Industry Optimism: Despite challenges, there's optimism about AI's potential. Industry leaders see AI as key in new business applications. Will traditional AI and generative AI complement each other? What's your take? Could this shape the future in the US too?
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TL20 Rebalancing: Finding Tech Winners in Market Downturn
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The TL20: Amidst choppy seas This is the largest rebalancing of the TL20 to date. After a gain of 114% in two years, handily beating the benchmarks, the recent downdraft provides ample opportunity to pick new winners in tech. https://
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California SB 1047 Bill Raises Concerns About Open Source Innovation
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There is an chorus of voices across academia, business and even government concerned about California's proposed anti-open source, anti-innovation bill SB 1047. @martin_casado has a nice thread summarizing some of these. Thank you @russellwald
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Meta Announces LLM Evaluation Research Grant Program
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LLM Evaluations are an important area of work — today we're announcing a new LLM Evaluation Research Grant to foster further innovation in this area. Recipients will get $200K in funding to support this work. We're accepting proposals until September 6 https://
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Meta Releases VFusion3D: Scalable 3D Generative Models from Video
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Meta releases VFusion3D
— AK (@_akhaliq) 9 août 2024
Learning Scalable 3D Generative Models from Video Diffusion Models
demo: https://t.co/N8HyHlF70u
This paper presents a novel method for building scalable 3D generative models utilizing pre-trained video diffusion models. The primary obstacle in… pic.twitter.com/Q4Qed2DI5xMeta releases VFusion3D Learning Scalable 3D Generative Models from Diffusion Models demo: https://
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Google’s Olympic medalist recruitment strategy for talent acquisition
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In its early days, Google had an unstated but brilliant recruitment practice: #Olympics medalists were almost guaranteed a job there if they wanted one. The qualities of hard work and perseverance needed for sports success were seen as transferable to work. It's tough to sustain
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Maduro Bans X Platform in Venezuela Amid Elon Musk Feud
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Contested Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ordered a 10-day ban on social networking platform X, cutting off locals’ access to the platform after a feud with Elon Musk.
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Weekly Dose of Optimism: AI and Tech Innovations
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Get your full Weekly Dose of Optimism, featuring great work from @FEhrsam @quintinfrerichs @anduriltech @GoogleDeepMind @Samsung @abundanceinst
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Apple Silicon ML Deployments Ready for Data Center Production
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Perfect form factor to custom-rack it into a data center! Apple Silicon production ML deployments are coming cc @pcuenq @MorganFunto and others
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Google’s Ping-Pong Robot and Latest AI Breakthroughs
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Top stories in AI today: -Google’s ping-pong-playing robot
-GPT-4 tackles top-secret tasks
-Create custom selfies with Meta AI
-AI speeds up schizophrenia cure
-6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs Read more: http://
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