5 Unconventional Sources of Data for Your Next Project
When working on a project, think beyond traditional data sources. Explore unconventional options like social media and user-generated content for fresh insights.
Intenty nudges you to provide a reason every time you unlock your phone
Intentional phone usage is a tricky habit to develop. Operating systems like iOS and Android, along with social media networks like Instagram and TikTok, have built timers, nudges, and controls…
EU ends Amazon state aid case with no back taxes in its basket
Amazon can finally close the book on a long-running state aid saga in the European Union. The Commission confirmed Thursday it’s shuttered an investigation into whether Luxembourg, the Member State…
Understanding AI’s Impact on Creative Writing
If someone told you a decade ago that artificial intelligence (AI) would help people write novels, poetry, or screenplays, you might have rolled your eyes. But here we are. AI…
From pond scum to premium skincare? Deep Blue Biotech is all in on blue-green algae to make better chemicals
Decarbonizing our economies in the race to fight climate change demands a wholesale overhauling of all sorts of production processes to make them as sustainable as possible. Greening chemicals, which…
All Languages Matter Benchmark (ALM-bench): A Comprehensive Evaluation Framework to Enhance Multimodal Language Models for Cultural Inclusivity and Linguistic Diversity Across 100 Global Languages
Multimodal language models (LMMs) are a transformative technology that blends natural language processing with visual data interpretation. Their applications extend to multilingual virtual assistants, cross-cultural information retrieval, and content understanding.…
Polynomial Mixer (PoM): Overcoming Computational Bottlenecks in Image and Video Generation
Image and video generation has undergone a remarkable transformation, evolving from a seemingly impossible challenge to a task nearly solved by commercial tools like Stable Diffusion and Sora. This progress…
Four Cutting-Edge Methods for Evaluating AI Agents and Enhancing LLM Performance
The advent of LLMs has propelled advancements in AI for decades. One such advanced application of LLMs is Agents, which replicate human reasoning remarkably. An agent is a system that…
Financial inclusion drives M-KOPA to $400M in ARR
An African fintech that has grown on the strength of a 30,000-strong team of direct salespeople is moving into profit country by sub-Saharan country. Now, M-KOPA, the pay-as-you-go asset financing…
NVIDIA AI Research Unveils ‘Star Attention’: A Novel AI Algorithm for Efficient LLM Long-Context Inference
Transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs) face significant challenges in efficiently processing long sequences due to the quadratic complexity of the self-attention mechanism. This will increase their computational and memory demands…