The Daily Index — Tuesday, June 25, 2024 · TLDR Index

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AMAZON DEVELOPING AI CHATBOT TO COMPETE WITH CHATGPT

Amazon is reportedly developing an AI chatbot called "Metis" to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT, expected to be unveiled later this year. The chatbot, which will be accessible via web browser, will utilize a new foundational model and share infrastructure with "Remarkable Alexa," Amazon's upcoming paid-tier Alexa version.

geekwire.com · 1 min

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OPENAI BUYS MULTI

Continuing the acquisition spree, OpenAI buys more foundational technology for using the desktop.

multi.app · 4 min

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TOP 40 CVPR POSTERS

A list of curated computer vision papers from the 2024 CVPR conference.

github.com · 11 min

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IMPROVED PASSAGE RANKING

PE-Rank is a new approach to passage ranking that improves efficiency by using single passage embeddings for context compression.

arxiv.org · 16 min

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1300 TOKENS PER SECOND ON MAC

Implementing batch parallel KV cache in MLX leads to dramatic inference time speed up for synthetic data generation and model completions.

willcb.com · 7 min

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CAREER OPPORTUNITIES IN AI

Popular developer Shawn "swyx" Wang talks about hidden opportunities for traditional software developers looking to transition into AI. Specifically, looking at building on top of current tools, using AI for summarization, and more.

heavybit.com · 7 min

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REMOTE SENSING CHANGE DETECTION

This project introduces CDMask and CDMaskFormer, two new models for remote sensing change detection.

arxiv.org · 18 min

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APPLE INTELLIGENCE

Apple has integrated generative AI into its core applications, enhancing features like Safari summaries, Mail categorization, and Siri's functionality, rather than creating standalone AI products, showcasing the company's focus on privacy and user control.

daringfireball.net · 14 min

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LLAMA TTF

This post shows how to run a small Llama language model in a font file.

fuglede.github.io · 3 min

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ABILITY AI RAISES $1.1M PRE-SEED ROUND

Ability AI, a marketing startup, has raised a round to build its marketing agent technologies.

linkedin.com · 4 min