ROBOTIC MANIPULATION WITH AUTOREGRESSIVE MODELS (GITHUB REPO)
23 days ago
Chunking Causal Transformer (CCT) is a new autoregressive architecture designed for robotic manipulation tasks.
REAL TIME FACE UI (GITHUB REPO)
23 days ago
FacePoke is a tool for quickly editing faces in videos and images.
OPENAI GETS $4 BILLION REVOLVING CREDIT LINE, GIVING IT MORE THAN $10 BILLION IN LIQUIDITY (5 MINUTE READ)
23 days ago
OpenAI has secured over $10 billion in liquidity, reaching a $157 billion valuation after its latest funding round. The company raised $6.6 billion from major investors, including Microsoft and Nvidia, but faces high operational costs, primarily due to the need for more GPUs to support LLM training.
BLACK FOREST LABS, THE STARTUP BEHIND GROK'S IMAGE GENERATOR, RELEASES AN API (3 MINUTE READ)
23 days ago
Black Forest Labs has launched a beta API providing its Flux image generation models, including the new Flux1.1 Pro, which offers faster generation and enhanced image quality. The startup, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, aims for market growth with ongoing developments despite controversy over its da
DYNAMIC DIFFUSION TRANSFORMER (21 MINUTE READ)
23 days ago
The Dynamic Diffusion Transformer (DyDiT) enhances the efficiency of diffusion models used in image generation. It improves upon the existing Diffusion Transformer (DiT) by dynamically adjusting computational efforts during different timesteps and spatial regions, reducing redundancy.
VIDEO GENERATION WITH FRAME-AWARE MODELS (17 MINUTE READ)
23 days ago
The Frame-Aware Video Diffusion Model (FVDM) improves video generation by addressing limitations in current models. Unlike traditional approaches that use a single timestep for the whole clip, the FVDM uses a vectorized timestep variable, allowing each frame to follow its own noise schedule.
MEMBERSHIP INFERENCE ATTACKS ON DIFFUSION MODELS (18 MINUTE READ)
23 days ago
This study reveals significant flaws in current membership inference attacks used to detect unauthorized data usage in diffusion models. CopyMark is a more realistic benchmark for evaluating MIAs on pre-trained models that offers unbiased datasets and fair evaluation methods.
IMPROVED IMAGE GENERATION AND EFFICIENCY (2 MINUTE READ)
23 days ago
ImageFolder is a semantic tokenizer designed to address the trade-off between image reconstruction and generation quality in visual generative models.
DATAPELAGO'S UNIVERSAL DATA PROCESSING ENGINE (4 MINUTE READ)
23 days ago
LLMs rely on tremendous amounts of unstructured data for training, but this data must be cleaned and processed before it's useful. Existing data processing systems based on CPUs and today's software architectures weren't designed to handle the scale or complexity of this data, making data cleaning a
GOOGLE BRINGS ADS TO AI OVERVIEWS AS IT EXPANDS AI'S ROLE IN SEARCH (5 MINUTE READ)
23 days ago
Google will show ads in its AI Overviews to counter alternatives like ChatGPT while enhancing user engagement. Despite generating controversies over misinformation, AI Overviews have boosted search engagement, especially in younger demographics. Google is also rolling out AI-organized search results
MIRA MURATI'S SURPRISE EXIT FROM OPENAI CAPS A CHAOTIC YEAR OF STAFF INFIGHTING, RUSHED PRODUCT LAUNCHES, AND EXECUTIVE UPHEAVAL (18 MINUTE READ)
23 days ago
OpenAI's rushed development and safety testing of its latest models, including GPT-4o and o1, have caused internal friction and senior staff departures.
I QUIT TEACHING BECAUSE OF CHATGPT (5 MINUTE READ)
23 days ago
This professor quit teaching due to the pervasive use of LLMs like ChatGPT among students.
SIMPLE PARALLELISM (GITHUB GIST)
23 days ago
A great 200 line example of parallelism from scratch from a large model training lead at Hugging Face.
OpenAI introduces new multimodal processing, AI fine-tuning tools at DevDay
23 days ago
OpenAI introduced a set of new developer tools today at its DevDay prod...siliconangle.com
Crescendo raises $50M for its AI-powered customer service platform
23 days ago
Customer service startup Crescendo today announced that it has closed a $50 million fund...siliconangle.com
Hyper-personalization in marketing: AI’s role in transforming customer engagement
23 days ago
Hyper-personalization in marketing: AI’s role in transforming customer engagementsiliconangle.com
Brain-like Computers Tackle the Extreme Edge
23 days ago
Brain-like Computers Tackle the Extreme Edgespectrum.ieee.org
From Liquid Neural Networks to Liquid Foundation Models
23 days ago
We invented liquid neural networks, a class of brain-inspired systems that can stay adaptable and robust to changes even after training [R. Hasani, …liquid.ai
Prof. Ethan Mollick outlines two tactics to benefit from GenAI
23 days ago
Prof. Ethan Mollick outlines two tactics to benefit from GenAI at the organizational level. The Crowd - every employee testing AI for their own tasks and The Lab - A centralized effort to make AI work for the company. And he’s right in noting that you can’t outsource this. But you can get help. How?
ChatGPT has a new feature: Canvas
23 days ago
ChatGPT has a new feature: Canvas. It’s a document editor inside ChatGPT available for the two most important use cases of LLMs—writing and coding. It is in beta but I took it for a spin. For writing, you can make manual changes to the AI’s output plus change its length, get suggestions and add emoj
Meta jumps into video generation with Meta Movie Gen
23 days ago
Meta jumps into video generation with Meta Movie Gen. It can create custom videos from text, edit existing footage, and transform personal images into videos. Top it off with AI audio and sound effects too. Turns out Zuck isn’t just serving cute Llamas, he’s coming for OpenAI’s Sora too. This showca
Use LMSYS’s Chatbot Arena to compare LLM models
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Use LMSYS’s Chatbot Arena to compare LLM models and choose the best one your use.
Find factors behind employee turnover
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Find factors behind employee turnover and create targeted retention strategies.
Analyze multi-channel marketing performance
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Analyze multi-channel marketing performance and optimize budget allocation.
This AI-Powered Invention Machine Automates Eureka Moments
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Just outside Lausanne, Switzerland,
in a meeting room wallpapered with patent drawings,
Ioannis Ierides
faced a classic sales challenge: demonstrating his product’s advantages within the short span of his customer’s attention. Ierides is a business-development manager at
Iprova
, a company th