Learn to monitor Azure OpenAI (Sponsored)
23 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
23 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
23 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
23 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.
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