Apple not investing in OpenAI 💰, DeepMind AlphaChip 💾, Faster Successor to RNNs 💻

Apple has opted out of investing in OpenAI's $6.5 billion funding round, leaving Microsoft and Nvidia as potential investors. 

Sign Up |Advertise|View Online TLDR TLDR AI 2024-09-30 🚀 Headlines & Launches The Intelligence Age (6 minute read) AI is poised to amplify human capabilities, enabling tasks that seem unimaginable today. Through deep learning and increased computational resources, AI will offer advancements like personal assistants, educational tutors, and healthcare advisors. The focus must remain on making AI accessible and mitigating its risks, paving the way for widespread prosperity in the Intelligence Age. Apple not investing in OpenAI after all, new report says (2 minute read) Apple has opted out of investing in OpenAI's $6.5 billion funding round, leaving Microsoft and Nvidia as potential investors. Microsoft is reportedly expanding its investment in OpenAI by another $1 billion. Despite not investing, Apple and OpenAI are partnering to integrate ChatGPT into iOS 18. How AlphaChip transformed computer chip design (5 minute read) AlphaChip is a reinforcement learning model that significantly accelerates and optimizes chip design processes. It generates superhuman chip layouts, currently used in Google's TPUs, in hours rather than weeks. This AI-driven method has broad applications, influencing both Google's hardware and external organizations like MediaTek. 🧠 Research & Innovation A Faster Successor to RNNs (36 minute read) The Parallel Gated Network (PGN) is a novel architecture designed to overcome the limitations of traditional RNNs in handling long-term dependencies. It reduces the information propagation path and uses gated mechanisms to effectively capture historical and current time step information. Faster Image Super-Resolution (18 minute read) DoSSR is a diffusion-based super-resolution model that enhances both performance and efficiency by leveraging pretrained diffusion models and starting the process with low-resolution images. Faster Sampling for Flow-Based Models (GitHub Repo) FlowTurbo is a technique designed to speed up sampling in flow-based models without sacrificing quality. 🧑‍💻 Engineering & Resources Reach developers, AI/ML engineers, and AI enthusiasts with TLDR (Sponsor) Paragon's Growth Marketing Manager mentions "TLDR allows us to connect with engineers who aren't on social media…Our CTO reads TLDR but doesn't scroll LinkedIn. " TLDR offers 10 interest-based newsletters to help you reach your target audience. Learn more about running your first campaign with us. Sound Event Detection (GitHub Repo) This repository introduces the Prototype-based Masked Audio Model, which improves sound event detection by making better use of unlabeled data. This technique generates pseudo labels using a Gaussian mixture model to guide the training of a Transformer-based audio model. Efficient Low-Bit Quantization for LLMs (GitHub Repo) Vector Post-Training Quantization is a method designed to enable extremely low-bit quantization of large language models, optimizing memory and storage use during deployment. Fast and Photorealistic Head Avatars (GitHub Repo) LightAvatar is a head avatar model that improves rendering speed and efficiency using neural light fields (NeLFs). 🎁 Miscellaneous Separating code reasoning and editing (17 minute read) Aider has been able to dramatically improve the performance of general-purpose code editing by using o1 as an architect and DeepSeek as the writer. Military language model (Hugging Face Hub) This model was trained on army handbooks and has integrated deep knowledge that is rare for fine-tuned models. Developing a go bot embedding ichiban Prolog (5 minute read) Ichiban Prolog was embedded into Hellabot, a Go-based IRC bot, to avoid recompilation for new triggers. This integration allows for dynamic Prolog code execution, enabling users to modify bot logic on-the-fly. Future improvements could reduce interpreter setup impact and move more logic into Prolog. ⚡ Quick Links Arcade AI raises 17M to transform commerce (1 minute read) Arcade AI, a generative product company that launched this week, has announced funding from notable investors as it pushes to build its "prompt to product" system, which allows for the creation of products that are immediately purchasable. They stole my voice with AI (3 minute read) Elecrow is suspected of using AI to clone a voice for promotional videos without consent. Amazon-backed Anthropic in talks to raise money at $40B valuation (1 minute read) Anthropic, a generative AI startup backed by Amazon and other tech firms, is in talks to secure funding that could value the company at $40 billion. Love TLDR? Tell your friends and get rewards! 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