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📝 Editorial: GPT-MicrosoftFrom the traditional tech incumbents, there is no doubt that Microsoft has been the company that has benefited the most from the rise of generative AI. The partnership and investment in OpenAI have positioned Microsoft in a unique place to enable generative AI capabilities across its entire stack, from Windows to Office 365. Copilots for everything seem to be Microsoft’s generative AI flag, and it was incredibly present at this week’s Build conference. Build is Microsoft’s premier developer event, and the 2023 edition felt like an AI event. Microsoft released an astonishing number of products and capabilities that embed GPT-4 and ChatGPT as first-class citizens. Here are some of the most relevant announcements:
These are just a small set of the AI announcements that took place at Build. Just like search for Google and cloud computing for AWS, AI has been the trend that has solidified Microsoft’s competitive position, and they are certainly leaning into it. 🔎 ML ResearchPrompt Understanding in Text-to-Image ModelsBerkey AI Research(BAIR) published a paper detailing a method that uses LLMs to improve prompts used in text-to-image diffusion models. The core idea is to augment diffusion models with spatial and common sense reasoning capabilities powered by LLMs —> Read more. AlpacaFarmStanford University researchers published a paper outlining AlpacaFarm, a method to improve the performance of RLHF fine tuning techniques. AlpacaFarm improves RLHF processes by using a simulator that can try new methods to learn from human feedback and incorporate the best performing ones to the target model —> Read more. Text-to-Speech, Speech-to-Text for 1100 LanguagesMeta AI published speech-to-text and text-to-speech models that work efficiently on more than 1100 languages. The models combine wav2vec 2.0 with self-supervised learning methods that includes labeled data for 1100 languages and unlabeled data for more than 4000 languages → Read more. Differential Privacy in MLGoogle Research published a paper reviewing the current state of ML differential privacy methods. The paper discusses the core DP ML techniques from an engineering and research perspective —> Read more. 🤖 Cool AI Tech ReleasesMicrosoft AI AnnouncementsMicrosoft unveiled a decent group of AI products at its Build conference —> Read more. CodeT5+Salesforce Research open source CodeT5+,a new family of code generating LLMs —> Read more. 🛠 Real World MLCoPilot at GitHubDevelopers behind GitHub Copilot project discuss the history and evolution of the project —> Read more. 📡AI Radar
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