InfoWorld

The ‘toggle-away’ efficiencies: Cutting AI costs inside the training loop

You don't need the newest GPUs to save money on AI; simple tweaks like "smoke tests" and fixing data bottlenecks can slash ...
theregister

Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens

Earlier this week, Dan Blanchard, maintainer of a Python character encoding detection library called chardet, released a new version of the library under a new software license. In doing so, he may ...
winbuzzer.com

Byteification: AI2’s New Bolmo AI Model Cuts AI Training Costs by 99%

Bypassing the prohibitive costs of training novel architectures from scratch, the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) has introduced Bolmo, a new family of language models that process raw bytes instead of ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Kenneth Colley, Admiral Piett in a Pair of ‘Star Wars’ Films, Dies at 87

The veteran British actor worked often with Ken Russell and members of Monty Python and played a Soviet colonel in Clint Eastwood's 'Firefox.' By Mike Barnes Senior Editor He had a stutter that he ...
marktechpost

Meta AI Researchers Introduced a Scalable Byte-Level Autoregressive U-Net Model That Outperforms Token-Based Transformers Across Language Modeling Benchmarks

Language modeling plays a foundational role in natural language processing, enabling machines to predict and generate text that resembles human language. These models have evolved significantly, ...
IEEE

Optimizing Byte Pair Encoding Tokenization for South African Languages

Abstract: In this paper, we introduce an Optimized Byte Pair Encoding (OBPE) tokenizer where the algorithm is optimized for the South African languages, including Sesotho, Setswana, Xhosa, Xitsonga, ...