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DreamView introduces an innovative approach to creating 3D objects from text descriptions that allows for detailed customization from multiple viewpoints while ensuring the object remains consistent overall.
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Attorch is an attempt to rewrite portions of PyTorch’s nn module in Python and Triton. It is designed to be an easily hackable and performant neural network experimentation library. It is important to note that this would have been prohibitively expensive to write only a few years ago.
Policy-guided diffusion offers a new method for training agents in offline settings, creating synthetic trajectories that closely align with both behavior and target policies. This technique helps to generate more realistic training data, significantly improving the performance of offline reinforcement learning models.
Ada-LEval is a new benchmark designed to rigorously test large language models on their ability to understand long and ultra-long documents.
Hash3D introduces a novel approach to accelerate 3D generative modeling by utilizing a hashing mechanism that leverages feature-map redundancy across similar camera positions and diffusion time-steps.
Amazon invested an additional $2.75 billion into AI startup Anthropic, signifying the tech giant's focus on competing with Microsoft's OpenAI-powered services via AWS. Despite this investment, Amazon's internal AGI team is ambitiously working to outpace Anthropic with its own AI model, Olympus. Amazon's strategic move underscores the importance of advanced AI in the Big Tech arena.
Elon Musk's xAI has released Grok-1.5, an AI with enhanced math and coding skills that boasts a significant performance increase and competitive benchmark results against leading AI models like GPT-4. The updated model can now process much longer context windows, improving its memory capacity. Grok-1.5 is currently accessible to Premium+ users of X. X plans to expand availability to regular Premium subscribers.
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a16z conducted a deep dive into web traffic data to rank the most popular generative AI web products based on monthly visits and uncover patterns on how consumers are actually using Generative AI.
Anthropic's beta tool use API is better than GPT-4 Turbo in 50% of cases on the Berkeley Function Calling benchmark.
Uniswap Labs received a Wells notice from the Securities and Exchange Commission warning the company that the regulator intends to pursue legal action. The company argues that tokens are not securities and that most tokens traded on the protocol are not investment contracts. Recently, there have been discussions about turning on the fee switch for the UNI token. However, this has not been implemented, and Uniswap Labs insists that UNI does not fit the definition of a security since there is no investment contract between the company and token holders.
The price of Bitcoin has dropped below $69,000 as investors wait for U.S. Consumer Price Index data that could influence the Fed's decision on interest rates. Although the market is divided on the possibility of a June rate cut, strong employment data suggests the Fed may maintain current rates, even as inflation is expected to show an increase.
Ora Protocol’s IMO allows tokenizing AI models onchain, bringing revenue sharing to IMO token holders. IMOs serve three purposes: enabling sustainable open-source AI funding, aligning contribution incentives, and model value capture for holders. The $OLM IMO will tokenize the OpenLM model, a medium-sized language model that is performant on up to 7 billion parameters.
Privy is introducing passkey-based login for users, which combines the security of biometric authentication with an enhanced user experience. The company recognizes the current limitations of passkeys, such as cross-device usability and partial browser support, and claims to have developed solutions to solve some of these roadblocks.
Liquid restaking tokens comprise 73% of EigenLayer deposits and are the next evolution of liquid staking protocols like Lido or Jito. With a 7-day withdrawal period on EigenLayer, the barrier to exit is high, making liquidity and price pegging to ETH critical to the success of LRTs. This article analyzes the liquidity, volatility, and volume of the top 5 LRTS – Ether.fi, Renzo, Puffer, Swell, and Kelp DAO – finding that they are not incredibly liquid but have been slowly improving. The LRT market has winner-take-most characteristics since liquidity and integrations are critical to an LRT’s broader success.
Though EigenLayer is the clear market leader in the restaking space, other ecosystems may introduce similar protocols that use SOL or TIA as collateral. As the first asset-agnostic platform, Karak may see a first-mover advantage, especially since it accepts stablecoins. At the same time, single-ecosystem protocols like Lido or Jito have historically performed better, and partnerships with liquid staking and DeFi protocols will prove critical in gaining adoption and integrations.
The commoditization of blockchain infrastructure, enabled by more competitors and options in the modular stack, is catalyzing a new wave of customized, application-specific rollups. By leveraging components like data availability layers (Celestia, Avail, and EigenDA), rollup SDKs (Sovereign and RollKit), and shared sequencers (Astria and Espresso), developers can focus on optimizing applications without the burden of managing the entire stack. At the same time, infrastructure providers can increase demand for their products and protocols by decreasing the cost of using them by commoditizing the complements or tools an application relies on.
By incentivizing users to stay liquid and continuously bid, NFT marketplace Blur may have had the lowest floors, but at the cost of incrementally devaluing NFTs on its platform. Activity on the marketplace, which rewards users with BLUR tokens, was an effective strategy to capture market share and volume in the short term, but it was not strong enough to keep competitor Magic Eden from doubling its daily trading volume and becoming the leading NFT marketplace by revenue. Part of this is due to Magic Eden’s adoption of Bitcoin Ordinals instead of Blur’s focus on Ethereum mainnet.
The fund operates on Ethereum with the transfer agent Securitize LLC, issuing monthly yield in BUIDL tokens, while using USDC for investments and redemptions.
Users within the Pendle ecosystem can tokenize and trade future yields, engage in money markets to borrow against principal tokens (PTs), get insurance for asset protection, and more.
A Deutsche Bank survey indicates increased positivity towards cryptocurrencies, with 40% believing Bitcoin will thrive in the future.
Coinbase’s L2, Base, has recently surpassed $40 million in revenue after exponential transaction volume growth.
Google is launching Google Vids, an AI-powered video creation app, along with meeting, messaging, and security improvements. Workspace Labs will include Google Vids starting in June, enabling users to make storyboards, choose styles, and assemble scenes from stock videos, images, and music.
Messenger users can now create shared albums, send photos in high-definition, and share larger files up to 100MB in chats. With shared albums, you can make albums of pictures and videos in group chats, letting everyone view, add, delete, and download photos and videos. The new HD photo-sharing capability enables users to toggle an "HD" option once they select an image from the chat composer. Messenger lets users directly send Word, PDF, Excel, and zip files instead of emailing them.
Google is expanding access to its AI photo editing tools in Google Photos, including Magic Editor, previously exclusive to Pixel owners and Google One subscribers. Now, any user with a compatible Android or iOS device can use these features, with free users limited to 10 monthly saves, while Pixel owners and paying subscribers enjoy unlimited use.
To ensure the adoption and success of a design system, creators need to adopt a marketer's mindset, craft a compelling narrative, engage with different stakeholders, and demonstrate its value consistently across the organization. Strategies include developing target audience-specific pitches, utilizing engaging communication channels, establishing clear success metrics, and fostering a community of internal advocates to create a self-sustaining culture of use and improvement.
Tesla's recent numbers show that its bad design is causing the company to suffer. The company's car design needs to be more modern and modern. Its insistent commitment to following impossible manufacturing specs has caused production problems. Tesla's refusal to use third parties to craft and manufacture components has led to quality issues. The lack of dealerships constantly decreases customer satisfaction.
The Washington Post developed a 10-day component sprint process that emphasizes collaboration between design and development teams. It contains stages like kickoff and implementation that aim to reduce delivery time and technical limitations. Gathering input from stakeholders and documenting insights are crucial for success as it fosters diverse perspectives and shared stewardship for the design system's adaptability.
Pictify offers APIs to convert HTML to images or GIFs. You can draw images in HTML, export them, and create personalized and shareable content.
Stylar's AI filters will help you effortlessly turn ordinary photos into artwork.
Recursively detach instances, remove auto layouts, and detach styles and variables within your current selection in Figma.
Designers don't necessarily need to implement designs in code, but they should grasp key web concepts like the box model, flexbox, and grid to work effectively within the medium. While tools like Figma have improved in replicating web behaviors, understanding HTML, CSS, and JavaScript allows for a deeper appreciation of digital design considerations and fosters better collaboration with developers for enhanced user experiences.
Designers should prioritize user needs over technology in UX design and avoid over-relying on AI tools by designers. While AI is seen as a valuable tool to streamline processes and aid research in UX design, it's essential to verify AI-generated information and recognize its limitations in understanding user experience.
This post shows how Webflow's team runs large-scale design updates while keeping the UI consistent. Using design tokens and CSS variables, the team improved the range of intentional design updates and made theming a breeze.
The best design focuses more on fixing the basics than creating the newest, shiniest thing.
This is a game where players guess the background color by adjusting three sliders (Red, Green, and Blue).
Apple may revamp its Apple TV experience by adding a built-in camera for video calling and new hand gestures.
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You know that video content is the most effective way to create ROI and conversions. But it’s hard to find a video producer that really understands tech buyers - which leaves video as an underutilized channel.
Since March, Instagram and Threads have instituted a new default setting that limits political content you see from people you’re not following. Hundreds of creators, convened by GLAAD and Accountable Tech, have signed an open letter demanding that Instagram make the political content limit an opt-in feature, rather than on by default. Instagram describes political content as anything related to laws, elections, or social topics. For political creators, these limits impact their livelihood since they make it harder for them to reach new audiences.
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) have unveiled the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA), a bipartisan data privacy proposal that could fundamentally alter the US consumer privacy landscape. The bill, if passed, would give consumers the right to opt out of targeted advertising, allow them to delete any data that was collected about them, and create a federal data broker registry.
British Airways recently dropped a new outdoor ad campaign, Windows, that captures the wonder felt by passengers peering out the window at 35,000 feet. There’s no slogan, no website, and no call to action — instead, the ads sell a feeling. Brand marketing like this can effectively sell value because it focuses on customer experience and expectations. BA’s advertising strategy is to get in a consumer’s head before the price comparison game begins. If the brand were to focus on its amenities in its advertising instead, then it risks inviting the pricing concerns earlier.
Beginner writers tend to pack as much as possible into one sentence, hoping it will evoke some kind of feeling or reaction. Meanwhile, experienced writers avoid adverbs and adjectives because they’re less forceful than nouns and verbs. Adverbs are effective when they add to the meaning of the copy and are not just empty placeholders. This article includes two examples of ads where adverbs added value to the ad copy.
Google has released a guide, focused on Gmail and Docs, that aims to help users write effective prompts. It outlines four main areas to consider, persona, task, context, and format, emphasizing the importance of making prompts concise and avoiding jargon. Additionally, it shares tips including breaking up tasks, giving constraints, assigning roles, asking for feedback, and considering tone to enhance the effectiveness of prompts.
A one-page SEO checklist that covers technical basics, service pages, and blog post templates. It contains 38 questions to ensure your website is set up optimally for organic traffic.
Mimetic Desire is when people want something because they believe others also want it. This is why marketers use models or examples to show the desirability of their product or service. To create Mimetic Desire, brands can embrace popular trends, as Apple did when releasing iPhones in Pantone’s Color of the Year — twice. They can also lean into selling an experience instead of a product, as luxury car brands often do. Social proof with tangible examples of results is a tried and true way to show customers why your product is desirable.
In this interview, the global head of CX at Miro discusses the need to move beyond the traditional debate between sales-led growth (SLG) and product-led growth (PLG). A unified approach that combines elements from both can create a seamless customer experience while increasing resource efficiency. At Miro, this approach involved integrating customer education, content production, and scaled customer success into a single team focused on the whole customer journey. The team succeeded in driving sustainable business growth in the challenging SaaS landscape by prioritizing agility, collaboration, and data-driven decisions.
The focus on creative strategy is often overshadowed by the rush to execute campaigns. However, creative strategy is crucial for driving brand success. A clear brief reduces wasted time, unnecessary testing, and personal biases. Briefs that contain a “high definition strategy” shouldn’t leave space for creativity to blossom. Every element stipulated in the brief should work towards the same end goal, saying what it needs to say to the right audiences in a compelling and culturally relevant way.
The Head of Content at DTCo shares 3 novel Meta ad formats the company has been testing, documenting the entire process.
McDonald's used blank billboards in a creative new campaign in the Netherlands as if to say that its smell is as recognizable as its logo.