In his annual letter to shareholders, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy laid out a vision for how generative AI could become the company's next pillar of growth. The company has invested $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic and added prominent computer scientist and AI expert Dr. Andrew Ng to its board. Amazon is taking a three-pronged approach to AI innovation: it will focus on AI models, applications built on top of the models, and the chips that power the technology. The company is optimistic that a lot of world-changing AI will be built on top of AWS.
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2024.04.12·oneschema.co·Sponsor·TLDR High capacity drives are seeing high demand in AI-powered servers and data centers - small capacity drives (2 TB or less) are seeing a decline in price.
2024.04.12·theregister.com·2 min read·TLDR A look at how continuous integration testing developed and where future speedups in software testing can be found.
2024.04.12·graphite.dev·13 min read·TLDR The software development culture shift towards more dependencies is creating more products and companies that rely on closed-source software or APIs for their full functionality - this could have future negative implications.
2024.04.12·ingino.me·13 min read·TLDR The interview discusses Kurian's keynote at the Google Cloud Next conference, Google Cloud's strategy, why AI offers a reset in competition, and how Google can win in the enterprise space broadly.
2024.04.12·stratechery.com·43 min read·TLDR This article details several improvements to UUIDs that enhance their usability and efficiency in applications, providing a better experience for both users and developers.
2024.04.12·unkey.dev·8 min read·TLDR 2024.04.12·invest.helloryse.com·TLDR AI Sponsored
Venture capitalists know how difficult it is to spot PROMISING EARLY INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES, and the story of Ring doorbells is the perfect example. Even the all-knowing Sharks from _Shark Tank _declined the offer to buy 10% of Ring for $700,000, and now the company has blown up, all thanks to retail distribution. Next, let's turn our attention to RYSE: the brand set to follow a similar trajectory. The founder PITCHED ON CANADA'S VERSION OF _SHARK TANK, DRAGONS' DEN_, received two offers [3], and now their patented tech is currently sold in over 100 Best Buy stores.
2024.04.12·invest.helloryse.com·Sponsor·TLDR AI Cohere has released its newest foundation model, Rerank 3, purpose-built to enhance enterprise search and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. The model is compatible with any database or search index and can also be plugged into any legacy application with native search capabilities. Rerank 3 can boost search performance or reduce the cost of running RAG applications with negligible impact on latency with a single line of code.
2024.04.12·txt.cohere.com·8 min read·TLDR AI Meta is expanding its "Made with AI" labeling to cover a broader range of AI-generated content starting in May in response to the evolving landscape of manipulated media. Labels will be applied through various means, including user disclosure and detection of AI-made content. The policy update follows recommendations from Meta's independent Oversight Board.
2024.04.12·axios.com·1 min read·TLDR AI Mistral has released a new 8x22B model via magnet link. The first version of benchmarks from the community show it performs admirably as a base model with 77 MMLU (commonly associated with reasoning).
2024.04.12·huggingface.co·3 min read·TLDR AI The Motif Channel Attention Stereo Matching Network (MoCha-Stereo) is a novel approach that preserves geometric structures often lost in traditional stereo matching methods.
2024.04.12·arxiv.org·14 min read·TLDR AI PoLoPCAC is a method for lossless point cloud attribute compression that marries high efficiency with strong adaptability across varying scales and densities of point clouds.
2024.04.12·arxiv.org·18 min read·TLDR AI This study introduces a weak-to-strong eliciting framework to improve surround refinement in Multi-Camera 3D Object Detection (MC3D-Det), a field enhanced by bird's-eye view technologies.
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Learn how to build a virtual banking chatbot [11] that answers user questions based on real-time data. This demo uses Amazon Bedrock to power the chatbot with any GenAI model (in this case Claude by Anthropic), and Confluent Cloud [12] to make real-time data available
2024.04.12·confluent.io·Sponsor·TLDR AI This project unveils InstantMesh, a framework that generates 3D meshes from a single image instantly, boasting unmatched quality and scalability.
2024.04.12·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI A recent study investigated how different concepts are understood by various layers within large language models. It found that simpler tasks are handled by earlier layers while more complex ones require deeper processing.
2024.04.12·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI SplatPose addresses the challenge of anomaly detection in 3D objects from various poses with a novel approach that uses 3D Gaussian splatting.
2024.04.12·arxiv.org·16 min read·TLDR AI UberEats customers in the Phoenix metropolitan area will receive some food deliveries via Waymo's Jaguar I-PACE electric vehicles.
2024.04.12·cnbc.com·2 min read·TLDR AI The generative AI industry looks like it is facing many issues, but there is still a lot of hype. Many people have found a use case for the technology and are using it. Research continues to push the field further at a fast pace.
2024.04.12·thealgorithmicbridge.com·11 min read·TLDR AI This mixture-of-experts model was trained using public datasets on a reasonable amount of compute. It matches the performance of the much larger and more expensive Llama 2 7B model from Meta.
2024.04.12·huggingface.co·4 min read·TLDR AI Spotify has introduced AI playlists, a new feature that allows users to generate personalized playlists based on written prompts.
2024.04.12·techcrunch.com·2 min read·TLDR AI Build your dream website in 20 seconds with AI.
Microsoft is currently ahead of the competition in the AI talent wars.
2024.04.12·exponentialview.co·2 min read·TLDR AI JPMorgan estimates that the chances of spot ether ETF approval in May are no more than 50%. The company suggests that, based on recent litigation outcomes and decreasing concentration in Ethereum staking, the SEC will eventually have to approve spot ether ETFs.
Top U.S. House lawmakers, including Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry and Democrat Maxine Waters, met with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to discuss advancing stablecoin legislation. They have considered packaging the stablecoin bill with the Federal Aviation Administration's funding reauthorization. Despite doubts about the stablecoin bill passing this year, McHenry, who is retiring, is prioritizing the bill to regulate stablecoin issuers and stabilize cryptocurrency trading.
EIP-3074 is an approved upgrade to Ethereum that will allow externally owned accounts to act like smart contract wallets without deploying a contract. This enables single transaction approvals, batch transactions, wallet asset recovery, sponsored transactions, and more.
Transporter is a new cross-chain bridge developed in collaboration with the Chainlink Foundation. It is designed to securely transfer tokens across multiple blockchains, addressing the industry's need for better security in the wake of $2.83 billion lost to bridge hacks. Transporter prioritizes security, utilizing Chainlink's CCIP for protection and offering a user-friendly interface with 24/7 support and a visual tracker.
Uniswap Labs is being sued by the SEC. The Uniswap Protocol is a credibly neutral infrastructure. It acts like an electric grid that can be built upon by other companies and applications to utilize the benefits of trustless liquidity. The company has no control over what is listed or who builds on the protocol — it is merely a software publisher operating a front end.
Though onboarding and transaction costs decrease by 99% for L3s compared to L2s, the reduction in higher layers is not nearly as significant. L4s and up improve scalability but ultimately settle to Ethereum and do not come with additional cost reduction. There may be L4s that emerge on the most successful L3s, but primarily for ecosystem reasons and not technical or financial benefits.
DeFi is being tested in legal battles. Avi Eisenberg leveraged Mango Markets' code to extract $110 million, arguing that because the code permitted it, he didn't commit a crime. At the same time, the SEC's case against Uniswap Labs could determine how decentralized DeFi can be and whether the vision of a fully autonomous, code-based financial system is realizable.
AI creates a torrent of images that can't be trusted - blockchain can be used to verify the origins of images.
By creating memecoins for specific communities or applications, creators are both deriving value from and creating value for the original content.
They include a fast finality rollup solution, a zk coprocessor, an Ethereum oracle, light client functionality, and DePIN coordination.
Arch brings smart contract functionality to Bitcoin through the ArchVM, a Rust-based zero knowledge virtual machine and a decentralized verifier network.
The latest UI redesign of YouTube's video player, which shifts video details to a narrow right-aligned column, has been criticized by users who find it congested and detracting from community engagement. Despite YouTube's claim that the change aims to facilitate reading comments while watching, the adverse reaction may prompt a reconsideration of the design.
User insights, derived from data and behavior, provide actionable guidance for teams, prioritized by urgency to tackle critical issues first. Ensure insights meet value, relevance, specificity, and contextuality criteria. Aggregate related issues and map them against project goals to communicate the stakes and drive decision-making.
2024.04.12·dataanddesign.substack.com·8 min read·TLDR Design The notion that "AI" will negate the importance of accessibility is wrong. Instead, addressing accessibility demands human-centric solutions tailored to real-world scenarios. While current technology offers tools to foster accessibility, adhering to established guidelines can effectively address user needs without significant alteration.
Choosing suitable typefaces and icons can improve brand recognition, enhance the overall user experience, and maintain visual consistency in a project. Pair icons with a typeface after considering the project's audience, message, and overall tone, as well as its visual style and context. Typeface and icon are so interdependent that sometimes it's worth creating an icon set from scratch based on the typeface.
2024.04.12·blog.streamlinehq.com·11 min read·TLDR Design Designed to be a reference for anyone building component-based user interfaces, The Component Gallery is an up-to-date repository of interface components based on examples from design systems.
Generate a perceptually uniform full-spectrum color palette that ensures that color values correspond to equal changes in perceived luminosity and contrast.
Insert dummy logos of famous companies and country flags into your Figma or Figjam file quickly.
This non-destructive teardown of the Apple Vision Pro exposes its unique design, with canted internal components, dual 3,680 x 3,140-pixel micro-OLED displays, custom M2 and R1 chips, and micro blowers for active cooling.
Vercel's Design Engineers combine aesthetic sensibility with technical skills. They spend time deep-diving into a problem before designing, building, and shipping a solution autonomously. In this article, you'll learn how they integrate into Vercel's product team, explore their toolbox, and see examples of their contributions.
AI tools like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot can help UX researchers plan their research by outlining its objectives and how it will be conducted. They can create helpful research questions, tasks, interview questions, and other study collateral quickly and efficiently. This practical guide teaches how to use AI as a copartner in research.
Mymind uses clever AI to automatically name, tag, and categorize images, even creating folders, saving you significant time and effort.
In "Universal Principles of Typography," Elliot Jay Stocks provides a helpful illustration guide for professionals and enthusiasts interested in improving their typographic skills.