India’s MobiKwik surges 82% in market debut
Shares in digital payments firm MobiKwik surged 82% to ₹507.5 ($6) on their first day of trading, as the Indian fintech company made its market debut amid fierce competition from…
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The Role of Specifications in Modularizing Large Language Models
Software has been a critical catalyst for economic growth over the past several decades, a phenomenon prominently articulated by Andreessen in his influential blog post, “Why software is eating the…
Infinigence AI Releases Megrez-3B-Omni: A 3B On-Device Open-Source Multimodal Large Language Model MLLM
The integration of artificial intelligence into everyday life faces notable hurdles, particularly in multimodal understanding—the ability to process and analyze inputs across text, audio, and visual modalities. Many models require…
Google Released State of the Art ‘Veo 2’ for Video Generation and ‘Improved Imagen 3’ for Image Creation: Setting New Standards with 4K Video and Several Minutes Long Video Generation
Video and Image generation innovations are improving the quality of visuals and focusing on making AI models more responsive to detailed prompts. AI tools have opened new possibilities for artists,…
Mechanisms of Localized Receptive Field Emergence in Neural Networks
A notable aspect of peripheral responses in the animal nervous system is localization, where the linear receptive fields of simple-cell neurons respond to specific, contiguous regions much smaller than their…
Self-Calibrating Conformal Prediction: Enhancing Reliability and Uncertainty Quantification in Regression Tasks
In machine learning, reliable predictions and uncertainty quantification are critical for decision-making, particularly in safety-sensitive domains like healthcare. Model calibration ensures predictions accurately reflect true outcomes, making them robust against…
The DOJ wants a Perplexity executive to testify in its Google antitrust case
The US government is calling on a Perplexity executive to help make its case that Google is a monopolist. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Insight VC describes Databricks’ wild $10B deal and the bad advice the CEO ignored
It’s been a wild week for investors clawing their way into Databricks’ record-breaking $10 billion fund raising, one of the VCs told TechCrunch. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For…
Salesforce plans to hire 2,000 people to sell its AI products
Cloud software giant Salesforce looks to hire thousands of new sales people to sell its AI tools to customers. The company plans to hire 2,000 new sales representatives, according to…
OpenAI says it has no plans for a Sora API — yet
OpenAI says it has no plans to release an API for Sora, its AI model that can generate reasonably realistic videos when provided with a text description or reference image.…