TLDR AI 2024-06-06

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CARTWHEEL RAISES $5.6M SEED ROUND FOR GENERATIVE 3D ANIMATION TOOL

Cartwheel, a motion synthesis start-up by our very own Andrew Carr, has raised a seed round led by Accel and KV. The company has built a text-to-animation tool and powerful integration into existing 3D workflows.

MISTRAL LAUNCHES FINE-TUNING API

Mistral has launched customization for its models via its platform and API.

IT'S NOT JUST YOU: GOOGLE SEEMINGLY SCALED BACK AI OVERVIEWS AFTER ITS ROCKY LAUNCH

Google has scaled back AI Overviews. The AI-generated answers are now appearing in around 11 percent of queries, down from around 27 percent when the feature was launched last month. The company is still in the process of refining the feature. AI Overviews are appearing most in health-focused searches, despite the company highlighting the tool's use for shopping, restaurant recommendations, and travel in its marketing.

GOOGLE OPTIMIZES SHIPPING ROUTES

The operations research group at Google improved mathematical optimization for cargo shipping routes. They found a 13% reduction in fuel usage and costs.

DREAMMAT: HIGH-QUALITY PBR MATERIAL GENERATION

Dream Mat is a great way to improve texture generation for 3D objects. It uses a number of classical graphic techniques such as Albedo, Metallic, and Roughness to render an extremely compelling output given a 3D mesh.

LLAMACARE FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS

Researchers have introduced LlamaCare, a fine-tuned large language model (LLM) for medical knowledge, along with Extended Classification Integration (ECI) to address classification issues in LLMs.

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EXPLAINABLE RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS WITH LLMS

XRec is a model-agnostic framework that leverages the language capabilities of large language models to enhance explainable recommender systems.

NEURAL SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION

GenS is an end-to-end generalizable neural surface reconstruction model that excels in reconstructing surfaces from multi-view images without 3D supervision.

EFFICIENT LLMS WITHOUT MATRIX MULTIPLICATION

Researchers have found a way to eliminate matrix multiplication (MatMul) from large language models while maintaining strong performance, even at the billion-parameter scale.

STABLE AUDIO OPEN (HUGGING FACE HUB)

Stability AI has released the weights to Stable Audio which was trained to generate sound effects on permissively licensed audio samples.

I'M BEARISH OPENAI

OpenAI's recent brain drain and focus on consumer products complicates its path to competing with big tech.

THE FUTURE OF FOUNDATION MODELS IS CLOSED-SOURCE

The future of AI foundation models will be closed-source due to the centralizing forces of data and compute, which favor economically viable and secure closed models over open-source alternatives.

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BRIGHTEDGE RELEASES POST GOOGLE I/O DATA ON THE IMPACT OF AI OVERVIEWS

New findings from BrightEdge Generative Parser reveal the primary industries impacted by AI Overviews, what triggers results, and where Google automatically anticipates and answers search queries.

CAPTIONS (PRODUCT)

Generate studio-grade videos — complete with custom lighting, varied camera angles, and different backgrounds — without the studio.

VIDEO GENERATION WITH EFFICIENT COMPRESSION

CV-VAE is a video VAE compatible with existing image and video models that offers spatio-temporally compressed latent spaces, enabling efficient training of new video models using pre-trained ones.