Argo.AI shutdown, Jasper.AI, and Stability.AI get massive funding, FLAN-T5 LLM, Neural Audio Compression from Meta, You-only-live-once, Dreamfusion, the new MTEB benchmark for sentence embeddings, Imitation Learning for Urban Driving, and much, much more. — With the biggest AI research conference (NeurIPS 2022) on the horizon, we enter the home stretch of the year 2022. We’re properly excited to go back to an in-person NeurIPS conference a month from now, but first, let’s review what’s happened recently in the world of AI. …