Thank you @RepZoeLofgren for speaking out against the anti-open source, anti-innovation bill SB-1047. She is the ranking member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. Her staff concludes: "the problematic core concerns remain: there is little evidentiary basis
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CogVideoX and VEnhancer Text-to-Video Enhancement Update
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New Update, T2V results from CogVideoX + VEnhancerhttps://t.co/vTwpiJXvPw
— AK (@_akhaliq) 19 août 2024
Support enhancement for abitrary long videos (by spliting the videos into muliple chunks with overlaps); Fewer sampling steps (15) are enabled without obvious quality loss by setting –solver_mode 'fast'… pic.twitter.com/k32HTS3g0jNew Update, T2V results from CogVideoX + VEnhancer https://
github.com/Vchitect/VEnha
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Linux Dominates Internet Server Infrastructure Landscape
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The vast majority of Internet servers use Linux
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Salesforce Introduces xGen-MM: Open Large Multimodal Models Framework
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Salesforce presents xGen-MM (BLIP-3) A Family of Open Large Multimodal Models discuss: https://
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… This report introduces xGen-MM (also known as BLIP-3), a framework for developing Large Multimodal Models (LMMs). The framework comprises meticulously curated -
JAX vs PyTorch: Choosing the right ML framework
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It depends. If you have TPUs, Jax. If you have GPUs, PyTorch. It also depends on who your community is, and whether you need to distribute models or not. For simple ML, either is fine and then it comes down to popularity within your circle.
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SmolLM 360M: Instant Lightweight Language Model Browser Demo
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Sharing one demo which is blowing my mind, the new instant SmolLM 360M running live in your browser: https://
huggingface.co/spaces/Hugging
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Synthetic Data and Small Language Models Journey
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It’s Sunday morning we have some time with the coffee so let me tell you about some of our recent surprising journey in synthetic data and small language models. This post is prompted by the coming release of an instant, in-browser model called SmolLM360 (link at the end) The
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Asahi Linux reusable work for Apple silicon development
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Would be cool yeah. Could reuse a lot of work from Asahi Linux.
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Official Support for Easy Software Installation
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Imagine if installing things wouldn’t require crazy system hacks but is officially supported.