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We recently hosted our annual Google Cloud Startup Summit, and we were thrilled to showcase a wide range of AI startups leveraging Google Cloud, including Higgsfield AI, Click Therapeutics, Baseten, LiveX AI, Reve AI, and Vellum. As a former co-founder and venture capitalist, I was inspired by the remarkable solutions these startups are developing and …

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Optimal transport (OT) has profoundly impacted machine learning by providing theoretical and computational tools to realign datasets. In this context, given two large point clouds of sizes nnn and mmm in Rdmathbb{R}^dRd, entropic OT (EOT) solvers have emerged as the most reliable tool to either solve the Kantorovich problem and output a n×mntimes mn×m coupling …

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By: Hechao Li and Marcelo Mayworm With special thanks to our stunning colleagues Amer Ather, Itay Dafna, Luca Pozzi, Matheus Leão, and Ye Ji. Overview At Netflix, the Analytics and Developer Experience organization, part of the Data Platform, offers a product called Workbench. Workbench is a remote development workspace based on Titus that allows data practitioners to …

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Chatbots are one of the more common, early use cases for generative AI, particularly in retail organizations. To make them useful for shoppers, a chatbot needs to be contextually sensitive to a retailer’s product catalog, with the ability to respond to customer inquiries conversationally, perhaps suggesting alternatives and complementary outfits. To accomplish this, an instruction-tuned …

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Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have sparked interest in their formal reasoning capabilities, particularly in mathematics. The GSM8K benchmark is widely used to assess the mathematical reasoning of models on grade-school-level questions. While the performance of LLMs on GSM8K has significantly improved in recent years, it remains unclear whether their mathematical reasoning capabilities …

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AI can help solve some of the world’s biggest challenges — whether climate change, cancer or national security — U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm emphasized today during her remarks at the AI for Science, Energy and Security session at the NVIDIA AI Summit, in Washington, D.C. Granholm went on to highlight the pivotal role …

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