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The Laion research group has released an open assistant that uses natural voice and extremely optimized language models that can run on a gaming laptop. The project aims to provide a low-resource assistant that is easy to install and powerful for personal use.
Microsoft-backed OpenAI hit the $2 billion revenue milestone in December and it believes it can more than double this figure in 2025.
AI agents are emerging as a new distribution channel, potentially leveling the playing field between startups and incumbents by making purchasing decisions on behalf of consumers. As this trend progresses, businesses must optimize their products for AI preferences rather than human ones, changing the traditional dynamics of product discovery, evaluation, and purchase. AI's advancements suggest a future where agent-driven commerce could transform how products are marketed and purchased.
This post is about the role of humans in data generation. It also talks about collecting preference data, annotating, labeling, and more.
Transferring skills from one RL agent to another has proved challenging thus far. This work optimizes for a set of skills that can be used across environments. It shows promising generalization performance.
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Allowing a language model to generate its own training data is a challenging but promising area of research. SPIN is a method that has shown promise. The code has been released but is reportedly challenging to work with.
A reinforcement learning framework based on MLX.
Llmware is a unified framework for developing LLM-based application patterns including Retrieval Augmented Generation.
Point Transformer V3 (PTv3) is a simple and efficient model for processing 3D point clouds. It achieves faster processing speeds and better memory efficiency by focusing on scaling up and efficiency rather than on intricate design details.
AI will fundamentally change how we produce and consume art and ultimately the type of art we create. This article explores this point in more depth and highlights the companies driving the change.
Research talk from Google about reading music from a person’s brain.
Shipments of AI PCs equipped with hardware and software for local generative AI tasks are predicted to hit nearly 50 million units this year, with potential growth to triple in a few years.
According to Elon Musk, Neuralink has conducted its first FCA-approved surgical test of a brain implant. Techno accelerationism in action.
A toolkit for building AI Assistants using function calling.