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AI-Assisted Summarization: MIRO Boards and GPT for Complex Discussions

In a recent LinkedIn discussion initiated by Alexander Eichler about the European Wallet, an interesting side conversation emerged regarding the use of AI for summarizing complex discussions. I was brought into this conversation to provide insights on potential AI solutions. The Challenge Alexander Eichler had participated in a discussion invo... Read more

AI Agent 'Aileen 2'

The “Nvidia & Langchain AI Agents contest” concluded on Tuesday at 2 in the morning, and I’m proud that I crossed the finish line 3 hours early with a little something: Introducing 𝑨𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝟐: an AI office agent and my entry into the ‘NVIDIA and LangChain Generative AI Agents Developer Contest’ in the Small Language Model category. AI agent... Read more

WildVision Arena Benchmark

Ethan Mollick remarks that “people realize how capable mutlimodal AI is, right now, out of the box”. I agree: For those who want to try and compare different models, there is https://huggingface.co/spaces/WildVision/vision-arena. Besides the usual suspects, I recommend trying Reka AI Flash. Read more

Sora: manual post-processing

A lot of background on the practicalities from one of the Sora private beta-testing teams: https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/actually-using-sora/ „Air Head still needed a large amount of editorial and human direction to produce this engaging and funny story film.“ This included using Adobe After Effects. N.B.: The article states that Sora is ... Read more

GLiNER NER model

Urchade Zaratiana has released GLiNER, an NER model created “that can identify any type of entity using a bidirectional transformer encoder”. One of the ToDos listed is „Allow longer context“, and a closer look reveals that: The Colab caps out at 384 tokens, and confirms DebertaV2 architecture. Interesting, but too restricted as of now. Read more