Gcore Secures $60M Series A to Boost AI Innovation and Global Growth

Gcore, the global edge AI, cloud, network, and security solutions provider, today announced it has secured $60 million in Series A funding from institutional and strategic investors. Led by Wargaming, and with participation from Constructor Capital and Han River Partners, this marks the company’s first external capital raise since its inception more than 10 years ago. The funds will be strategically invested in Gcore’s technology and platform, including cutting-edge AI servers powered by NVIDIA GPUs, to drive AI-led innovations. This investment underscores Gcore’s commitment to delivering advanced edge AI solutions that enhance cloud resource efficiency and ensure data sovereignty. Public…
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Sakana AI drops image models to generate Japan’s traditional ukiyo-e artwork

Sakana AI drops image models to generate Japan’s traditional ukiyo-e artwork

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Remember Sakana AI? Almost a year ago, the Tokyo-based startup made a striking appearance on the AI scene with its high-profile founders from Google and a novel automated merging-based approach to developing high-performing models. Today, the company announced two new image-generation models: Evo-Ukiyoe and Evo-Nishikie. Available on Hugging Face, the models have been designed to generate images from text and image prompts. However, there’s an interesting and unique catch: instead of handling regular image generation in different styles, these models are…
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Why Trump shouldn’t be president, according to Elon Musk’s old tweets

Why Trump shouldn’t be president, according to Elon Musk’s old tweets

Elon Musk is a huge supporter of former President Donald Trump's campaign. But the mercurial billionaire was once a skeptic — and very vocal about why he thought Trump shouldn't govern the US. Back in July 2022, Musk criticized Trump after the former president called him a "bullshit artist" during a rally in Alaska. Trump claimed at the rally that Musk had lied about voting for him in 2016."I don't hate the man, but it's time for Trump to hang up his hat & sail into the sunset," Musk wrote in an X post on July 11, 2022.Musk later said…
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Automated and Holistic Co-design of Neural Networks and ASICs for Enabling In-Pixel Intelligence

Automated and Holistic Co-design of Neural Networks and ASICs for Enabling In-Pixel Intelligence

arXiv:2407.14560v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Extreme edge-AI systems, such as those in readout ASICs for radiation detection, must operate under stringent hardware constraints such as micron-level dimensions, sub-milliwatt power, and nanosecond-scale speed while providing clear accuracy advantages over traditional architectures. Finding ideal solutions means identifying optimal AI and ASIC design choices from a design space that has explosively expanded during the merger of these domains, creating non-trivial couplings which together act upon a small set of solutions as constraints tighten. It is impractical, if not impossible, to manually determine ideal choices among possibilities that easily exceed billions even in small-size…
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Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 review: faster, longer-lasting flip phone

Samsung’s popular folding-screen Z Flip phone is back for 2024 with a faster chip, much longer battery life and more AI.The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more.The Galaxy Z Flip 6 is the smaller of Samsung’s two new folders for this year, launched alongside the book-style Z Fold 6. It takes the flat sides and slab-like design of Samsung’s standard Galaxy S24+ and folds it in half, turning a big-screen phone into a compact clamshell.The new Flip has many small improvements all round, but the price isn’t one…
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Are handcrafted filters helpful for attributing AI-generated images?

Are handcrafted filters helpful for attributing AI-generated images?

arXiv:2407.14570v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recently, a vast number of image generation models have been proposed, which raises concerns regarding the misuse of these artificial intelligence (AI) techniques for generating fake images. To attribute the AI-generated images, existing schemes usually design and train deep neural networks (DNNs) to learn the model fingerprints, which usually requires a large amount of data for effective learning. In this paper, we aim to answer the following two questions for AI-generated image attribution, 1) is it possible to design useful handcrafted filters to facilitate the fingerprint learning? and 2) how we could reduce the amount…
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The best smartwatches for 2024

The best smartwatches for 2024

The best smartwatches offer a whole host of features like the ability to make and take calls, pay for your groceries, track your health and fitness and connect you to useful apps like Spotify. Some even have built-in GPS so you can untether yourself from your smartphone while working out. But with so many smartwatches to choose from, it can be hard to find the best watch for your needs. There are lots of factors to consider, like durability, long battery life and other specs that we’ll go into more detail below. What’s important, however, is that you choose the…
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An academic publisher has struck an AI data deal with Microsoft – without their authors’ knowledge

An academic publisher has struck an AI data deal with Microsoft – without their authors’ knowledge

In May, a multibillion-dollar UK-based multinational called Informa announced in a trading update that it had signed a deal with Microsoft involving “access to advanced learning content and data, and a partnership to explore AI expert applications”. Informa is the parent company of Taylor & Francis, which publishes a wide range of academic and technical books and journals, so the data in question may include the content of these books and journals. According to reports published last week, the authors of the content do not appear to have been asked or even informed about the deal. What’s more, they say…
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Adversarial Databases Improve Success in Retrieval-based Large Language Models

Adversarial Databases Improve Success in Retrieval-based Large Language Models

arXiv:2407.14609v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-source LLMs have shown great potential as fine-tuned chatbots, and demonstrate robust abilities in reasoning and surpass many existing benchmarks. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a technique for improving the performance of LLMs on tasks that the models weren't explicitly trained on, by leveraging external knowledge databases. Numerous studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of RAG to more successfully accomplish downstream tasks when using vector datasets that consist of relevant background information. It has been implicitly assumed by those in the field that if adversarial background information is utilized in this context, that the success of using…
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