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Qwen1.5-Moe: Matching 7B Model Performance with 1/3 Activated Parameters
GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DEMO DISCORD Introduction Since the surge in interest sparked by Mixtral, research on mixture-of-expert (MoE) models has gained significant momentum. Both researchers and practitioners are keenly interested in understanding how to effectively train such models and assessing their…
Finetuning LLMs on a Single GPU Using Gradient Accumulation
From the PyTorch Lightning creators. Own your AI, don't rent it. Lightning is the AI cloud to build, train, and deploy your own models on 36,000+ NVIDIA GPUs.
Results of "Humanity's Last Exam" benchmark published
Scale AI and the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) are proud to publish the results of Humanity’s Last Exam.
Can I remove my personal data from GenAI training datasets?
Short answer: Practically-speaking, probably not.
DALL·E 3 is now available in ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise
We developed a safety mitigation stack to ready DALL·E 3 for wider release and are sharing updates on our provenance research.
AI changes the economics of software rewrites
AI changes rewrite economics because codebases with clear, common patterns get more leverage than proprietary or inconsistent systems.
Bootstrapping self awareness in GPT-4: Towards recursive self inquiry
Or, Look Ma – I Made GPT-4 Self Aware!
OpenAI Begins Tackling ChatGPT Data Leak Vulnerability
OpenAI seems to have implemented some mitigation steps for a well-known data exfiltration vulnerability in ChatGPT. Attackers can use image markdown rendering …
Has Llama-3 just killed proprietary AI models?
Meta's release of Llama 3.2 marks a turning point where open-source AI models match and even surpass proprietary models.
What Happens If OpenAI Dies?
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Standardizing next-generation narrow precision data formats for AI
Realizing the full potential of next-generation deep learning requires highly efficient AI infrastructure. For a computing platform to be scalable and cost efficient, optimizing every layer of the AI stack, from algorithms to hardware, is essential. Advances in narrow-precision AI data formats and associated optimized…
Understanding Stein's Paradox (2021)
An intuitive explanation of the James-Stein estimator.
GPT-3 vs. 3M free-text trivia responses
A machine learning AI-esque robot challenges off on 156 trivia questions against tens of thousands of Water Cooler Trivia participants.
A commit history of BERT and its forks
What a commit history of version-controlled research papers could look like?
Building a ChatGPT-enhanced Python REPL
In this blog I share my experience in building a Python REPL augmented with ChatGPT. I explore how the application is built, and speculate on software engineering patterns and paradigms that might emerge in systems built on Large Language Models (LLMs). GEPL - Generate, Evaluate, Print, Loop Link to this section…
Robot Disinfects Greater Boston Food Bank
MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), in collaboration with Ava Robotics and the Greater Boston Food Bank, designed a robot that disinfects surfaces and neutralizes aerosolized coronavirus with UV-C light. The approach uses a custom UV-C light fixture designed at CSAIL that is…
AI for scientific discovery: How researchers use Claude
We analyzed 207,000 research sessions to learn how Claude is used in science, why some tasks get more use than others, and how AI could speed up discovery.
Attacks on machine learning models
HN discussion
English learners can now practice speaking on Google Search
Posted by Christian Plagemann, Director, and Katya Cox, Product Manager, Google Research Learning a language can open up new opportunities in a per...
Windows Hello face recognition is vulnerable to the Jedi mind trick
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
An Introduction to YOLO26
What YOLO26 is: NMS-free, edge-optimized YOLO with 43% faster CPU inference, benchmarks by size, licensing, and how it compares to RF-DETR.
IA or AI?
I’ve been reading a paper [1] written two decades ago, which itself is an account of events two decades before that. It is Alan Kay nominally writing about the history of a programming langua…