google wants to make AI "helpful for everyone", says sundar pichai. i can't tell if he's excited or annoyed (or both) RE the fact that google has been using AI for years and years in various ways but suddenly people are talking about it (via generative AI) as if it's brand new.
GENERATIVE AI
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The Inevitable Rise: Technology’s Unstoppable Timeline Approaches
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Wow…it's only a matter of time.
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Hugging Face Transformers Agents: Safe Code Execution Explained
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"This code is then executed with our small Python interpreter on the set of inputs passed along with your tools. We hear you screaming 'Arbitrary code execution!' in the back, but let us explain why that is not the case." https://
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Meta AI’s Angela Fan Presents Text Generation Research in London
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Welcoming @MetaAI 's Angela Fan at The Research and Applied AI Summit on June 23 in London! Angela focusses on research in text generation, including her recent work on No Language Left Behind and Universal Speech Translation for Unwritten Languages.
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Extensible AI Tool with Multimodal Built-in Capabilities
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It comes with built-in tools: • Document QA
• Speech-to-text and Text-to-speech
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• Image {generation, transforms, captioning, segmentation, upscaling, QA}
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Transformers Agents: Democratizing ML with Multimodal Control
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We just released Transformers' boldest feature: Transformers Agents. This removes the barrier of entry to machine learning Control 100,000+ HF models by talking to Transformers and Diffusers Fully multimodal agent: text, images, video, audio, docs… https://
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Building AI Agents with LLMs for Multimodal Tasks
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Create an agent using LLMs (OpenAssistant, StarCoder, OpenAI …) and start talking to transformers and diffusers It responds to complex queries and offers a chat mode. Create images using your words, have the agent read the summary of websites out loud, read through a PDF
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Startup Funding Shifts: Post-LLM Hype Era Begins Now
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The question now is: who else? So many startups raised at unicorn levels. While LLMs haven't permeated everything yet—and that'll take a VERY long time—that hype train has stalled and eyes have shifted to more LLM-focused startups.
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W&B and LLM Stack Leaders Navigate Post-GPT Era
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W&B stuck the landing in the post-GPT era, along with several other hot startups like MosaicML and Anyscale that proved to be an important part of the LLM-powered stack (in particular for training and inference, respectively, based on people I've talked to).