Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an accelerated checkpoint of its open-weight Qwen-Image-2.1 model. It generates and edits images in 8 denoising steps instead of the base model’s 40-step default. For developers, that means 5x fewer denoising steps on the same 7B architecture, plus a hosted API option. TL;DR What is Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo? Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo is an […] The post Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an 8-Step 7B Image Model appeared first on MarkTechPost .
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.
A control plane for distributed AI could help applications decide which tasks to run on a device, at the edge or in the cloud. Seismora Inc. is developing networking technology to coordinate AI workloads across different providers and computing environments, according to Vito Palermo (pictured), founder and chief executive officer of Seismora. The aim is […] The post Seismora builds a control plane to route AI workloads across devices and clouds appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
This past week I built (prompted) a tool I find myself using day to day and wanted to share it with others who may find it useful as well. “Lacuna” is an opinionated way to invoke LLMs into any text input on your Mac. Specifically, you can type bracketed phrases {such as this}, press Shift-Command-K (or a different shortcut of your choosing), and the tool sends your bracketed phrase + the surrounding text contents to an LLM of your configuration for generating text to replace the bracketed phrase. The program returns 3 candidate phrases and the experience is entirely keyboard navigable. Demo: https://jackdamon.org/assets/images/lacuna-scheduling-demo.g... Example scheduling workflow using Lacuna’s native UI and sample suggestions. So far I find myself frequently using it when drafting emails where I want help with quick phrasing. The project was inspired by Rectangle, an open source utility app for window tiling that is keyboard based. Lacuna is open source and available here: https://github.com/jdamon96/lacuna Blog: https://jackdamon.org/blog/lacuna/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50025559 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
"Staggering." "Overwhelming." "Unprecedented." "Surreal." "Pure insanity." Those were among the descriptions more than three dozen mathematicians reached for in conversations with The Verge as they tried to make sense of the flood of mathematical results OpenAI abruptly dropped on the field this week. Amid the awe, excitement, and uncertainty over the sheer scale of the […]
The knowledge graph can give enterprise AI applications context by connecting data with the business relationships needed to support decisions. Knowledge graphs can connect enterprise data with the meaning AI applications need. Many people have used graphs for years, nearly every day, though they may not have known it, Many people have used graphs for years, […] The post McKinsey connects enterprise data through a knowledge graph for AI appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Showing off carrier-explode, one of my side projects that continuously archives carrier settings for all major phone brands. carrier-explode also contains decoders and explanations for all the common baseband configurations, etc. There’s still quite a bit of work to be done in checking my assumptions, but the tool has already been proven useful for a few enthusiast groups. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50024499 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Nikon says the video that originally won first place in its Small World in Motion contest "did not comply with the competition rules regarding generative AI." BBC reports that the original first place video from Dr. Ning Xu claimed to show "tiny, hair-like structures called cilia moving in the airway of a child with the […]
Anthropic has launched "Cyber Mission," a program to protect critical infrastructure and open-source software from cyberattacks. Partners like CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks will help secure power grids and water systems, while a free AI scanner automatically checks open-source projects for vulnerabilities with an expected accuracy above 90 percent. The article Anthropic launches a free AI scanner for open-source projects appeared first on The Decoder .