Month: July 2024

Threads hits 175 million users after a year

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Illustration: The Verge A year and a half ago, Threads was but a twinkle in Mark Zuckerberg’s eye. Now, the rival to Elon Musk’s X has reached more than 175 million monthly active users, the Meta CEO announced on Wednesday. His announcement comes as Threads is about to hit its one-year anniversary. Back when it … Read more

Perplexity’s ‘Pro Search’ AI upgrade makes it better at math and research

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Illustration: The Verge Perplexity has launched a major upgrade to its Pro Search AI tool, which it says “understands when a question requires planning, works through goals step-by-step, and synthesizes in-depth answers with greater efficiency.” Examples on Perplexity’s website of what Pro Search can do include a query asking the best time to see the … Read more

Zephyr: Direct Distillation of LM Alignment: Method

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:::info Authors: (1) Lewis Tunstall, Equal contribution and The H4 (Helpful, Honest, Harmless, Huggy) Team (email: lewis@huggingface.co); (2) Edward Beeching, Equal contribution and The H4 (Helpful, Honest, Harmless, Huggy) Team; (3) Nathan Lambert, The H4 (Helpful, Honest, Harmless, Huggy) Team; (4) Nazneen Rajani, The H4 (Helpful, Honest, Harmless, Huggy) Team; (5) Kashif Rasul, The H4 … Read more

Zephyr: Direct Distillation of LM Alignment: Abstract and Introduction

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:::info Authors: (1) Lewis Tunstall, Equal contribution and The H4 (Helpful, Honest, Harmless, Huggy) Team (email: lewis@huggingface.co); (2) Edward Beeching, Equal contribution and The H4 (Helpful, Honest, Harmless, Huggy) Team; (3) Nathan Lambert, The H4 (Helpful, Honest, Harmless, Huggy) Team; (4) Nazneen Rajani, The H4 (Helpful, Honest, Harmless, Huggy) Team; (5) Kashif Rasul, The H4 … Read more

Zephyr: Direct Distillation of LM Alignment: Experimental Details

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:::info Authors: (1) Lewis Tunstall, Equal contribution and The H4 (Helpful, Honest, Harmless, Huggy) Team (email: lewis@huggingface.co); (2) Edward Beeching, Equal contribution and The H4 (Helpful, Honest, Harmless, Huggy) Team; (3) Nathan Lambert, The H4 (Helpful, Honest, Harmless, Huggy) Team; (4) Nazneen Rajani, The H4 (Helpful, Honest, Harmless, Huggy) Team; (5) Kashif Rasul, The H4 … Read more

Zephyr: Direct Distillation of LM Alignment: Appendix

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:::info Authors: (1) Lewis Tunstall, Equal contribution and The H4 (Helpful, Honest, Harmless, Huggy) Team (email: lewis@huggingface.co); (2) Edward Beeching, Equal contribution and The H4 (Helpful, Honest, Harmless, Huggy) Team; (3) Nathan Lambert, The H4 (Helpful, Honest, Harmless, Huggy) Team; (4) Nazneen Rajani, The H4 (Helpful, Honest, Harmless, Huggy) Team; (5) Kashif Rasul, The H4 … Read more

Zephyr: Conclusions and Limitations, Acknowledgements and References

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:::info Authors: (1) Lewis Tunstall, Equal contribution and The H4 (Helpful, Honest, Harmless, Huggy) Team (email: lewis@huggingface.co); (2) Edward Beeching, Equal contribution and The H4 (Helpful, Honest, Harmless, Huggy) Team; (3) Nathan Lambert, The H4 (Helpful, Honest, Harmless, Huggy) Team; (4) Nazneen Rajani, The H4 (Helpful, Honest, Harmless, Huggy) Team; (5) Kashif Rasul, The H4 … Read more

Zephyr: Direct Distillation of LM Alignment: Related Work

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:::info Authors: (1) Lewis Tunstall, Equal contribution and The H4 (Helpful, Honest, Harmless, Huggy) Team (email: lewis@huggingface.co); (2) Edward Beeching, Equal contribution and The H4 (Helpful, Honest, Harmless, Huggy) Team; (3) Nathan Lambert, The H4 (Helpful, Honest, Harmless, Huggy) Team; (4) Nazneen Rajani, The H4 (Helpful, Honest, Harmless, Huggy) Team; (5) Kashif Rasul, The H4 … Read more

Zephyr: Direct Distillation of LM Alignment: Results and Ablations

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:::info Authors: (1) Lewis Tunstall, Equal contribution and The H4 (Helpful, Honest, Harmless, Huggy) Team (email: lewis@huggingface.co); (2) Edward Beeching, Equal contribution and The H4 (Helpful, Honest, Harmless, Huggy) Team; (3) Nathan Lambert, The H4 (Helpful, Honest, Harmless, Huggy) Team; (4) Nazneen Rajani, The H4 (Helpful, Honest, Harmless, Huggy) Team; (5) Kashif Rasul, The H4 … Read more

Weight Distribution Estimation in Lower-Limb Exoskeletons via Deep Learning: Methods

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:::info Authors: (1) Clement Lhos, Legs and Walking Lab of Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, IL, USA; (2) Emek Barıs¸ Kuc¸uktabak, Legs and Walking Lab of Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, IL, USA and Center for Robotics and Biosystems, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA; (3) Lorenzo Vianello, Legs and Walking Lab of Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, IL, … Read more

From burritos to biotech: How robotics startup Cartken found its AV niche

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Cartken and its diminutive sidewalk delivery robots first rolled into the world with a narrow charter: carrying everything from burritos and bento boxes to pizza and pad thai that last mile to hungry customers.  But the vision — thanks to the startup’s approach to autonomous vehicle technology — was always broader, according to Cartken co-founder … Read more

Granza Bio grabs $7M seed from Felicis and YC to advance delivery of cancer treatments

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Ashwin Nandakumar and Ashwin Jainarayanan were working on their doctorates at adjacent departments in Oxford, but they didn’t know each other. Nandakumar, who was studying oncology, one day stumbled across a curious dataset for prostate cancer, with which he needed sequencing help. “I reached out to a few friends asking to help me analyze this … Read more

The Verge’s favorite board and video games

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Screenshot: Steam Play is important — in fact, it can be as important to a grown-up as it is to a child. If you’ve spent the day concentrating on work, doing your taxes, cleaning your home, or caring for others, it’s not a bad idea to also take a little time for yourself to escape … Read more

Load Balancing For High Performance Computing Using Quantum Annealing: Quantum Annealing

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:::info Authors: (1) Omer Rathore, Department of Physics, Durham University; (2) Alastair Basden, Department of Physics, Durham University; (3) Nicholas Chancellor, Department of Physics, Durham University and School of Computing, Newcastle University; (4) Halim Kusumaatmaja, Department of Physics, Durham University and Institute for Multiscale Thermofluids, School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh. ::: Table of … Read more

Lif3.com Partners With evmOS To Deploy Lif3 Chain First Layer-1 Solution With Curated DeFi Contracts

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ROADTOWN, British Virgin Islands, July 2nd, 2024/Chainwire/–Lif3.com(LIF3/USD)(LIF3/USDt),the revolutionary omni-chain DeFi Layer-1 ecosystem that operates on Ethereum, Polygon, BNB Chain, and Fantom through LayerZero bridging, is thrilled to announce its premier partnership with evmOS to launch the world’s first Layer-1 solution, “Lif3 Chain” designed for public permissionless use with curated contract deployment.  The partnership sets a … Read more

E Money Network Launches $2 MILLION RWA Grant Program To Spearhead RWA Ecosystem

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BENGALURU, India, July 3rd, 2024/Chainwire/–E Money Network, a modular RWA blockchain, has launched the biggest RWA grant program in the crypto space, totaling $2 million, to enable RWA projects to build on their blockchain and accelerate the development of the RWA economy.  E Money Network’s Architecture Unlocks a World of Possibilities E Money Network is … Read more