Mercor quintuples valuation to $10B with $350M Series C

Mercor, which connects AI labs with domain experts for training their foundational AI models, is close to raising $350 ...

This Startup Wants to Spark a US DeepSeek Moment

With the US falling behind on open source models, one startup has a bold idea for democratizing AI: let anyone run ...
Ars Technica

How a big shift in training LLMs led to a capability explosion

In April 2023, a few weeks after the launch of GPT-4, the Internet went wild for two new software projects with the audacious names BabyAGI and AutoGPT. “Over the past week, developers around the ...
Science Daily

Reinforcement learning: From board games to protein design

An AI strategy proven adept at board games like Chess and Go, reinforcement learning, has now been adapted for a powerful protein design program. The results show that reinforcement learning can do ...
Unite.AI

The End of Tabula Rasa: How Pre-Trained World Models are Redefining Reinforcement Learning

For a long time, the core idea in reinforcement learning (RL) was that AI agents should learn every new task from scratch, like a blank slate. This "tabula rasa" approach led to amazing achievements, ...
Computer Weekly

Facebook open sources Reinforcement Learning (RL) software

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. Everybody’s favourite social media platform company Facebook has — despite the US supreme court ...
InfoWorld

Reinforcement learning explained

Reinforcement learning uses rewards and penalties to teach computers how to play games and robots how to perform tasks independently You have probably heard about Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo program, ...
InfoWorld

Reinforcement learning comes into AI’s mainstream

One of the most noteworthy artificial intelligence trends in 2018 has been the maturation of reinforcement learning into a mainstream approach for building and training statistical models to do useful ...