Quant Trading Firms Take NeurIPS; AMD’s Chip Claims Irk Nvidia

As the tech industry slowed down for the holidays, thousands of artificial intelligence researchers, engineers, founders and investors revved up in New Orleans at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems—NeurIPS for short.

While researchers presented papers on large language models and diffusion models underlying image generators like Dall-E, attendees we spoke to said they weren’t there for the research. To be featured at NeurIPS, papers had to be submitted by May, making them ancient news in the …

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