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• The four founders at startup NucleusAI just emerged from stealth and demonstrated they are able to build large language models (LLMs) like the Big Tech companies.
• NucleusAI just launched a 22-billion-parameter LLM that outperforms all the models of similar size.
• Typically, foundational models are built by 30 to 100 people with skill sets that address the different aspects of LLMs.
• The company is building an intelligent operating system (OS) for farming, optimizing supply and demand, just like Uber does.

• In one of the first meaningful steps along this path, scientists from Quantinuum , the world's largest integrated quantum computing company, along with collaborators, have demonstrated the first fault-tolerant method using three logically-encoded qubits on the Quantinuum H1 quantum computer, Powered by Honeywell, to perform a mathematical procedure.
• Fault-tolerant quantum computing methods are expected to open the way for practical solutions to real-world problems across domains such as molecular simulation, artificial intelligence, optimization, and cybersecurity.
• Many companies and research groups are focused on achieving fault-tolerance by handling the noise that naturally arises when a quantum computer performs its operations.
• This result proves that real hardware is now capable of running all the essentials of fault-tolerant quantum computing – state preparation, Clifford gates, non-Clifford gates and logical measurement – together."

• LK-99 garnered attention after South Korean researchers posted two papers about it on arXiv, a non-peer-reviewed repository for scientific reports, on July 22.
• The researchers reported possible indicators of superconductivity in LK-99, including unexpectedly low electrical resistance and partial levitation in a magnetic field.
• However, while this particular avenue of research may be a dead end, the dream of a room-temperature superconductor is still very much alive.

What is a superconductor, and why are they useful?

• This means an electric current can flow – but the electrons are jostled around a bit as they move, so they lose energy as they travel.
• In a superconductor, there is zero resistance and an electrical current can flow perfectly smoothly without losing any energy.
• These pairs of electrons then “condense” into a superfluid, a state of matter that can flow without friction.
• Moreover, many if not most superconducting materials are discovered serendipitously – so a claimed discovery of an unexpected room-temperature superconductor can’t be dismissed out of hand.

So what about LK-99?

• For example, it wasn’t even known whether it should conduct electricity at all.
• The report of superconductivity at ambient conditions sparked a crash effort from researchers around the world to understand the material and reproduce the results.
• One study has pointed out that an impurity in the initial LK-99 samples, cuprous sulfide, could explain some of what they saw.

Excitons and beyond

• Well, we can cross LK-99 off the list of materials to study, but the search goes on.
• These electron–hole pairs are called excitons, and they can be combined with light to form a frictionless superfluid at room temperature.

Topological insulators

• An alternate route to zero resistance at room temperature has been found in so-called topological insulators.
• There are also other types of topological insulators that work without an externally applied magnetic field.
• Unfortunately superfluid excitons and topological insulators can only carry a limited amount of current, and are probably not useful for creating powerful magnets.

• Fast Accounting is pleased to announce that our research paper titled "DiffusionSTR: Diffusion Model for Scene Text Recognition" has been accepted for presentation at the prestigious IEEE ICIP 2023, an international conference on image processing technology, to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from October 8th to 11th, 2023.
• The preprint of the accepted research paper is available for viewing on arXiv at the following link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16707
  Typically, text recognition technology has focused on converting digital text from images that contain the desired text.
• However, a new method presented in the research paper accepted by ICIP takes a different approach.
• Fast Accounting believes that its research on text recognition using generative AI will contribute to further advancements in the field of text recognition technology.