Welcome to Replicate’s weekly bulletin! Each week, we’ll bring you updates on the latest open-source AI models, tools, and research. People are making cool stuff and we want to share it with you. Without further ado, here’s our hacker-in-residence deepfates with an unfiltered take on the week in AI.

Editor’s note

Data. Everybody’s talking about it.

Where do you get it? Will there be enough? And most importantly, how soon will the lawyers show up?

The cure: synthetic data. Use that questionable internet scrape to create a rock-solid set of (image,caption) or (question,answer) pairs, expand your total data by a factor of 10, and delete the evidence (allegedly! what do i know).