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TLDR AI 2023-12-19

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01GENERAL

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02HEADLINES & LAUNCHES

INTEL UNVEILS NEW AI CHIP

Intel has launched its 5th Gen Xeon processors, focusing on AI capabilities for cloud, network, and edge use cases. These chips are part of Intel's strategy to compete in the AI accelerator market dominated by Nvidia.

finance.yahoo.com3 min read

BYTEDANCE IS SECRETLY USING OPENAI’S TECH TO BUILD A COMPETITOR

ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, has been secretly using OpenAI's technology against its terms of service to develop a competing language model named Project Seed. Internal communications suggest plans to "whitewash" evidence of this misuse.

theverge.com2 min read

ATLASSIAN WELCOMES AI TO THE TEAM

Atlassian has launched its first set of AI-powered services across its cloud platform. Leveraging 20 years of data insights, Atlassian Intelligence aims to optimize teamwork by automating routine tasks, accelerating individual productivity, clarifying company jargon, and empowering data-driven decisions. Major features available include Generative AI in the editor, AI-powered summaries, and natural language automation.

atlassian.com5 min read

03RESEARCH & INNOVATION

GRAPH NEURAL NETWORKS FOR BETTER NODE CLASSIFICATION

Researchers have developed a new method called DSF to improve spectral graph neural networks. By introducing node-specific filter weights, DSF can better handle complex networks like the World Wide Web.

arxiv.org14 min read

EVALUATING AND MITIGATING DISCRIMINATION IN LANGUAGE MODEL DECISIONS

This article discusses a method for proactively evaluating the potential discriminatory impact of language models. The method includes generating a wide array of potential prompts for various decision scenarios and demographic information variations. Strategies for mitigating both positive and negative discrimination primarily involve careful prompt engineering.

anthropic.com15 min read

SMOOSEG: SUPERIOR SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION

This study introduces SmooSeg, a new approach that utilizes the principle that nearby features in images often share similar meanings.

arxiv.org18 min read

04ENGINEERING & RESOURCES

OPEN SOURCE MEDIA GENERATION TOOLKIT

Amphion is a new tool kit for media generation. It supports music and speech and the team is working towards adding more models quickly.

github.comGitHub repository

FASTER DIFFUSION MODELS

A study on UNet encoders in diffusion models reveals their stable behavior compared to decoders. This insight led to a new encoder propagation scheme, significantly speeding up the process for tasks like text-to-image and text-to-video generation.

github.comGitHub repository

GOOGLE BIG VISION ADDS WEIGHT SHARDING

A hidden gem of AI, the Big Vision project is a great library for research and production of state-of-the-art vision systems. They just added weight sharding to make it easier to train on multi-node systems.

github.comGitHub repository

05MISCELLANEOUS

THOUGHTS ON JAXTYPING

Shape errors in ML are challenging to debug and are often only caught when you try running the model. By checking shapes as types you can eliminate much of this challenge and develop more quickly.

kidger.site18 min read

LEGALTECH X AI: THE LIGHTSPEED VIEW

Lightspeed’s take on the legaltech landscape as it relates to AI is interesting and transparent from the view of what’s-good-for-VCs-is-good-for-everyone take. There are a few interesting insights and only time will tell if they are on the right track or not.

lsvp.com6 min read

NEW SEQUENCE MIXERS

The creators of Mamba (and many more models) have released a cool blog post outlining basic sequence mixing architectures that give pretty dramatic speed ups relative to standard Transformers.

hazyresearch.stanford.edu22 min read