How much power is enough for AI? Nobody knows, not even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman or Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. That has put software-first businesses like OpenAI and Microsoft in a bind. Much of the tech world has been focused on compute as a major barrier to AI deployment. And while tech companies have been…
Can large language models collaborate without sending a single token of text? a team of researchers from Tsinghua University, Infinigence AI, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shanghai AI Laboratory, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University say yes. Cache-to-Cache (C2C) is a new communication paradigm where large language models exchange information through their KV-Cache rather than…
Locket, a private social networking app for friends, has scored a win with Gen Alpha users following the launch of its latest feature, Rollcall. The app, which lets friends share photos that then appear in home screen widgets, first hit the top of the App Store’s charts in early 2022 by taking advantage of Apple’s…
A Japanese trade organization representing publishers like Studio Ghibli wrote a letter to OpenAI last week, calling for the AI giant to stop training its AI models on their copyrighted content without permission. Studio Ghibli, the animation studio behind films like “Spirited Away” and “My Neighbor Totoro,” has been especially impacted by OpenAI’s generative AI…
When we gather ’round the proverbial fire and exchange our online dating war stories, we’re usually talking about the usual suspects: Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, Grindr, and sometimes more niche apps like Lex. But ever since Facebook Dating launched in 2019, I’m not sure I have ever heard a tale that began there — I know…
Lawmakers have called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Flock Safety, a company that operates license plate-scanning cameras, for allegedly failing to implement cybersecurity protections that expose its camera network to hackers and spies. In a letter sent by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL, 8th), the lawmakers urge FTC chairman…
Solo VC investor extraordinaire Elad Gil said on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt that AI has been one of the least predictable tech booms he’s ever seen. Gil is on the cap table of virtually every hit company of the past decade, including many of today’s leading AI companies. Still, he thinks that over the last…
How can AI teams run Tinker style reinforcement learning on large language models using their own infrastructure with a single unified engine? Anyscale and NovaSky (UC Berkeley) Team releases SkyRL tx v0.1.0 that gives developers a way to run a Tinker compatible training and inference engine directly on their own hardware, while keeping the same…
Andreessen Horowitz is pausing its Talent x Opportunity (TxO) fund and program, according to four sources familiar with the matter, including more than one founder in the program. The firm announced TxO in 2020 to support founders who do not have access to traditional venture networks. Many of TxO’s participants were women and minorities who, overall, receive very slim amounts of venture…
One of the biggest challenges in real-world machine learning is that supervised models require labeled data—yet in many practical scenarios, the data you start with is almost always unlabeled. Manually annotating thousands of samples isn’t just slow; it’s expensive, tedious, and often impractical. This is where active learning becomes a game-changer. Active learning is a…
