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Tesla shared release notes for its spring update over the weekend, and the forthcoming update includes new features such as the highly anticipated adaptive headlights, custom trunk height settings, and more. In a post on X on Saturday, Tesla said that the 2025 spring update would be rolling out soon, along with noting that the software version would include the highly anticipated adaptive headlights for owners in the U.S. and Canada. The update also adds features such as the ability to set custom frunk and trunk heights at saved locations, view and select alternative trip routing plans, and a number…

Researchers from Stanford University early today published the latest edition of their annual AI Index Report, detailing the growing influence of artificial intelligence technologies on our society and the global economy. The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, known as Stanford HAI, has been publishing its annual reports on the state of the AI industry since 2017. This year’s edition, the eighth, is the “most comprehensive” report to date, spanning more than 430 pages. The authors say it’s arriving at a critical juncture as the influence of AI across society rapidly accelerates with the emergence of increasingly capable and sophisticated…

An IBM Z employee (left) shows launch event attendees the new z17 mainframe via a plexiglass prototype model (right) at IBM’s One Madison office.Melinda Huspen/American Banker IBM says its latest mainframe comes with the ability to run artificial intelligence models at high speeds and to provide quantum-grade encryption on transactions and data.The IBM z17 features expanded on-chip AI capabilities and upgraded hardware and software designed to assist in fraud prevention and quantum security. The “Z” stands for zero downtime, according to IBM Z Chief Product Officer Tina Tarquinio.The z17 model was unveiled during a launch event for IBM Z clients…

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have identified the hopping locomotion of robots as optimal for disaster search missions because the robots need to expend the least amount of energy to move. The MIT robot hops on just one leg in the laboratory and is only 5 cm tall. The hopping locomotion of a robot with only one leg has many advantages: it does not require much energy, thus extending the useful life of the robot, and large obstacles and slopes can be easily jumped over. The alternative flying locomotion, on the other hand, is more energy-intensive. Robots…

China has U.S. chip giants Nvidia (NVDA) and Broadcom (AVGO) in its sights after it revealed details of a huge $8.2 billion AI funding program.Stay Ahead of the Market: Chinese Self-Sufficiency The state-backed AI Industry Investment Fund will, according to the South China Morning Post, be dedicated to early-stage AI projects. But a large focus will be on developing semiconductor expertise to help make China more independent when it comes to chip production. Indeed the new fund draws contributions from Phase III of the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund—also known as the “Big Fund”—which was set up last year…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Wells Fargo has quietly accomplished what most enterprises are still dreaming about: building a large-scale, production-ready generative AI system that actually works. In 2024 alone, the bank’s AI-powered assistant, Fargo, handled 245.4 million interactions – more than doubling its original projections – and it did so without ever exposing sensitive customer data to a language model. Fargo helps customers with everyday banking needs via voice or text, handling requests such as help paying bills, transferring funds, providing transaction details, and answering questions…

When Elon Musk announced that his AI startup, xAI, had acquired his social media company, X (formerly known as Twitter), in an all-stock deal, it raised some eyebrows. But in many ways, the deal made sense. xAI’s chatbot, Grok, was already deeply integrated with X, X was floundering financially, and Musk needed a way to make his $44 billion Twitter acquisition look less like an impulsive takeover and more like a strategic play for AGI dominance.  It also pointed to something deeper about how Musk’s empire works: investing in any one of his companies isn’t about a quick return on…

#ai #retnet #transformers Retention is an alternative to Attention in Transformers that can both be written in a parallel and in a recurrent fashion. This means the architecture achieves training parallelism while maintaining low-cost inference. Experiments in the paper look very promising. OUTLINE: 0:00 – Intro 2:40 – The impossible triangle 6:55 – Parallel vs sequential 15:35 – Retention mechanism 21:00 – Chunkwise and multi-scale retention 24:10 – Comparison to other architectures 26:30 – Experimental evaluation Paper: Abstract: In this work, we propose Retentive Network (RetNet) as a foundation architecture for large language models, simultaneously achieving training parallelism, low-cost inference,…

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