Hacker News with Generative AI: Foundation Models

Show HN: TabPFN v2 – A SOTA foundation model for small tabular data (nature.com)
Tabular data, spreadsheets organized in rows and columns, are ubiquitous across scientific fields, from biomedicine to particle physics to economics and climate science1,2.

Machine Learning, Tabular Data, Foundation Models, Scientific Research

152 points by onasta 9 days ago | 44 comments

Automating the search for artificial life with foundation models (sakana.ai)
For the past 300,000 years, Earth has had only one form of advanced intelligence on it: humans. With the recent advent of AI foundation models, some believe we are at the dawn of a new kind of intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Life Science, Foundation Models

170 points by hardmaru 25 days ago | 36 comments

Amazon Nova (amazon.com)
Today, we’re thrilled to announce Amazon Nova, a new generation of state-of-the-art foundation models (FMs) that deliver frontier intelligence and industry leading price performance, available exclusively in Amazon Bedrock.

Generative AI, Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Foundation Models

365 points by scbenet 45 days ago | 152 comments

Nucleotide Transformer: building robust foundation models for human genomics (nature.com)
The prediction of molecular phenotypes from DNA sequences remains a longstanding challenge in genomics, often driven by limited annotated data and the inability to transfer learnings between tasks.

Genomics, Machine Learning, Biomedicine, Foundation Models

57 points by bookofjoe 47 days ago | 9 comments

Show HN: Foundation models for time series forecasting (github.com/wearesulie)
The Sulie SDK offers seamless integration with the Sulie platform for advanced time series forecasting powered by Mimosa—a transformer-based foundation model optimized specifically for time series data.

Foundation Models, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

5 points by TechieVoyager42 67 days ago | 1 comments

Depth Pro: Sharp monocular metric depth in less than a second (github.com/apple)
We present a foundation model for zero-shot metric monocular depth estimation. Our model, Depth Pro, synthesizes high-resolution depth maps with unparalleled sharpness and high-frequency details.

Computer Vision, Foundation Models, Depth Estimation

157 points by L_ 106 days ago | 44 comments

Domain-Aware Fine-Tuning of Foundation Models (arxiv.org)

Machine Learning, Foundation Models, Fine-Tuning

12 points by PaulHoule 179 days ago | 0 comments

On Open-Weights Foundation Models (ftc.gov)

Open-Source, Foundation Models, AI, Government

5 points by Georgelemental 191 days ago | 0 comments

Meta Large Language Model Compiler: Foundation Models of Compiler Optimization (meta.com)

Meta, Compiler Optimization, Foundation Models

12 points by georgehill 205 days ago | 5 comments

Apple's On-Device and Server Foundation Models (apple.com)