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OpenAI News

Procgen and MineRL Competitions

We’re excited to announce that OpenAI is co-organizing two NeurIPS 2020 competitions with AIcrowd, Carnegie Mellon University, and DeepMind, using Procgen Benchmark and MineRL.

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OpenAI News

Image GPT

We find that, just as a large transformer model trained on language can generate coherent text, the same exact model trained on pixel sequences can generate coherent image completions and samples. By establishing a correlation between sample quality and image classification accuracy, we show that our best generative model also contains features competitive with top convolutional nets in the unsupervised setting.

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OpenAI News

OpenAI API

We’re releasing an API for accessing new AI models developed by OpenAI.

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PlanetScale Blog

Debunking 3 myths about Vitess fault tolerance

Here at PlanetScale we hear some concerns about the reliability of Vitess and its capabilities with regards to data loss. When one hears “cloud-native, highly-available, distributed database running on Kubernetes,” it does sound too good to be true, so we understand the initial apprehension. Even though multiple reputable companies such as Slack, Square, GitHub, and JD run their production databases on Vitess, we still get questions about whether or not Vitess will lose data. We’re here to debun

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