You can tell Adobe Express’s new AI assistant to edit your designs for you

The AI Assistant is designed to be used without needing professional design experience. A new generative AI experience is coming to Adobe’s cloud-based Express design platform, enabling you to transform projects by vaguely describing what changes to make. Adobe describes the “AI Assistant in Adobe Express” launching in public beta today as a conversational creative … Read more

Amazon is cutting 14,000 corporate jobs

Amazon is planning to axe around 14,000 corporate jobs. The mass layoffs were expected as part of the company’s cost-cutting drive, but are smaller than the 30,000 job losses previous reports had indicated.   Beth Galetti, a senior executive at the e-commerce giant, broke the news to employees in a message on Tuesday. “The reductions we’re … Read more

Building a Reliability Platform for Distributed Systems

Systems we build today are, in a sense, disparate from the programs we constructed ten years back. Microservices communicate with one another across network boundaries, deployments happen all the time and not quarterly, and failures propagate in unforeseen manners. Yet most organizations still approach quality and reliability with tools and techniques better applicable in a … Read more

How Hybrid AI Models Balance Memory and Efficiency

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Methodology Experiments and Results 3.1 Language Modeling on vQuality Data 3.2 Exploration on Attention and Linear Recurrence 3.3 Efficient Length Extrapolation 3.4 Long-Context Understanding Analysis Conclusion, Acknowledgement, and References A. Implementation Details B. Additional Experiment Results C. Details of Entropy Measurement D. Limitations A Implementation Details For the … Read more

Meet SAMBA: The AI Model That Remembers More and Trains Faster

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Methodology Experiments and Results 3.1 Language Modeling on vQuality Data 3.2 Exploration on Attention and Linear Recurrence 3.3 Efficient Length Extrapolation 3.4 Long-Context Understanding Analysis Conclusion, Acknowledgement, and References A. Implementation Details B. Additional Experiment Results C. Details of Entropy Measurement D. Limitations 4 Analysis In this section, … Read more

SAMBA Proves Hybrid Design Is the Future of Long-Context Modeling

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Methodology Experiments and Results 3.1 Language Modeling on vQuality Data 3.2 Exploration on Attention and Linear Recurrence 3.3 Efficient Length Extrapolation 3.4 Long-Context Understanding Analysis Conclusion, Acknowledgement, and References A. Implementation Details B. Additional Experiment Results C. Details of Entropy Measurement D. Limitations 3 Experiments and Results We … Read more

Microsoft’s SAMBA Model Redefines Long-Context Learning for AI

:::info Authors: (1) Liliang Ren, Microsoft and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (liliangren@microsoft.com); (2) Yang Liu†, Microsoft (yaliu10@microsoft.com); (3) Yadong Lu†, Microsoft (yadonglu@microsoft.com); (4) Yelong Shen, Microsoft (yelong.shen@microsoft.com); (5) Chen Liang, Microsoft (chenliang1@microsoft.com); (6) Weizhu Chen, Microsoft (wzchen@microsoft.com). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Methodology Experiments and Results 3.1 Language Modeling on vQuality … Read more