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Radar Trends to Watch: June 2023

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By the time you read this, Apple may have announced their ultra-expensive, ultra-stylish AR headset; that may be enough to break the Metaverse out of its AR/VR winter. Mosaic has released MPT-7B, an open-source family of large language models that allows commercial use. But that’s hardly news. Or maybe not.

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Radar Trends to Watch: July 2023

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They have not released an open source version. OpenLLM provides support for running a number of open source large language models in production. Programming Leptos is a new open source, full-stack, fully typed web framework for Rust. Apple did it: they unveiled their AR/VR goggles.

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Radar trends to watch: August 2020

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CML is an open source project developing tools for continuous integration and continuous deployment that are appropriate for machine learning. Google has created the “ Open Usage Commons ” as a “trademark office” for open source trademarks. Here’s a glimpse at Facebook’s VR glasses. Programming.

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Radar Trends to Watch: June 2022

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And Allen AI’s Macaw (surely an allusion to Emily Bender and Timnit Gebru’s Stochastic Parrots paper) is open source, one tenth the size of GPT-3, and claims to be more accurate. It is freely available and open-source. NVIDIA has open-sourced its Linux device drivers. VR/AR/Metaverse. Macaw is 1 ?

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Radar Trends to Watch: December 2022

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The popularity of cryptojacking (mining cryptocurrency with malware planted in someone else’s applications) continues to rise, as the collapse in cryptocurrency prices makes legitimate mining unprofitable. A threat group named Worok is using steganography to hide malware within PNG images. When is VR too connected to the real world?

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Radar trends to watch: August 2021

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To succeed, VR will have to get beyond ultra geeky goggles. There’s a new technique for protecting natural language systems from attack by misinformation and malware bots: using honeypots to capture attackers’ key phrases proactively, and incorporate defenses into the training process. AI and Data. Virtual Reality.

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Radar trends to watch: May 2022

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IBM has open sourced the Generative Toolkit for Scientific Discovery (GT4SD) , which is a generative model designed to produce new ideas for scientific research, both in machine learning and in areas like biology and materials science. It’s probably a better experience in VR. A startup called Ontology claims to have solved it.