The Update

Biweekly updates covering recent AI news and research

Mini-Update #39: 2024 AI Index Report and Autonomous Driving Detection

Stanford publishes its most comprehensive AI index report and researchers develop new methods of driving lane detection using sparse anchors.

Apr 16 •

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Update #72: NYC's Unfortunate Chatbot and Mixture-of-Depths

NYC's My City Chatbot makes concerning suggestions to users and DeepMind introduces a novel method for optimizing the resource allocation in transformer…

Apr 9 •

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Mini-Update #38: OpenAI's Voice Engine and LDM Scaling

OpenAI previews its Voice Engine but does not release it and Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) show powerful capabilities at small size.

Apr 5 •

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Update #71: Neuralink's First Human Trial and Controlling Language Model Hallucinations

Noland Arbaugh plays chess with his mind, and researchers find training strategies that reduce language model hallucinations.

Mar 26 •

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Mini-Update #37: xAI's Open Source Grok and Apple's MM1

xAI open sources its LLM Grok and Apple releases MM1 – a series of multimodal LLMs and the lessons learned from training them.

Mar 21 •

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Mini-Update #36: Claude 3 and 1-bit LLMs

Anthropic releases its most powerful chatbot yet, and researchers release an LLM that uses ternary values for its parameters.

Mar 13 •

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Update #70: Apple Shutters Autonomous EV Project and Griffin + Hawk Compete with Transformers

Apple terminates Project Titan and redirects resources to generative AI, and researchers propose two RNN-based architectures in the SSM line of work…

Mar 12 •

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