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Microsoft Open-Sources Weather Forecasting Deep Learning Model ClimaX
Researchers from Microsoft's Autonomous Systems and Robotics Research group have open-sourced ClimaX, a deep learning foundation model for weather and climate modeling. ClimaX can be fine-tuned for a variety of prediction tasks and performs as well as or better than state-of-the-art models on several benchmarks.
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Zero-Copy In-Memory Sharing of Large Distributed Data: V6d
Zero-copy and in-memory data manager Vineyard (v6d) is maintained as a CNCF sandbox project and provides distributed operators that can be utilized to share immutable data within or across cluster nodes. V6d is of interest particularly for deep network training on big (sharded) datasets such as large language and graph models.
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High-Performance Computing for Researchers and Students with Amazon Lightsail for Research
AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon Lightsail for Research, a new offering designed to enable researchers and students to easily create and manage high-performance CPU or GPU research computers on the cloud.
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NVIDIA Open-Sources Robot Learning Framework Orbit
A team of researchers from NVIDIA, ETH Zurich, and the University of Toronto open-sourced Orbit, a simulation-based robot learning framework. Orbit includes wrappers for four learning libraries, a suite of benchmark tasks, and simulation for several robot platforms, as well as interfaces for deploying trained agents on physical robots.
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OpenAI Unleashes ChatGPT and Whisper APIs for Next-Gen Language Capabilities
OpenAI has announced that it’s now letting third-party developers integrate ChatGPT and Whisper into their apps and services via API, offering access to AI-powered language and speech-to-text capabilities. As compared to using the company's current language approach, these APIs will make it easier for businesses to integrate ChatGPT and Whisper into their platforms.
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Microsoft Launches New Cognitive Speech Services Features to Accelerate Language Learning
Microsoft recently launched new features for its Cognitive Speech Service to accelerate language learning with pronunciation assessment, new speech-to-text (STT) languages, and prebuilt and custom neural voice enhancements.
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GitHub Enhanced Copilot with New AI Model and Security-Oriented Capabilities
GitHub Copilot adopted a new AI model which is both faster and more accurate than the previous one, says GitHub. Additionally, GitHub has started using AI to detect vulnerabilities in Copilot suggestion by blocking insecure coding patterns in real-time.
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DeepMind Open-Sources AI Interpretability Research Tool Tracr
Researchers at DeepMind have open-sourced TRAnsformer Compiler for RASP (Tracr), a compiler that translates programs into neural network models. Tracr is intended for research in mechanistic interpretability of Transformer AI models such as GPT-3.
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Hugging Face and AWS Join Forces to Democratize AI
Hugging Face, a top supplier of open-source machine learning tools, and AWS have joined together to increase the access to artificial intelligence (AI). Hugging Face's cutting-edge transformers and natural language processing (NLP) models will be made available to AWS customers as a result of the cooperation, making it simpler for them to develop and deploy AI applications.
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Microsoft Wants to Use ChatGPT to Control Robots through Language
In a recent paper, researchers at Microsoft Autonomous Systems and Robotics Group showed how OpenAI's ChatGPT can be used for robotics applications, including how to design prompts and how to direct ChatGPT to use specific robotic libraries to program the task at hand.
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Stanford Researchers Develop Brain-Computer Interface for Speech Synthesis
Researchers from Stanford University have developed a brain-computer interface (BCI) for synthesizing speech from signals captured in a patient's brain and processed by a recurrent neural network (RNN). The prototype system can decode speech at 62 words-per-minute, 3.4x faster than previous BCI methods.
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OpenAI is Rolling out ChatGPT Plus as a Premium Service
OpenAI has announced the release of ChatGPT Plus, a premium version of its well-liked ChatGPT chatbot. The new service intends to give users a premium experience that includes ChatGPT access during peak hours, priority access to new features and upgrades, and quicker response times.
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MariaDB 11.0 Brings a New Optimizer Cost Model and More
After 10 years since the last release, MariaDB Server 11.0 has been released, bringing a new optimizer cost model which aims to predict more accurately the actual cost of each query execution plan, removed InnoDB change buffer, and so on.
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Carnegie Mellon Researchers Develop AI Model for Human Detection via WiFi
Researchers from the Human Sensing Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have published a paper on DensePose From WiFi, an AI model which can detect the pose of multiple humans in a room using only the signals from WiFi transmitters. In experiments on real-world data, the algorithm achieves an average precision of 87.2 at the 50% IOU threshold.
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Unsupervised Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation Using Deep Learning
Meta AI released CutLER, a state-of-the-art zero-shot unsupervised object detector which improves detection performance by over 2.7 times on 11 benchmark datasets for different domains like video frames, painting, sketches, etc. This model’s simplicity allows compatibility with different object-detection architectures across different domains.