When Ben Rosenfeld started working as a residential assistant at a Stanford University dorm, he encountered 77 freshmen possessed by an “all-consuming” force. His new gig coincided with the release of ...

A year past the original deadline, TikTok users are celebrating after the app’s owner finalized a deal late Thursday to spin off the bulk of its U.S. business to a consortium of American investors.

Bypassing the prohibitive costs of training novel architectures from scratch, the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) has introduced Bolmo, a new family of language models that process raw bytes instead of ...

House China Chair John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), chair of the House Select Committee on China, said Thursday that he has requested a detailed briefing on the proposed TikTok sale after reports that the new ...

The US and China are moving forward with a framework agreement on TikTok's US operations that centers on control of the app's algorithm and data security. Under the current proposal, a consortium of ...

Being-VL-0.5 is an MLLM that combines text and image understanding using a novel approach called Visual Byte-Pair Encoding (vBPE). Instead of treating images and text as completely separate modalities ...

Language modeling plays a foundational role in natural language processing, enabling machines to predict and generate text that resembles human language. These models have evolved significantly, ...

Abstract: In this paper, we introduce an Optimized Byte Pair Encoding (OBPE) tokenizer where the algorithm is optimized for the South African languages, including Sesotho, Setswana, Xhosa, Xitsonga, ...