Narwhal Finance Secures $1M in Seed Funding Led by Animoca Ventures

Denmark, Copenhagen, 24th March, 2023, Chainwire Narwhal Finance Secures $1M in Seed Funding Led by Animoca Ventures Narwhal Finance, the decentralized cross-market perpetual trading platform built on BNB Chain and Arbitrum, announced a $1 million seed round funding led by Animoca Ventures, with participation from Hailstone Ventures and various angel investors. Narwhal Finance empowers users …

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Big Language Models Can Train Small and Cheap Language Models

Large language models can train smaller language models and uplevel them quickly. Stanford researchers trained Alpaca 7B, a model fine-tuned from the LLaMA 7B model on 52K instruction-following demonstrations. they used GPT 3.5 to train it. On our preliminary evaluation of single-turn instruction following, Alpaca behaves qualitatively similarly to OpenAI’s text-davinci-003, while being surprisingly small …

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500 Wh/kg Silicon Anode Amprius Battery for Drones and Electric Passenger Planes

Amprius Technologies’ batteries deliver up to double the energy density over standard lithium-ion batteries. This means the battery cells provide more energy and power with much less weight and volume. Amprius will have a quarterly investor call at 5 pm EST, 2pm PST today. TODAY, Amprius Technologies, Inc. (“Amprius” or the “Company”) (NYSE: AMPX), a …

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Gen 2 AI Text to Video

Gen-2: The Next Step Forward for Generative AI. It is a multi-modal AI system that can generate novel videos with text, images, or video clips. Arxiv- Structure and Content-Guided Video Synthesis with Diffusion Models Text-guided generative diffusion models unlock powerful image creation and editing tools. While these have been extended to video generation, current approaches …

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Artificial General Intelligence is Happening, Just a Question of How Much

Stephen McAleese, at Less Wrong, used scaling rules and formulas to try to predict the performance of GPT-4. He underpredicted the capabilities of GPT-4. However, he was not widely wrong. GPT-4 came out earlier than he expected and had better performance than expected. Multi-task Language Understanding on MMLU was better than expected. GPT-4 can work …

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Higher 2021 COVID Vaccination Correlates to Increased Excess Deaths in 2022

A preprint paper shows a correlation between high covid vaccination in 2021 and increased excess deaths in 2022 in Europe. Analysis of 31 countries, January to September, 2022 in 31 EU member states, plus Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Switzerland found that all-cause mortality, increased more the higher the 2021 vaccination uptake. Countries with more covid vaccines …

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Last Energy Gets $19 Billion in Contracts for Simple 20 MW Nuclear Fission Reactors

Last Energy is a startup working to make low-cost small pressure water reactors (20 MW) with simple off the shelf parts. They are designing to keep things simple, use as much off the shelf parts as possible and to use workers with existing training and skills. The demonstration model project showcases Last Energy’s standard, modular …

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Arcade fighting game Battle of Olympus to launch presale for GODLY token on Arbitrum on March 27

London, United Kingdom, 22nd March, 2023, Chainwire Battle of Olympus, an arcade street fighting game, is set to launch the first phase of its presale for its in-game currency $GODLY on Arbitrum on Monday, March 27. Battle of Olympus stands alone as one of the few Web3 games with a fully working demo, with an …

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