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It’s a Sign: AI Platform for Teaching American Sign Language Aims to Bridge Communication Gaps

NVIDIA AI Blog

American Sign Language is the third most prevalent language in the United States but there are vastly fewer AI tools developed with ASL data than data representing the countrys most common languages, English and Spanish. Whether novice or expert, volunteers can record themselves signing to contribute to the ASL dataset.

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Explaining Tokens — the Language and Currency of AI

NVIDIA AI Blog

Under the hood of every AI application are algorithms that churn through data in their own language, one based on a vocabulary of tokens. AI factories a new class of data centers designed to accelerate AI workloads efficiently crunch through tokens, converting them from the language of AI to the currency of AI, which is intelligence.

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New AI text diffusion models break speed barriers by pulling words from noise

Ars Technica

On Thursday, Inception Labs released Mercury Coder , a new AI language model that uses diffusion techniques to generate text faster than conventional models. Traditional large language models build text from left to right, one token at a time. They use a technique called " autoregression."

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How test-time scaling unlocks hidden reasoning abilities in small language models (and allows them to outperform LLMs)

VentureBeat

A 1B small language model can beat a 405B large language model in reasoning tasks if provided with the right test-time scaling strategy. Read More

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Why job postings may be attracting narcissistic candidates—without companies realizing it

Fast Company Tech

We decided to study job postings after noticing that the language used to describe an ideal candidate often included traits linked to narcissism. We call the two sets rule-follower and rule-bender language. Our current findings shed light on the importance of carefully crafting job posting language.

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AI firms follow DeepSeek’s lead, create cheaper models with “distillation”

Ars Technica

Through distillation, companies take a large language modeldubbed a teacher modelwhich generates the next likely word in a sentence. The breakthrough rocked confidence in Silicon Valleys AI leadership, leading Wall Street investors to wipe billions of dollars of value from US Big Tech stocks.

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Over half of LLM-written news summaries have “significant issues”—BBC analysis

Ars Technica

In an extensive report published this week , the BBC analyzed how four popular large language models used or abused information from BBC articles when answering questions about the news. Now, the BBC is trying to quantify the scale of this confabulation problem, at least when it comes to summaries of its own news content.

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