AI Technology & Industry Review
The BAAI 2023 Conference in Beijing successfully closed on June 10. With two busy days of agenda, the host Beijing Academic of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) welcomed numerous renowned AI scholars, seasoned industry leaders, and enthusiastic AI researchers to share their insights on the latest AI hot topics.
The BAAI Conference 2022 kicked off on May 31 in Beijing and ran through June 2. AI experts, industry leaders, young talents and international delegates joined the virtual gathering and live stream for three busy days of high-level keynotes, tech talks, parallel forums and networking.
In the new paper CogView2: Faster and Better Text-to-Image Generation via Hierarchical Transformers, Tsinghua University and the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence researchers pretrain a Cross-Modal general Language Model (CogLM) for text and image token prediction and finetune it for fast super-resolution. The resulting CogView2 hierarchical text-to-image system achieves significant speedups while generating images with better quality at comparable resolutions.
The Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) releases Wu Dao 1.0, China’s first large-scale pretraining model.
In the new paper On the Integration of Self-Attention and Convolution, a research team from Tsinghua University, Huawei Technologies Ltd. and the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence proposes ACmix, a mixed model that leverages the benefits of both self-attention and convolution for computer vision representation tasks while achieving minimum computational overhead compared to its pure convolution or self-attention counterparts.
Synced has invited Mr. Brian Tse to share his insights about the current development and future trends of artificial intelligence.
The Synced Machine Intelligence Awards 2019 focus is on “the power of industry,” and the selection process keyed in on AI products, application cases and industry landings, with choices based on verifiable industry performance.
