AI & Robotics

Ask the average American worker how happy they are with their life and work, and you’ll get a mixed bag of results. One recent study found that 64% of Americans are more stressed than last year, with 25% saying their stress level is much higher now. Two thirds admit to being somewhat more stressed, with several factors coalescing. Twenty-nine percent cite personal finances as their top cause of…

Nous Research, a private applied research group known for publishing open-source work in the large language model (LLM) domain, has dropped a lightweight vision-language model called Nous Hermes 2 Vision. Available via Hugging Face, the open-source model builds on the company’s previous OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B model. It brings vision capabilities, including the ability to prompt with images…

IBM and Meta launched the new AI Alliance today, in collaboration with more than 50 founding members and collaborators around the world, including AMD, Anyscale, CERN, Cerebras, Cleveland Clinic, Cornell University, Dartmouth, Dell Technologies, EPFL, ETH, Hugging Face, Imperial College London, Intel, INSAIT, Linux Foundation, MLCommons, MOC Alliance operated by Boston University and Harvard…

Quantum computing is taking another ‘quantum’ leap forward today with new processor, system and software updates announced at the IBM Quantum 2023 Summit. The star of the announcements is the IBM Quantum Heron processor, seen below in an image provided to VentureBeat by IBM. With 133 qubits, IBM claims that Heron is its highest-performing quantum processor to date, offering significant…