Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…Amazon taps AI for easier package delivery; Anthropic cuts batch processing costs in half; and advertisers temper their excitement about AI.
AI is making a splash at the Nobel Prizes this week. AI pioneers John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 prize for physics for their machine learning breakthroughs that led to today’s AI boom. Then yesterday, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper of Google DeepMind, along with David Baker, a professor of biochemistry at The University of Washington, were awarded the prize in chemistry for discovering techniques for predicting and designing novel proteins that could transform how therapeutic drugs are made.
