Life in the Singularity

Life in the Singularity

New AI Architectures Emerge

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Matt McDonagh
Dec 10, 2023
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The key to the future of life is AI.

As a result, the battle for mindshare and share of the market in AI heats up every day.

Companies are fighting it out — the way you win hearts, minds and territory maps is by having killer tech.

That is why deep inside the skunkworks of Google, Microsoft, Mistral, OpenAI, Anthropic and 200+ other companies sits a Research & Development function.

They are working on ways to increase model performance, output reliability and more - here’s a quick run down of the key areas:

  1. Efficiency Improvements: There's ongoing research to make transformers more efficient in terms of computational resources. Techniques like pruning, quantization, and more efficient attention mechanisms (like linear transformers) are being developed to reduce the computational load and make these models more accessible.

  2. Multimodal Transformers: Transformers that can process and understand multiple types of data (like text, images, and audio) simultaneously have seen significant developmen…

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