The Daily Index — Thursday, August 31, 2023 · TLDR Index

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OPENAI NEARS $1B IN ANNUAL SALES

OpenAI could reach the $1B milestone over the next 12 months—much faster than the company’s own revenue projections had forecast.

fastcompany.com · 2 min

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MICROSOFT UNVEILS ALGORITHM OF THOUGHT

Microsoft has unveiled a new AI training method called the "Algorithm of Thoughts" (AoT), designed to make large language models like ChatGPT more efficient and human-like in their reasoning abilities.

decrypt.co · 3 min

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UNIVERSAL MEDICAL SEGMENTATION

Medical image segmentation is the process of identifying every pixel in an image that belongs to a certain class (e.g. cancer vs non-cancer). It is historically quite challenging to transfer one model to another task. This new work shows a robust model, still based on the immortal UNet, that works across a variety of medical imaging tasks.

universeg.csail.mit.edu · 6 min

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COTRACK DENSE VIDEO TRACKING

There are lots of dense pixel tracking tools out there, but many fail when faced with occlusions or fast motion. This work from Meta is a powerful tool that is fast and easy to use. Maybe someone can recreate videodoodles now?

github.com · 6 min

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A LIGHTWEIGHT UPSAMPLER TO INCREASE IMAGE RESOLUTION

Traditional methods for increasing image resolution, like CARAFE and SAPA, often need a lot of computer resources and are limited in their applications. DySample is a simpler and more efficient way to do this, and it works well in various image tasks.

arxiv.org · 14 min

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CUDA GRAPHS, 2.3X SPEEDED UP ON LLAMA 2

A great in-depth read about how to improve the performance of deep learning models using PyTorch 2.0's torch.compile and Nvidia CUDA graph features. This article is a gold mine for performance-sensitive AI folks.

blog.fireworks.ai · 25 min

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BATTERYML

An open source toolkit for research on battery degradation. It includes datasets, feature engineering tools, and a library of models.

github.com · 6 min

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LARGEST AI HACKATHON FOR WOMEN

Hack Hers is a great place to build skills in AI and meet like-minded folks looking to make a difference. Sign-ups are now open.

hackhers.ai · 2 min

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NEW FOUNDATION MODELS

An extremely deep dive into Llama 2, Code Llama, GPT-4, ChatGPT fine-tuning as a service, LLM scaling, frontier AI models, and LLM copyright laws.

magazine.sebastianraschka.com · 15 min

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EXACTLY THE WRONG AI COPYRIGHTABILITY CASE

The DC district court ruled in Thaler v. Perlmutter that AI-generated art requires human authorship for copyright. The decision hinges on Thaler's assertion of his AI's complete autonomy.

writing.kemitchell.com · 4 min

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NON-LLAMA LANGUAGE MODEL THAT’S PRETTY GREAT

Finding a model not built on the foundation model from Meta is a challenge these days. Palmyra from Writer was trained on 800B tokens and 70k highly curated instructions. It excels at following complex instructions and seems amenable to fine-tuning.

huggingface.co · 1 min

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SAMSUNG DEBUTS FOOD

Samsung has launched Food, a personalized AI-powered food and recipe app, in eight languages and 104 countries around the world.

engadget.com · 2 min