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CMU and others introduce HoPE to enhance VLM long-video understanding; Renmin University and others optimize multimodal models with MokA.
Open-source projects include generative AI tutorials and AI tool libraries. Gary Marcus questions whether pure LLMs can achieve AGI.
AI significantly lowers startup barriers, prompts changes in investment thinking, and encourages embracing collaboration to seize opportunities.

Cutting-Edge AI Research

  1. HoPE (Hybrid of Position Embedding) is a game-changing new technique! Introduced by the CMU and Xiaohongshu teams, HoPE tackles the “struggle” 🤔 of existing Multimodal RoPE when handling long-context semantic modeling. This clever approach brings in zero-frequency temporal modeling and dynamic scaling strategies, basically fitting Visual Language Models (VLMs) with “marathon running shoes” 👟! It massively boosts their length generalization capabilities for long video understanding and retrieval tasks, pushing them straight to peak performance 🔥. So cool! Paper Project

  2. MokA (Multimodal low-rank Adaptation) is a stunning new breakthrough! Brought to us by the Renmin University of China and Shanghai AI Lab teams, MokA addresses a common headache in fine-tuning Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs): the tricky balance between single-modality independent modeling and inter-modal interaction. MokA acts like a master balancer ⚖️, cleverly combining modality-specific A matrices, cross-modal attention mechanisms, and shared B matrices. This completely solves the problem, making multimodal task performance skyrocket 🚀! Amazing! Paper More Details

Top Open-Source Projects

  1. The “generative-ai-for-beginners” project (boasting 86,547 stars) has dropped 21 lessons specifically designed for rookies! It’s a hands-on guide to mastering generative AI building skills. Wanna become an AI wizard 🧙‍♂️? Go check it out! Project

  2. The “system-prompts-and-models-of-ai-tools” project (racking up 62,777 stars) is seriously a treasure trove 💎! It gathers system prompts, tools, and AI models from hot AI tools and agents like Cursor and Devin. This project gives you a one-stop, comprehensive reference to help you master AI tools 🛠️. Project

  3. The “storm” project (already sitting at 24,892 stars) is super impressive ⛈️! This LLM-driven knowledge management system acts like a mini-researcher, autonomously digging into specific topics and then generating full reports with citations. It’s a total godsend ✨ for writing papers or doing research! Project

Social Media Buzz

  1. Gary Marcus, the renowned AI scholar, is back at it, stirring the pot 🗣️! Citing papers from MIT, University of Chicago, and Harvard, he bluntly states that pure LLMs simply cannot create Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) 🤯! Why? Because they suffer from “Potemkin understanding” (fake understanding) and conceptual inconsistency. Basically, AI might crush it on tests, but when it comes to truly understanding and applying concepts, it totally fumbles. Research even shows that when LLMs like GPT-4o apply well-defined concepts to real-world tasks like classification, generation, or editing, their performance plummets 📉. They even have conflicting representations internally for the same idea. This has grabbed the attention of industry bigwigs like Google DeepMind scientist Prateek Jain, sparking widespread interest and testing! Looks like the road to AGI is still a long one 🛣️ for AI! More Details
    LLM Conceptual Inconsistency Analysis

  2. Tom Huang has spilled the beans on the efficiency secrets 💡 of Cursor’s core developers! Want to get more out of Cursor? They’re teaching you how to use “Parallel Agents”! By cleverly combining Tab, Formed Tab, and Background Agent, you can build a super-efficient task execution system that will boost your AI collaboration big time 🚀! Go check out how it works 👋! More Details
    Cursor Parallel Agents Workflow

  3. Yang Yi has thrown out a thought-provoking idea 🤔: the content creation space is currently in an “attention arbitrage window” 💸! He suggests that some folks are already using AI to “build content leverage,” hinting that as AI becomes widespread, human-original content will become increasingly valuable, even commanding a premium. But what worries him even more is that AI could gradually “erode human spiritual culture” at extremely low costs — and that’s way scarier 😱 than just a shift in content creation methods! Deep thoughts… 🧠 More Details

  4. Yang Yi believes that in the AI era, the startup barrier has essentially been “slashed” 🤯 by AI! The cost of building an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) has dropped significantly 💰, making rapid idea validation totally doable 🚀. His advice for entrepreneurs is: stop overthinking your ideas’ viability! Just use AI to validate an MVP in as little as three days, or even quickly test 30 ideas within three months! This way, you’ll find the truly worthwhile direction 🔥 to pour your heart into much faster! More Details

  5. As an AI investor, Yang Yi shared his “secret weapon” 🤫 for evaluating AI startups: he doesn’t focus on hard data, but rather on qualitative metrics! He believes there are five key points 🎯 to determine an AI startup’s investment value: the founder’s grand vision for the future (including PMF and scalability), the team’s unwavering conviction, how much efficiency AI has boosted 🚀 within team management, whether the Agent has a complete feedback loop (this is the methodology for AI success!), and the scalability of the multi-agent framework. He figures user retention and similar data are just “byproducts” that naturally appear over time! What a unique perspective ✨! More Details

  6. A user has spilled the beans on a “new trick” 🤯 for coding collaboration with AI👨‍💻, and this mode is seriously gaining traction! Instead of rushing to give AI detailed instructions, you first clearly lay out the project background and goals. Then, let AI generate ideas based on that info, and you align on the granularity together through discussion. This method cleverly leverages AI’s efficiency in quickly understanding context, making up for our “brain cell deficiency” 🧠 when doing detailed planning. It massively boosts workflow efficiency 🚀 in a collaborative mode! It’s a total godsend for programmers! More Details

  7. A user gripes 🤦‍♂️ that some investors are still using outdated mobile internet metrics 🕰️ to evaluate AI projects, and the result is — they can’t find good ones! That’s because traditional logic (formal, informal, even probability theory) is all about looking back at the past. The author emphasizes that Bayes' Theorem is the true forward-looking decision-making method 🚀, much better suited for making investment judgments in the AI industry! Time to update that investment “operating system” 💡! More Details
    New Investment Evaluation Perspective

    Bayes’ Theorem for AI Investment

  8. Dash and his colleague bluntly state that the emergence of AI has essentially “flattened the playing field” 🏁 for all of humanity! They believe the massive opportunities AI brings even surpass the internet wave 🌊 of 20 years ago, allowing everyone, including entry-level employees, to break free from resource limitations and fully leverage AI to learn and create. But they also warn that if programmers remain complacent and don’t push forward, that “starting line” will eventually catch up to them, even leaving them behind! So, actively embracing AI is the way to go 💪!

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