The AI frenzy is taking over the world. Mere days after China’s Alibaba made headlines with Qwen2-VL, Sakana AI, the Japanese startup founded by former Google researchers David Ha and Llion Jones and former diplomat Ren Ito, has announced it has raised $100 million in a series A round of funding.
The investment has been led by several industry heavyweights, including New Enterprise Associates…
‘Attention is All You Need’ creators look beyond Transformers for AI at Nvidia GTC: ‘The world needs something better’
March 22, 2024
Seven of the eight authors of the landmark ‘Attention is All You Need’ paper, that introduced Transformers, gathered for the first time as a group for a chat with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in a packed ballroom at the GTC conference today.
They included Noam Shazeer…
