Great work, everyone! :)

Super proud of what this team is doing! And I can’t wait to share more soon.

2️⃣SignGemma is a sign language understanding model that’s coming later this year 🤟🏼It’s a massively multilingual model that’s best at translating ASL into English text, enabling further development of tech access for Deaf and Hard of Hearing users. 🧏 Share your feedback and interest in early testing here: goo.gle/SignGemma

Terrific opportunity in London with a great team working on multimodal learning and eval.

We maintain strong zero-shot transfer of CLIP and SigLIP when varying model size and data scale, while achieving up to 4x few-shot sample efficiency and up to 16% performance gains! Fun project with @confusezius, @zeynepakata, @dimadamen and @olivierhenaff.

🚀 Join the Gemini Multilinguality team @GoogleDeepMind 🌐 We’re looking for researchers passionate about making LLMs helpful for all. Dramatically improve model quality, coverage, and cultural relevance across hundreds of languages. #NLProc #MultilingualAI #i18n #LLMs boards.greenhouse.io/deepmin…

We’re presenting the first AI to solve International Mathematical Olympiad problems at a silver medalist level.🥈 It combines AlphaProof, a new breakthrough model for formal reasoning, and AlphaGeometry 2, an improved version of our previous system. 🧵 dpmd.ai/imo-silver

DEADLINE March 29: prepare and submit your application for EEML 2024, Novi Sad, Serbia eeml.eu 🇷🇸. Topics: Basics of ML, Multimodal learning, NLP, Advanced DL architectures, Generative models, AI for Science. Check our stellar speakers! Scholarships available! 🎉

You are looking at the oldest plant ever to be regenerated, grown from 32,000-year-old seeds! A Russian team discovered a seed cache of Silene stenophylla, native to Siberia buried by an Ice Age squirrel, successfully germinated it nationalgeographic.com/scien…

more cool stuff in this release from the amazing folks at GDM.

The Gemini era is here. Thrilled to launch Gemini 1.0, our most capable & general AI model. Built to be natively multimodal, it can understand many types of info. Efficient & flexible, it comes in 3 sizes each best-in-class & optimized for different uses blog.google/technology/ai/go…

Introducing COLM (colmweb.org) the Conference on Language Modeling. A new research venue dedicated to the theory, practice, and applications of language models. Submissions: March 15 (it's pronounced "collum" 🕊️)

Today we are announcing a major breakthrough in the Vesuvius Challenge: we have read the first word from an unopened Herculaneum scroll. The word is "πορφυρας" which means "purple dye" or "cloths of purple." scrollprize.org/firstletters Congratulations to 21yo computer science student @LukeFarritor who is the first person to see this handwriting in nearly 2000 years. He has won the $40,000 First Letters prize for this world-historical achievement. We are also awarding a $10,000 First Ink prize to @CJHandmer who was the first person to see ink and multiple letters within an unopened scroll. His work was the basis of Luke's ML model. And @Youssef_M_Nader has won a $10,000 second-place First Letters prize for producing the clearest and most comprehensive images from inside a scroll yet. This has been the dream of many people since the scrolls were first discovered in the 1750s. It is also the result of 20 years of work from Dr. Brent Seales and his team at EduceLab, whose years of dedicated work have made this last mile possible. The $700,000 Vesuvius Challenge Grand Prize is now in sight. Who will claim it?

It has officially been 65 years since the Wug Test revealed kids' natural grasp of language rules. Happy wugiversary

DyNet reunion with @yoavgo and @gneubig in Toronto

Best part of having spent time in academia: seeing your former students (and their students) doing great things. Congrats @tsvetshop on the best paper award at #ACL2023NLP. Brilliant careful and important work!

Not long to wait until LCO's next event! Hear Bach’s St John Passion @stgabrielspimlico at 19.00 on Saturday 15 April, featuring @hesperoschoir, Eliza Lucyna Masewicz, Katie Macdonald, @HecBloggs and Twm Tegid Brunton. Book your tickets here: bit.ly/3n2vs54