July 23, 2024

AI arms race escalates: OpenAI offers free GPT-4o Mini fine-tuning to counter Meta’s Llama 3.1 release

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI has intensified the AI arms race by announcing free fine-tuning for its GPT-4o Mini model, just hours after Meta launched its open-source Llama 3.1 model. While OpenAI had teased the imminent arrival of customization features in last week’s GPT-4o Mini announcement, the timing of this release couldn’t have been more perfect—or more pointed. Just hours

Michael Nuñez July 23, 2024

Robotics

Alphabet commits to $5B multi-year investment into Waymo – The Robot Report

Listen to this article A Waymo robotaxi driving on a highway in Phoenix. | Credit: Waymo Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat said the company is committing to a multi-year investment of up to $5 billion to Waymo during its Q224 earnings call Tuesday. Despite facing struggles last year, GM also invested $850 million more into its self-driving unit, Cruise, last month. “With regard to other bets, we continue to focus on improving overall efficiencies as we

Brianna Wessling July 23, 2024

Hardware

JEDEC Plans LPDDR6-Based CAMM, DDR5 MRDIMM Specifications

Following a relative lull in the desktop memory industry in the previous decade, the past few years have seen a flurry of new memory standards and form factors enter development. Joining the traditional DIMM/SO-DIMM form factors, we’ve seen the introduction of space-efficient DDR5 CAMM2s, their LPDDR5-based counterpart the LPCAMM2, and the high-clockspeed optimized CUDIMM. But JEDEC, the industry organization behind these efforts, is not done there. In a press release sent out at the start

Anton Shilov July 23, 2024

Elephant Robotics’ Mercury Humanoid Robot Empowers Embodied AI Research

4 min read The Mercury X1 is a versatile wheeled humanoid robot that combines advanced functionalities with mobility. Elephant Robotics This is a sponsored article brought to you by Elephant Robotics. Elephant Robotics has gone through years of research and development to accelerate its mission of bringing robots to millions of homes and a vision of “Enjoy Robots World”. From the collaborative industrial robots P-series and C-series, which have been on the drawing board since

Elephant Robotics July 23, 2024

Yann LeCun says Meta AI ‘quickly becoming most used’ assistant, challenging OpenAI’s dominance

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Meta Platforms has thrown down the gauntlet in the AI race today with the release of Llama 3.1, its most sophisticated artificial intelligence model to date. This advanced model now powers Meta AI, the company’s AI assistant, which has been strategically deployed across its suite of platforms including WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, Facebook, and Ray-Ban Meta, with plans

Michael Nuñez July 23, 2024

Why You Don’t Need PNPM And YARN | HackerNoon

Hello everyone! I’m sure you’ve seen Node.js projects using different package managers, i.e.: I’ve seen that myself and worked with all of the above, but I always had a question in my mind – what drives people/teams to use yarn or pnpm instead of npm? What are the pros? Are there any cons? Well… Let’s find out! Performance Comparison Rules I decided to compare npm, yarn, and pnpm in terms of their “speed”… You’ll see

Dmitrii Bormotov July 23, 2024

Netflix hires Alain Tascan as its president of games

Netflix announced it’s appointed Alain Tascan, formerly of Epic Games, as the new head of its gaming division.Read More

Rachel Kaser July 23, 2024

Exclusive: Resquared nabs $5M to take on leading CRMs with B2B local sales platform

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Sales and software are a match made in heaven: just ask Salesforce or even Hubspot or Creatio, all of which have built multi-billion dollar companies atop customer relationship management software suites specifically focused on sales teams. But are all of those firms missing out on an opportunity right under their noses? Resquared (also known as Re ² )

Carl Franzen July 23, 2024

Software

Shingling in the Generative AI Era | HackerNoon

In the Generative AI era, there is a need for techniques from detecting plagiarism (intentional or unintentional) to content duplication to enhancing natural language processing capabilities. By using techniques like shingling, generative AI can uncover hidden relationships within text data, facilitating a deeper comprehension of content semantics. What sets shingling’s capabilities apart is the way it extends to various applications, including but not limited to, document clustering, information retrieval, and content recommendation systems. As you

Sarath Chandra Vidya Sagar Machupalli July 23, 2024

Spatial Index: Tessellation

Use of Tessellation for Spatial Indexing and how Uber H3 works Adesh Nalpet Adimurthy · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 15 min read · Jun 17, 2024 — This post is a continuation of Spatial Index: Grid Systems where we will set the foundation for tessellation and head into the details of Uber H3 0. Foundation Tessellation or tiling is the process of covering/dividing a space into smaller, non-overlapping shapes that fit together

Adesh Nalpet Adimurthy July 23, 2024