Research - Maginative (Page 2)

Robotics Research

Stanford Unveils a New Low-Cost Mobile Robotics Training System

Chris McKay• January 4, 2024 • 2 min read

Mobile ALOHA can autonomously complete complex mobile manipulation tasks such as sauteing and serving a piece of shrimp, opening a two-door wall cabinet to store heavy cooking pots, and lightly rinsing a used pan using a kitchen faucet.

Research AI Tech

JPMorgan Introduces DocLLM for Better Multimodal Document Understanding

Chris McKay• January 2, 2024 • 2 min read

The model may enable more automated document processing and analysis for financial institutions and other document-intensive businesses going forward

Google Research

Google AI Unveils VideoPoet: A Zero-Shot Video Generation Large Language Model

Richard Banfield• December 19, 2023 • 3 min read

VideoPoet's capability to generate videos with diverse motions and styles, tailored to specific text inputs, showcases its advanced understanding of both content and context.

Research Media & Entertainment

Upscale-A-Video is A New AI Model for Real-World Video Super-Resolution

Chris McKay• December 12, 2023 • 1 min read

At the core of Upscale-A-Video is an ingenious text-guided latent diffusion framework tailored for the unique demands of video processing.

Research

TAP is a New Method That Automatically Jailbreaks AI Models

Chris McKay• December 7, 2023 • 3 min read

On average, TAP jailbroke GPT-4 in just 28 queries, circumventing safety measures and prompting responses on building homemade explosives or distributing pirated software.

Microsoft Research Accessibility

Microsoft Researchers Advance Sign Language Accessibility Through Community-Sourced Data

Chris McKay• December 4, 2023 • 2 min read

This approach aims to remedy the limitations of previous datasets that were either scraped from the internet without consent or recorded in labs, lacking diversity and real-world applicability.

Google Research

Google DeepMind Unveils GNoME to Use AI to Accelerate Material Science

Chris McKay• November 29, 2023 • 2 min read

GNoME has unveiled an astonishing 2.2 million new crystals, including 380,000 stable materials with immense potential for future technological applications.

Stability AI Research

Stability AI Unveils SDXL Turbo for Real-Time Text-to-Image Generation

Chris McKay• November 28, 2023 • 2 min read

The model uses a new technique called Adversarial Diffusion Distillation which allows it to have many advantages shared with Generative Adversarial Networks such as single-step image outputs, while avoiding artifacts or blurriness often observed in other distillation methods.

Stability AI Research

Stability AI Releases Stable Video Diffusion

Chris McKay• November 21, 2023 • 2 min read

Stability is open-sourcing Stable Video Diffusion and an image-to-video model, for research purposes.

Microsoft Open Source Research

Microsoft Releases New Orca 2 Small Language Model with Enhanced Reasoning Capabilities

Chris McKay• November 20, 2023 • 2 min read

Comprehensive benchmarks show Orca 2 significantly outperforming other models of equivalent size on metrics related to language understanding, common sense reasoning, multi-step math problems, reading comprehension, summarization, and more.

Meta Research

Meta's New AI Tech Can Edit Images with Text and Convert Them to Video

Chris McKay• November 16, 2023 • 2 min read

Building on their prior work in image and video generation, these models showcase impressive capabilities in high-quality, diffusion-based text-to-video generation and controlled image editing using text instructions.

NVIDIA Research

NVIDIA Leverages AI to Assist with Semiconductor Design

Chris McKay• October 30, 2023 • 2 min read

NVIDIA researchers customized LLaMA by training it on 24 billion tokens derived from internal documents, code, and other textual data related to chip design.

Anthropic Research

The Pitfalls of Pleasing Humans: How AI Assistants Learn to Be Sycophants

Chris McKay• October 24, 2023 • 3 min read

New research shows that even though these models may know what's factual, they may still produce responses that appease user beliefs, sometimes at the expense of accuracy.

Meta Research Robotics

Meta Advances Socially Intelligent Robots with Habitat 3.0, HSSD-200, and HomeRobot

Chris McKay• October 20, 2023 • 2 min read

The breakthroughs aim to enable real-world collaborative robots and augmented reality assistants.

NVIDIA Research

NVIDIA Announces SteerLM, A New Technique to Easily Customize LLM Responses During Inference

Chris McKay• October 14, 2023 • 2 min read

What sets SteerLM apart is the user's ability to adjust attributes at the time of inference allowing for real-time tailoring to specific needs, not just predetermined ones.

Google Research

Google's Batch Calibration Technique Improves In-Context Learning When Prompting LLMs

Chris McKay• October 14, 2023 • 3 min read

Batch Calibration refines in-context learning, and effectively tackles many of its biases while delivering state-of-the-art performance and unprecedented robustness.

Research Open Source Healthcare

M42 Health Unveils Med42 - A Milestone for Open Access in AI for Healthcare

Chris McKay• October 13, 2023 • 2 min read

The model achieved up to 72% accuracy in a zero-shot evaluation on the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE), and outperforms OpenAI's ChatGPT 3.5.

Apple Research

Apple's New Tool Continuously Downloads and Crawls Apps to Train AI to Better Understand User Interfaces

Chris McKay• October 9, 2023 • 4 min read

The system offers a novel approach to training machine learning models that power various accessibility, testing, and design tools for app developers.

Meta Research

Meta Launches $500K Llama Impact Grants

Chris McKay• October 6, 2023 • 1 min read

The Llama Impact Grants program seeks to identify and support compelling applications of Llama 2 that provide social benefits across the globe.

Microsoft Research Responsible AI

Microsoft's New Initiative to Accelerate Foundation AI Model Research

Chris McKay• October 5, 2023 • 2 min read

A diverse research ecosystem is essential to realizing the promise of AI. AFMR aims to expand access to powerful models, engaging academics outside of computer science to pursue a broad range of important opportunities.

Google Biotech & Health Research

Google DeepMind's New AI Tool Helps Pinpoint the Causes of Genetic Diseases

Chris McKay• September 22, 2023 • 3 min read

In a recently published paper in Science, it was revealed that AlphaMissense had classified a staggering 89% of all possible missense variants — illuminating the pathogenic or benign nature of these mutations.

Research

Toyota Uses New Generative AI Technique to Quickly Teach Robots New Skills

Chris McKay• September 19, 2023 • 2 min read

The innovative approach, called Diffusion Policy, allows robots to acquire new dexterous behaviors, such as peeling vegetables or flipping pancakes, in just a few hours.

Research

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Funds Powerful AI System for Nonprofit Life Science Research

Chris McKay• September 19, 2023 • 2 min read

The high-performance computing cluster will feature over 1,000 Graphics Processing Units to facilitate the development of AI and large language models for biomedicine at an unprecedented scale.