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MuseNet

We’ve created MuseNet, a deep neural network that can generate 4-minute musical compositions with 10 different instruments, and can combine styles from country to Mozart to the Beatles. MuseNet was not explicitly programmed with our understanding of music, but instead discovered patterns of harmony, rhythm, and style by learning to predict the next token in hundreds of thousands of MIDI files. MuseNet uses the same general-purpose unsupervised technology as GPT-2, a large-scale transformer model

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OpenAI News

Generative modeling with sparse transformers

We’ve developed the Sparse Transformer, a deep neural network which sets new records at predicting what comes next in a sequence—whether text, images, or sound. It uses an algorithmic improvement of the attention mechanism to extract patterns from sequences 30x longer than possible previously.

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Next.js Blog

Next.js 8.1

Next.js 8.1 introduces AMP support on a per-page basis, allowing incremental adoption of AMP.

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Vercel Blog

Automatic SSL with Vercel and Let's Encrypt

Our Vercel platform enables you to deploy modern websites and applications without needing any complicated server configuration. Not only do we automatically configure DNS records for your domain, we also instantly issue and renew free wildcard SSL certificates, completely hands-free. Historically, companies have spent thousands to get their websites HTTPS-enabled. Not to mention the whole process of issuance, download, re-upload, reconfigure, restart server with downtime — it's always enormousl

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