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Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, May 7, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings Google DeepMind released Med-Gemini, a family of multimodal models fine-tuned and specialized for medicine. (technical paper) Amazon Q, a generative AI assistant for business and developers, has launched. (AWS) Reinforcement Learning Problem Solving with Large Language Models (technical paper) An AI-controlled fighter jet took the Air Force

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, April 22, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings Llama 3 (Meta’s technical blog). It’s worth reading if you are technical. I like how aggressive Meta has become in launching new open source models and embedding (no pun intended) Llama 3 model to power its apps. I started testing Meta AI in Instagram this

Groupthink

The market is volatile, and people are "taking risks off the table." If you watch major financial news channels, you hear this a lot in the past few days. Today, I heard commentator say that a major correction is good, and they were expecting it. I have several

AI Computing - Meta's MTIA

Busy week in the world of data and AI. Today, Meta announced the company's new generation of Meta AI chips called MTIA - tuned for training and inference of data workloads for ranking and recommendation. https://ai.meta.com/blog/next-generation-meta-training-inference-accelerator-AI-MTIA/ A few observations: * Continued separation of training,

Future of Robotics

WSJ published an article today on robotics and highlighted use cases in warehouses, meat packing, and other industrial settings. It's worth a read. https://www.wsj.com/business/meet-the-robots-slicing-your-barbecue-ribs-338a7794?mod=hp_lead_pos7 Robotics has come a long way in a relatively short period of time considering the

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, April 8, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings Canada to invest $1.8m in AI (WSJ) Nvidia launched FoundationPose - “6D Pose Estimation and Tracking of Novel Objects” (Github) “Long-form factuality in large language models” (Google Deepmind) 👏 Deals Profluent, a Berkeley-based protein design company using AI, raised $35m in financing. Packback, a company focused on

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, April 1, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings Happy first day of April! Readings will resume next week! 👏 Deals Buzz Solutions, a Palo Alto-based company focused on critical energy infrastructure protection, raised $5m in financing. Ascent Platform Corporation, a NYC-based provider of point-of-sale solutions for banks and credit unions, raised $5m in financing. Euno Data,

Nvidia GTC 2024 - Major Themes

In the first 30 minutes of Jensen Huang's keynote at GTC 2024, Jensen outlined the current fundamental concepts and innovations of high performance compute for AI. Must watch for any technologist and anyone who is interested to understand what is happening in AI. In addition to the launch

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, March 25, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings “Evolving New Foundation Models: Unleashing the Power of Automating Model Development” (Sakana AI) Meta’s SceneScript, a model for 3D scene reconstruction (Meta) 01 Light - a precursor to a digital personal assistant. What do you think? (check it out, documentation) “Tennessee becomes first US state with

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, March 18, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings Incorporating Ethics in AI (UC Berkeley) Apple’s multimodal model (link to technical paper) Cognition released Devin, an AI-based software engineer (link) Foundational model for robot development (link) 👏 Deals Vescent, a CO-based startup leasing quantum 2.0 technologies to enable commercialization, has raised $5m in seed financing.