Humanoid Robot Price Break: Unitree and EngineAI showcase affordable humanoid robots
Computer Vision

Humanoid Robot Price Break: Unitree and EngineAI showcase affordable humanoid robots

Chinese robot makers Unitree and EngineAI showed off relatively low-priced humanoid robots that could bring advanced robotics closer to everyday applications.

January 22, 20253 min read
Humanoid Robot Price Break: Unitree and EngineAI showcase affordable humanoid robots
Computer Vision

Humanoid Robot Price Break: Unitree and EngineAI showcase affordable humanoid robots

Chinese robot makers Unitree and EngineAI showed off relatively low-priced humanoid robots that could bring advanced robotics closer to everyday applications.

January 22, 20253 min read
Calibrating Contrast: X-CLR, an approach to contrastive learning for better vision models
Computer Vision

Calibrating Contrast: X-CLR, an approach to contrastive learning for better vision models

Contrastive loss functions make it possible to produce good embeddings without labeled data. A twist on this idea makes even more useful embeddings.

January 15, 20252 min read
Calibrating Contrast: X-CLR, an approach to contrastive learning for better vision models
Computer Vision

Calibrating Contrast: X-CLR, an approach to contrastive learning for better vision models

Contrastive loss functions make it possible to produce good embeddings without labeled data. A twist on this idea makes even more useful embeddings.

January 15, 20252 min read
Mistral’s Vision-Language Contender: Mistral unveils Pixtral Large, a rival to top vision-language models
Computer Vision

Mistral’s Vision-Language Contender: Mistral unveils Pixtral Large, a rival to top vision-language models

Mistral AI unveiled Pixtral Large, which rivals top models at processing combinations of text and images.

December 4, 20242 min read
Mistral’s Vision-Language Contender: Mistral unveils Pixtral Large, a rival to top vision-language models
Computer Vision

Mistral’s Vision-Language Contender: Mistral unveils Pixtral Large, a rival to top vision-language models

Mistral AI unveiled Pixtral Large, which rivals top models at processing combinations of text and images.

December 4, 20242 min read
Object Detection for Small Devices: Grounding DINO 1.5, an edge device model built for faster, smarter object detection
Computer Vision

Object Detection for Small Devices: Grounding DINO 1.5, an edge device model built for faster, smarter object detection

An open source model is designed to perform sophisticated object detection on edge devices like phones, cars, medical equipment, and smart doorbells.

November 27, 20243 min read
Object Detection for Small Devices: Grounding DINO 1.5, an edge device model built for faster, smarter object detection
Computer Vision

Object Detection for Small Devices: Grounding DINO 1.5, an edge device model built for faster, smarter object detection

An open source model is designed to perform sophisticated object detection on edge devices like phones, cars, medical equipment, and smart doorbells.

November 27, 20243 min read
Landmine Recognition: AI supports specialists in battlefields by detecting landmines and other unexploded ordnance.
Computer Vision

Landmine Recognition: AI supports specialists in battlefields by detecting landmines and other unexploded ordnance.

An AI system is scouring battlefields for landmines and other unexploded ordnance, enabling specialists to defuse them.

May 8, 20242 min read
Landmine Recognition: AI supports specialists in battlefields by detecting landmines and other unexploded ordnance.
Computer Vision

Landmine Recognition: AI supports specialists in battlefields by detecting landmines and other unexploded ordnance.

An AI system is scouring battlefields for landmines and other unexploded ordnance, enabling specialists to defuse them.

May 8, 20242 min read
Amazon Rethinks Cashier-Free Stores: Amazon scales back its AI-powered "Just Walk Out" checkout service
Computer Vision

Amazon Rethinks Cashier-Free Stores: Amazon scales back its AI-powered "Just Walk Out" checkout service

Amazon withdrew Just Walk Out, an AI-driven checkout service, from most of its Amazon Fresh grocery stores...

May 1, 20242 min read
Amazon Rethinks Cashier-Free Stores: Amazon scales back its AI-powered "Just Walk Out" checkout service
Computer Vision

Amazon Rethinks Cashier-Free Stores: Amazon scales back its AI-powered "Just Walk Out" checkout service

Amazon withdrew Just Walk Out, an AI-driven checkout service, from most of its Amazon Fresh grocery stores...

May 1, 20242 min read
High Yields for Small Farms: AI elevates chili farming in India with smarter yields.
Computer Vision

High Yields for Small Farms: AI elevates chili farming in India with smarter yields.

Indian farmers used chatbots and computer vision to produce higher yields at lower costs. The state government of Telangana in South India partnered with agricultural aid organization Digital Green to provide AI tools to chili farmers. 

January 31, 20242 min read
High Yields for Small Farms: AI elevates chili farming in India with smarter yields.
Computer Vision

High Yields for Small Farms: AI elevates chili farming in India with smarter yields.

Indian farmers used chatbots and computer vision to produce higher yields at lower costs. The state government of Telangana in South India partnered with agricultural aid organization Digital Green to provide AI tools to chili farmers. 

January 31, 20242 min read
The Big Picture and the Details: I-JEPA, or how vision models understand the relationship between parts and the whole
Computer Vision

The Big Picture and the Details: I-JEPA, or how vision models understand the relationship between parts and the whole

A novel twist on self-supervised learning aims to improve on earlier methods by helping vision models learn how parts of an image relate to the whole.

December 13, 20232 min read

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