TLDR AI 2023-11-29

MLCOMMONS ALGOPERF TRAINING BENCHMARK COMPETITION

META AI INTRODUCES CICERO

Meta’s CICERO is the first AI agent to achieve human-level performance in the strategy game Diplomacy.

STABILITY AI RELEASES SDXL TURBO

Stability AI has released a new model that can generate high resolution images in 207ms. It doesn’t use LCM, which is what most of the field has moved towards. Instead, it uses a novel distillation technique called Adversarial Diffusion Distillation. Its weights and code have been used for research.

ENHANCING PRIVACY IN SIGN LANGUAGE VIDEOS

DiffSLVA is an innovative method for anonymizing sign language videos while preserving linguistic content. This technique, which uses pre-trained diffusion models and a specialized module for facial expressions, overcomes previous limitations by not requiring precise pose estimation.

ENHANCING DATASET DISTILLATION WITH GENERATIVE DIFFUSION TECHNIQUES

A new method using generative diffusion techniques has been developed to create surrogate datasets that are more representative and diverse while requiring significantly less computational resources.

ADVANCED VIDEO SUPER-RESOLUTION THROUGH DIFFUSION MODELS

StableVSR is a novel approach to video super-resolution (VSR) that leverages Diffusion Models and a Temporal Conditioning Module to enhance the quality of upscaled videos.

EFFECTIVE PROMPTING LIBRARY FOR LARGE MULTIMODAL MODELS

Set of Mark prompting is a clever way to dramatically improve vision+language model performance. This library from Roboflow gives you similar control and makes it easier to build robust vision pipelines with these models. It even supports open models like LLaVa.

TANUKI

Easily build LLM-powered apps that get cheaper and faster over time.

CREATING REALISTIC 3D HUMAN AVATARS FROM VIDEOS

This project proposes "Animatable Gaussians," a novel technique that combines 2D CNNs and 3D Gaussian splatting to create more lifelike and detailed human avatars from videos.

A DATA-DRIVEN LOOK AT THE RISE OF AI

This is a slide-heavy post from the Cerebral Valley AI Summit that takes a data approach to looking at the growth of AI. We all hear it constantly, but the data backing it up is pretty immense. Most interesting is the growth and subsequent collapse of developer interest.

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO USE AN LLM?

Reviewing the details on common queries to an LLM across the different models reveals that it is really cost-bound at the moment. With the latest OpenAI announcements and advancements with the open source models, that may be set to change.

THE 10-YEAR “OVERNIGHT” SUCCESS STORY OF CASETEXT (17 MINUTE AUDIO)

Casetext sold to Thomson Reuters for $650M in what looks like an acquisition swept up in the AI craze. However, this was no overnight success, with the company having started in 2023. A walk down memory lane along with what it took to persevere.

OPENAI UNLIKELY TO OFFER BOARD SEAT TO MICROSOFT

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED PUBLISHED ARTICLES BY AI-GENERATED AUTHORS

Sports Illustrated has secretly been publishing AI-generated articles by fake AI authors.

OPENAI DATA PARTNERSHIPS

OpenAI launched Data Partnerships to collaborate with organizations to produce datasets to train AI models. The initiative already includes partners like the Icelandic Government and the non-profit Free Law Project.