War for Brilliance: Talent Wars & Tech Surges
8th July 2025 | Superintelligence Newsletter
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The AI world is ablaze - companies aren't just innovating; they're aggressively acquiring startups and poaching elite minds from rivals to dominate the next wave of superintelligent systems. It’s war for brilliance.
This week unveils high-stakes moves: Meta snatches Apple’s AI leader, China seeks AI in trade deals, and FDA rolls out food safety AI—all while ethical debates and frontier tech escalate globally.
China offers AI inclusion in free‑trade deal with Australia : China proposes integrating artificial intelligence into its trade deal with Australia, raising debates around sovereignty, innovation benefits, and emerging tech diplomacy between the two nations.
Meta grabs Apple’s top AI researcher for Superintelligence lab : In a bold talent raid, Meta hires Ruoming Pang from Apple to supercharge its Superintelligence division, intensifying the global race for AI supremacy.
FDA rolls out “Elsa” — an AI for food‑safety alerts : The U.S. FDA launches Elsa, an AI tool that can spot food-labeling risks and contamination patterns faster than traditional methods, revolutionizing food safety protocols.
Small Language Models are the Future of Agentic AI : SLMs (1–9 B params) match 30–70 B models on narrow, tool-focused tasks with 10–30× faster, cheaper inference - ideal for modular, edge‑deployable agents.
AI4Research: A Survey of Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Research : This survey defines five AI-for-research pillars—from discovery to peer review - and maps real tools and benchmarks, paving the way for fully autonomous scientific workflows.
Chain‑of‑Thought Is Not Explainability : Chain-of-thought reasons may mislead: ~25% of CoT papers misuse it, high-stakes domains mask biases silently - real interpretability needs causal validation and counterfactuals.
Google Gemma 3n : Gemma 3n delivers powerful multimodal (text, image, audio, video) on-device AI, running efficiently offline with just 2GB RAM—ideal for edge deployment and privacy‑aware apps .
Google DeepMind Doppl : Doppl lets users virtually “try on” outfits via AI‑generated animated avatars from full‑body photos and clothing images—experimenting in the U.S. iOS/Android fashion‑tech frontier .
ByteDance SeeDance (Seedance) : SeeDance (Seedance 1.0) is ByteDance’s blazing-fast text‑to‑video & image‑to‑video model, delivering cinema‑quality 5–10s clips with seamless motion and prompt fidelity in-browser .
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In recent advancement in AI Ethics, UNESCO called for ethical use of AI at its 3rd Global Forum in Bangkok; the European Commission confirmed no delay for the EU AI Act; and the ITU’s AI for Good Summit opened in Geneva on July 8 to align AI with sustainable development goals.
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