What It Takes to Train a Versatile Speech AI System

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Approach 2.1 Architecture 2.2 Multimodal Instruction Finetuning 2.3 Curriculum Learning with Parameter Efficient Finetuning 3 Experiments 4 Results 4.1 Evaluation of SpeechVerse models 4.2 Generalization Across Instructions 4.3 Strategies for Improving Performance 5 Related Work 6 Conclusion, Limitations, Ethics Statement, and References A Appendix A.1 Audio Encoder … Read more

Asia Morning Briefing: CryptoQuant Warns of $92K BTC Drop as Analyst Views Diverge

Good Morning, Asia. Here’s what’s making news in the markets: Welcome to Asia Morning Briefing, a daily summary of top stories during U.S. hours and an overview of market moves and analysis. For a detailed overview of U.S. markets, see CoinDesk’s Crypto Daybook Americas. As Asia begins its trading day, bitcoin BTC is trading above … Read more

The Robinhood founder who might just revolutionize energy, if he succeeds

When Baiju Bhatt stepped away from his role as Chief Creative Officer at Robinhood last year, only those close to him could have predicted his next move: launching a space company built around technology the aerospace industry has largely dismissed, and that might be more groundbreaking than anyone realizes. If people aren’t paying much attention, … Read more