Author: Hunter
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Intel Labs Explores Low-Rank Adapters and Neural Architecture Search for LLM Compression
Large language models (LLMs) have become indispensable for various natural language processing applications, including machine translation, text summarization, and conversational AI. However, their increasing complexity and size have led to significant computational efficiency and memory consumption challenges. As these models grow, the resource demand makes them difficult to deploy in environments with limited computational capabilities.… Read more
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Sam Altman admits OpenAI was ‘on the wrong side of history’ in open source debate
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, admits the company was “on the wrong side of history” in the open source AI debate during a Reddit AMA, signaling a potential strategy shift as Chinese competitor DeepSeek disrupts the market with efficient, open models.Read More Read more
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Light3R-SfM: A Scalable and Efficient Feed-Forward Approach to Structure-from-Motion
Structure-from-motion (SfM) focuses on recovering camera positions and building 3D scenes from multiple images. This process is important for tasks like 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis. A major challenge comes from processing large image collections efficiently while maintaining accuracy. Several approaches rely on the optimization of camera poses and scene geometry. However, these have… Read more
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Mistral AI Releases the Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501: A Latency-Optimized 24B-Parameter Model Released Under the Apache 2.0 License
Developing compact yet high-performing language models remains a significant challenge in artificial intelligence. Large-scale models often require extensive computational resources, making them inaccessible for many users and organizations with limited hardware capabilities. Additionally, there is a growing demand for methods that can handle diverse tasks, support multilingual communication, and provide accurate responses efficiently without sacrificing… Read more
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The Federal Funding Freeze Will Cause Lasting Damage to Medical Research
Clinical trials may have to be scrapped, research applications will be pushed back, and unpaid researchers will quickly leave the sector—even if the Trump administration’s funding pause is only temporary. Read more
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The drone pilot who took out an LA firefighting plane pleads guilty to escape jail
On January 9th, 56-year-old Peter Akemann flew his DJI Mini 3 Pro drone far beyond the legal limit of his ability to see — and into a Super Scooper water dumping plane fighting the Los Angeles Palisades wildfires, grounding it for repairs after punching a hole in its left wing. Now that authorities have traced… Read more
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang meets with Donald Trump on AI
Nvidia confirmed that its CEO Jensen Huang met with U.S. President Donald Trump to discuss U.S. technology and AI leadership.Read More Read more
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Donald Trump’s data purge has begun
Key resources for environmental data and public health have already been taken down from federal websites, and more could soon vanish as the Trump administration works to scrap anything that has to do with climate change, racial equity, or gender identity. Warnings floated on social media today about an impending purge at the Centers for… Read more
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BioWare hit with layoffs as it shifts to next Mass Effect
BioWare now has fewer than 100 employees after laying off “around two dozen” staffers and shifting others to different projects at EA, Bloomberg reports. The changes follow BioWare’s own “Studio Update” published this week where GM Gary McKay said the studio had “worked diligently over the past few months to match many of our colleagues… Read more
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Netflix has canceled The Sandman
The Sandman. Tom Sturridge as Dream in episode 101 of The Sandman. | Image: Liam Daniel/Netflix © 2022<br> Though Netflix is planning to bring back a number of its ongoing series in the coming months, the streamer has decided to cancel its adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman. Netflix announced today that The Sandman will… Read more