Most market action on the listed market this week led by Qualtrics + some interesting LM model updates from DeepMind

Overall quiet week as we move into year end but some interesting insights from DeepMind and other general and ethics articles.

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Basic market data tracker:

Overall equity market lifted NL AI stocks this week, with big gains for Qualtrics International Inc. as Morgan Stanley sees large upside at this price.

Happenings this week:

Slow week as we move into the end of the year with Zurich Insurance getting into the conversational AI space while deepMind show some interesting aggregation of language models with content look up as a way to provide SOTA models at a fraction of the size of the very large LMs + a few interesting articles on the rise of NLP in the last few months as it starts to dominate the startup as well as enterprise AI investment space.

Commercial:

• Zurich Insurance Group Acquires Conversational AI Startup AlphaChat. read

Technical:

• DeepMind’s New AI With a Memory Outperforms Algorithms 25 Times Its Size. read

Ethical & other:

• General points of interest:

  1. MuckRock and NYU researchers collaborate to help journalists tap AI to tackle growing document releases. read

  2. Open source NLP is fueling a new wave of startups. read

  3. NLP is the heart of the intelligent enterprise. read

• Ethics:

  1. 'More than 97% accuracy': Chinese scientists develop AI 'prosecutor'. read