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Deepseek-R1 Art History Just asked DeepSeek-R1 today: “What is the Impressionist artistic movement”. Here’s the result I got. Okay, so I need to figure out what the Impressionist artistic movement is. I&…

Wanted to test DeepSeek R1 abilities on Art History… Honestly, not disappointed. Here’s its analysis of Impressionist art:

#deepseek #deepseekai #deepseekr1

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“Google Joins the Vision-Language Model with PaliGemma 2, But How Will It Help its AI Charge?”

www.techtimes.com/articles/308...

Meta AI Proposes Large Concept Models (LCMs): A Semantic Leap Beyond Token-based Language Modeling Meta AI Proposes Large Concept Models (LCMs): A Semantic Leap Beyond Token-based Language Modeling

“Meta AI Proposes Large Concept Models (LCMs): A Semantic Leap Beyond Token-based Language Modeling”

www.marktechpost.com/2024/12/15/m...

Microsoft AI Research Introduces OLA-VLM: A Vision-Centric Approach to Optimizing Multimodal Large Language Models Microsoft AI Research Introduces OLA-VLM: A Vision-Centric Approach to Optimizing Multimodal Large Language Models

“Microsoft AI Research Introduces OLA-VLM: A Vision-Centric Approach to Optimizing Multimodal Large Language Models”

www.marktechpost.com/2024/12/16/m...

Every Two Years, Staffers at the Met Get to See Their Own Art on the Prestigious Museum's Walls The museum has been staging exhibitions featuring employee art since 1935. This year's show is only the second in history that's been open to the public

“Every Two Years, Staffers at the Met Get to See Their Own Art on the Prestigious Museum’s Walls” (Smithsonian Magazine)

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Banksy’s Well Hung Lover to be sold with Bristol building it is painted on Work showing man hanging from window ledge appeared in 2006 on wall of listed Georgian property

“Banksy’s Well Hung Lover to be sold with Bristol building it is painted on”

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

OLMo 2 is out 🥳 7B and 13B trained on 5T tokens, and meticulousy instruction tuned using Tulu 3 recipe.

Simply the best fully open models yet.

Really proud of the work & the amazing team at
@ai2.bsky.social

I've removed the Bluesky data from the repo. While I wanted to support tool development for the platform, I recognize this approach violated principles of transparency and consent in data collection. I apologize for this mistake.

Nvidia Doubles Profit as A.I. Chip Sales Soar The company, which dominates the market for chips used to build artificial intelligence, expects another big jump in the current quarter.

“Nvidia Doubles Profit as A.I. Chip Sales Soar
The company, which dominates the market for chips used to build artificial intelligence, expects another big jump in the current quarter.”

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/t...

NVIDIA Introduces Hymba 1.5B: A Hybrid Small Language Model Outperforming Llama 3.2 and SmolLM v2 NVIDIA Introduces Hymba 1.5B: A Hybrid Small Language Model Outperforming Llama 3.2 and SmolLM v2

“NVIDIA Introduces Hymba 1.5B: A Hybrid Small Language Model Outperforming Llama 3.2 and SmolLM v2”

www.marktechpost.com/2024/11/22/n...

A Code Maker Cracks the Code of the Art World Ouattara Watts stayed under the radar for the last few decades. He’s back with a show at Karma Gallery and the Currier Museum of Art in New Hampshire.

“A Code Maker Cracks the Code of the Art World.
Ouattara Watts stayed under the radar for the last few decades. He’s back with a show at Karma Gallery and the Currier Museum of Art in New Hampshire”

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/a...

Jina AI Introduces Jina-CLIP v2: A 0.9B Multilingual Multimodal Embedding Model that Connects Image with Text in 89 Languages Jina AI Introduces Jina-CLIP v2: A 0.9B Multilingual Multimodal Embedding Model that Connects Image with Text in 89 Languages

“Jina AI Introduces Jina-CLIP v2: A 0.9B Multilingual Multimodal Embedding Model that Connects Image with Text in 89 Languages”

www.marktechpost.com/2024/11/22/j...

Italian Police Arrest ‘Clumsy’ Tomb Raiders Who Allegedly Posted Stolen Etruscan Artifacts on Facebook The items include artistic urns, a bone comb and an ancient sarcophagus with a full skeleton inside

“Italian Police Arrest ‘Clumsy’ Tomb Raiders Who Allegedly Posted Stolen Etruscan Artifacts on Facebook”

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/i...

Bluesky Is Turning Into a Strong X Alternative Bluesky has a hint of the old Twitter magic, but the feeling of freedom it offers might be even better.

“Bluesky has a hint of the old Twitter magic, but the feeling of freedom it offers might be even better” (The New York Times)

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/t...

LLaVA-o1 is the first visual language model capable of spontaneous, systematic reasoning, similar to GPT-o1!

🤯 11B model outperforms Gemini-1.5-pro,GPT-4o-mini, and Llama-3.2-90B-Vision-Instruct on six multimodal benchmarks.

"A Looted Portrait By Nicholas de Largillierre Restituted by the Monuments Men and Rose Valland Sold on November 21st at Christie's Sale For 529.200 euros"

www.artcrimeproject.org/2024/11/22/a...

Led by $65.5 M. Monet Painting, Sotheby’s $309 M. Modern Art Sales Kick Off November Auctions in New York Works by Edgar Degas, Wassily Kandinsky, Leonora Carrington, Picasso and Tiffany Studios did well, especially the ones owned by Sydell Miller.

“Led by $65.5 M. Monet Painting, Sotheby’s $309 M. Modern Art Sales Kick Off November Auctions in New York”

www.artnews.com/art-news/mar...

Just posted in the Journal of Cultural Heritage Crime:

“U.S. Prosecutors Have Issued a Warrant Against High-Profile Dealer Accused of Looting Thousands of Artifacts”

www.journalchc.com/2024/11/01/u...

Manhattan District Attorney’s Office Returns More Than 1,400 Antiquities Worth $10 M. to India The returned items included two artifacts seized from the Metropolitan Museum of Art tied to Subhash Kapoor and Nancy Wiener.

“Manhattan District Attorney’s Office Returns More Than 1,400 Antiquities Worth $10 M. to India”

www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Their Pissarro Is Staying in Germany, but Their Story Is Getting Out A woman whose family had to sell a painting in the Holocaust and a museum have struck a deal. The museum will keep the work but will help to publish a book telling the family’s story.

“Their Pissarro Is Staying in Germany, but Their Story Is Getting Out.
A woman whose family had to sell a painting in the Holocaust and a museum have struck a deal. The museum will keep the work but will help to publish a book telling the family’s story.”

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/a...

Europe Eight art conservators at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, have begun a painstaking process to remove a layer of varnish from Rembrandt's giant "Night Watch" masterpiece. Museum director Taco Dibbits says once the painting is restored "it will have much more depth and the figures in the painting will come to life."

“Eight art conservators at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, have begun a painstaking process to remove a layer of varnish from Rembrandt's giant "Night Watch" masterpiece”

www.reuters.com/video/watch/...

Lifestyle In partnership with Meta, Egypt's Ministry of Tourism has launched a new augmented reality experience at the old Egyptian Museum that lets visitors see restored digital versions of incomplete statues. Egyptian Museum general manager, Aly Abdelhalim, says the collaboration with Meta is called "revival" and that it offers a virtual restoration for statues and artifacts with missing parts.

“AR technology helps Egyptian museum visitors see what was lost”

www.reuters.com/video/watch/...

Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts Platform’s coverage of US election crystallised longstanding concerns about its content, says Guardian

“The Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts”

www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...

Vatican launches AI-generated version of St Peter’s Basilica Co-developed by Microsoft, the project also identified conservation issues at the world-famous church

“Vatican launches AI-generated version of St Peter’s Basilica.

Co-developed by Microsoft, the project also identified conservation issues at the world-famous church”

www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/11/13/v...

Llama 3.2-Vision for High-Precision OCR with Ollama With the new Llama 3.2 release, Meta seriously leveled up here — now you’ve got vision models (11B and 90B) that don’t just read text but…

“Llama 3.2-Vision for High-Precision OCR with Ollama”

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Artwork Made by Humanoid Robot Ai-Da Using AI Algorithms Sells for $1 M. at Sotheby’s It was the first artwork made by a humanoid robot using AI algorithms sold by the auction house.

“Artwork Made by Humanoid Robot Ai-Da Using AI Algorithms Sells for $1 M. at Sotheby’s” (ArtNews)

www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Stand-Up, Drama and Spambots: The Creative World Takes On A.I. Artificial intelligence has become a subject for people in the art and theater worlds who are worried about being replaced by it.

“The Creative World Takes On AI”: Artificial intelligence has become a subject for people in the art (The New York Times)

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/t...

Following a Trail of Banksy Forgeries, Italian Police Uncover $215 M. Pan-European Forgery Network 38 people across Europe are suspected of involvement in a scheme to create and sell fake works attributed to Banksy, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol.

"38 people in Europe are suspected of involvement in a sweeping scheme to create and sell fake works attributed to Banksy, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol, among other marquee 19th, 20th, and 21st century artists, Italian authorities revealed on Monday"

www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

A Claude Monet painting, stolen by the Nazis, has just been returned to the family of its original owners - The Journal of Cultural Heritage Crime A Claude Monet pastel titled Bord de Mer (1865), looted during the Second World War,...

Claude Monet's "Bord de Mer" (1865), which had been looted by the Nazis during WWIl to the Parlagi family, has finally been returned to the heirs of the family by the FBI after missing for over 80 years.

Link to my article for the Journal of Art Crime:

www.journalchc.com/2024/11/02/a...

VLM Visual Arts Analysis with DeepSeek Janus-1.3B A Blog post by Pandora Langlais on Hugging Face

Link to the full article:

huggingface.co/blog/PandorA...