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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has diversified Microsoft's AI investments by partnering with AI startups and building an in-house AI team led by Mustafa Suleyman. This strategy includes significant investments, including $1.5 billion in an Abu Dhabi-based AI firm. It aims to create internal AI capabilities potentially rivaling OpenAI.
OpenAI is adding former NSA head and retired General Paul Nakasone to its board of directors as well as its newly formed Safety and Security Committee.
Apple and OpenAI have forged a partnership to integrate OpenAI's ChatGPT into iOS. The agreement was a key focus for Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. The partnership is likely a short- to medium-term relationship for Apple, which is developing its own AI features. Apple is still in talks with Google about using Gemini in its devices. The company is also looking beyond chatbots - it is currently working on a mobile robot that can follow users around and handle chores on their behalf and AI features for its AirPods and cameras.
Sakana AI has employed an evolutionary strategy to find a preference optimization scheme that outperforms DPO. It used a language model to suggest code and then trained models based on that code. After 100 or so generations, it had several proposed variants with extremely high performance.
Recaptioning web scraped images with a vision model dramatically improves downstream model performance. This is especially true in models such as CLIP.
This paper introduces DiffRIR, a new framework designed to reconstruct the spatial acoustic characteristics of environments using a small number of room impulse response (RIR) recordings and a planar scene reconstruction.
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Microsoft has trained a Mamba-based model on the Phi 3 dataset. It dramatically outperforms the transformer variant on MMLU, HumanEval, and retrieval.
Framework and tooling for running diffusion models on Apple's MLX framework.
Researchers have demonstrated that masked discrete diffusion models can rival autoregressive methods in language modeling by applying an effective training recipe and introducing a simplified Rao-Blackwellized objective.
Google AI has announced updates to the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, including the Gemini 1.5 stable release, higher API rate limits, model tuning support, and new JSON schema and mobile support features. The updates enhance developers' options for building at scale with improved customization and efficiency.
ElevenLabs has introduced a new AI Audio model capable of creating diverse sound effects, tracks, and voices from text prompts. Leveraging Shutterstock's audio library, this collaboration enhances content creation for media professionals by enabling fast, scalable production of high-quality audio. Users can easily generate sounds through ElevenLabs' platform, simplifying the audio design process.
The vast majority of OpenAI's revenue comes from OpenAI's products and services. The company has been working to boost revenue by selling services to enterprise customers.
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Secret new DeepMind kernel in Jax for Sparse Flash Attention.
Agrilla, a preference fine-tuning and data company, is joining Hugging Face via acquisition.
OpenAI has appointed Sarah Friar as CFO and Kevin Weil as CPO, strengthening its leadership to support the organization's mission in AI research and product development tailored for consumers, developers, and businesses.