This Weeks Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 5) [Video]

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

MIT Spinoff Liquid Debuts Non-Transformer AI Models and They’re Already State-of-the-ArtCarl Franzen | VentureBeat“Unlike most others of the current generative AI wave, these models are not based around the transformer architecture outlined in the seminal 2017 paper ‘Attention Is All You Need.’ Instead, Liquid states that its goal ‘is to explore ways to build foundation models beyond Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs)’ and with the new LFMs, specifically building from ‘first principles…the same way engineers built engines, cars, and airplanes.’”

BIOTECH

In Medical First, Woman’s Type 1 Diabetes Seemingly Cured by Stem CellsEd Cara | Gizmodo“We might someday be able to have replacement insulin-making cells on demand. Scientists in China have presented early clinical trial data suggesting that a person’s stem cells can be turned into a steady supply of the pancreatic cells responsible for producing insulin. If truly successful, such a treatment would essentially cure Type 1 diabetes.”