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On October 17, 2024, Microsoft announced BitNet.cpp, an inference framework designed to run 1-bit quantized Large Language Models (LLMs). BitNet.cpp is a significant progress in Gen AI, enabling the deployment of 1-bit LLMs efficiently on standard CPUs, without requiring expensive GPUs. This development democratizes access to LLMs, making them available on a wide range of […]
Indonesia blocked Apple Inc. from selling its latest iPhones in Southeast Asia’s largest economy, saying the company has yet to meet local investment requirements. The iPhone 16, launched in September, cannot be marketed domestically as local unit PT Apple Indonesia hasn’t fulfilled the country’s 40% domestic content requirements for smartphones and tablets, the Ministry of […]
The outbreak of clade 2.3.4.4b highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses of the H5N1 subtype (HPAI H5N1) in dairy cows in the US has so far resulted in spillover infections of at least thirteen farm workers1-3, who presented with mild respiratory symptoms or conjunctivitis, and one individual with no known animal exposure who was hospitalized but […]
Volkswagen, which has lined up multiple electric models at various price points for global debuts, is now looking to bring in more entry-level EVs for the masses. The first among these would be the ID.2, which will have a more conventional design, similar to the German brand’s ICE-powered models, according to our sister publication, Autocar […]
The UK driverless-car startup Wayve is headed west. The firm’s cars learned to drive on the streets of London. But Wayve has announced that it will begin testing its tech in and around San Francisco as well, which brings a new challenge: Its AI will need to switch from driving on the left to driving […]
“What does it mean to have children see themselves as being builders of AI technologies and not just users?” says Shruti. The program starts out by using a pair of dice to demonstrate probabilistic thinking, a system of decision-making that accounts for uncertainty. Probabilistic thinking underlies the LLMs of today, which predict the most likely […]
The world of deep learning is rapidly evolving, with pretrained models becoming increasingly crucial for a wide range of tasks. Keras, known for its user-friendly API and focus on accessibility, has been at the forefront of this movement with specialized libraries like KerasNLP for text-based models and KerasCV for computer vision models. However, as models […]
Apple has updated the firmware for several older AirPods models. The new firmware revision is 6F21, the prior firmware was 6A326. The affected models are as follows: AirPods Max (lightning only) AirPods 2 AirPods 3 AirPods Pro 1 It’s everything but the new AirPods 4, the AirPods Pro 2, and the USB-C version of the […]
Stability AI has announced the release of Stable Diffusion 3.5, marking a leap forward in open-source AI image generation models. The latest models from Stability AI include multiple variants designed to cater to different user needs, from hobbyists to enterprise-level applications. The announcement follows June’s Stable Diffusion 3 Medium release, which the company acknowledges didn’t […]
Anthropic has announced upgrades to its AI portfolio, including an enhanced Claude 3.5 Sonnet model and the introduction of Claude 3.5 Haiku, alongside a “computer control” feature in public beta. The upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet demonstrates substantial improvements across all metrics, with particularly notable advances in coding capabilities. The model achieved an impressive 49.0% on […]