Generative AI
Garbage Out: Generative AI and GPU boom spawns growing e-waste problem
Rapid progress in generative AI comes with a hidden environmental cost: mountains of obsolete hardware.
Generative AI
Garbage Out: Generative AI and GPU boom spawns growing e-waste problem
Rapid progress in generative AI comes with a hidden environmental cost: mountains of obsolete hardware.
Generative AI
No Game Engine Required: AI creates an interactive Minecraft-like world in real time
A real-time video generator lets you explore an open-ended, interactive virtual world — a video game without a game engine.
Generative AI
No Game Engine Required: AI creates an interactive Minecraft-like world in real time
A real-time video generator lets you explore an open-ended, interactive virtual world — a video game without a game engine.
Generative AI
Synthetic Data Distorts Models: Could training on generated output doom AI’s future?
Training successive neural networks on the outputs of previous networks gradually degrades performance. Will future models succumb to the curse of recursive training?
Generative AI
Synthetic Data Distorts Models: Could training on generated output doom AI’s future?
Training successive neural networks on the outputs of previous networks gradually degrades performance. Will future models succumb to the curse of recursive training?
Generative AI
Faster, Cheaper Video Generation: Pyramidal Flow Matching, a cost-cutting method for training video generators
Researchers devised a way to cut the cost of training video generators. They used it to build a competitive open source text-to-video model and promised to release the training code.
Generative AI
Faster, Cheaper Video Generation: Pyramidal Flow Matching, a cost-cutting method for training video generators
Researchers devised a way to cut the cost of training video generators. They used it to build a competitive open source text-to-video model and promised to release the training code.
Generative AI
AI Bromance Turns Turbulent: Microsoft and OpenAI partnership faces strain as both seek less dependence
Once hailed by OpenAI chief Sam Altman as the “best bromance in tech,” the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI is facing challenges as both companies seek greater independence.
Generative AI
AI Bromance Turns Turbulent: Microsoft and OpenAI partnership faces strain as both seek less dependence
Once hailed by OpenAI chief Sam Altman as the “best bromance in tech,” the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI is facing challenges as both companies seek greater independence.
Generative AI
Better Text Embeddings: Jina AI launches jina-embeddings-v3, a text embedding model with task-specific adapters
Text embedding models are often used to retrieve text, cluster text, determine similarity between texts, and generate initial embeddings for text classifiers. A new embedding model comes with adapters that specialize it to each of these use cases.
Generative AI
Better Text Embeddings: Jina AI launches jina-embeddings-v3, a text embedding model with task-specific adapters
Text embedding models are often used to retrieve text, cluster text, determine similarity between texts, and generate initial embeddings for text classifiers. A new embedding model comes with adapters that specialize it to each of these use cases.
Generative AI
German Court Says LAION Didn’t Violate Copyrights: LAION wins copyright case in Germany
A German court dismissed a copyright lawsuit against LAION, the nonprofit responsible for large-scale image datasets used to train Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and other image generators.
Generative AI
German Court Says LAION Didn’t Violate Copyrights: LAION wins copyright case in Germany
A German court dismissed a copyright lawsuit against LAION, the nonprofit responsible for large-scale image datasets used to train Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and other image generators.
Generative AI
Voice-to-Voice and More for GPT-4o API: OpenAI unveils tools for speech, vision, and cost-efficiency at DevDay
OpenAI launched a suite of new and updated tools to help AI developers build applications and reduce costs.
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