New 3.5 Sonnet Leads LLMs 🚀, AI for Drug Discovery 💊

Today's TechToks: Anthropic's update on the AI race, MIT's SPARROW identifies drug molecules, GPT-5 PhD intelligence, Roddenberry Foundation $1M prize for good AI, Trending GitHub repositories, Product Picks, and more!

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Today's picks 🍒

💡 Anthropic's latest version release of AI models: Claude 3.5 Sonnet outperforms latest competitors GPT-40 and Gemini 1.5 Pro on 11 benchmarks
🔬 SPARROW: An algorithm to streamline drug discovery
🧠 OpenAI's GPT-5 Ph.D-level abilities by 2026
🧩 From GitHub Engineering Blog: Unlocking unstructured data insights with LLMs (with Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
🖖 Foundation of Star Trek's Creator Offers $1M Prize for AI Promoting Good

GitHub Trending Repositories
💬 RTranslator: Open source real-time translation
🎨 DiffSynth Studio: Novel video synthesis
🕵️‍♂️ Web-Check: Gather intel on any website

Product Picks
🔧 UI Components: Reusable UI components by Auth0 Lab
📜 Review Legal: Understand legal contracts
🎯 Intentional: Goal-focused browsing

🤯 Game Changers

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Anthropic has launched Claude 3.5 Sonnet, a new AI Large Language Model that outperforms the latest models from competitors (GPT-4o, Gemini 1.5 Pro, Llama-400b early snapshot) on 11 tasks, faster than previous 3.0 models and maintaining the same level of AI safety indicator. Anthropic calls it ideal for context-sensitive customer support and orchestrating multi-step workflows. Versions 3.5 for Haiku and Opus are expected later this year.

Here is a benchmark comparison for visual tasks:

✨ "Too long don't README"

GitHub trending repos of today

DiffSynth Studio is a Diffusion engine that provides various features for image and video synthesis, including long video generation, high-resolution image generation, toon shading, video stylization, and Chinese model support. The repository includes several interesting examples showcasing the capabilities of the diffusion models.

Web-Check is a comprehensive, on-demand open source intelligence tool that provides detailed information about any website, including IP info, SSL chain, DNS records, cookies, headers, domain info, search crawl rules, page map, server location, redirect ledger, open ports, traceroute, DNS security extensions, site performance, trackers, associated hostnames, and carbon footprint, all aimed at helping users easily understand, optimize and secure their websites.

RTranslator is an open-source real-time translation app that allows users to have conversations in different languages by connecting their phones and using Bluetooth headphones. It offers two modes - Conversation mode for longer conversations and WalkieTalkie mode for quick exchanges. The app uses Google's speech recognition and translation APIs, and requires users to set up a Google Cloud Platform account and obtain an API key to use the translation features.

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Intentional is an app that allows you to set goals for your browsing session, it then blocks you from accessing websites that are irrelevant to your goals.

Review legal helps non-lawyers fully understand their legal contracts as quickly as possible. Sign your legal documents with confidence!

This experiment by Auth0 Lab provides a set of high-quality, reusable UI components to help developers build robust and user-friendly identity-related features (initially for React).

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MIT researchers developed an algorithmic framework, SPARROW, that automatically identifies the best molecules to test as potential new medicines. SPARROW considers the costs of synthesizing a batch of molecules, capturing key information on molecular design, property prediction, and synthesis planning to guide cost-efficient decisions in drug discovery.

OpenAI's Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati reveals that GPT-5 should release by late 2025 or early 2026, but promises Ph.D.-level abilities for specific tasks, comparing the GPT-3 intelligence to a toddler and the GPT-4 to a smart high-schooler. On today’s game changer, you can see GPT-4o had 53.6% benchmark on Graduate level reasoning, compared to 3.5 Sonnet’s 59.4%.

The Roddenberry Foundation, honouring the creator of Star Trek, is offering a $1 million prize for startups using AI to promote a better future. The competition seeks solutions that are respectful of individual rights, avoid biases, and support the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, aligning with Gene Roddenberry's vision of a peaceful, scientific, and equitable society. Application deadline is July 12.

👩🏽‍💻 Engineering Blogs

Articles from engineering blogs of big tech companies

A discussion on how to unlock insights from unstructured data: retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and large language models (LLMs). RAG is a method for customizing LLMs, able to extract insight from data such as source code, documentation, and communication, in software development to improve decision-making, establish consistency, and surface organizational knowledge.