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TLDR AI 2024-06-04

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01GENERAL

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02HEADLINES & LAUNCHES

AMD UNVEILS NEW AI CHIPS TO COMPETE WITH NVIDIA

AMD unveiled its latest AI processors, including the MI325X accelerator due in Q4 2024, at the Computex trade show. It also detailed plans to compete with Nvidia by releasing new AI chips annually. The MI350 series, expected in 2025, promises a 35-fold performance increase in inference compared to the MI300 series. The MI400 series is set for a 2026 release.

links.tldrnewsletter.com2 min read

CLAUDE 3 OPUS AVAILABLE ON VERTEX AI

Google Cloud now offers Claude 3 Opus with tool use along with the smaller models as part of its Vertex AI offering.

cloud.google.com3 min read

MAMBA-2

Mambda is a powerful state space model. Its team has released a second version along with a long and detailed explanation of the model and the improvements.

goombalab.github.io23 min read

03RESEARCH & INNOVATION

FINEWEB: HIGHEST QUALITY WEB SCALE TEXT DATASET

Training a language model requires trillions of high quality tokens. Much of the information regarding the construction of these datasets is not published. This stellar blog post discusses different strategies for dataset cleaning and filtering. Its authors have released many of the best datasets out there for language model training.

huggingface.co18 min read

LLMS IN HEALTHCARE

InvariantSelectPR is a method designed to improve the adaptability of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) in domain-specific areas like healthcare.

arxiv.org18 min read

04ENGINEERING & RESOURCES

PORTRAIT ANIMATION WITH RAW DRIVING VIDEOS

MegActor is a new model that leverages raw driving videos for more realistic portrait animation. It achieves impressive results using a novel data generation framework and background encoding techniques by addressing identity leakage and background interference.

megvii-research.github.io3 min read

3D MESH GENERATION

MeshXL is a new model that generates high-quality 3D meshes.

arxiv.org17 min read

05MISCELLANEOUS

AI WEATHER FORECASTING IS ALREADY MAKING HUGE STRIDES

The weather forecasting community is undergoing a revolution with AI models like WindBorne's WeatherMesh, which uses the rich ERA5 dataset to outperform traditional models while requiring significantly less computing power.

arstechnica.com4 min read

HANDWRITTEN MATH RECOGNITION

Implicit Character-Aided Learning (ICAL) improves handwritten mathematical expression recognition.

arxiv.org24 min read

AI'S COMMUNICATION REVOLUTION

AI is leading to a revolution in communication spurred by OpenAI's GPT-4o, which integrates audio, vision, and text in real time. This shift enables more natural interactions with AI, transforming human-to-AI communication into a central mode of digital interaction and potentially leading to significant societal changes and new startups focused on AI-centric communication.

digitalnative.tech14 min read