'Microsoft took a 4 per cent stake in LSEG in December last year and secured a board seat as part of a 10-year strategic partnership, marking the latest in a series of incursions by Big Tech into the operation of global capital markets.' https://
ft.com/content/e380f4
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Microsoft expands into global capital markets with LSEG stake
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Hugging Face Joins PyTorch Foundation as Premier Member
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Hugging Face is now part of the PyTorch Foundation as a premier member We have been collaborating with the PyTorch team for the past four years and are committed to supporting the project. We share an objective: to lower the barrier of entry to ML. https://
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AI Leader Joins S-Team: Strategic Intent Signal
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Putting someone focused on AI on the S-team is a serious signal of intent. Question is: will it work?
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IBM NASA Launch Geospatial AI Models on Hugging Face
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Welcome to @NASA
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Google Brain’s flat structure enabled more impactful research than hierarchical moonshots
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This reminded me of how Google Brain worked when I joined. It was way less hierarchal than DeepMind. Researchers basically self-organized into 3-10 people projects, and given lots of freedom to pursue exploration. This led to more impactful research compared to ‘moonshots’ IMO.
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San Francisco: Generator and Accelerator of New Technologies
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SF is such an amazing generator, adopter and accelerator of the new new thing.
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USA-China AI War Reshapes Global Economy and Democracy
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ChatGPT Android App Launching Next Week
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ChatGPT for Android launches next week https://
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Meta Releases AudioCraft Open Source for Research Access
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We're publicly releasing AudioCraft for research purposes and to further understanding of the technology. Responsible innovation can’t happen in isolation. Opening up our research and resulting models helps ensure that everyone has equal access. GitHub https://
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AudioCraft: Meta’s Generative AI Models for Music and Audio
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Today we're sharing details on AudioCraft, a new family of generative AI models built for generating high-quality, realistic audio & music from text. AudioCraft is a single code base that works for music, sound, compression & generation — all in the same place.
— AI at Meta (@AIatMeta) 2 août 2023
More details ⬇️Today we're sharing details on AudioCraft, a new family of generative AI models built for generating high-quality, realistic audio & music from text. AudioCraft is a single code base that works for music, sound, compression & generation — all in the same place. More details