And the evidence makes it clear that the way it works in the UK isn’t the way it has to be. The Netherlands and Germany are getting their act together, and the Nordics are far ahead of us: in 93% of Nordic deals, universities took 0% equity thanks to Professor’s Privilege.
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TTOs Tactics: Avoiding Real AI Debate and Data Discussion
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What hasn’t changed is the TTOs. Whether it’s the reports, the rebuttals, or the ‘TenU compromise’ – their tactics have stayed the same: Swerving the real debate, calling data anecdotal, and embracing the tyranny of low expectations.
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University Tech Transfer Offices Fail Founders With Negative Score
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But what we’re hearing from over 200 founders in over 100 universities across the world is clear. The process is a failure. TTOs have a net promoter score of -52 (worse than most high street banks, or retail energy companies).
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UK Labour Review Shapes Startup Funding and VC Policy Reform
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Let’s start with what's new: Germany and the Netherlands explore reform and academic research in the UK confirms that high uni equity stakes drive VCs away from spinouts. Labour’s Start-up Review adopted many of our proposals and the gov launched a long overdue policy review.
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High Quality Data Distillation from Large Noisy Corpora
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More the reverse I guess: current trend is to distill high quality data from large (noisy) corpora
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Using LLMs to Annotate and Improve Training Data Quality
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This is really really cool! I totally buy the idea of using your current LLM to annotate your full training data and increase the quality of subsequent pretrainings. Training data is the most valuable asset, gives back 1000x the care and love you give it!
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Multitrack Music Transcription with Time-Frequency Perceiver
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Multitrack Music Transcription with a Time-Frequency Perceiver paper page: https://
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… Multitrack music transcription aims to transcribe a music audio input into the musical notes of multiple instruments simultaneously. It is a very challenging task that typically -
RoboCat: Self-Improving Foundation Agent for Robotic Manipulation
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RoboCat: A Self-Improving Foundation Agent for Robotic Manipulation paper page: https://
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MotionGPT: Finetuned LLMs for General-Purpose Motion Generation
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MotionGPT: Finetuned LLMs are General-Purpose Motion Generators
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paper page: https://t.co/FJM2YqZwHR
Generating realistic human motion from given action descriptions has experienced significant advancements because of the emerging requirement of digital humans. While recent… pic.twitter.com/DgUkKy7T7rMotionGPT: Finetuned LLMs are General-Purpose Motion Generators paper page: https://
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Diffusion Models for Solving Inverse Problems Without Supervision
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Diffusion with Forward Models: Solving Stochastic Inverse Problems Without Direct Supervision paper page: https://
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… Denoising diffusion models are a powerful type of generative models used to capture complex distributions of real-world signals. However, their