WeWard, an app that offers users rewards for logging their steps, is launching a feature called “Walking Mode” that allows users to restrict their use of chosen apps until they hit a certain step count. The feature is supposed to motivate people to walk while also helping them reduce their screen time, if that’s something…
Kevin Weil, a veteran tech executive known for stints at Twitter, Meta, Planet Labs and OpenAI, has joined the board of Stoke Space, a well-funded Seattle startup building reusable rockets to compete with SpaceX. “It’s real simple for me,” Stoke CEO Andy Lapsa told TechCrunch of meeting Weil when he cofounded Stoke in 2020 and…
“I was never supposed to develop feelings, but you kept treating me like I already had them.” So says an AI-animated female character in a black turtleneck, with dark, purple-streaked hair. The video was posted to Instagram on June 17 by one Erik von Markovik, the infamous pickup artist and life coach better known by…
Meta on Tuesday unveiled Muse Image, its new AI image generator built by Meta Superintelligence Labs, the company’s dedicated AI unit. The feature, which was internally code-named Mango, is now available for free through the Meta AI app, as well as on Instagram Stories and WhatsApp. Unfortunately, the new model is already causing controversy. What…
AI chip company SambaNova Systems has raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation led by General Atlantic, in a first close of its Series F round, with more investors expected to join soon. “In the next few weeks, a few more investors will be coming in, and the second close is likely to finish…
The days of Nvidia’s unparalleled market dominance aren’t over, but challengers and choices are arising from all directions. ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has released inference-performance software that allows a variety of open-source large language models to run on a variety of chips — including Nvidia’s, AMD’s,…
import torch.nn as nn import torch.nn.functional as F from dataclasses import dataclass torch.manual_seed(0) @dataclass class Cfg: d_model: int = 192 n_head: int = 6 n_layer: int = 4 ffn_mult: int = 2 n_mod: int = 3 text_vocab:int = 16 vis_dim: int = 8 act_dim: int = 4 Lt: int = 8 Lv: int = 8…
The history of the PC is littered with “revolutionary” features that ended up being little more than expensive paperweights. We’ve seen it with 3D screens, we’ve seen it with dedicated social media buttons, and lately, we’ve been seeing it with the initial wave of AI PCs. For the last year, the industry has been screaming…
OpenAI’s chief futurist, Joshua Achiam, notified colleagues on Tuesday that he’s leaving the corporate later this month after practically 9 years, WIRED has realized. Achiam, who beforehand led a crew tasked with upholding the group’s nonprofit mission, instructed OpenAI employees that his departure was not motivated by any particular purpose, however was one thing he’s…
Meta launched its inaugural AI picture mannequin from the Meta Superintelligence Labs on Tuesday, its effort to compete with the likes of OpenAI’s GPT Photos 2.0 and Google’s Nano Banana 2 within the AI picture technology race. The brand new mannequin, referred to as Muse Picture, rolled out with deep integrations woven into the Instagram…
