Small new open source AI models perform as well as powerful large-scale AI models
Melissa Heikkilä Archive Page | MIT Technology Review
“(The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2)) has found that the largest Molmo model with 72 billion parameters has been tested to measure things like image understanding, compared to OpenAI, which is estimated to have more than 1 trillion parameters. It claims to outperform GPT-4o. Charts and documentation. On the other hand, Ai2’s smaller Molmo model with 7 billion parameters approaches OpenAI’s state-of-the-art model in performance. We believe this is because data collection and training methods have become much more efficient.”
Try out Orion, Meta’s first AR glasses
Alex Heath | The Verge
“They look like pretty much normal glasses. They were the first thing I noticed when I entered the conference room at Meta’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California. They were the first thing I noticed on the table in front of me. The Kentish black frames may seem unassuming, but they represent CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s multibillion-dollar bet on the next computer after smartphones, and it’s called Orion, the first augmented reality in the meta. It’s glasses.”
Startup says it can deliver 100x faster CPUs
Dina Genkina | IEEE Spectrum
“Instead of equipping a laptop with, say, 16 identical CPU cores to speed up computation, manufacturers are now equipping laptops with four standard CPU cores and 64 identical so-called parallel processing unit (PPU) cores in flow computing. with up to 100 times better performance.”
OpenAI becomes a commercial enterprise
Deepa Seetharaman, Belver Gin, Tom Dotan | Wall Street Journal
“OpenAI plans to transform from a nonprofit organization to a for-profit company, while also making major personnel changes, including the sudden resignation of Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati on Wednesday. Becoming a for-profit company is a seismic shift for OpenAI, which was founded in 2015 to develop AI technology “that benefits humanity as a whole, unfettered by the need to generate financial profit,” according to a statement. It will be. ”
Removable robot hand moves around with fingers and feet
Evan Ackerman IEEE Spectrum
“One of the great things about robots is that they don’t have to be bound by human constraints. At ICRA@40 in Rotterdam this week, we saw something new that we had never seen before. A removable robotic hand designed by roboticists at EPFL in Switzerland that can crawl and grasp objects that are otherwise inaccessible.”
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Remember the DNA you gave to 23andMe?
Kristen V. Brown | Atlantic
“23andMe is not doing well. The company’s stock is on the verge of delisting. Last month, the company closed its in-house drug development division, just the latest in several rounds of job cuts. Last week, the company’s entire board of directors except co-founder and CEO Anne Wojcicki resigned. Amid this downward spiral, Wojcicki said she would consider selling 23andMe. That means the DNA of 23andMe’s 15 million customers will also be up for sale.
Ultra-thin graphene brain implant just tested in humans
emily marin wired
“Twenty years after[its discovery]graphene is finally being used in batteries, sensors, semiconductors, air conditioners, and even headphones. And now it’s being tested in people’s brains. This week… The technique, created by Spanish company InBrain Neuroelectronics, saw surgeons at the University of Manchester temporarily place a thin, cellophane-tape-like implant made of graphene into the patient’s cortex (the outermost layer of the brain). , a type of brain-computer interface, a device that collects and decodes brain signals.”
First-ever 3D printed hotel is under construction in Texas
Evan Garcia | Reuters
“It looks like any other 3D printer, except it’s the size of a crane and is building a hotel layer by layer in the Texas desert. An existing hotel and campground outside the city of Marfa. , El Cosmico is expanding, with 43 new hotels and 18 new homes built on 60 acres (24 hectares), all using 3D printers.
AI bots can now overcome 100% of traffic image CAPTCHAs
Kyle Orlando | Ars Technica
“Previous academic studies have attempted to solve reCAPTCHAs using image recognition models, but the success rate was 68-71%. The authors of the new paper say they have achieved a 100% success rate. This achievement “signifies that we have now officially moved beyond capture.”
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