The Daily Index — Friday, December 6, 2024 · TLDR Index

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PERPLEXITY EXPANDING IT'S PUBLISHER'S PROGRAM

Perplexity has added over a dozen international news organizations to its Publishers' Program, offering tools, revenue sharing, and support to strengthen collaboration with global media.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 4 min

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DEEPMIND'S GENIE 2 CAN GENERATE INTERACTIVE WORLDS THAT LOOK LIKE VIDEO GAMES

DeepMind's Genie 2 is an advanced AI model that generates diverse, interactive 3D worlds from images and text descriptions. The model is particularly adept at simulating complex elements like physics and NPC behavior, setting it apart from similar models by maintaining scene consistency. Positioned as a research tool, Genie 2 is designed for prototyping interactive experiences and evaluating AI agents.

techcrunch.com · 4 min

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PALIGEMMA 2

Paligemma 2 is one of the best VLMs on the market today. It uses SigLIP and Gemma.

arxiv.org · 23 min

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LAND COVER MAPPING WITH ASANET

The Asymmetric Semantic Aligning Network (ASANet) improves land cover classification using both SAR and RGB images.

arxiv.org · 29 min

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FASTER MULTI-MODAL MODELS WITH TOKEN MERGING

Researchers have developed a training-free method to make multi-modal language models (LLMs) more efficient without sacrificing much performance. Their approach reduces computational demands by up to 7 times by smartly merging and pruning visual data tokens.

arxiv.org · 14 min

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NEW FISH AUDIO MODEL

The newest Fish Audio 1.5 is currently #2 on Text To Speech Leaderboards behind ElevenLabs. It supports voice cloning and is fast to run, although the output quality seems hit or miss.

threadreaderapp.com · 3 min

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OPENAI PARTNERS WITH ANDURIL

OpenAI and defense company Anduril have partnered to create a national security-based AI.

cnbc.com · 5 min

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KEY LEADERS BEHIND GOOGLE'S VIRAL NOTEBOOKLM ARE LEAVING TO CREATE THEIR OWN STARTUP

Three key Google NotebookLM members have left to start a new stealth AI venture. The startup aims to leverage the latest AI models to create consumer-facing, user-first AI products. It remains in its early stages without a clear focus or announced funding.

techcrunch.com · 2 min

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DEEPTHOUGHT 8B REASONING MODEL (HUGGING FACE HUB)

Ruliad has released a small reasoning model that takes extra time to think through problems.

huggingface.co

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GUI AGENTS

A collection of research papers and projects on large language model-brained GUI agents.

vyokky.github.io · 2 min

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SAM ALTMAN SAYS ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE IS ON THE HORIZON

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, stated at the DealBook Summit that Artificial General Intelligence might impact everyday life less significantly than expected.

nytimes.com · 1 min