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20x Faster Background Removal in the Browser Using ONNX Runtime with WebGPU
Using ONNX with WebGPU and WebAssembly leads to 20x speedup over multi-threaded and 550x speedup over single-threaded CPU performance. Learn how.
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The most popular blog posts about ai & machine learning on Hacker News. 3,242 posts.
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Accelerated “Ray Tracing in One Weekend” in CUDA
Recent announcements of NVIDIA’s new Turing GPUs, RTX technology, and Microsoft’s DirectX Ray Tracing have spurred a renewed interest in ray tracing. Using these technologies vastly simplifies the…
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Based: Simple linear attention language models
BASED is a linear attention architecture that decodes without a KV-cache, delivering a 24x throughput improvement over Transformers with FlashAttention-2.
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Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn't Apply to AI Training
Jun 21, 2023 | ! Homepage Slider , ! Recent Country News , Artificial Intelligence , BIG DATA , Breaking News , Compliance , Insights , Japan , Machine Learning , Regulatory , Regulatory Framework , Transparency | 0 |
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GPT-4 Turbo with Vision is a step backwards for coding
OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo with Vision model scores worse on aider’s code editing benchmarks than all the previous GPT-4 models. In particular, it seems much more prone to “lazy coding” than the existing GPT-4 Turbo “preview” models.
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Probabilistic programming does in 50 lines of code what used to take thousands
MIT researchers demonstrate probabilistic programming that does in 50 lines of code what used to take thousands.
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Deep learning to translate between programming languages
TransCoder is the first self-supervised neural transcompiler system for migrating code between programming languages. It can translate code from Python to C++, for example, and it outperforms rule-based translation programs.
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LangChain: The Missing Manual
The handbook to the LangChain library for building applications around generative AI and large language models (LLMs).
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Interfaze: A new model architecture built for high accuracy at scale
A complete walkthrough of Interfaze: what it is, who we benchmark against (Gemini-3-Flash, Claude-Sonnet-4.6, GPT-5.4-Mini, Grok-4.3, plus task specialists like Reducto, SAM 3, Scribe v2), full results across 9 benchmarks, and code examples for OCR, object detection, and web search.
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AuraFlow v0.1: a open source alternative to Stable Diffusion 3
Open-source AI is in jeopardy. As community interest in AI models skyrocketed over the past year, we noticed that development of new open-source foundational models came to a halt. Some even boldly announced that open-source AI is dead. Not so fast! We are excited to present you
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Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward
Long before the current kerfuffle about LLMs, Generative AI Artwork, and asking your tax preparation chatbot for a cookie recipe, the concept of artificial intelligence and synthetic life was a pervasive theme in creative and engineering works. We have the ground-breaking appearance of Rossum's Universal Robots (or…
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Self-supervised learning: The dark matter of intelligence (2021)
How can we build machines with human-level intelligence? There’s a limit to how far the field of AI can go with supervised learning alone. Here's why self-supervised learning is one of the most promising ways to make significant progress in AI.
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Pose Animator – An open source tool to bring SVG characters to life (2020)
The TensorFlow blog contains regular news from the TensorFlow team and the community, with articles on Python, TensorFlow.js, TF Lite, TFX, and more.
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ClojureCUDA – CUDA programming in Clojure
Clojure library for GPU computing with CUDA
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xAI announces series B funding round of $6B
xAI is pleased to announce our series B funding round of $6 billion.
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Where is the AI jobs crisis?
If AI were triggering a jobs crisis, we would expect job openings to collapse and unemployment to climb, yet the opposite is happening. Subscribe for daily updates.
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EFF to Courts: Don't Rewrite Copyright over AI Hype
New markets, new ideas, and new creators are actually what copyright is supposed to promote, not restrict. Using copyright to lock in existing gatekeepers and massive rightsholders’ profits helps neither the public nor individual artists.
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Claude Corps
Claude Corps is a national fellowship for early-career people passionate about extending the benefits of AI to communities across America.
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Laion-5B: A new era of open large-scale multi-modal datasets
We present a dataset of 5,85 billion CLIP-filtered image-text pairs, 14x bigger than LAION-400M, previously the biggest openly accessible image-text dataset…
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NSF and Nvidia award Ai2 $152M to support building an open AI ecosystem
Ai2 has been awarded a combined $152 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and NVIDIA as part of a jointly funded project to advance our research and develop truly open AI models and solutions that will accelerate scientific discovery.
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Predicting Stack Overflow Tags with Google’s Cloud AI
Check out a cool project that leverages Stack Overflow Data and Google's Cloud AI to predict what tags would work best on Stack Overflow questions.
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Training agents to invent a language
In this post we’ll outline new OpenAI research in which agents develop their own language.
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Zluda 6 release (run unmodified CUDA applications on non-Nvidia GPUs)
Hi, and welcome to the latest ZLUDA update! Since I skipped the last update, this special issue covers all the developments made in ZLUDA since the start of the year. We now have two new major workloads: PhysX ( PhysX pre-alpha ) and Blender ( Textures support ). Much of this overlaps with Much improved Windows…
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Google-Landmarks: A New Dataset and Challenge for Landmark Recognition
Posted by André Araujo and Tobias Weyand, Software Engineers, Google ResearchImage classification technology has shown remarkable improvement over ...