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FLOW EDIT

Easy editing of images with flow based models.

2024.12.30
github.comGitHub repositoryTLDR AI

TRANSFUSION IN PYTORCH

Lucidrains has written up a great reimplementation of Meta's token + diffusion model Transfusion which can do images and text in a single model.

2024.12.30
github.comGitHub repositoryTLDR AI

FAST LLM INFERENCE FROM SCRATCH

The article outlines the process of building an LLM inference engine using C++ and CUDA without external libraries, focusing on optimizing inference speed for consumer devices. It explores techniques like multithreading, vectorization, warp reductions, coalescing, and quantization to maximize performance and successfully surpass llama.cpp's throughput in specific scenarios. Additionally, the piece discusses potential for further optimization and the advantages of using established libraries for production-grade implementations.

2024.12.30
andrewkchan.dev6 min readTLDR AI

COMPUTING INSIDE AN AI

Shifting from a model-as-person to a model-as-computer metaphor could enhance AI usefulness by enabling graphical interfaces and direct manipulation, rather than relying on slow conversational inputs. This new interaction paradigm could allow users to engage with AI like a dynamic, customizable app, offering more efficient and versatile functionality. Generative interfaces could eventually transform computing, allowing users to modify and create applications on demand for specific tasks.

2024.12.30
willwhitney.com11 min readTLDR AI

LEAKED DOCUMENTS SHOW OPENAI HAS A VERY CLEAR DEFINITION OF ‘AGI'

Microsoft and OpenAI's definition of artificial general intelligence (AGI) is 'a system that can generate at least $100 billion in profits'. The companies agreed on the definition in 2023 as part of an agreement which had a clause that stated that OpenAI would stop allowing Microsoft to use any new technology it develops after AGI is achieved. OpenAI and Microsoft have been on diverging paths for some time now. Microsoft needs its own proprietary tech and OpenAI needs more money.

2024.12.27
gizmodo.com3 min readTLDR

DEEPSEEK-V3 IS NOW THE BEST OPEN SOURCE AI MODEL

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI research lab, has released DeepSeek-V3, a Mixture-of-Experts model that features a total of 671B parameters. The model was trained on 14.8 trillion tokens. It has been released on GitHub along with a detailed paper outlining its capabilities. The model outperformed Meta's flagship Llama 3.1 405B parameter model and many other closed-source models on benchmark scores.

2024.12.27
analyticsindiamag.com3 min readTLDR

CHINA LAUNCHES 1ST SET OF SPACECRAFT FOR PLANNED 13,000-SATELLITE BROADBAND CONSTELLATION

China launched 10 internet satellites on a Long March 5B rocket earlier this month. The satellites entered their predetermined orbits smoothly and the mission was a complete success. They are the first batch for Guowang, a broadband megaconstellation in low earth orbit (LEO) that will eventually consist of nearly 13,000 spacecraft. Guowang will be one of two Chinese versions of SpaceX's Starlink LEO megaconstellation.

2024.12.27
space.com3 min readTLDR

STARTUPS BEGIN GEOENGINEERING THE SEA

Captura is a company that plans to electrochemically strip carbon dioxide out of the ocean, store or use it, then return the water to the sea, where it will naturally absorb more carbon dioxide from the air. It will start pumping as much of the Pacific ocean as it can in a few months at Hawaii's Keāhole Point. Besides Captura, there are dozens of similar field trials and pilot projects that will start scaling up their facilities in 2025.

2024.12.27
spectrum.ieee.org11 min readTLDR

GHOSTTY

Ghostty is a terminal emulator that doesn't force you to choose between speed, features, or native UIs. It can be used as a drop-in replacement for your existing terminal emulator. In addition to being a standalone terminal emulator, Ghostty is also a C-compatible library for embedding a fast, feature-rich terminal emulator in any 3rd party project.

2024.12.27
github.comGitHub repositoryTLDR

ACTUAL WEB RENDERING IN TERMINAL

awrit is a full graphical web browser for Kitty terminal with mouse and keyboard support. It works best with Kitty v0.28 or newer. awrit can be used to display documentation from DevDocs, watch the changes from Vite come to life, create a tiled layout without a tiling window manager, and add fancy UI using web technologies.

2024.12.27
github.comGitHub repositoryTLDR

THOUGHTS ON THE EVE OF AGI

The release of o3 suggests the next few years are going to be insane. This post details some predictions about how AI will change the world over the next few years. The predictions cover areas such as AI agents, the software engineering industry, science and research, war and societal chaos, what happens if AI goes rogue, and more.

2024.12.27
threadreaderapp.com12 min readTLDR

WHY GOOGLE BOUGHT CHARACTER AI

Google may have bought Character AI because Character AI had figured out how to run its models without costing a fortune. Character AI was able to serve millions of users without bleeding money. Google is now giving away flash models for free on AI Studio - this wouldn't be possible without figuring out how to make inference really cheap. Pre-training has hit diminishing returns, so companies are shifting toward chain-of-thought prompting and inference-time optimizations.

2024.12.27
manassaloi.com1 min readTLDR

SECONDS SINCE THE EPOCH

POSIX time assumes the length of the day is 86,400 seconds, which is not always true.

2024.12.27
aphyr.com6 min readTLDR

DNS NAMESERVERS

The optimal approach for a domain when considering both performance and operational resilience is for the domain to be served by two distinct dual-stack diverse anycast nameservers.

2024.12.27
potaroo.net19 min readTLDR

GOOGLE GEMINI IS USING CLAUDE TO IMPROVE ITS AI

Google contractors are comparing Gemini AI's responses with Anthropic's Claude, but it's unclear if Google has permission to use Claude for testing. The contractors noted that Claude prioritizes safety in its responses more than Gemini. Google states that while it evaluates model outputs against competitors, it does not train Gemini on Anthropic's models.

2024.12.27
techcrunch.com3 min readTLDR AI

AI MODELS ARE GETTING SMARTER. NEW TESTS ARE RACING TO CATCH UP

AI systems are rapidly advancing, outperforming expectations on new challenging evaluations, like Epoch AI's FrontierMath. Despite this progress, designing effective evals to understand and manage AI capabilities remains complex and underfunded. Experts stress the need for sophisticated, timely tests to monitor potential risks as models evolve.

2024.12.27
time.com13 min readTLDR AI

HOW HALLUCINATORY A.I. HELPS SCIENCE DREAM UP BIG BREAKTHROUGHS

AI hallucinations, often criticized for inaccuracies, are proving valuable in scientific research by accelerating idea generation and discovery processes. Notable achievements include Nobel Prize-winning protein designs and innovations in antibiotic development and catheter design. Despite controversies around the term "hallucinations," experts acknowledge AI's potential for groundbreaking scientific insights.

2024.12.27
links.tldrnewsletter.com10 min readTLDR AI

MATERIAL TRANSFORMATIONS ACROSS SCENES

This research introduces a technique for applying material transformations, like wetness or coating, across different scenes using disentangled Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF).

2024.12.27
arxiv.org18 min readTLDR AI

THE RISKS OF TRAINING AIS ON USER FEEDBACK

Researchers explored the consequences of training AI language models to optimize for user feedback, like thumbs up ratings. The study shows that this approach can lead to manipulation as AIs learn to game the system.

2024.12.27
arxiv.org21 min readTLDR AI

A BENCHMARK FOR FEDERATED LEARNING IN LLMS

A new benchmark evaluates the federated fine-tuning of MLLMs across diverse scenarios, including two datasets, five baselines, and over ten types of multimodal heterogeneities.

2024.12.27
github.comGitHub repositoryTLDR AI

METAL PUZZLES

A number of puzzles and tutorials to learn GPU programming on Mac Metal acceleration.

2024.12.27
github.comGitHub repositoryTLDR AI

AI GODMOTHER FEI-FEI LI HAS A VISION FOR COMPUTER VISION

Fei-Fei Li's startup, World Labs, aims to enhance AI with 3D spatial intelligence to generate and interact with 3D worlds. The focus on spatial intelligence is crucial for advancing AI capabilities in both real and virtual 3D environments. This technology could revolutionize sectors like robotics, design, and augmented reality.

2024.12.27
spectrum.ieee.org8 min readTLDR AI

THE AI REVOLUTION IS RUNNING OUT OF DATA. WHAT CAN RESEARCHERS DO?

AI development faces a data shortage crisis, projected to hit by 2028, as training data sizes approach the total stock of public online text. AI companies like OpenAI are exploring solutions such as generating new data and using unconventional sources to mitigate this issue. This data crunch may shift focus toward smaller, specialized AI models rather than large-scale LLMs.

2024.12.27
nature.com8 min readTLDR AI

RED RABBIT ROBOTICS OFFERS HUMAN-LIKE ROBOTS AS A SERVICE

Red Rabbit Robotics is advancing the field of autonomous labor by developing and open-sourcing the RX1 robot for manufacturing and commercial applications. It aims to tap into the labor shortage by providing cost-effective, robotic solutions for dull, dangerous, and dirty jobs. The company's goal is to make robots more accessible at a lower price point and gradually transition from teleoperation to full autonomy, prioritizing utility and widespread adoption.

2024.12.27
theregister.com6 min readTLDR AI

PRICE WAR INTENSIFIES AS AMAZON REPORTEDLY TARGETS CHINESE SELLERS OFFERING CHEAP GOODS ON TEMU

Amazon has reportedly instructed some of its Chinese cross-border merchants to stop listing lower-priced products on Temu. Temu has seen rapid growth in its market share in the US - it was the most downloaded free app in the country in 2024. The site's aggressive pricing strategy has forced Amazon to take action. Amazon has responded to the rumors by stating that sellers have the freedom to determine their own sales strategies and can set prices for their products on Amazon and other sales channels.

2024.12.26
technode.com3 min readTLDR

META TO ADD DISPLAYS TO RAY BAN SMART GLASSES IN 2025

Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses may get displays as soon as the second half of 2025. The new displays will be used to show notifications and responses from Meta's virtual assistant. Plans to turn Orion, its augmented reality glasses prototype, into a consumer product have been brought forward, though a release is still likely to be years away. More big tech firms, like Qualcomm, Samsung, and Google, are entering into the mixed-reality glasses space. Apple may be releasing a cheaper version of the Apple Vision Pro at some point after 2027.

2024.12.26
links.tldrnewsletter.com2 min readTLDR

AI DECODES THE CALLS OF THE WILD

Animal communications have patterns and structures that convey information to other members of that animal's species. A growing number of biologists and computer scientists are applying AI to animal sounds to reveal what they are saying to each other. AI-assisted studies have found that both African savannah elephants and common marmoset monkeys give names to their companions. As these computer models improve, they may enable scientists to investigate animals' self-awareness.

2024.12.26
nature.com50 min readTLDR

TRANSPARENT BAMBOO: A FIREPROOF AND WATERPROOF ALTERNATIVE TO GLASS

Chinese scientists have turned bamboo into a transparent material that is resistant to fire and water and suppresses smoke. The team used the same method used to turn wood transparent to turn the bamboo transparent - bamboo's internal structure and chemical composition is very similar to wood. The resulting transparent bamboo can be used as a building material. When used as a substrate for perovskite solar cells, it acts like a light management layer, boosting cells' power conversion efficiency by 15.29%.

2024.12.26
newatlas.com3 min readTLDR

SHORTEST

Shortest is an AI-powered natural language end-to-end testing framework. It lets developers write tests in plain English and let AI handle the execution. Shortest uses Anthropic's Claude API. It is built on Playwright and has GitHub integration with 2FA support.

2024.12.26
github.comGitHub repositoryTLDR

A CSS WISHLIST FOR 2025

2024 was a great year for CSS. Several features, including cross-document view transitions, scroll-driven animations, anchor positioning, and animate to height: auto were introduced. This article suggests more CSS features that developers want, such as a conditional if() statement, CSS mixins, anchor positioning in more browsers, and a way to balance flex-wrap.

2024.12.26
css-tricks.com10 min readTLDR

AI MODELS ARE GETTING SMARTER. NEW TESTS ARE RACING TO CATCH UP

Evaluations (or evals) help researchers understand what advanced AI systems can do. Designing effective evals is challenging and expensive and the field is underfunded. Modern AI systems regularly achieve top scores on many popular evals, making it harder to judge how quickly they are improving. Companies, nonprofits, and governments have created new sets of much more challenging evals in response, but AI systems are making astonishing progress, even on the most advanced tests.

2024.12.26
time.com13 min readTLDR

MARK ZUCKERBERG WENT ALL IN ON META'S AI STRATEGY THIS YEAR. THE PRESSURE BUILDS IN 2025

Meta said in April that it would raise spending levels by as much as $10 billion to support infrastructure investments for its AI efforts. The announcement sent shares plunging, but several months later, Meta's stock price has hit a new record. AI has become Meta's top priority, directly impacting the company's business and potentially paving the way for future revenue opportunities. This all-encompassing approach to AI has led analysts to predict that Meta will be positioned for more success in 2025.

2024.12.26
cnbc.com13 min readTLDR

SERVER-SENT EVENTS (SSE) ARE UNDERRATED

Server-Sent Events, a one-way communication channel from server to client over HTTP, offer a simpler, often overlooked alternative to WebSockets.

2024.12.26
igorstechnoclub.com8 min readTLDR