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😎 News From The Web

• AI: China tech giant Alibaba to roll out ChatGPT rival. Chinese technology giant Alibaba has announced plans to roll out its own artificial intelligence (AI) ChatGPT-style product called Tongyi Qianwen.

• Amazon tells employees it isn’t falling behind on AI. Amazon reassures employees they're not behind despite absence in generative AI.

• Elon Musk is moving forward with a new generative-AI project at Twitter after purchasing thousands of GPUs. Elon Musk is pursuing a Twitter AI project with a large language model despite recently calling to halt AI training.

• Japan government weighs A.I. adoption as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman visits Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. Japan exploring OpenAI's ChatGPT, awaits resolution of cybersecurity concerns.

• Italy gives OpenAI initial to-do list for lifting ChatGPT suspension order. Italy's Garante gave OpenAI measures to lift suspension of ChatGPT; issue is GDPR violation. Demands inc. data notice, age gate, rights access.

• Python Software Foundation News: The EU's Proposed CRA Law May Have Unintended Consequences for the Python Ecosystem. EU's proposed Cyber Resilience Act & Product Liability Act may harm the Python ecosystem by making open-source authors legally responsible for others' products. Python Software Foundation seeks clear language to avoid unintended consequences.

• With Bedrock, Amazon enters the generative AI race. Amazon Bedrock facilitates building AI-powered apps with pre-trained models from startups and AWS through an API to generate images, logos, and graphics.

• Spain’s privacy watchdog says it’s probing ChatGPT too. Spain’s data protection authority probes potential GDPR non-compliance by ChatGPT by OpenAI, following Italy’s example.

📚 Guides From The Web

• Top NLP papers of March. PaLM-E, Aligning Perception with Language Models, and Scaling Expert Language Models.

• Graph classification with Transformers: Microsoft's Graphormer model.

• What Are Transformer Models and How Do They Work? An intuitive guide of the Transformers architecture.

• A new, unique AI dataset for animating amateur drawings. Analyzing and understanding human imagination through drawings.

🔬 Interesting Papers and Repositories

• Open-Assistant model released. Open Assistant released their open-source LLM. It understands tasks, interacts with third-party systems, and is open to personalization.

• Dolly 2 released. Dolly 2 is an instruction-following large language model trained on the Databricks machine-learning platform that is licensed for commercial use.

• OpenAI looks beyond diffusion with consistency-based image generator. OpenAI's new "consistency models" generate images in just 1-2 steps, faster & more efficient than diffusion models.

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