The Comet Newsletter, Issue #14: Nvidia’s computer-generated CEO, Snap’s approach to utilizing GPUs for model inference, and more
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Issue #14 of The Comet Newsletter highlights several advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning, featuring Nvidia's use of AI to create a digital version of CEO Jensen Huang for a keynote speech, showcasing their Omniverse platform for animation creation. The newsletter also discusses Snap's implementation of GPU accelerators to enhance the efficiency of model inference, reflecting a trend in leveraging GPUs over CPUs for deep learning tasks. Additionally, it covers various generative art implementations, including VQGAN + CLIP, and a project by Edge Impulse that uses visual regression to estimate an object's weight from a photo on edge devices, demonstrating practical applications of machine learning on lightweight platforms.