Most people missed one of the most important news of the summer – open-access multi-modal (image + text) model coming out of @huggingface
! You can optimize it, fine-tune it and customize it for your use-case: https://
huggingface.co/blog/idefics You can try the fun version of it here:
@clementdelangue
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Hugging Face Releases Open-Access Multimodal AI Model
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Europe produces world-class AI researchers and builders
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IMO Europe produces some of the best AI researchers and builders in the world, so there's that!
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Large AI Compute Investments Drive Higher Stakes Volatility
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It's a great point! Large compute spent indeed grows the magnitude of the investments (and losses) & the velocity of the downfalls. Fun time ahead haha
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Startup Funding Trade-offs: Broad Investment vs Company Survival
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It comes with how the startup/tech system works, no? Or do you think there's a way to do it differently? I feel like the cure (aka investing less and less broadly and not maximizing potential/missing opportunities) is worse than the disease (some companies won't make it and
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Balancing automation and workplace tension in AI era
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finding the right balance overtime & reducing the tension between the two is the challenge IMO
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Exploration vs Exploitation: AI Strategy for Company Success
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The biggest strategic tension for companies in AI is exploration versus exploitation. Makes or breaks companies of all sizes.
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Community insights on openness transparency and power distribution
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Unfortunately, it might not be the most representative and inclusive list but I will try my best to share insights from a broad range of community members, especially on topics of openness, transparency, inclusiveness and distribution of power. Let me know if there's something
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Hugging Face Team Initiative for AI Development
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I already did but only for @huggingface team members at the offsite #killthemwithhuggingface
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Tech CEO Leadership: Team and Community Drive Innovation Forward
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That says a lot about the overall level of tech CEOs Couldn't do anything without you, the team & the community. We're just getting started!
