AMD to acquire Finnish AI startup Silo AI for $665 million, aiming to boost AI services and compete with Nvidia. Silo's team will develop large language models, enhancing chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini.
Microsoft withdraws observer seat on OpenAI board, blocking Apple from similar role amid AI startup scrutiny. Largest backer of ChatGPT developer takes immediate action, as reported by Financial Times.
Anthropic Claude on Amazon Bedrock allows fine-tuning for task-specific performance, offering advantages for enterprises seeking customized AI solutions. Fine-tuning Anthropic Claude 3 Haiku in Amazon Bedrock provides improved performance with reduced costs and latency, enabling businesses to meet specific goals efficiently.
MusGConv introduces a perception-inspired graph convolution block for processing music score data, improving efficiency and performance in music understanding tasks. Traditional MIR approaches are enhanced by MusGConv, which models musical scores as graphs to capture complex, multi-dimensional music relationships.
Delta Lake is an abstraction layer on top of Parquet storage, offering ACID transactions and Time Travel. Consistency in Delta Lake is ensured through Delta Transaction Logs, addressing challenges of immutability and decoupled layers.
Fifteen teens in south-west Spain receive probation for circulating AI-generated fake images of classmates, sparking deepfake technology concerns after parents reported the incident on WhatsApp.
LSTMs, introduced in 1997, are making a comeback with xLSTMs as a potential rival to LLMs in deep learning. The ability to remember and forget information over time intervals sets LSTMs apart from RNNs, making them a valuable tool in language modeling.
Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads S&P AI Benchmarks for finance, showcasing its capabilities in business tasks. Kensho's rigorous evaluations address limitations in LLM assessments, helping financial industry users make informed decisions.
Amazon SageMaker introduces inference optimization toolkit for faster, cost-effective generative AI model optimization. Achieve up to 2x higher throughput and 50% cost reduction with techniques like speculative decoding and quantization.
Spatial reasoning capabilities in Large Language Models are lacking compared to humans, but AI providers are working on improving them through specialized training. Testing shows LLMs struggle with tasks like mental box folding, highlighting the current state of the art in spatial reasoning.
Simplest machine learning technique, Nearest centroid classification predicts penguin species based on physical attributes. Despite limitations, NCC is interpretable and works well with small datasets, demonstrated through a JavaScript demo using the Penguin Dataset.
Eviden, a tech leader in digital transformation, leverages AWS DeepRacer for hands-on cloud-centered learning experiences globally. Eviden enhances event management with AWS DeepRacer Event Manager, facilitating seamless global event support and data-driven racing capabilities.
Stable Diffusion XL by Stability AI offers text-to-image deep learning for professional images. Fine-tune with custom datasets for unique image generation.
Experts warn NHS must focus on basics of cancer treatment, not hyped novel technologies. Paper in Lancet Oncology highlights risk to patients.
NLP techniques enhance rental listings on Airbnb in Tokyo, extracting keywords and improving user experience. Part 2 will cover topic modeling and text prediction for property rentals.