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The Battle of Open Source vs Closed Source Language Models: A Technical Analysis

Large language models (LLMs) have captivated the AI community in recent years, spearheading breakthroughs in natural language processing. Behind the hype lies a...

Rotor Technologies propels advances in autonomous helicopters

Listen to this article https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luIYPB4GGh0 In late 2019, after years of studying aviation and aerospace engineering, Hector (Haofeng) Xu decided to learn to fly helicopters....

2023 robot orders down 30% from 2022 in North America, according to A3

Listen to this article North American automakers pulled back in robot orders last year. Source: A3 After two years of record sales, North American robot...

Will Automation Solve the Manufacturing Labor Shortage?

Will Automation Solve the Manufacturing Labor Shortage? The answer is yes.  People want jobs that require something other than demanding, manual tasks. Repetitive, heavy...

ProGlove study shows retail managers are cautiously optimistic about automation

Listen to this article A recent study found that retailers are interested in automation that will augment their human workforces. | Source: ProGlove Up to...

Microbot Medical submits Liberty surgical robot for FDA IDE

Listen to this article Microbot Medical filed an FDA investigational device exemption (IDE) application for its surgical robot. Braintree, Mass.-based Microbot designed the Liberty...

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through February 10)

Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AIKeach Hagey | The Wall Street Journal“The OpenAI chief executive officer...

CMU crawling robots map and repair natural gas pipelines

Listen to this article CMU pipe-repair robots crawl into natural gas pipelines and coat them. | Source: Carnegie Mellon University Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s...

The State of Multilingual LLMs: Moving Beyond English

According to Microsoft research, around 88% of the world's languages, spoken by 1.2 billion people, lack access to Large Language Models (LLMs). This...

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