Meta eyes LLM dominance with new Llama 3 models
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp parent Meta has released a new generation of its open source Llama large language model (LLM) in order to garner...
Beyond Neuralink: Meet the other companies developing brain-computer interfaces
“Paradromics actually has the highest-bandwidth interface, but they haven't demonstrated it in humans yet,” Robinson says. The electrodes sit on a chip about the...
AWS Snowmobile drives into the sunset
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has slowly and silently phased out its Snowmobile service—an offering launched at its annual AWS re:Invent conference in 2016 to...
It’s time to retire the term “user”
A user is also, of course, someone who struggles with addiction. To be an addict is—at least partly—to live in a state of powerlessness....
Meta Is Already Training a More Powerful Successor to Llama 3
Zuckerberg took to Instagram today to explain that Meta would incorporate the new Meta AI assistant, powered by Llama 3, into products that include...
The Download: American’s hydrogen train experiment, and why we need boring robots
Like a mirage speeding across the dusty desert outside Pueblo, Colorado, the first hydrogen-fuel-cell passenger train in the United States is getting warmed up...
How to upstream code to open source projects
Code commonly flows downstream, from an open-source project into an organization’s own products. Upstreaming is the process of reversing that flow—contributing code back to...
OpenAI’s Assistants API gets a boost
OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research company, has updated its Assistants API with a faster, more accurate file search tool, vector stores, and a tool choice...
Delta Is an iOS Game Boy Emulator That (Likely) Won’t Get Taken Down
Video game emulators are having a tough time. Back in March it was Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu, which got shut down following a lawsuit...
Researchers taught robots to run. Now they’re teaching them to walk
In previous projects, researchers from the University of Oregon had used the same reinforcement learning technique to teach a two-legged robot named Cassie to...
