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You.com, a search engine, agent platform, and knowledge base company, has raised additional funds as it continues to grow.

The raise will allow Sakana to continue growing its compute capabilities, hire more researchers, and generally become a leading AI lab in Japan.

Google is now providing AI-written summaries for some news articles in its search results in the US and UK. Research indicates these AI Overviews are impacting publisher visibility, pushing original articles down the search rankings. This shift could necessitate significant changes in SEO strategies for maintaining traffic.

Masked mixers is a novel architecture that replaces self-attention with masked convolutions to improve input representation in language models.

Researchers have developed a new method using self-supervised learning and masked autoencoders that significantly improves the analysis of large-scale microscopy images.

Latent Distillation is a novel Continual Learning method for object detection that addresses memory and computation constraints on edge devices.

EnsLoss is an ensemble method that combines loss functions within the Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) framework.

MAPF-GPT is a new learning-based approach to solving the challenging multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) problem. The model uses imitation learning to navigate agents without needing additional communication, reward functions, or heuristics.

MoMo is a novel diffusion-based approach for video frame interpolation (VFI). It enhances visual quality by focusing on intermediate motion modeling through a disentangled two-stage training process.

Leading AI labs are increasingly framing AI development as a geopolitical zero-sum game essential for national security, urging Western governments to back rapid AI advancements to avoid adversaries, like China, gaining a decisive technological edge. This narrative champions aggressive measures to secure AI dominance, risking escalation of geopolitical tensions and potentially compromising ethical and safety considerations.

AI's energy consumption is positively correlated with power usage, heat, carbon, and water use, with both increasing demand and improving energy efficiency influencing the overall energy footprint of AI. AI processing is generally becoming more power-hungry, and efficiency gains in hardware are helping to mitigate this trend. Still, AI represents a growing yet still minor segment of data center power usage, with training operations consuming significantly more energy than inference, though widespread use dilutes this impact.

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) released a draft definition for "open source AI" to address the misuse of the term and set clear criteria, including usage rights, study, modification, and sharing freedoms. This move aims to help developers and researchers evaluate AI systems more transparently. A stable version of the definition that will potentially influence future AI model releases and regulation is expected in October.

This author reflects on their AI predictions, noting accurate calls on the rise of open source, multimodal models, and tool usability enhancements.

repo2vec is a new library that allows you to easily chat with any public or private codebase, similar to GitHub Copilot but with up-to-date repo information.

A new 3-hour coding workshop that offers detailed insights into implementing, training, and using LLMs, including GPT-2 and Llama 2.

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