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TLDR AI 2023-12-01

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01HEADLINES & LAUNCHES

MILLIONS OF NEW MATERIALS DISCOVERED WITH DEEP LEARNING

DeepMind and Berkeley teamed up for research that uses graph neural networks to discover over 2 million novel materials. They found around 300k of them that are extremely stable and great candidates for future research. Interestingly, they say that this amount of research would have taken 800 years of dedicated human labor.

deepmind.google6 min read

THESE EX-APPLE EMPLOYEES ARE BRINGING AI TO THE DESKTOP

Software Applications Incorporated, a startup led by ex-Apple employees, aims to bring generative AI to desktops by capturing the flexibility of '80s and '90s computing. The company is using large language models, including OpenAI’s GPT and Meta’s Llama 2, in its prototypes. It has raised $6.5 million and plans to hire up to 10 employees.

theverge.com4 min read

02RESEARCH & INNOVATION

ADVANCING OPEN-VOCABULARY OBJECT DETECTION

Researchers introduce DECOLA, a groundbreaking open-vocabulary detection framework that excels in identifying objects beyond its training dataset.

arxiv.org14 min read

ACCELERATING GENERATIVE AI WITH PYTORCH II

This blog post from the PyTorch team highlights how to use native Pytorch code to dramatically speed up language model inference. The post shows how you can get 200+ tokens per second from Llama 2 7B.

pytorch.org12 min read

03ENGINEERING & RESOURCES

QWEN AUDIO

The Alibaba Cloud Group has released a universal audio understanding model. It can perform a number of audio-related tasks like understanding music, speaker identification, and then answer questions in text.

qwen-audio.github.ioGitHub repository

3D TO PHOTO

3D to Photo is an open-source package that combines ThreeJS and Stable Diffusion to build a virtual photo studio for product photography.

github.comGitHub repository

04MISCELLANEOUS

CHATGPT IS WINNING THE FUTURE - BUT WHAT FUTURE IS THAT?

ChatGPT, launched a year ago by OpenAI, unexpectedly became the fastest-growing consumer technology, profoundly impacting the tech industry from venture capital investments to major companies like Microsoft and Google, and while it faces challenges in reliability and ethical concerns, it continues to rapidly evolve and integrate into various aspects of technology and daily life.

theverge.com8 min read

5 WAYS TO LEVERAGE AI IN TECH

Freshworks CIO, Prasad Ramakrishnan, walks through some viable use cases of AI in startups. From enhancing user experience to onboarding and data platform optimization, this article shares five ways organizations can leverage AI to solve problems and grow.

saastr.com6 min read