New open-source python package, supervision allows developers to implement line crossing detection in 30 minutes
22 days ago
A new open-source python package, supervision, allows developers to implement line crossing detection in 30 minutes.
Breakthrough in soft robotics: First toroidal micro-robot to swim autonomously in viscous liquids
22 days ago
Researchers introduces the first toroidal, light-driven micro-robot that can move autonomously in viscous liquids, such as mucus. This innovation marks a major step forward in developing micro-robots capable of navigating complex environments, with promising applications in fields such as medicine a
Breakthrough in soft robotics: First toroidal micro-robot to swim autonomously in viscous liquids
22 days ago
Researchers introduces the first toroidal, light-driven micro-robot that can move autonomously in viscous liquids, such as mucus. This innovation marks a major step forward in developing micro-robots capable of navigating complex environments, with promising applications in fields such as medicine a
Hugging Face cofounder Thomas Wolf on why open models can combat the concentration of power in AI technology
22 days ago
Hugging Face cofounder Thomas Wolf says open-source AI’s benefits far outweigh its risks. In this edition…a Hugging Face cofounder on the importance of open source…a Nobel Prize for Geoff Hinton and John Hopfield…a movie model from Meta…a Trump ‘Manhattan Project’ for AI? Hello, and welcome to Eye o
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TikTok Manages a 200k File Monorepo
22 days ago
TikTok, the popular short-form video-sharing platform, has a large and rapidly growing codebase for its web front end. This front-end app is built using TypeScript and is organized as a monorepo - a single Git repository containing code for multiple projects and libraries. Over time, it expanded to
Learn to monitor Azure OpenAI (Sponsored)
22 days ago
Learn how you can track Azure OpenAI usage and performance, from monitoring your API requests and token usage, to tracking performance in aggregate or by language model. Disclaimer: The details in this post have been derived from the TikTok Developer Blog. All credit for the technical details goes t
Faster Git for Frontend Monorepos
22 days ago
The TikTok team saw dramatic performance improvements after adopting Sparo: clone time dropped from 23 minutes to just 2 minutes, checkout time went from 1.5 minutes to 30 seconds, status command time reduced from 7 seconds to 1 second, commit time improved from 15 seconds to 11 seconds. These impro
TikTok Releases Tool to Improve MonoRepo Performance
22 days ago
To address this problem, the TikTok team developed Sparo, an open-source tool that leverages Git's sparse checkout and partial clone features to speed up Git operations on large monorepos. The TikTok engineering team's journey with Sparo highlights the importance of proactively addressing performanc
Sparo provides its command line interface that aims to be a drop-in replacement for the standard Git CLI. In other words, Sparo is fully compatible with Git, so teams can incrementally adopt it while still interoperating with standard Git usage. By mirroring the Git interface, Sparo minimizes the le
Bring your monorepo down to size with sparse-checkout
22 days ago
Sparo introduces the concept of checkout profiles, which are predefined sets of directories to include in a sparse checkout. Profiles act as an easy starting point for new hires or contributors to discover what part of the codebase is relevant to a given team. With the profile created, developers ca
OpenAI closes the largest VC round of all time
23 days ago
OpenAI has raised $6.6 billion in a new funding round, led by Thrive Capital, valuing the company at $157 billion. Major investors include Microsoft, Khosla Ventures, Nvidia, and SoftBank. Microsoft contributed $750 million on top of its previous $13 billion investment. The funding will drive AI res
OpenAI’s DevDay brings Realtime API and other treats for AI app developers
23 days ago
OpenAI has announced several new tools at its 2024 DevDay, including a public beta of its "Realtime API" for building apps with low-latency, AI-generated voice responses. The Realtime API allows developers to create nearly real-time, speech-to-speech experiences in their apps, with six distinct voic
People are using Google study software to make AI podcasts—and they’re weird and amazing
23 days ago
Google's study software, NotebookLM, is being utilized by users to create AI-generated podcasts, with the tool generating a podcast called Deep Dive that features realistic male and female voices discussing uploaded content. The AI system is designed to create engaging audio in an "upbeat, hyper-int
Black Forest Labs releases Flux 1.1 Pro and an API
23 days ago
Black Forest Labs (BFL), the startup behind the Stable Diffusion AI image generation model, has released a new, faster text-to-image model called Flux 1.1 Pro, along with a paid application programming interface (API). The new model, which is six times faster than its predecessor, Flux 1.0 Pro, impr
VESSL AI raises a $12M Series A — LLMOps platform
23 days ago
VESSL AI is an LLMOps platform. Their platform is built around four key components: VESSL Run: Automates AI model training, VESSL Serve: Facilitates deployment of AI models, VESSL Pipelines: Streamlines data preprocessing and model training into integrated workflows, VESSL Cluster: Optimizes GPU usa
Lovable raises a $7.5M Pre-Seed — AI software engineer
23 days ago
Lovable is building GPT Engineer, an AI software engineer that generates production-ready code in real-time. Users interact with the platform by simply describing features they want in web apps or websites, and GPT Engineer generates functional code instantly.
Clout Kitchen raises a $4.45M Seed — AI gaming buddy that mimics popular gamer creators
23 days ago
Clout Kitchen raises a $4.45M Seed — AI gaming buddy that mimics popular gamer creators
Frammer AI raises a $2M Seed — AI to convert long-form videos into short-form videos
23 days ago
Frammer AI raises a $2M Seed — AI to convert long-form videos into short-form videos
KOBOLD MATERIALS RAISES $491M (3 MINUTE READ)
23 days ago
Kobold Materials, a mining startup that uses AI to identify and extract metals, has raised a substantial new round of funding.
FINE-GRAINED VIDEO UNDERSTANDING (GITHUB REPO)
23 days ago
Grounded-VideoLLM is a new Video-Large Language Model designed to improve fine-grained understanding of specific video moments. By adding a temporal stream and discrete temporal tokens, the model better captures relationships between frames and timestamps.