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How Twitter Automated Data Quality Check Process
Twitter engineering has recently shared a blog post on how they architected and developed a quality automation platform. Twitter digests and creates thousands of data sets for different data products and applications. The next natural step is to make sure of the quality of the data by adding automation on top of it. In this news post, we explore this architecture in more detail.
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Meta's CICERO AI Wins Online Diplomacy Tournament
Meta AI Research recently open-sourced CICERO, an AI that can beat most humans at the strategy game Diplomacy, a game that requires coordinating plans with other players. CICERO combines chatbot-like dialogue capabilities with a strategic reasoning, and recently placed first in an online Diplomacy tournament against human players.
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Porting Million Lines of Code from Java to Kotlin at Meta
Meta has been at work to port their Android codebase from Java to Kotlin. In the process, they have learned a number of lessons of general interest and developed a few useful approaches, explains Meta engineer Omer Strulovich.
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Meta Announces Next Generation AI Hardware Platform Grand Teton
Meta recently announced Grand Teton, their next-generation hardware platform for AI training. Grand Teton features several improvements over the previous generation, including 2x the network bandwidth and 4x the host-to-GPU bandwidth.
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Meta Announces Video Generation AI Model Make-a-Video
Meta AI recently announced Make-A-Video, a text-to-video generation AI model. Make-A-Video is trained using publicly available image-text pairs and video-only data and achieves state-of-the-art performance on the UCF-101 video-generation benchmark.
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PyTorch Becomes Linux Foundation Top-Level Project
PyTorch, the popular deep-learning framework developed by Meta AI Research, has now become an independent top-level project of the Linux Foundation. The project will be managed by the newly-chartered PyTorch Foundation, with support from several large companies including Meta, AWS, NVIDIA, AMD, Google, and Microsoft.
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Meta Launches New Chromium-Based WebView for Android
Meta has been developing its own Chromium-based WebView for Android for a few years and has now started rolling it out to users of its Facebook app. The new WebView, which has not been open-sourced yet, improves security, stability, and performance, says Meta.
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Facebook MemLab Helps Finding JavaScript Memory Leaks
While JavaScript runtimes use garbage collection to manage memory, this does not rule out the possibility of leaking memory. To detect all possible cases where memory is leaked, Facebook created and open-sourced MemLab, a tool able to run predefined, automatable test scenarios and analyze heapshot diffs.
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Meta Open-Sources 175B Parameter Chatbot BlenderBot 3
Meta AI Research open-sourced BlenderBot 3, a 175B parameter chatbot that can learn from live interactions with users "in the wild." In evaluations by human judges, BlenderBot 3 achieves a 31% rating increase compared to the previous BlenderBot version.
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Meta Open-Sources 200 Language Translation AI NLLB-200
Meta AI recently open-sourced NLLB-200, an AI model that can translate between any of over 200 languages. NLB-200 is a 54.5B parameter Mixture of Experts (MoE) model that was trained on a dataset containing more than 18 billion sentence pairs. On benchmark evaluations, NLLB-200 outperforms other state-of-the-art models by up to 44%.
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Meta Open-Sources 175 Billion Parameter AI Language Model OPT
Meta AI Research released Open Pre-trained Transformer (OPT-175B), a 175B parameter AI language model. The model was trained on a dataset containing 180B tokens and exhibits performance comparable with GPT-3, while only requiring 1/7th GPT-3's training carbon footprint.
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Meta Announces Conversational AI Model Project CAIRaoke
Meta AI Research recently announced Project CAIRaoke, an end-to-end deep-learning model for digital assistants. Project CAIRaoke is currently being used in Meta's Portal device and outperforms a previous conversational model when evaluated on a reminder task.
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Infer New Deadlock Detector for Android Aims to Be Efficient for Large Codebases
In a joint research, London University College and Facebook researchers created a new deadlock detector for Android Java code now available as part of open-source Infer static analysis tool. The new analyzer is able to process large codebases efficiently thanks to its incremental approach specifically designed for integration in a CI pipeline.
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Meta Open-Sources Multi-Modal AI Algorithm Data2vec
Meta AI recently open-sourced data2vec, a unified framework for self-supervised deep learning on images, text, and speech audio data. When evaluated on common benchmarks, models trained using data2vec perform as well as or better than state-of-the-art models trained with modality-specific objectives.
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Meta Unveils AI Supercomputer for the Metaverse
Meta has unveiled its AI Research SuperCluster (RSC) supercomputer, aimed at accelerating AI research and helping the company build the metaverse. The RSC will help the company build new and better AI models, working across hundreds of different languages, and to develop new augmented reality tools.