Naveed Ahmad

Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling-Small: A 276B Total, 12B Active Open Weights Multimodal MoE Model

Thinking Machines Lab has released Inkling-Small, an open weights Mixture-of-Experts model with 276B total parameters and 12B active. That is about a quarter the size of Inkling, which carries 975B total and 41B active parameters. The model was trained on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems. It reasons natively over text, images and audio. The context window…

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Karachi likely to miss out on Sri Lanka series, tri-nation ODI fixtures

An aerial view ahead of the inauguration ceremony of the newly renovated National Bank Stadium in Karachi. — Facebook/@PakistanCricketBoard/File LAHORE: Karachi is unlikely to host Pakistan’s upcoming home series against Sri Lanka and the tri-nation ODI tournament also featuring England, with Lahore and Rawalpindi emerging as the frontrunners to stage the matches, sources said on…

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A Tutorial on GeoAI: Designing Footprint Extraction from NAIP Imagery Using U-Net, Grounding DINO, SAM, and Mask R-CNN

In this tutorial, we design a complete GeoAI workflow for extracting building footprints from high-resolution NAIP aerial imagery. We begin by configuring the geospatial deep learning environment, downloading raster imagery and vector labels, and inspecting their spatial properties before generating georeferenced image chips and segmentation masks. We then train a U-Net model with a ResNet-34…

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Sam Altman and AI’s decel debate

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said that it may be time to “pace the rate of AI development” so that society can “harden around some of these new capability levels.” On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed how Altman’s comments were probably prompted by a recent hack…

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