microsoft, and particularly azure, don’t get nearly enough credit for the stuff openai launches. they do an amazing amount of work to make it happen; we are deeply grateful for the partnership. they have built by far the best AI infra out there.
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Meta experiences major outage before Black Friday Cyber Monday
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Meta woke up this Monday completely broken. At least they had a code freeze for BFCM.
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Qualcomm CFO: Company Transformation Strategy Interview
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Please enjoy my interview with Qualcomm CFO Akash Palkhiwala Qualcomm CFO Palkhiwala: We are becoming a different company https://
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Baidu Launches WenXin Baizhong Neural Search System
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Baidu also revealed an industry-level neural search system, WenXin Baizhong, which can efficiently build a search system from scratch, reducing labor costs by more than 90% compared with traditional ones.
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Baidu releases 11 new ERNIE models across general and industry sectors
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The newly released 11 models are added to the Big Model ERNIE family:
– 5 general models: ERNIE 3.0 Tiny, ERNIE ViL 2.0, ERNIE ViLG 2.0, ERNIE-Layout, HelixFold-Single
– 1 task model: ERNIE-Code
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Baidu Releases 11 New AI Models at Wave Summit
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At Wave Summit+ last week, Baidu released a wave of new AI technologies to drive AI adoption and further lower the threshold.
– 11 new AI Big Models – PaddlePaddle 2.4
– New features of AI-generated art platform
– A neural search system
Read more: http://
research.baidu.com/Blog/index-vie
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GenAI as Public Good: Automation, Augmentation and Inequality
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There will be a lot of focus on ‘will AI automate or augment?’ But if you follow argument espoused by @EMostaque that GenAI should be a public good, it becomes a universal resource. But, if it’s controlled by a few – it will invariably lead to huge disparities.
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ChatGPT Reaches 1 Million Users in Record Time
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ChatGPT launched on wednesday. today it crossed 1 million users!
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Amazon’s Quest for Human-Level Robot Dexterity
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Amazon's quest to build robots that match human-level dexterity by @mims #RuleoftheRobots https://
wsj.com/articles/amazo
n-robots-workers-11670022563?st=e1ktm3oc515wl2e
… via @WSJ