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- AMD to acquire AI software startup in effort to catch Nvidia
- Rora 2023 Salary Negotiation Report for AI Researchers 2023
- and State of AI Report 2023
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Marcel Hedman
Key Recent Developments
AMD to acquire AI software startup in effort to catch Nvidia
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Using AI to decode speech from brain activity
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AI Ethics & 4 good
🚀 Study employs deep learning to explain extreme events
🚀 Scaling up learning across many different robot types - DeepMind new dataset
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🚀Chorus of creative workers demands AI regulation at FTC roundtable
🚀 An AI method to predict cellular responses to genetic perturbation
Other interesting reads
🚀 CS/ Human computer interaction PhD Opportunity Tracker
🚀 Rora 2023 Salary Negotiation Report for AI Researchers
🚀 A comprehensive survey of the taxonomy and evolution of multimodal foundation models
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Papers
🚀Report on gaps and opportunities for the clinical translation of precision diabetes medicine
🚀Flow Matching for Generative Modeling
🚀Neuromorphic sequence learning with an event camera on routes through vegetation
📣 BFNs: A new class of generative models that
— NNAISENSE (@nnaisense) August 15, 2023
- brings together the strengths of Bayesian inference and deep learning
- trains on continuous, discretized or discrete data with simple end-to-end loss
- places no restrictions on the network architecturehttps://t.co/lftvBiPMMh pic.twitter.com/PenllZziXa
Cool companies found this week
Compute
Nod.ai - Nod.ai leverage machine learning based methods (Reinforcement Learning in particular) for codegen and auto-scheduling of compute and communication over a heterogeneous set of resources (such as CPUs, GPUs, Accelerators etc).
ML pipelines
Kumo.ai - Automate major steps in the ML lifecycle from raw data ingestion to sustained production deployment
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Best,
Marcel Hedman
Nural Research Founder
www.nural.cc
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