Decision-Making with Generalist AI Agents: We built Minedojo framework in Minecraft with text prompts for open-ended tasks using internet-scale knowledge of videos, wiki, and text information. It was an outstanding paper at NeurIPS 2022.
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EU AI Act: Regulators Focus on Open Source Approach
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8. Regulation: Regulators will focus in earnest on the space. The EU’s proposed AI Act, the first law on AI by a significant regulator anywhere, will be a bellwether. Watch out for how they approach the open source space, that will be very important.
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3000 commits and 500 new contributors in 2022
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There were almost 3,000 commits to the main branch in 2022! This wouldn't have been possible without the whole community: half the new architectures were added by external contributors and we had more than 500 new contributors.
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OpenAI Whisper Speech Recognition Model Added to Hugging Face
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In October, Whisper, a state-of-the-art audio model from @OpenAI for speech recognition was added to the library. https://
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Transformers Named Most Loved Framework in Stack Overflow Survey
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For the second year, Transformers was voted the most loved framework in Stack Overflow survey https://
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LayoutLM v3 Multimodal Model Added for Document Analysis
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Meta AI Open-Sources OPT Language Model Series
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OPT was open-sourced by @MetaAI and added in the library last May. It is a series of open-sourced large causal language models similar in sizes to GPT3.
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BLOOM Multilingual Language Model Released by BigScience
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BLOOM was then released in June by @BigscienceW
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Swin Transformer Vision Model for Image Classification Detection
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Swin Transformer is a vision model from @MSFTResearch added back in January, which can be used as backbone for a variety of tasks such as image classification, object detection or semantic segmentation. https://
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Transformers Library Triples Users, Reaches 1M Weekly Active
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It's been an exciting year for Transformers. We tripled the number of weekly active users over 2022, with over 1M users most weeks now and 300k daily pip installs on average