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TLDR AI 2024-05-15

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01GENERAL

Sponsored

MIT

Building an AI product is hard. Engineers who understand AI are expensive and difficult to find. And there's no way of telling who's legit and who's not.

ae.studioSponsor

02HEADLINES & LAUNCHES

GOOGLE I/O

Google announced many new features, including Gemini Flash, Veo video generation, Imagen 3, and its newest assistant, Project Astra, at I/O 2024. In all, there are an impressive number of improvements, including 2m token context length, dramatically cheaper models, and improved multimodality.

blog.google9 min read

ANTHROPIC IS EXPANDING TO EUROPE AND RAISING MORE MONEY

Anthropic has expanded its AI assistant, Claude, to Europe. Claude supports multiple languages. Anthropic is offering the service across its website, iOS app, and business plans for teams. The company is beginning the process of raising more money.

techcrunch.com2 min read

03RESEARCH & INNOVATION

MAMBA'S SUITABILITY FOR VISION TASKS

Researchers investigated the Mamba architecture, typically used for tasks with long-sequence and autoregressive characteristics, and its application in vision tasks, and found that while Mamba is not effective for image classification, it shows promise in detection and segmentation tasks that do.

arxiv.org20 min read

A NEW STATE-FREE SEQUENCE PARALLEL INFERENCE

A new state-space model using a dual transfer function representation has been developed for deep learning. It features a state-free sequence parallel inference algorithm.

arxiv.org16 min read

04ENGINEERING & RESOURCES

OLLAMA ON GOOGLE FIREBASE

Genkit is a new toolset for Firebase for building and deploying generative products. It can be used to launch servers for open source language models.

firebase.google.com6 min read

IMAGE DERAINING

ESDNet is a Spiking Neural Network (SNN) designed for image deraining tasks. It capitalizes on the unique properties of rain pixel values to enhance spike signal intensity.

github.comGitHub repository

05MISCELLANEOUS

WHAT OPENAI DID

GPT-4o multimodal abilities, integrating vision and voice, promise significant advances in how AI interacts with the world, paving the way for AI to become a more ubiquitous presence in daily life.

oneusefulthing.org6 min read

FINE-TUNE PALIGEMMA (COLAB NOTEBOOK)

Google released and teased a few open source models in its launch today. One actually-released model is a vision language model based on SigLIP. It is extremely easy to tune and extend to a variety of tasks. This Colab Notebook shows how to do so with clean, readable code.

colab.research.google.com