An oral history from 19 current and former natural language processing researchers of the past five years, including how LLMs and ChatGPT disrupted their fields
There was one about using BERT to unredact the Mueller report, which is a terrible idea. It seemed like there was just a never-ending supply … Bluesky: @markriedl , @coocho , @melaniemitchell , and @...
A look at Fragmentarium, a project to use AI to piece together digitized tablet fragments of the Epic of Gilgamesh, a 3,000-year-old Mesopotamian poem
one of the world's oldest literary texts. Now A.I. has brought an ‘extreme acceleration’ to the field.” https://www.nytimes.com/... @razibkhan : Piecing Together an Ancient Epic Was Slow Work. Until A...
Box CEO on how generative AI can turn the mostly unstructured data inside enterprises into valuable knowledge, enabling greater automation of workflows and more
Aaron Levie / @levie : X: @hunglee , @villi , @adambrotman , and @tomwarren X: Hung Lee / @hunglee : Structured vs Unstructured data - AI will collapse the distinction and make it all accessible know...
OpenAI unveils GPT-4o, a new flagship generative AI model that is faster and natively multimodal, rolling out for free to all ChatGPT users in the coming weeks
There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight. OpenAI : Hello GPT-4o — We're announcing GPT-4o, our new flagship model that can reason across audio, vision, and text in real...
Stanford's AI Index report: training top AI models is way more expensive, AI still trails humans on complex tasks, people are more nervous about AI, and more
customer support, customer acquisition, and personalization all between 22-26%. [image] @stanfordhai : The #AIIndex2024 tracks the rise of multimodal models, major cash investments into generative AI,...
An in-depth look at the 2017 “Attention Is All You Need” paper, a big breakthrough in AI, and profiles of the eight Google researchers who co-authored the paper
They met by chance, got hooked on an idea, and wrote the “Transformers” paper—the most consequential tech breakthrough in recent history. X: @jsmarr , @webbarr , @sandraupson , @hkanji , and @stevenle...
Berlin-based Deepset, which helps companies build “complex LLM applications” and add NLP to apps, raised $30M led by Balderton, taking its total funding to $46M
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Toronto-based NLP and chatbot startup Cohere raised $270M led by Inovia Capital, a source says at a $2.1B to $2.2B valuation, taking its total funding to ~$445M
Artificial intelligence startup Cohere has raised $270 million from a mix of venture capital and strategic investors including Oracle Corp …
Sources: Toronto-based NLP and chatbot startup Cohere is close to securing $250M from backers including Nvidia and Salesforce at a ~$2B post-money valuation
George Hammond / Financial Times :
Paris-based Sesamm, which uses NLP to generate insights helping companies adhere to their ESG goals, raised a €35M Series B2, taking its total funding to €50.5M
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch :