors are strug­gling to reap returns. AI shows great prom­ise in medi­cine, for all the con­cerns. As well speed­ing up drug dis­cov­ery, it has poten­tial as a dia­gnostic tool and pro­ductiv­ity booster. It is already prov­ing its value in radi­ology and car­di­ology.

3. Tech groups race for slice of AI health­care mar­ket

   Invest­ment in arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence med­ical note-tak­ing apps doubled last year as Big Tech giants includ­ing Microsoft and Amazon and start-ups rush to grab a share of the $26bn AI health­care mar­ket. Start-ups such as Nabla, Heidi, Corti and Tortus raised money last year, with back­ers includ­ing Khosla Ven­tures, Entre­pren­eur First and French tech bil­lion­aire Xavier Niel. Stan­ford to plan a rol­lout of the DAX Copi­lot to all its pro­viders. Nabla’s app gen­er­ates, the cog­nit­ive load of sim­ul­tan­eously writ­ing and listen­ing dur­ing a con­sulta­tion is hugely “min­im­ized, if not totally removed” by the tool.

4. STORM: Research topics, write Wikipedia-like articles with human-LM collaboration.

STORM helps users generate Wikipedia-like articles by researching topics and creating outlines, then writing full articles with citations. Co-STORM adds human collaboration, guiding discourse with a moderator and LLM agents. Both systems support efficient knowledge curation and exploration, with dynamic mind maps to organize information and reduce mental load.

5. BiomedCLIP is a fully open-access foundation model that achieves state-of-the-art performance on various biomedical tasks, paving the way for transformative multimodal biomedical discovery and applications.

6. Allen AI presents technical report of OLMo 2, an open-source language model outperforming Llama 3.1 with robust training techniques.