AI Has a Secret: We’re Still Not Sure How to Test for Human Levels of Intelligence
2 days ago
Two of San Francisco’s leading players in artificial intelligence have challenged the public to come up with questions capable of testing the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) like Google Gemini and OpenAI’s o1. Scale AI, which specializes in preparing the vast tracts ...
Domino Data Lab seeks to embed governance in AI development
2 days ago
Data science startup Domino Data Lab Inc. has become the latest company to introduce a platform for automating governance in artificial intelligence development, saying its extensive experience with large organizations and federal ...
Healthcare AI startup Abridge reportedly raising $250M at $2.5B valuation
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Abridge AI Inc., a startup that develops artificial intelligence software for medical professionals, is reportedly raising $250 million in new funding. The Information on Thursday cited sources as saying that technology investor El...
I Paid for a 90-Minute AI MasterClass Course and Haven't Stopped Using AI Since
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MasterClass's three-part Generative AI series helped me connect to artificial intelligence for work and in everyday life. Here's what I learned. I'm a newcomer to artificial intelligence, but an eager explorer: I am always excited to try out a new AI-powered tool or product and p...
The Fall of Gondolin (AI Teaser Trailer)
3 days ago
It’s based on The Fall of Gondolin, a real book by J.R.R Tolkien, and it’s got the Tolkien hive fans so hyped they’re claiming it looks better than Amazon’s version (The Rings of Power) with its $1B budget. IDK about that, AI content still looks too AI to us, but it’s got some cool ideas! If you’re
The Pentagon wants to create undetectable AI deepfakes. What could go wrong?
3 days ago
Over the last few months, we’ve shown you countless examples of how AI can now create ultra-realistic fake people. Fun fact: multiple studies have shown that we have a harder time knowing what’s real than we think we do. So the question nowadays isn’t how do we prove what’s fake and what’s not. The
Sam Altmans New AI Device Unleashes AI Agents (New Worldcoin Orb)
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Meanwhile, Sam Altman of all people is pushing a startup called Worldcoin (but drop the coin) that verifies humans by scanning their eyeballs. Here’s how it works: World uses an “Orb” to scan your irises. These eye-scans create a “World ID”, or digital passport for “proof of human.” Over 6.9M people
Want to build a 6-figure business as an AI Consultant?
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The AI consulting market is about to grow by a factor of 8X to $54.7B in 2032. Our friends at Innovating with AI have the answer: The AI Consultancy Project, a new program that trains you how to build an AI consulting business. And they’ve already welcomed 300 new students! Current students love: To
The CPO of OpenAI, Kevin Weil, thinks that o1 (the reasoning model) is only at “GPT-2 level” atm, and that competitors will eventually figure out how to reverse-engineer its methods. Mira Murati, ex-CTO of OpenAI, is reportedly raising ~$100M+ for a new AI startup to build new proprietary AI models.
OpenAI launches Swarm, a lightweight framework for multi-agent orchestration.
Researchers open-source Agent S
3 days ago
Researchers open-source Agent S, an agentic framework that uses computers like a human.
Lenovo announces their new local AI Agent powered by Llama 3.1
3 days ago
Lenovo announces their new local AI Agent powered by Llama 3.1.
OpenAI researchers introduce MLE-bench
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OpenAI researchers introduce MLE-bench and measure the MLE capabilities of o1.
TEN Agent: a new real-time multimodal agent
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TEN Agent: a new real-time multimodal agent that integrates OpenAI’s Realtime API.
Scalability Simply Explained in 10 Minutes
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This week’s system design refresher: Scalability Simply Explained in 10 Minutes (Youtube video) What do Amazon, Netflix, and Uber have in common? They are extremely good at scaling their system whenever needed. Here are 8 must-know strategies to scale your system. Stateless Services Design stateless
What are the differences between paging and segmentation?
3 days ago
Paging Paging is a memory management scheme that eliminates the need for contiguous allocation of physical memory. The process's address space is divided into fixed-size blocks called pages, while physical memory is divided into fixed-size blocks called frames. The address translation process works
The diagram below shows the Git workflow. Git is a distributed version control system. Every developer maintains a local copy of the main repository and edits and commits to the local copy. The commit is very fast because the operation doesn’t interact with the remote repository. If the remote repos
What tech stack is commonly used for microservices?
3 days ago
Below you will find a diagram showing the microservice tech stack, both for the development phase and for production. Pre-Production Define API - This establishes a contract between frontend and backend. We can use Postman or OpenAPI for this. Development - Node.js or react is popular for frontend d
I write over 95% of the lines I ship. The other 5% comes from AI (mostly Claude, but there's some GPT-4o and o1-preview in there). This is a rough estimate, but I write most of the code overall. While 5% of code may not seem like a lot, remember that this code is usually clutch! These are things I d
The a16zcrypto team just published their State of Crypto 2024 report, and therein noted that better infra is unlocking new onchain applications. The authors said: Take NFTs, for instance. When crypto transactions were much more expensive a few years ago, people were trading NFTs on secondary markets
Google unveils Kaggle competition for developers to leverage Gemini's extended context capabilities with large reward
4 days ago
Google unveils Kaggle competition for developers to leverage Gemini's extended context capabilities with large reward
Fireworks AI unveils FireAttention v3, enabling 80% more throughput on AMD MI300 GPUs
4 days ago
Fireworks AI unveils FireAttention v3, enabling 80% more throughput on AMD MI300 GPUs
MotherDuck introduces prompt() SQL function, integrating SLMs for cost-effective text processing at scale
4 days ago
MotherDuck introduces prompt() SQL function, integrating SLMs for cost-effective text processing at scale
Meta unveils open-source CoTracker3, achieving state-of-the-art results in long-term point tracking
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Meta unveils open-source CoTracker3, achieving state-of-the-art results in long-term point tracking
Deepseek releases Janus, an Any-to-Any autoregressive framework for multimodal AI
4 days ago
DeepSeek has introduced Janus, an autoregressive framework that unifies multimodal understanding and generation. Janus addresses limitations of previous models by decoupling visual encoding into separate pathways while using a unified transformer for processing.
KEY HIGHLIGHTS
- Janus 1.3B is a mul