Creating An AI Agent-Based System with LangGraph: A Beginner’s Guide
What is an Agent? An agent is a Large Language Model (LLM)-powered system that can decide its own workflow. Unlike traditional chatbots, which operate on a fixed path (ask →…
YuE: An Open-Source Music Generation AI Model Family Capable of Creating Full-Length Songs with Coherent Vocals, Instrumental Harmony, and Multi-Genre Creativity
Significant progress has been made in short-form instrumental compositions in AI and music generation. However, creating full songs with lyrics, vocals, and instrumental accompaniment is still challenging for existing models.…
Quantization Space Utilization Rate (QSUR): A Novel Post-Training Quantization Method Designed to Enhance the Efficiency of Large Language Models (LLMs)
Post-training quantization (PTQ) focuses on reducing the size and improving the speed of large language models (LLMs) to make them more practical for real-world use. Such models require large data…
European embedded banking startup Swan adds another $44 million to its Series B
French startup Swan has raised another €42 million (around $44 million at current exchange rates). The company considers this round as the second part of the Series B round that…
NVIDIA AI Releases Eagle2 Series Vision-Language Model: Achieving SOTA Results Across Various Multimodal Benchmarks
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have significantly expanded AI’s ability to process multimodal information, yet they face persistent challenges. Proprietary models such as GPT-4V and Gemini-1.5-Pro achieve remarkable performance but lack transparency,…
SoftBank in talks to invest as much as $25B in OpenAI, report says
SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $25 billion in OpenAI as part of a broader partnership that could see the Japanese conglomerate spend more than $40 billion on…
Meta says end of fact-checking hasn’t impacted ad spend
Meta says its controversial decision to put an end to its fact-checking program hasn’t impacted advertiser spend. On its Q4 2024 call, Meta CFO Susan Li assured investors that advertiser…
Zuck shrugs off DeepSeek, vows to spend hundreds of billions on AI
Meta is doubling down on AI spending despite markets briefly panicking over concerns DeepSeek will reduce AI demand. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
LinkedIn passes $2B in premium revenue in 12 months, with overall revenue up 9% on the year
LinkedIn, the social platform where people look for and talk about work, may be less visible in Microsoft’s earnings compared to the years when it was an independent company. But…
Meta AI Introduces MR.Q: A Model-Free Reinforcement Learning Algorithm with Model-Based Representations for Enhanced Generalization
Reinforcement learning (RL) trains agents to make sequential decisions by maximizing cumulative rewards. It has diverse applications, including robotics, gaming, and automation, where agents interact with environments to learn optimal…