I spent the week at ICML. Here's what is sticking with me.
Briefly

Scale AI has reduced its workforce by 14% following a Meta investment, and OpenAI is set to receive a portion of ChatGPT shopping sales to increase revenue. Former top researchers from Google have developed a new AI agent that could pave the way for superintelligence. The International Conference for Machine Learning (ICML) in Vancouver showcases a vast gathering of elite AI talent discussing advanced concepts and theories, highlighted by an intense focus on Meta's aggressive hiring practices and the ongoing excitement around the future of AI.
The AI talent wars are in full swing. Meta's extraordinary, ongoing hiring spree, which has thrown tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars at elite AI researchers lured from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and others, is the talk of ICML.
There’s something electric about being in the room where the future of AI is being debated, defined, and maybe even redirected. Today’s theories might become tomorrow’s technologies.
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