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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Ford has reported its financials for its electric car business. Ford sold 96,000 electric cars in 2022 and made $5.3 billion in revenue. They had a net loss of about $2 billion. Ford wants to catch up to where Tesla is in 2023 in 2027. Ford wants to grow EV sales by 83% each year. …
Worldwide global smoking causes 7 million deaths per year but in the last two years the world has experienced 15-25 million non-covid excess deaths. The graph above shows the spike in global deaths. This count is not in doubt. The world went from 56 million deaths per year up to 67 million deaths per year. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Los Angeles, United States, 22nd March, 2023, Chainwire GDC 2023 is finally in full swing, and a mysterious Oscars-style red carpet and stage are piquing the interest of global game developers. Thanks to a gamer grandma and her robotic feline buddy, this year, for the first time, game-makers of all sizes will have the chance …
