In April 2022, @RiversHaveWings shared a series of Colab notebooks that combined VQGAN and CLIP. https://
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s/status/1516582795438567424
… This was a significant step forward. Images were starting to resemble their prompts, and textures like brush strokes and pencil marks were starting to emerge.
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VQGAN and CLIP Notebooks: A Significant Step Forward in Image Generation
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Pixray reaches 1.3 million runs on Replicate platform
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In early 2022 @dribnet
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DALL-E Mini Launch: July 2021 Breakthrough by Boris Dayma
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Fast-forward a few months to July 2021: @borisdayma published DALL·E Mini https://
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… This is an excellent breakdown of how it was all put together: https://
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le-mini/reports/DALL-E-Mini-Explained–Vmlldzo4NjIxODA
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OpenAI’s DALL·E 2 and the Rise of Diffusion Models
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In April 2021, OpenAI announced DALL·E 2 https://
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BigSleep Colab Notebook Shared by advadnoun
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Then just a week later @advadnoun shared another Colab notebook named The BigSleep.
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DeepDaze: Text-to-Image Generation via Colab
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A few weeks after the release of the OpenAI papers, @advadnoun shared DeepDaze, a Colab notebook that generated images from text. Originally shared here:
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AI and Synthetic Biology Will Triple Value Creation in 30 Years
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Calling all PESSIMISTS… just take a look at this graph… its an incredible story of value creation… of course its not evenly distributed, and there's real work to do there, but its still a hugely positive story. AI + synbio will triple this curve in the following 30yrs
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Airbyte’s 300+ Document Loaders Simplify Python LangChain Integration
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Airbyte has 300+ document loaders – this will make it easier to use them in pure python – no need to set up the Airbyte server Bring the necessary context into your LangChains!
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Eight AI Startups Winning the Race for Tech Talent
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Decentralized AI Share Platform Struggles with UX and Tokenomics
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Update: not impressed so far. – Within minutes of registering, accounts already buying and dumping shares in me.
– No way to find my friends on the app. "Explore" just lists influencers.
– Influencer share prices already >1 ETH, due to exponential bonding curve. Not sure how