🤖 Robotics > Pi0, first open-source foundation vision-language action model was released in Le Robot (Apache 2.0)
💬 LLMs > Groundbreaking: s1 is simpler approach to test-time scaling, the release comes with small s1K dataset of 1k question-reasoning trace pairs (from Gemini-Thinking Exp) they fine-tune Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct to get s1-32B, outperforming o1-preview on math 🤯 s1-32B and s1K is out! > Adyen released DABstep, a new benchmark along with it's leaderboard demo for agents doing data analysis > Krutrim released Krutrim-2 instruct, new 12B model based on NeMo12B trained and aligned on Indic languages, a new multilingual sentence embedding model (based on STSB-XLM-R), and a translation model for Indic languages
👀 Multimodal > PKU released Align-DS-V, a model aligned using their new technique called LLF for all modalities (image-text-audio), along with the dataset Align Anything > OLA-7B is a new any-to-any model by Tencent that can take text, image, video, audio data with context window of 32k tokens and output text and speech in English and Chinese > Krutrim released Chitrarth, a new vision language model for Indic languages and English
🖼️ Vision > BiRefNet_HR is a new higher resolution BiRefNet for background removal
🗣️ Audio > kyutai released Hibiki, it's a real-time speech-to-speech translation model 🤯 it's available for French-English translation > Krutrim released Dhwani, a new STT model for Indic languages > They also release a new dataset for STT-TTS
🖼️ Image Generation > Lumina released Lumina-Image-2.0, a 2B parameter-flow based DiT for text to image generation > Tencent released Hunyuan3D-2, a 3D asset generation model based on DiT and Hunyuan3D-Paint > boreal-hl-v1 is a new boring photorealistic image generation LoRA based on Hunyuan
- Figure’s new humanoid robot leverages OpenAI for natural speech conversations Figure has unveiled its latest humanoid robot, the Figure 02. The most notable addition this time out arrives by way a longstanding partnership with OpenAI, which helped Figure raise a $675 million Series B back in February, valuing the South Bay firm at $2.6 billion. https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/06/figures-new-humanoid-robot-leverages-openai-for-natural-speech-conversations/
- World’s Five Leading Chipmakers Have Now Promised U.S. Investment The Biden administration award up to $450 million in grants to a South Korean chipmaker, SK Hynix, to help build its new chip facility in Indiana The US now has commitments from all five of the world’s leading-edge semiconductor manufacturers to construct chip plants in theUS with financial assistance from the administration https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/06/business/economy/chipmakers-promise-investment.html