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CEO Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI by the board, who stated that Altman’s departure followed a deliberative review process by the board and the board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI. Greg Brockman quickly quit along with many other senior researchers.

After a weekend of negotiations to bring back Sam Altman as OpenAI CEO following his shock firing, the company’s nonprofit board has gone another way entirely and named former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear as interim CEO. Microsoft is hiring former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman.

Meta has reportedly disbanded its Responsible AI team, reallocating most members to its generative AI product team and others to AI infrastructure.

TopoMLP is a system designed to understand road scenes and determine drivable paths for self-driving cars by detecting and analyzing road centerlines and traffic elements.

This paper explores different data optimization schemes that allow for knowledge transfer between models with minimal additional compute.

This project introduces a memory-based framework. This method overcomes the limitations of previous approaches by storing source instance features in a memory module, enabling better alignment with target instances.

AI technology leader Clarifai turns ten and launches the first full stack generative AI platform, putting the power to build enterprise generative AI into developers' hands. Check out the engineering innovations that paved the way and how Clarifai consolidates many complex layers so you can build AI faster. Start today.

StyleTTS 2 is a text-to-speech model designed to achieve human-level speech synthesis by combining style diffusion and adversarial training with large speech language models.

This repo has resources that you may need as a data engineer.

Neural-Cherche is a library designed to fine-tune neural search models such as Splade, ColBERT, and SparseEmbed on a specific dataset.

Former Atlassian CTO and current managing director of Coatue Ventures Sri Viswanath delivered a deep look at the state of artificial intelligence. It’s a 117-page document, but this blog nicely summarizes the highlights.

Sri Viswanath and the team at Coatue studied how AI is beginning to impact the tech ecosystem, the modern tech stack, and our broader economy. This paper highlights four key considerations: AI has the potential to break through the hype and meaningfully improve our world, open source is the heartbeat of AI, builders and investors need to understand the new AI-centric tech stack, and the best of AI is yet to come.

From governance matters to public safety, leadership changes at OpenAI prompt a lot of questions. This blog post breaks down some of the core elements we should be thinking about.

OpenAI is pausing ChatGPT Plus sign-ups due to a surge in demand.

Discord is shutting down Clyde, its experimental AI chatbot.

Minimalistic interpretation of a GPT-like transformer using only Numpy.