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Topic: "object-segmentation"
a quiet weekend
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Figure unveiled Figure 02, claimed as the most advanced humanoid robot, operating autonomously at BMW's Plant Spartanburg. DeepMind developed a table tennis robot achieving 100% wins against beginners and 55% against intermediates. Boston Dynamics showcased the dexterity of its fully-electric Atlas robot performing pushups and burpees. An autonomous dental robot performed the world's first dental procedure on a human, reducing a 2-hour process to 15 minutes using a 3D volumetric scanner. SAM 2 was introduced as an open model for real-time object segmentation without custom adaptation. Alibaba released Qwen2-Math, outperforming GPT-4 and Claude 3.5 in math capabilities. A new Listening-While-Speaking Language Model (LSLM) enables simultaneous listening and speaking in real-time. Researchers developed a disease prediction AI with 95% accuracy for diseases like coronary artery disease, type 2 diabetes, and breast cancer. Tools like LlamaParse CLI and MLX Whisper package enhance PDF parsing and speech recognition, with the latter running 40X faster than realtime on M1 Max. The news highlights significant advancements in robotics, AI models, and practical AI tools.
not much happened today
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Meta released SAM 2, a unified model for real-time object segmentation with a new dataset 4.5x larger and 53x more annotated than previous ones. FastHTML, a new Python web framework by Jeremy Howard, enables easy creation and deployment of interactive web apps. Scale AI launched the SEAL Leaderboard on adversarial robustness, topped by Gemini 1.5 Pro from Google DeepMind. Apple published a technical report on their Intelligence Foundation Language Models for on-device and server use. Yann LeCun emphasized the importance of open source AI in an article co-authored with Martin Casado and Ion Stoica. Maarten Grootendorst's "Visual Guide to Quantization" on efficient LLM inference went viral. ChatGPT started rolling out advanced voice and vision-enabled modes to select users. Leonardo AI was acquired by Canva. Jim Fan shared insights on Project Groot augmenting human demonstration data for robotics. Midjourney v6.1 was released.