Stanford’s KITA: A Revolutionary Framework for Conversational Agents, SoftBank Acquires Graphcore

Researchers at Stanford introduce KITA, a programmable AI framework for building task-oriented conversational agents. British chipmaker Graphcore is bought by Japan's SoftBank. Plus, Microsoft Research introduces AgentInstruct for enhancing synthetic data quality, and LayerShuffle enhances the resilience of vision transformers.

Sources:
https://www.marktechpost.com/2024/07/11/researchers-at-stanford-introduce-kita-a-programmable-ai-framework-for-building-task-oriented-conversational-agents-that-can-manage-intricate-user-interactions/
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jul/12/british-chipmaker-graphcore-bought-by-japans-softbank
https://www.marktechpost.com/2024/07/11/microsoft-research-introduces-agentinstruct-a-multi-agent-workflow-framework-for-enhancing-synthetic-data-quality-and-diversity-in-ai-model-training/
https://www.marktechpost.com/2024/07/11/layershuffle-robust-vision-transformers-for-arbitrary-layer-execution-orders/

Outline:
(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:00:47) Researchers at Stanford Introduce KITA: A Programmable AI Framework for Building Task-Oriented Conversational Agents that can Manage Intricate User Interactions
(00:03:28) British chipmaker Graphcore bought by Japan’s SoftBank
(00:06:49) LayerShuffle: Robust Vision Transformers for Arbitrary Layer Execution Orders