In the evolving landscape of AI-driven video generation, ByteDance’s MagicVideo-V2 has emerged as a significant advance, showing superior performance over competitors such as Pika 1.0 and SVD-XT. The jump represents a crucial development for ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, and Douyin, key short video content platforms in the US and China. MagicVideo-V2: A leap … Read more
OpenAI, known for its innovative AI technology, including ChatGPT, is currently engaged in strategic talks with several major media companies, including CNN, Fox Corp. and Time. These conversations whirl around licensing articles, videos and images for use by OpenAI, a move that gains significance amid the company’s ongoing legal battle with The New York Times … Read more
Introduction to Mixtral 8x7B Mixtral 8x7B represents a significantly leap in the field of language models. Developed by Mistral AI, Mixtral is a Sparse Mixture of Experts (SMoE) language model building on the Mistral 7B architecture. It stands out for its unique structure, where each layer consists of 8 referral blocks, or “experts”. At each … Read more
On January 10, 2024, CoinGecko, a leading cryptocurrency data aggregator, suffered a significant security breach. The company account of a major social media platform (formerly known as Twitter) and its terminal were compromised, leading to the unauthorized posting of a phishing scam link. This incident raised serious cybersecurity concerns in the fast-growing cryptocurrency industry. CoinGecko’s … Read more
Presentation of OpenGPT OpenGPT is an open source project designed as an alternative to OpenAI’s GPT models and the Assistant API, offering improved flexibility. It is developed on the basis of LangChain, LangServe and LangSmith technologies. As an open source project, it allows developers and researchers to access, modify and use large language models (LLMs) … Read more
The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), a key regulator of derivatives markets, has released comprehensive report on decentralized finance (DeFi), highlighting both its potential and the significant risks it poses. This development marks a critical juncture in the oversight of the burgeoning DeFi sector, which has been the subject of both excitement and … Read more
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), a key self-regulatory organization in the United States, recently published its 2024 Annual Regulatory Oversight Report. This report is of particular interest due to the inclusion of a dedicated section on crypto assets for the first time, reflecting the growing importance of cryptocurrencies in the financial landscape. This section … Read more
Laser Digital and Nomura’s WebN Group recently announced the launch of the Libre Protocol, a pioneering fund tokenization infrastructure using Polygon technology. This ground-breaking development is scheduled to be commissioned in the first quarter of 2024. Libre, an institutional Web3 protocol, represents a significant collaboration between Laser Digital, the crypto arm of global financial services … Read more
Celsius Network, the troubled cryptocurrency lender, has reached a crucial stage in the ongoing drama that is its bankruptcy. A settlement option has been granted to the firm’s material account holders as part of its modified joint Chapter 11 reorganization plan, indicating that the company has just taken that step. This strategy addresses the “withdrawal … Read more
Binance, the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange, recently announced a major expansion of its trading services. On January 11, 2024, Binance introduced new spot trading pairs and launched trading bot services, marking a significant improvement to its Binance Spot offerings. This strategic move aims to expand the trading options available to users and enhance their trading … Read more