The Daily Index — Thursday, August 29, 2024 · TLDR Index

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OPENAI IN TALKS FOR FUNDING ROUND VALUING IT ABOVE $100B

OpenAI is in discussions to raise several billion dollars in a new funding round led by Thrive Capital that would value the company above $100 billion, with Microsoft also expected to participate.

msn.com · 3 min

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GENERATIVE VERIFIERS: REWARD MODELING AS NEXT-TOKEN PREDICTION

Reward models are generally trained as discriminative classifiers. This work from DeepMind uses a language model's logits for yes/no as the reward signal. It found that by allowing a model to use CoT and ensembling, researchers improved performance by 16%.

arxiv.org · 28 min

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MULTILINGUAL ARBITRAGE

Cohere's Aya model was able to dramatically improve its win rate vs baseline models by taking advantage of the difference between oracle model performance and routing synthetic data generation.

arxiv.org · 31 min

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INTRODUCING TABLE-AUGMENTED GENERATION

Table-Augmented Generation is a new paradigm that combines language models with databases to answer complex natural language questions.

arxiv.org · 24 min

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EVENT-GUIDED VIDEO DEBLURRING

Researchers have developed a new approach to video deblurring by integrating an event camera, which captures motion with microsecond temporal resolution, to enhance the clarity of motion-blurred videos.

arxiv.org · 6 min

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REAL TIME ON DEVICE AI

Cartesian has announced a number of model and system improvements. It has also released an open hybrid State space model.

cartesia.ai · 12 min

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STEPHEN WOLFRAM THINKS WE NEED PHILOSOPHERS WORKING ON BIG QUESTIONS AROUND AI

Stephen Wolfram emphasizes the importance of incorporating philosophical rigor into AI research, addressing core ethical questions. As AI's influence grows, these questions, traditionally part of philosophy, are increasingly relevant. Wolfram advocates for deeper, classical philosophical thinking in AI development to better navigate its implications for humanity.

techcrunch.com · 4 min

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THE TOP AI DEALS IN EUROPE THIS YEAR

Despite general headwinds for startups, AI ventures continue to secure substantial funding. U.S. AI startups have achieved nearly 30 deals over $100M in 2024, with Europe not far behind. Major investments include WAYVE ($1B), Mistral AI (~$1B), Helsing ($484M), Poolside ($400M), DeepL ($320M), H ($220M), and Flo Health ($200M).

techcrunch.com · 7 min

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JOY CAPTION (HUGGING FACE HUB)

An open source VLM designed specifically for image upcaptioning.

huggingface.co

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INTRODUCING RPBENCH-AUTO

Boson AI has launched RPBench-Auto, an automated evaluation pipeline to benchmark LLMs' role-playing capabilities inspired by ArenaHard and Alpaca Eval.

boson.ai · 2 min

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LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMP: NVIDIA RELEASES SMALL LANGUAGE MODEL WITH STATE-OF-THE-ART ACCURACY

NVIDIA's Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B, a compressed version of the 12B model, achieves state-of-the-art accuracy while being small enough to run on RTX workstations.

blogs.nvidia.com · 3 min