Full-text search across article titles and summaries. Refine with sector, year, content type, and reading-time filters.
DreamHoi has introduced a new AI technique for generating realistic 3D human-object interactions using textual descriptions and advanced diffusion models. This approach aims to bridge the gap between textual input and detailed 3D output, enhancing virtual experiences.
Apple's generative AI will expand to more languages, including German and Korean, by 2025. It will initially launch in American English with iOS 18.1 but will face regulatory hurdles in the EU and China. Apple is in talks with the European Commission and Chinese regulators to address these issues.
Salesforce Ventures has announced a new $500 million fund, bringing its AI investment total to $1 billion.
LinkedIn allegedly trained AI models on user data without initially updating its privacy policy.
T-Mobile and OpenAI will build a new customer service system powered by AI agents as part of a multi-year partnership.
OpenAI is starting a program for low and middle income countries to expand access to AI knowledge. It also has a professional translation of MMLU (a standard reasoning benchmark) in 15 different languages.
Alibaba has released over 100 open-source AI models, enhancing its technology to compete with rivals. The new Qwen 2.5 models, upgraded in math and coding, span applications from automobiles to gaming. Alibaba has also launched a new proprietary model, Qwen-Max 2.5, and a text-to-video tool to strengthen its AI and cloud services offerings.
Apple's iOS 18.1 will introduce key AI features, including an enhanced Siri, generative AI tools in Photos, and ChatGPT integration. iOS 18.2 will expand these features with localized support in various English-speaking countries and add Image Playground and Genmoji. Future updates, such as iOS 18.4, will further enhance Siri's personalization and introduce new language support.
Maximal Update Parameterization, or muP, is a way to initialize your model so that you can transfer hyperparameters at any scale. This blog from Eleuther and Cerebras includes a minimal nanoGPT example and lots of instruction on how the process works.
Getting a diffusion model to generate a certain number of an object is currently challenging. This work introduces a counting token that allows a model to successfully generate just a few or very many of a certain object. It isn't perfect as it builds on base stable diffusion, but it does much better than current alternatives.
Researchers have developed a standardized evaluation protocol to compare methods for extending language models to handle long document contexts.
Sponsored
The results are in - and they're not pretty. Orca Security has published its new State of AI Security Report [10], based on scans of billions of cloud assets. Organizations and cloud providers are prioritizing AI development velocity over security considerations,
This repository hosts an implementation of a 3D Vision Transformer designed for efficient field boundary delineation using time series satellite imagery. The model leverages spatio-temporal correlations to improve accuracy and robustness, particularly in challenging conditions such as partial cloud cover.
CritiPrefill is a method designed to accelerate the prefilling phase of long-context processing in large language models. By identifying and skipping non-essential computations, this approach speeds up the process by up to 3x on certain models.
MAgICoRe is a new strategy to improve reasoning in large language models by addressing challenges in refinement processes. It categorizes problems by difficulty, using simpler strategies for easy tasks and multi-agent iterative refinement for harder ones.
A great blog post that explores the popular multimodal RAG system and how it can be used to solve practical problems.
By analyzing X-ray crystallography data, the model could help researchers develop new materials for many applications, including batteries and magnets.
This article explores when AI might surpass humans in cognitive volume, introducing "thought-hours" as a metric to quantify AI's cognitive output compared to human labor. Using assumptions around reading speeds and productivity, a thought-hour equates to 10,000 tokens. Current trends suggest AI could outthink humans within a decade, given the rapid growth in AI capabilities and cost efficiencies.
Sponsored
You can't sell AI to businesses without modern authentication: SSO + MFA + all the bells and whistles. Luckily, you don't need to build it
Microsoft is expanding its generative AI suite to include automated agents, adding features within its Copilot assistants and unveiling a new tool to help multiple workers collaboratively interact with artificial intelligence.
OpenAI said that CEO Sam Altman is leaving the board's safety and security committee, which will now be fully composed of independent board members.
A great lecture from the CUDA Mode group about getting started with the CUDA framework, Triton.
Anthropic shows how to semantically chunk documents, which dramatically improves performance while only costing $1/million chunks due to caching.
This guide was missed in the excitement of OpenAI's new reasoning models. It shows how prompting this new model is different and requires simpler prompts and a more structured input context.
Jony Ive is collaborating with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on a new AI hardware project. The venture could raise $1 billion by year-end and involves key former Apple designers. Specifics of the device remain undetermined, but it aims to leverage generative AI for advanced user interactions.
Much work has been done to generalize pretrained image diffusion models into niche depth estimators and other image conditional models. This work found that by simplifying the problem and fixing a small bug, researchers were able to get substantially improved performance with less training compute.
Deepmind has released a paper that shows promise, even if the actual results aren't state-of-the-art. It shows a reinforcement learning paradigm that can be used to help models self-correct when generating math and code.
Another great Google paper that shows how to evaluate long context models. It is directionally similar to the recent work by Magic.
Sponsored
This Wednesday [10], data leaders from Bayer, Evoke, and AtScale will discuss:
Image and text to 3D with mesh smoothing and PBR ready lighting
Simple yet powerful tool to label, embed, and classify unlabeled text at the command line. It also works on streams which gives it the ability to receive piped input from other sources.
The highly funded real-time assistant voice startup showed off its impressive tech a few months ago. It has now released a detailed technical report and several model artifacts including code and model weights.
Solar Pro is a 22B language model that can fit on a single 80GB GPU. The goal of this project is to make the most powerful model that can run on a single device.
Researchers find large language models make inconsistent decisions about whether to call the police when analyzing surveillance videos.
Sparse Autoencoders are the number one tool used today to understand the internals of language models. This post explores the intuitions behind the models and some good information on how they work.
The TRL library has added GKD to its training procedures.
Arcade is a new platform where users can go from prompt to product.
Salesforce is collaborating with Nvidia to create AI-powered avatars designed to enhance virtual interactions and customer service.
Sponsored
If you don't mind having your personal data available to every spammer, scammer, and bad actor who's willing to pay for it, skip this ad.
Snapchat has announced a new AI video-generation tool for select creators that enables video creation from text and soon image prompts. The tool, powered by Snap's foundational video models, will be available in beta on the web. Snap aims to compete with companies like OpenAI and Adobe but has not shared output examples yet.
Apple has released public betas of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1 that feature new Apple Intelligence tools like text rewriting and photo cleanup. Only the iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Pro, and M1 iPads and Macs support these AI features. Final versions are expected in October.
Cruise is resuming operations in Sunnyvale and Mountain View, with human-driven vehicles for mapping and plans to progress to supervised AV testing later this fall. This follows a settlement and leadership change after an October 2023 crash. Cruise has issued software updates and signed a partnership with Uber for robotaxi services starting in 2025.
V-STaR is a novel approach to improving large language models that utilizes both correct and incorrect solutions generated during self-improvement to train a verifier, which then selects the best solution at inference time. The method has shown significant improvements in accuracy on code generation and math reasoning benchmarks compared to existing approaches, potentially offering a more efficient way to enhance LLM performance.
Vista3D is a new framework that generates 3D models from a single image in just 5 minutes. Using a two-phase approach, it quickly forms rough geometry before refining the details, capturing both visible and hidden aspects of objects for more complete 3D reconstructions.
PhysMamba is a new framework designed for remote heart monitoring via facial videos, addressing challenges in capturing long-range physiological signals.
Sponsored
Uniting engineering teams & tech leadership unleashing the LLM revolution, AIAI Boston returns on October 16-18.
A somewhat amazing advancement in general-purpose optical character recognition (OCR) that can read text from images with great performance. This particular version dramatically improves in-the-wild OCR as well.