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• Humanoid Shadowing and Imitation from Humans | Standford University | June 14, 2024

Stanford AI Lab's HumanPlus system enables humanoid robots to autonomously learn and perform tasks by imitating human actions, leveraging existing human motion datasets and a two-stage learning process.

• Luma Dream Machine | Luma AI | June 17, 2024

Luma Labs has released Dream Machine, a publicly available AI model that generates high-quality, realistic 5-second video clips from text and image prompts, showcasing impressive smoothness, consistency, and camera movements.

• Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Anthropic | June 21, 2024

Anthropic has released Claude 3.5 Sonnet, a new AI model that outperforms rivals like GPT-4o and Opus in key benchmarks while being 2x faster and 1/5 the cost of Opus.

• Moshi Chat | Kyutai | July 4, 2024

French startup Kyutai has introduced Moshi, a new 'real-time' AI voice assistant that can respond to 70 different emotions and speaking styles with a claimed latency of 160ms that potentially outpaces OpenAI's delayed Voice Mode feature.

• RouteLLM achieves 90% GPT4o Quality AND 80% CHEAPER | Matthew Berman | July 8, 2024

RouteLLM, a new project, and paper from lmsys.org, allows for the intelligent routing of prompts to the “right” model. It achieves 90% of the quality of GPT4o but reduces the cost by 80%.

AI Resources

• ?? FineWeb: The ?? FineWeb dataset consists of more than 15T tokens of cleaned and deduplicated English web data from CommonCrawl. The data processing pipeline is optimized for LLM performance and runs on the ?? datatrove library, our large-scale data processing library.
• AI Theory and Coding Courses: Aiming to help learners gain in-depth knowledge of AI theory and master the underlying algorithms of Machine Learning by building ML algorithms from scratch and learning ensemble methods, unsupervised learning, and more.
• State of AI report: It provides insights from over 700 developers and tech leaders to help navigate the AI landscape and leverage AI for real impact. The comprehensive report covers the pros and cons of the AI stack, the actual ROI builders see from their AI use, and the most popular real-world AI use cases among builders and businesses.

Update Events

• Toronto Machine Learning Summit (TMLS) 2024 (Online) | Online |July 10 - 15, 2024

This event will showcase Canadian innovation in applied AI, featuring cutting-edge research, hands-on workshops, and industry case studies, along with opportunities for networking and collaboration.

• AI in Production 2024 | Asheville, NC, USA | July 19, 2024

AI in Production is a two-day, single-track conference designed for product teams and software developers tasked with building AI products, offering guidance on best practices and starting point

• Artificial Intelligence and the AI Smackdown: Case Studies in Implementation of AI in Advanced Manufacturing | Online | August 01, 2024

This webinar will feature discussions on real-world applications of AI in manufacturing from leading companies. It will cover challenges and preparation for AI implementation, ROI, and the future of AI in the manufacturing sector.

What's New at BasicAI

BasicAI Cloud, our smart all-in-one data annotation platform, has upgraded to v1.1. This version features new data annotation tools designed for SFT and RLHF tasks in large model training, along with the support of LLM data and new Ontology types.

Other updates on BasicAI Cloud include history view & restore for point cloud and image annotation, and enhanced upload/export progress tracking with stage-wise breakdown.

• Please note that the cloud storage limit in the BasicAI Cloud free plan will be adjusted to 100GB after Aug 15.

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Blog Picks

• What is Image Classification? A Complete Explanation

Image classification is a crucial technique in computer vision and artificial intelligence, used to assign digital images to predefined categories with increasing precision and accuracy. This article will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the process.

• What Makes a Data Labeling Service Provider Stand Out in Quality

Data annotation is essential for nurturing AI models. Selecting the right Data Labeling Service Provider ensures you achieve the highest quality and efficiency in your annotation process.

• Human Touch Matters: How Data Annotation Brings Large Language Models (LLMs) to Life

No data, no AI. Data annotation is a key link to solving AI problems and is being transformed in the era of large models. This blog explores how data annotation has evolved and how it enables the development of large models.

Social Media Highlights

• LinkedIn: Robotic technologies are transforming manufacturing, powered by high-quality annotated data that enables precision and efficiency at every stage.
• Facebook: We covered Kyutai's Moshi, a real-time voice AI that enables natural, fluid, and expressive AI voice conversations.
• YouTube: How to Create Data Annotation Tasks for a Collaborative Project on BasicAI Cloud
• Instagram: Visioneers30 is a series breaking down 30 key concepts to further grasp and apply the dynamic computer vision field.
• X: How to use polygon tools to annotate fine cracks and defects in the manufacturing industry.

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