Apple’s M-series chip gamble 5 years later: How ditching Intel revolutionized computing — and what’s next

Apple's M1 chip revolutionized computing and set a new standard for performance and efficiency. For the fifth anniversary of ...

Google Real-Time Translator: More Than Word-for-Word Translations

Google's real-time translator looks ahead and anticipates what is being said, explains Niklas Blum, Director Product ...
eLife

High-Fidelity Neural Speech Reconstruction through an Efficient Acoustic-Linguistic Dual-Pathway Framework

This study presents a valuable advance in reconstructing naturalistic speech from intracranial ECoG data using a dual-pathway model. The evidence supporting the claims of the authors is solid, ...
WinBuzzer

Byteification: AI2’s New Bolmo AI Model Cuts AI Training Costs by 99%

AI2 has unveiled Bolmo, a byte-level model created by retrofitting its OLMo 3 model with <1% of the compute budget.

Bolmo’s architecture unlocks efficient byte‑level LM training without sacrificing quality

Ai2 releases Bolmo, a new byte-level language model the company hopes would encourage more enterprises to use byte level ...
Modern Engineering Marvels on MSN

Google Translate’s real-time speech works on any Android headphones

How fast can a conversation cross languages without breaking its rhythm?” That is what Google Translate’s latest update has answered with one giant leap in functionality and performance. Live speech ...

Z.ai debuts open source GLM-4.6V, a native tool-calling vision model for multimodal reasoning

Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI aka Z.ai has released its GLM-4.6V series, a new generation of open-source vision-language models (VLMs) optimized for multimodal reasoning, frontend automation, and ...
IEEE

A Multi-Scale Contrast Preserving Encoder-Decoder Architecture for Local Change Detection From Thermal Video Scenes

Abstract: This article presents a new deep-learning architecture based on an encoder-decoder framework that retains contrast while performing background subtraction (BS) on thermal videos. The ...
GitHub

Question about frozen encoder and decoder architecture in Figure 2

First of all, I'd like to commend the authors on the excellent work presented in SSS! I have a quick question regarding the model architecture, specifically related to the frozen image encoder and ...